Things that Trouble Me When I Should be Sleeping

How did the town in north Central Victoria known as Yea get its name?

It's obviously a town that sprung up out of necessity to the farmers and possibly miners (I don't know much about the history of the area). But did it reach a point when those in charge were like, "Right, this place is no longer a place for passing travellers to spend the night. It's a town now, and we need to give it a name, yea or nay?"

A chorus of "Yea!" from everyone.

"Right, what should we call it then?"

No response.

"Right, well, tomorrow we'll come up with a name for the new town, yea or nay?"

"Yea!"

And because no one could come up with a name someone decided to just name the town Yea in honour of the fact that they always said "Yea!" to naming the town "tomorrow" ... which, if that's the case Victoria could've had a town called Tomorrow instead of Yea.

Either that, or they were smoking something funky and thought that naming a town Yea would be extremely hilarious and made it official before they sobered up.

The Secret of the Possum

Most people are familiar with Australia's possum. It's a pretty iconic little

critter. Admittedly not quite as iconic as the kangaroo and koala. But it's up there in iconicness. And let's face it, the possum deserves to be high on the iconic list, they're cute little critters. People get very excited being able to observe them being all possum and cute in their natural environments at night.

But what most people don't realise is that these possums are aware that they're being observed. So they just act all cute and possum and innocent. Well, at least, the bush possums do. The city possums are little less careless about this. Probably because they know that most tourists will head out to the bush to observe their bush counterparts. Most people aren't aware that possums are very prevailent in Australia.

So most tourists don't get to hear the possum's screeches at night.

Anyone who has heard a possum screech know just how demonic they sound.

And who's to say that they aren't demonic?

For something so small and cute to make those kind of sounds just isn't natural. Not unless the small and cute critter in question is in fact a demon!

Let's face facts, possums have razor sharp claws, sharp teeth, those unearthly cries and the fact that they make sure that very few people hear these unearlthy cries. Then there's also the fact that their tails serve many purposes. Not just balance as they scamper around the place, knocking out powerlines and leaving people in the dark.

So next time you see a possum, be very wary of it. You never know, it might suddenly decide to do the drop bear thing and kill you.

That sounds pretty demonic, right?