Snakes Alive

Category: Newspaper article

The following article was published in 'The Ottawa Citizen' in July 2006.


Having just read about the serious ongoing developments in Lebanon I turned the page to a World News headline that read ‘Snake Swallows Electric Blanket’. With apologies to snake lovers and herpetologists everywhere, I just about spewed my coffee.

I bless the god of inadvertent juxtaposition for bringing a little humour in a sometimes grim world.

I couldn’t have laughed more had I been shown a grinning Python next to a nervous looking miniature poodle wearing a wedding veil, where the headline read ‘Python Weds Poodle!’