I’ve just found me something that will make me a famous animal expert like that dorky Australian guy used to be.
After spending countless days looking in the woods and the park I’ve finally found and captured an actual snipe! I found him in my own back yard of
all places!
There’s a lot of people who are closed-minded about my discovery, but I expected that. They say stuff like ”Your so-called snipe looks like a cat with his fur shaved off.
My neighbor lady is in that school of thought. She pointed out that her cat disappeared the previous night, and the snipe was wearing the same type of collar her cat wore and that the snipe also meowed in much the same way a cat would. Plus she said and there was a pile of fur and an electric beard trimmer on my back porch.
I can see how a lay person who isn’t trained to look for mythical animals like I am might come to the conclusion that I just shaved a cat and tried to pass it off as a snipe . Lay people can be pretty damn cynical. ( They don’t even believe in bigfoot, even though he stared in four of the star wars movies!)
Yes, the snipe and a cat do superficially look a lot a like. I admit that – but that’s just a coincidence.
Coincidences do exist, you know? That’s why the word was invented. If there were no such thing as coincidences, the word would serve no purpose except in crossword puzzles and bad poems that try to rhyme “coincidence” with “peeing on an electric fence”.
