A friend sent me an e-mail forward about golf today. In the spirit of trying to at least think about seven impossible things before breakfast, croquet as played in Wonderland crossed my mind. This, as most people know, is played with a hedgehog for a ball and a flamingo, turned upside-down so its beak is the mallet-head, for the... well, mallet. Thus the title "Flipping the Bird."
It occurred to me that someone my height could never handle a bird as tall as a flamingo as a croquet mallet. Fretting over other possible avian mallet choices, I finally decided that toucan play at that.
