We have no answers.

In fact, all this does is raise questions. Maybe it would be a useful trophy at some sort of Unitarian Universalist event, or maybe the second-runner-up prize in an Absurdist award ceremony. The winner was given three differing descriptions of the color “orange” written on Wendy’s receipts.

Here, have a leg.

It’s best not to ask where the leg came from (although we might surmise some place classy). But with that ham-sized gorilla paw, there probably wasn’t a lot of struggling involved.

Is it a bud vase? Some strange cornucopia that spills forth an abundance of gently-used cosmetics? A horn, that, when Gabriel blows it, announces the Apocalypse half-time show? I don’t know.

But I suspect Oaxaca knows. My vast research on the subject (Hello, Wikipedia) has not turned up any useful tidbits. I’m going to blithely assume this is Oaxaca’s national bird.

A fine moment of your time in Oaxaca. You’ll never forget your evening with the charming and easily-commodetizable  lady with the lovely thigh high garters and fishnets and the one wooden leg. Boy, could she drink. And dance. The evening was magical, except for the splinters.

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