So, I was chatting with my good friend Satan the other day, who is an unstoppable punster, and I may have accidentally been a little too literal when asked a question.
The question, in case the image doesn’t load, was “What do you call a fly with no wings?”
The desired answer was “A walk.”
Instead the vet brain jumped up and down because it was excited to remember something from second year parasitology that it thought was cool at the time and proudly declared “A KED!”
Melophagus ovinus, the humble sheep ked, is a fairly useless insect. It’s a fly that took wrong turn on the evolutionary tree and somehow ended up losing its wings to instead live its entire lifecycle on the backs of sheep, eating their blood. It’s a fly trying its darnedest to be a flea. It is the Fly That Does Not.
They’re also apparently almost extinct in places, because they live on sheep their entire life cycle and widespred use of ivermectin has been very effective at controlling them.
I’d be kind of sad to see these sad little creatures go extinct, but they’re not exactly a high conservation value species.
So here’s to the Keds, the flightless flys, while they’re still with us.
And to me completely not realizing a question was a joke and making it awkward.
I’m so glad this doesn’t only happen to me. My vet humor has ruined many jokes and family dinners
I always thought they looked suspiciously arachnid. I’m not sure if fly-that-doesn’t is better or worse.
“average homosexual sleeps with more than 500 ppl in their life time” factoid actualy just statistical error. average homosexual sleeps with 3 people per year. Homosexuals Georg, who lives in cave & tops over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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