--I knew that.
When rednecks take a shine to AC/DC, Plato and the platypus
Quote from an Aussie interview:
But wait there's more. It seems our fauna has significance, too.
"That platypus is going to be my theme animal," Scotch says. "You've got all these biologists wanting to put everything into some kind of category: a mammal, a reptile, amphibian, bird, fish, right down to these single-cell protozoa. It's the same with music: we've got these music Nazis who want to put all music into categories and I want to show them the platypus because here's an animal who by the sheer fact that he's alive is a big ol' f--- you, a big ol' middle finger to all people who want to categorise. Hayseed Dixie, we're like that platypus."
..Hillbillies, learned hillbillies...
For a good ol' boy from Deer Lick Holler, Scotch is amazingly familiar with Australian fauna and biology, isn't he? And maybe even philosophy, for the car crash also offered up a copy of Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil...
I also found a a poem about Plato the Platy
a comic strip starring Plato the Platy,
and a bookstore that starts off looking like Betty Boop is the proprietor, but segues into Marvel Comics, "Platypus and the Birthday Party", and textbooks on complex analysis, nursing, drawing, sex, etc.
That little fellow really gets around.