There is an island in the south Pacific where it appears that the animal inhabitants live forever. It’s actually not one island, but two mountains that rise out of the ocean. The two mountains are connected by a rope bridge.
A group of scientists traveled to the island to conduct experiments to determine the secret to long life. The animal in the region that was the closest to man were porpoises. After further study, they came to belief that the porpoises lived long healthy lives because of their diet. Specifically, the scientists tracked down the item in their diet to a type of sea gull that lived on the island.
To have a proper experiment and to control the diet, every day the scientists would gather some of these unique sea gulls, cross over the rope bridge, and feed them to the porpoises.
One day, as they began to cross the rope bridge, they discovered a lion asleep in the middle of the bridge. The lion was wearing a Kansas State University sweatshirt.
The scientists were determined to carry out their experiment, so they attempted to tip toe past the sleeping lion without waking him. They failed. The lion woke up and ate them.
So the moral of the story is to never, ever attempt to transport gulls across a state lion for immortal porpoises.
Speaking of immortal porpoises......
I was at a posh California house party once. It was a lovely setting with a garden and lovely Koi pond. I’ve never seen such a luxury house and property.
I was looking at the koi pond, bending over closer to get a good look. Amazing fish! But as I bent over, my wallet slipped out of my suit pocket, headed straight to the pond.
Before the wallet could hit the water, a fish leaped and tossed it into the air. Again, as it was about to hit the water again, another Koi leaped out and tossed it to another fish. On and on it went passing from koi to koi.
I thought, “This is really a remarkable house! They even have carp-to-carp walleting!”