Unicorns

This thought came to me after I was driving home from a Sourkeys/Vermicious Knid show in Waterloo and my new cd of the Knid ended. The cd player then switched to the next cd which happened to be the Irish Rovers. I should point out here that I was driving my parent's car and that is why the rovers were in the player. Anyways, the first song was about unicorns. You know the one with Noah, the green alligators and the humpdy backed camels. So I began to wonder about this supposedly beautiful, angelic creature they call a unicorn.

Personally, I feel if one existed it would actually be pretty ugly. Seriously, what other creature in the animal kingdom with a horn(s) protruding from its head is considered beautiful? The rhino? Nope. A goat? I don't think so. A narwhal? Ha, gimme a break.

I'd compare the legend of the unicorn to that of the Tasmanian devil. You see this great wicked creature on tv, albeit a cartoon, but when you go to a zoo and see the real thing you're horribly disappointed when you just see a large rodent. It doesn't even spin for God's sake! If anything I believe a unicorn would be quite mangy. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if you went to a zoo with a unicorn ( humour me in assuming they ever existed) and instead of seeing this gorgeous pegasus you see this animal resembling a gnu whose making some horrible grunting noise because it got its horn stuck in a tree trunk.