Someone's baaa-rking up the wrong tree

As mentioned before, BoingBoing has some remarkable stuff on it. Sometimes I get there all by myself, but at other times I look because of the cries of "You have got to see this!" from downstairs. Today was one of those days…

First was a link to Watchismo, and the prototype of the Swiss Army Watch as will be used (in its advanced 80-years-later version) by Colonel Blood…

And then there was Mutton dressed as lamb mutts...

Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory. The scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food. Poodles are famously used by the rich and glamorous on the Continent but are extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like.

I checked the date of the article, and it is 26th April, not a rerun of 1st.

I’ve heard of people taking on an unusual breed of dog/cat/combat hamster without identifying its fast-breeding gender, destructive personal habits or other interesting facets of what they were letting themselves in for.

Not bothering to find out enough about a potential pet (sorry, status-conferring object) to recognise its order, never mind family, genus and species, is a new one on me…

There may be some way to finance WorldCon that I haven’t considered. :-)