A Rarie

A long time ago, scientists were experimenting with eggs, embryo's, ova and little fishes when they discovered that they had made an animal. Oh but what an animal - a human head, with a pig's nose, the mouth of a stingray and hair like an elephant - all seven hairs. A top half like Kate Moss and a bottom half like Os Du Randt. 2 foot 6 tall. They wanted to call it a half-crown but the government decided that the name must be non-colonial so it was named a RARIE.

Anycase to lengthen a short story, the RARIE took a breath every ten minutes and had the brain of a calculator with only the numbers 0,1,2 on it. It's favourite food was a pichard and banana sandwich, which it preferred on rye.

The only thing was, it started showing a preference for carpets and soon ate up the floor covering in the room. When they tiled the floor, it ate that as well, because of the thought that Italian tiles may taste like spaghetti. Not too shabby, huh Nige. Carlo Totti Meranti.

When It started developing a taste for plaster, cement and bricks, the scientists decided that the experiment had gone too far. But they couldn't kill  it.

Eventually the most humane decision that they could come up with, was to drop it off a mountain like Everest and into a crevasse where it would be embalmed in ice forever so that when the aliens land on earth they could see what life really wasn't like.

But the Professor disagreed. They begged him. He said No. They asked why ? He said...

It's a long way to tip a rarie, it's a long way to go !