Theory: It's called "platypus" because "fucked-up duck-beaver thing" is too long for textbooks.

[arbusto_baboso]

Discuss.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Spot on.

[SteppingRazor]

2. I would never diss the platypus. Have you read about its poisonous hind spurs?

Not only is it supposed to be one of the most painful experiences Mother Nature has to offer, it's also poison. In a freaking mammal. I mean, that's almost as weird as the egg-laying.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Are you afraid you're gonna be ambushed by platypi in a dark alley some night if you diss 'em?

[SteppingRazor]

5. Clearly, you're also not familiar with the roving street gangs of platypi that have overrun Sydney.

Melbourne is next.

[arbusto_baboso]

7. Eh, so much weird shit happens in Oz it's tough to keep track.

[SteppingRazor]

9. It's true. The turf war between the Ol' Platypus Posse and the 23rd Street Spurred-up Crew ...

has been especially violent.

Fun fact: The Ol' Platypus Posse, or "OPP" is the source for the 1990s Naughty by Nature hit by the same name.

[arbusto_baboso]

10. I bow to your weirdness, which far exceeds my own.

Actually, I just can't think of a good rejoinder tight now. I'm at work, so my attention is mucho divided.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Don't try to out-weird me, three eyes. I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal.

The Zaphod Beeblebrox quote seemed apropos. :)

[arbusto_baboso]

12. There are a lot of appropriate quotes from Douglas Adams.

Most of his books, for instance.

[flying rabbit]

3. Fudbet would have worked for brevity

but the word platypus sounds as goofy as those things look.

[yawnmaster]

6. duck beaver?? discuss eom

[Taverner]

8. Hey! Where's Perry?

[NewJeffCT]

18. My daughter is watching that show right now

It's actually a pretty good show with Agent P and the two boys being two shows in one.

[Taverner]

19. It's hillarious - and tons of adult references in that show

[KamaAina]

13. The name "fucked-up duck-beaver thing" was already taken

by the annual football rivalry now known as the Civil War. :P

[madinmaryland]

14. Careful there, or graywarrior will duct tape the platypus!

FREE THE PLATYPUS!!

[elehhhhna]

15. i needed that

lmao

[tigereye]

16. my favortie animal when I was a middle schooler

that and the echidna. I loved odd words and still do.

[HopeHoops]

17. Actually, when the first specimine was brought back to England, it was considered a fake.

The explorers were accused of sewing together body parts from random dead animals and water birds. They're weird things, and apparently rather nasty. They also don't have nipples, despite being mammals. They secrete milk through glands more like sweat glands than nipples. The babies lap the milk off of the mother's stomach.