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This is much better… Today is Wombat Day!

The Wombat is one of those animals the zoologists always say are ‘more dangerous than they look’: “A Wombat’s natural defense is to trundle into its burrow, and when the predator follows it in, the Wombat crushes the invaders head against the ceiling of the burrow with a bony plate in its butt,” which is one of the most awesome methods of defense I’ve ever heard of. “Your head. My butt. The ceiling. Pain.”

It is also the most non-typical of things with “Bat” in its name. Nothing like a dingbat, brickbat, fruitbat, moonbat,baseball or cricket bat, and never one to go ‘bas#!t-insane”. I would rather see a WOMBATMAN movie than a Batman movie. (and thank you as usual, Scalzi, for the massively informative bloggage)

Enjoy the sounds of Wombatman!

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	Hally – Wombatman
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I also have empathy/sympathy/allkindsofpathy with all those whose names also begin with “W”, banished to the back row of an alphabetically-assigned seating chart and always near the end of the roll call (but still feeling slightly superior to the Yans, Youngs, and Zyglewiczes).

Despite a humble origin, one of them has apparently grown up to become Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

But like any healthily diverse species, wombats have varying viewpoints, attitudes and interests.

Don’t forget the Wombat Car, which puts a fiberglass body on a VW Bug chassis to look like a miniature Hummer, just with massively better gas mileage AND available in a DIY electric model. The Electric Wombat. Got. To. Love. It.

But a bit of extra sympathy/empathy/allkindsofpathy for Lee Ann Womack [warning: nashville musicky site], who because of her name (and maybe some other features) is the Country Singer Most Likely to Be Mistaken for a Wombat.

I regret to say that, due to my lateness in discovering this and my loving lingering over all the wombattery I googled up, Wombat Day has already ended in the parts of the world where you are most likely to find a wombat. But then, we need to keep the Spirit of Wombat Day in our hearts EVERY day, right? Okay, except for Talk Like a Pirate Day, but on that day all bets are off, aarrrrr.