Re: interested in wombats


Jim Granville wrote:

Wombat - a simple minded person.

I thinketh you can find them anywhere.

Yes, but more easily in Australia ;)

You're correct that they are easier to find - because there are
relatively few simpletons in Australia, they stand out from the crowd
better. Elsewhere in the world, the difference between "simple minded"
and "average" is much narrower.

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