BECAUSE IT'S FUN AT PARTIES, DUDE

Platypuses Glow Under Blacklight. We Have No Idea Why.

(Thanks to Nancy Gill)

Comments

[Jim]

I couldn’t access the page, though any mention of blacklights has me wandering in my mind to the back of Spencer Gifts at any mall during the early to mid 1970s.

It’s much safer in the back of the geezer bus.

[AmoebaStampede]

The article says things containing pigments that glow under blacklight include "white T-shirts, Froot Loops and petroleum jelly." Well, mystery solved, then: platypuses are made of white T-shirts, Froot Loops and petroleum jelly.

[cfjk]

Too many platypus porn appearances?

[Le Petomane]

Many rocks fluoresce beautifully under a blacklight. And they would stay still and be safer than a platypus which, (Ralph would know) I have been told are venomous on top of being ugly. Now I wonder if they are also radioactive, since many radioactive rocks fluoresce.

That would be a great touch to add to 2020: Venomous radioactive, fluorescent duck-billed platypus to worry about.

[Ralph]

Le Petomane — Male platypuses have venomous spurs on their hind feet they presumably use to assert dominance against other males. Very few people have been injured by platypuses, especially compared to radioactive ore. And they are obviously not ugly to other platypuses. I doubt the UV fluorescence has anything to do with it, but Radioactive Platypuses WBAGNFARB.

[Clankie]

They've discovered Principal Secret.

[Kowalsky]

I kinda remember that one of the Bond Girls was one Platypussy.

[man tom]

When I googled Glowing Platypuses from the 60's a long series of pictures of Raquel Welch popped up.

[Lucky Jack]

Lets see.....They're the only egg-laying mammal,they're the only poisonous mammal, they're the only beaked mammal....Of course they glow in the dark.

Annnnnnd, Glowing Platypus wmagnfarb, amirite?

[Ralph]

Lucky Jack — some species of shrews are venomous, with toxic saliva that runs down grooves in their front teeth. Neither platypuses nor shrews normally attack humans, and Shakespeare aside, shrew venom is far more dangerous to mice than us.

[Le Petomane]

In Shakespeare, did they ever tame that shrew?

[padraig]

I'm just wondering, is this something new, or did they always glow and we just never noticed? Nobody ever took their platypus to a rave before?

[pogo]

Pusillanimous pussyfooting purveyors of platypus porn performances WBAGNFARB or a campaign slogan.

[Guin]

Jim - Spencer Gifts, the FORBIDDEN STORE unless you got your friend's mom to take you. The mom who dropped you off and headed directly to the mall's chain restaurant to drink her lunch.