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Giraffing Into The Political Arena

One parliamentary wannabe who is a VP in one of the freshly-baked political parties amused and amazed the population by saying he’s going to make a giraffe one of the big six.

After picking their jaws off the floor, some started claiming his mental faculties had left him faster than an irresponsible man after hearing the pregnancy test results. His clock somehow didn’t seem to have all its numbers. The term Big 5 was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot.

But to the general not-so-clued-up population used to hunting small game like some unfortunate rabbits not fast enough to outrun dogs with funny names, the Big 5 is purely based on size and I think the politician falls in that category. So the general citizenry including our politician do not know this and believe this is one of the instances where size does matter.

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