Irish Elk

They were really big deer, and they lived all over Europe, but for some reason they are known as Irish Elk. Usually adding the moniker "Irish" means that the drink was spiked or the children came close together, but I do not know if Irish Elk contained whiskey or had litters (no, not litters, but I cannot remember what it is that you call deer baby congregations) every year.

Anyway, if you want to learn more about Irish Elk you can go barking up the tree of paleozoologists. If you would rather just have a good read about all sorts of things (and must forgive the editor's nostalgia for creepy Democrats of the past), especially traditional jazz, baseball, and some strange game they play on the ice back East, then go to Mark Sullivan's Irish Elk.

Mark will certainly understand what I am doing by linking to him, so perhaps we can see what happens with "Italian Caribou" or maybe "Mongolian Spotted Owls"

Tee hee hee.