For generations, students at the University of Texas have believed that if, on your way to a test, you see an albino squirrel on campus, you’ll get an A.
But a biology professor at UT says: “The squirrels — at least the ones I’ve seen on campus — are not true albinos… I have actually seen several color variants of squirrels on campus with light-colored hair but all with normally pigmented eyes. … There are squirrels that lack or have reduced production of eumelanin, or black pigment, which are known as amelanistic squirrels.”
Not only that, but a student comments in response to the article:
I saw an albino squirrel and had a threesome later that night ….
May 14th, 2009 at 7:50AM
The student had a threesome with an albino, I mean, amelanistic squirrel?
May 14th, 2009 at 8:49AM
Hm, you’re right. A bit ambiguous. I’m almost certain, from the context, that the student meant he had a threesome with two other people. Not albinos. I think.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:00PM
This seems to be a Texas thing: Maybe it is a dry country, so the students can not admit comsuming alcohol. Back in Europe, when somebody saw small white animals ("white mice"), this was interpreted as last stage of alcoholism (delirium tremens).
May 14th, 2009 at 4:04PM
econprof: Funny!
February 18th, 2010 at 10:49AM
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