A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years. Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family. But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned. The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats. Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves.
Gay flamingos are not uncommon.
Two young girls, probably in their early twenties, are standing in the check-out line when one of them turns to the other and says in a tone she might use to talk about her nail polish, “I haven’t heard from Christine today. I guess she overdosed.”
Do you think one of the reasons Christine might have overdosed is that the friends in her life, when struck with the possibility that she might be dead, do not check to make sure she is fine and instead hit the grocery store to buy some Gatorade?
(thanks to dooce for the funny tale)
