the koala defence...

CNN have reported a population explosion of Koala Bears on Kangaroo Island in Australia. There is talk of culling 20,000 of the cute little animals. All very sad, but not the point of this post. The article reminded me of the game we played one drunken night. It was some kind of murder game. Part of the game involved giving an impassioned speech defending your innocence.

Gypsy Tart, Mrs McMuffin's sister, was a little tipsy and whenever she had to make a speech she always invoked the 'Koala Defence'. She had developed this defence after seeing news reports of Koalas clinging to their trees while bush fires had raged around them. Her defence involved her holding her hands close to her face and looking forlorn, saying in a sad little voice 'burning paws, burning paws'. Somehow she won the game, we just couldn't bring ourselves to vote her out, and it turned out she had been the killer all along.