A Tale of Two Animalcules. Amoeba & Paramecium

A Tale of Two Animalcules. Amoeba & Paramecium were inseparable companions in a tiny pond holding pseudopod in cilia until one day Paramecium adopted Algae as endosymbiont.

"The hell is this?" Jim spluttered, eyes on the sheet of paper. His lab partner said, "Isn't this good enough for our project?" "No. No. You wrote a story about amoebas! We'll fail

unless we produce enough research for a paper in Annals of Amoebology. 'Arnie the Amoeba goes Shopping' isn't going to get peer-reviewed!" Jim shouted. Crestfallen, Dorian's lip tr

umpeted like an elephant. Jim looked up. "My God that's it Dorian! Don't you see?"

"The elephants must be freed! We most devote our lives going to obscure Pacific Island nations and releasing Elephants from their evil, imbecilic, giraffe captors!"

My entire class gaped at our unhinged geography teacher, ranting at us from behind a rifle barrel. Was he for real? How could he be so ignorant as not to know giraffes aren't evil?

I knew that giraffes hummed to each other at night. Maybe that's all our teacher needed. But my friend Barton (whom I regrettably had bullied earlier) heated Teach's rifle with his

trusty Bunsen burner. The teacher scolded Barton for going near his rifle, and attempted to take the rifle away. By mistake, teach had forgotten that the barrel was hot and touched

the wrong spot. His hand caught fire, he screamed for help. Barton became a labradoodle so the firemen said, "You need to leave." The rifle became a monarch butterfly, wherefore