I was a bit of a weird child...
...and decided that obscurity was the way forward when it came to school projects.

When asked in Biology to do a project on an animal, any animal (bearing in mind I grew up in South Africa, where animal varieties are rich and abundant) I opted instead for...... the quagga, a sort of hybrid donkey/zebra that became extinct in the first decade 1900's.

When asked in Geography to do a project on an island, any island (bearing in mind that massive, heavily populated and very intresting islands like Australia and our very own Blighty exist and are ripe for a good depth of research) I opted instead for...........Tristan da Cunha, a speck of a rock in the South Atlantic that is one of the most isolated inhabited (barely) outposts of mankind on the face of the planet.

What I thought at the time was something along the lines sf scoring extra marks for originality.

What I swiftly realised is that when the only literature available on an extinct donkey and a rock in the South Atlantic can be printed on a small leaflet, writing an entire, well researched and in-depth project wasn't going to happen and I was as likely to score highly as an unwashed goatskin wearing midget in a nightclub full of Pussycat Dolls style nymphomaniacs.

How I passed that year I have no idea. But on the plus side, I still have a pretty good amount of recall on the two subjects...its just that an audience now, like then, is pretty hard to find.
(Stuffed Chimp, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 10:40, 4 replies)

Are you me?
I ask, because I've looked up both subjects on Wikipedia in the past year.
(chase, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 13:27, closed)

I'm afraid I'm not you
but you have now officially increased the Quagga Cool Club membership by 100%...
(Stuffed Chimp, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 17:21, closed)

I too
looked up both the island and the animal on the wikipedia. But only in reaction to your post. It was a case of I haven't heard that before; I must know.
Of course, if you were to do this project now, you could easily find enough information on both. The Wikipedia articles are quite good, and well referenced
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 16 Aug 2009, 14:52, closed)

That's
the sort of weird stuff I look up.
(kitescreech still here, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 12:17, closed)