Ma-tek
24-11-2004, 00:21
LOWER TUN, TUESDAY - This week's bizarre story comes from Lower Tun, in Ax-turath, Iluvauromen. A farmer - known by his nickname in the local area as Dur-tal, which signifies "one who sees what others do not" - claimed Tuesday that his sheep are, in fact, birds.
He made the claim at the local area farming convention, held once a year and covering the southern farmlands of Ax-turath, known collectively as Lower Tun (pronounced as the u in "tuna").
"My sheep are most definitely birds," he proclaimed, during a speech expected to be on the hotly-debated airponics row sweeping through the agricultural community in the ICEL. Naturally, such a statement was seen as somewhat unusual, and caused something of a stir.
Mr. Dar-tul was not to be dissauded, however. "I've got pictures to prove it," he stated frankly, and went on to complete a thirty minute slideshow full of pictures of his sheep in trees. Sadly, none of the images were of actual sheep flying.
Local residents are divided on the subject.
"I doubt they are birds," commented one thirty-year old man from Tinkting, near the Dar-tul Farm, "because birds have wings, do they not? Those sheep aint got no wings on their bodies nowhere that I can see."
"Sheep are sheep," was the crystal-clear offering of an aged Nenyan farmer, who works at a nearby farm.
Yet thirty-two year old Marissa Alath Neuav-Dth'gar is in doubt. "I don't know. Birds live in trees, so if sheep do, perhaps they're birds as well."
Scientists are utterly bemused at the debate; Professor Lord Rai Rihad of Turath University stated categorically Tuesday evening, "Sheep aren't birds. They're most definitely mammals, not avians, and thats that."
He made the claim at the local area farming convention, held once a year and covering the southern farmlands of Ax-turath, known collectively as Lower Tun (pronounced as the u in "tuna").
"My sheep are most definitely birds," he proclaimed, during a speech expected to be on the hotly-debated airponics row sweeping through the agricultural community in the ICEL. Naturally, such a statement was seen as somewhat unusual, and caused something of a stir.
Mr. Dar-tul was not to be dissauded, however. "I've got pictures to prove it," he stated frankly, and went on to complete a thirty minute slideshow full of pictures of his sheep in trees. Sadly, none of the images were of actual sheep flying.
Local residents are divided on the subject.
"I doubt they are birds," commented one thirty-year old man from Tinkting, near the Dar-tul Farm, "because birds have wings, do they not? Those sheep aint got no wings on their bodies nowhere that I can see."
"Sheep are sheep," was the crystal-clear offering of an aged Nenyan farmer, who works at a nearby farm.
Yet thirty-two year old Marissa Alath Neuav-Dth'gar is in doubt. "I don't know. Birds live in trees, so if sheep do, perhaps they're birds as well."
Scientists are utterly bemused at the debate; Professor Lord Rai Rihad of Turath University stated categorically Tuesday evening, "Sheep aren't birds. They're most definitely mammals, not avians, and thats that."