COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Today we debut a new feature in which we publish evidence of utter buffoonery that is part of the permanent record of the Circus. To kick things off, we publish below a note written on 25th September 2001 by Kahuna to Teddybert[1], the future Professor Gordon:
Dear Teddybert,
Your use of vertebrates ("cats and dogs") and invertebrates ("caterpillars") as units of measure of rainfall is hereby declared inappropriate under prevailing laws. This is buffoonery of the highest order and cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.
The standard unit of measure of rainfall is the millimeter, which is defined to be 1 thousandth of a reference meter which in turn is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458th of a second.
Please ensure that standards are followed in future.
[Kahuna]
This was apparently provoked by Teddybert's references to it raining "cats and dogs" and inexplicably "caterpillars" as well.
[1] Not to be confused with the Teddybear aka Darth Teddy. Professor Gordon was named Teddybert after the infamous inter-subcontinental stuffed toy delivery fiasco during his courting days. Full account available on request.
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