As a pet owner, a not so remeberistic pet owner, I face that horrible realisation at least once a year when I think “oh crap, I forgot their birthdays. again.”
And when I do remember, I feel too mean celebrating one birthday at a time. I mean I can understand why when it’s not my birthday I don’t get presents and stuff – but that’s not something you can tell pets. My solution this year will be an all-pet, all-cake-&-presents, all-in birthday bonanza. One day, lot’s of happy.
That’s why I am declaring this Saturday the First Annual Turtle Birthday Bonanza (FATBB)! Get your turtles ready. Give them a bath. Buy them a pointy hat. Tell them all the things you love about them in your best turtle accent. Then, it’s time for cake.
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever”, said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!””
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
I know I should come up with some deep story about the where the turtles end, who feeds them, how a dome holds a plate so still, infinite regression, etc.
