Poisonous Rat-Duck Day

Today is Ground­hog Day, which is hilar­i­ous to me. How did they out­ma­neu­ver the oth­er ani­mals and get their own hol­i­day?

I per­son­al­ly would pre­fer Platy­pus Day. There’s an ani­mal that deserves to be cel­e­brat­ed. It’s a fur­ry, poi­so­nous rat-duck. A platy­pus is prac­ti­cal­ly a liv­ing Poké­mon.

But some­how the ground­hogs won out. I sus­pect bribery.

For the record, today I will hon­or platypi in my heart. Although Wikipedia tells me that platypi is incor­rect and I should say platy­pus­es or platy­podes. Also, they are ven­omous and not poi­so­nous (ven­om is inject­ed, poi­son is con­sumed).

To which I say: poi­so­nous rat-duck sounds bet­ter than ven­omous rat-duck, and platypi has a sat­is­fy­ing faux-intel­lec­tu­al ring to it. Let rhetoric pre­vail, and let the poi­so­nous rat-ducks have their day on the cal­en­dar!