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Rob Dubya's avatar

Thanks Tessa, to finish that off with the hedgehog was sublime.

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David Truman's avatar

Why did the hedgehog cross the road?

As a dyed in the wool and most devout Darwinist, the crow does what it does for one reason only. Its keen eye (crows have evolved good eyesight) has noticed that on the hedgehog's skin, below its spines, are many very juicy fleas, constituting a tasty source of food. The crow wants the hedgehog to survive by crossing the road only because it may retain its food source throughout the cut and thrust of evolution. Nothing to see here, folks. Survival of the fittest; that's all there is to it, because consciousness does not - nay cannot - exist.

PS All resemblance in the above statement to anything you might hear in the mainstream media about natural phenomena (e.g. natural history programmes by the BBC narrated by the eugenicist David Attenborough) are entirely coincidental. Coincidence is all.

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