(in Eng?ish)
The interview opens with PiPs dressed
like a Batman form the ‘70 clearly running away, with the spirited
eyes of a scared to death idiot character of a dumb blog, from
hundreds of wildly crazy-enthusiast super-cute bats hunting it for an
autograph, and from a raging mob of balloons of different sizes,
shapes and colors filled with “KA-POW!”, its little brother
“POW!”, ”SMOK!”, ”BAM!”, ”SWOOSH!”, the antsy "GASP!" and the terrible
unforgiving ”THWACK!” (which sounds a bit like a mix of Clint
Eastwood’s look after he finds out that the last spoon of his
favorite ice cream flavor has been kidnapped by a fake scout who in
reality is a middle aged short fella with the worst case of halitosis
in the recent history of medicine and who profoundly dislikes
Spaghetti Western and muscle cars with an Italian city in their
names, aaand Chewbecca “singing” a Skrillex track at the top of
its lungs) which - the mob - wants its six months overdue paycheck.
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| The Batman logo on the "chest" of PiPs comes from a free photo by Henry & Co. and the bats come from a free photo by Rinck Content Studio; both pics are adapted by @sciencemug. Source of both pics: Unsplash |
Eventually PiPs manages to lose the balloons by distracting them with the cardboard cutout of a sexy Cat Woman chasing a spot of light, but not the bats, and, while hiding behind the url of the Wikipedia page of baobabs covered by a purple anti-biosonar cloak made in Jokerland, notices a man who follows the bats who, in turn, notices it:
- Man, please – PiPs says terrified - don’t tell ‘em I’m here, if I sign another
autograph I’m going to loose my arm, and therefore my armpit,
and thus my deodorant sponsorship thanks to which I can afford to pay
the rent to live in this lousy blog… By the way, who
are you?
And most importantly, do you know what
those things are,
some sort of furry UFOs (or, as they’re called now, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)
with an insane passion for cheap vintage tv-shows maybe?
- My
name is Jason Preble,
I’m a PhD student at the Kyoto University,
and those are not things, they are bats, the only mammals capable of
true flight [by the way you, dear human reader, are a mammal too, you know, just a reminder... Note of SM] . More precisely they are a couple of species of bats
which ecology (N1)
I’m studying: the Ryukyu tube-nosed bat and Yanbaru whiskered bat.
They
only live
in the remaining forests of three islands
at the far southwest end of Japan: Okinawa, Tokunoshima, and
Amami-Oshima. |
| The black bat (on the left) is the Yanbaru whiskered bat, the brown bat (on the right) is the Ryukyu tube-nosed bat [Credits: original pics (one of each bat) by Jason Preble (adapted by @sciencemug)] |
P-
I see, I see… So, being from Japan, besides DC Comics they’re
probably into manga too… Well I guess, then, it’ll be safer for
me to choose a zombee
costume for Halloween,
as I don’t recall any comics or manga ‘bout zombees. Or maybe I
should wear the tragic mask, only few know about, of Rusty, the Tap-dance
shoe which becomes a drunkard (and eventually decides to end itself
by buying a particularly keen on footwear St. Bernard puppy) after
its dream of becoming a spy is broken because of its inborn inability
to be noiseless…
Anyway
Sir, why on Earth are you
chasing them?
JP- These
bats are considered endangered, meaning that
