Awkward Ahead

Cute mammals, protected from cats now. See photos.

A critically endangered mala or rufous hare wallaby in the feral predator-proof fenced area on Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary. Photograph: Wayne Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Excerpt:

The world’s largest cat-proof fence has been completed in central Australia, creating a 94 square kilometre sanctuary for endangered marsupials.

The 44km fence – made of 85,000 pickets, 400km of wire and 130km of netting – surrounds the Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, a former cattle station that has been bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

Endangered species such as the bilby, the burrowing bettong and the mala (also known as the rufous hare-wallaby) will have a chance to replenish their populations inside the massive sanctuary, safe from Australia’s feral cat epidemic.

Feral cats kill a million native birds every night across Australia and have caused the extinction of 20 native species since they were introduced by the first fleet.

Bilby

chunks

curdling

squirt

munch

bulbous

pustule

sink

squirm

slippery

Which got me wondering, can I elicit the same emotions with words that have no meaning? And the answer is “Yes, yes you definitely can.”

So here it is: words and phrases that elicit “thanks, i hate it!” by sheer negative sonority

scrungo

beesechurger

mingus

hurgling

tungus

Scrimmy Bingus and the Crungy Spingus

slurm

chungus

crungle

gunch

But did you know you can make it even worse by combining them??

bucket of curdling chunks

the pustulous gunch muncher

your squirming tungus

this crungy beesechurger

a squirting chungus

the slurm sink

a slippery mingus

And my all time favorite

nois7 Robert Jahns

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