— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
That's an old fashioned way of saying, 'truth is stranger than fiction'.
Of course, the next generation would probably write 'trth wdr dn fikshun, innit blud?' - but that's another matter!
This whole ash cloud debacle from that Icelandic volcano provides more evidence of Mother Nature's awesomeness.
I mean c'mon, where was Bruce Willis when we really needed him, playing inter-gallactic snooker, diverting comets into the volcano to plug the damn thing. Or Will Smith, happy to take on little aliens when he's dressed in black, or hide behind Martin Lawrence whilst he's chanting "woosah", but exploding a chunk off a glacier so that it lands in the crater? Oh yeah, they couldn't get a flight out!
By the way, check this link, there are some amazing photo's of Eyjafjallajökull and the surrounding area.
I guess the point is, don't play with Mother Nature, because, invariably, she will win, even in the truth v fiction stakes.
Exhibit one are those awesome white lions. I went to a place called Paradise Wildlife Park just off the M25 the other week and I had no idea that such a thing existed. I swear, I turned a corner, saw these magnificent creatures and thought **** me, they're ghosts!
At this juncture, can I point out that I don't swear. My mind actually articulated "beep me". Honest!
Anyway, WHITE LIONS!! My favourite animal has always been the tiger and I've never had much time for lions, but WHITE LIONS?! They are not albinos, but some genetic mutation that only occurs in one area (Timbavati) of Southern Africa.
Now I guess that the human equivalent is probably ligers or tigons (half lions and half tigers). These are two different species and not designed to mate. Humans have forced the issue (must be money involved somewhere). Whilst the ligers are impressive because of their size (the growth inhibitor gene is in the male tiger and the female lion and so ligers (male lion + female tiger) never stop growing until they die), I think there is something sad about these normally majestic animals being reduced to crazy doctors playthings and they live short, illness riddled lives - see these tigon and white tiger videos.
Second case for Mother Nature whooping fiction's butt? Watch this video about the crocodile, the hippo and the deer. Now, I'm not one to anthropomorphize animals as a general rule (for instance, the feline that shares our house and eats bloody more than I do, is known rather functionally as 'Cat'), but if anyone can tell if this hippo is doing anything other than trying to give mouth to mouth to the deer, please enlighten me!
The why is easy - "FOR NARNIA... AND ASLAN!" Oh never mind.
