David Cole

that things have been quiet here. Work is bananas. I’m sorry, I’m so, so sorry. To make it up to you, here’s a list of my favorite animal hybrid portmanteaux, culled from various Wikipedia entries:

• Zonkey
• Hobra
• Geep
• Pizzly Bear
• Coydingo
• Jagupard

Runner-up prizes given to those hybrids who aren’t named with portmanteaux but still somehow manage to make me happy:

• Zubron
• Toast of Botswana
• Huarizo
• Iron Age pig

Did you know that the grapefruit is a hybrid? For that, we can thank Barbados. They say it’s one of the Seven Wonders of Barbados. What are the other six? A cave, baobab trees, some mansions, a sugar mill, a synagogue, and a cannon. 

I saw a cannon once. Well, that about does it. Go away.