Keytar-playing platypus explained

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Anonymous

must have t-shirt. please someone make t-shirt…..
Anonymous

gopher??? GOPHER?!

that is obviously a beaver.

how could you confuse one of the world most industrious mammals and oregon state mascot with an internet protocol?

geek fail
Enormo

No… no explanation needed.
DarthVain

Don’t forget about the “poison barbs”… by my count that makes it either 1/3 spider or snake.
Mark Frauenfelder

This wins for the best thing I’ve seen today.
Alex_M

Platypi are awesome. Keytars are awesome. Figures!
- tuckels
  
  I think you mean platypodes. Or at least platypuses.
dragonfrog

Does this mean that I can get this on a T-shirt? I can’t quite figure it out…
Anonymous

The Platypus has always been a musical animal. Here’s one that sings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gM5TjSOQ48
axoplasm

If this isn’t already the new Oregon state flag, it should be.
- Anonymous
  
  If that was the Oregon state flag that would somehow link me to the ducks and that I can not abide.
Anonymous

Suddenly it all makes sense.
Anonymous

Love the image, but I feel that Richard Dawkins might disapprove. He wouldn’t want people to confuse the platypus with the evolutionary principle of a “common ancestor” that links ducks and gophers(is it a gopher? I’m an ignorant Australian!), with the pure mash-up genius of the keytar. Another reason to buy the t-shirt!
- Boondocker
  
  Good lord, man, that’s a beaver, not a gopher! You can tell by the broad, flat tail, the socialized medicine, and the fact that he’s playing a Tom Sawyer/New Orleans is Sinking/If I Had $1000000 medley.
  - MrsBug
    
    Awesome! I especially approve of the Rush reference.
  - skeptacally
    
    you rock.
    
    and, if you’re not canadian, then you rock even harder for posting this oh so canadian comment.
- Brainspore
  
  Love the image, but I feel that Richard Dawkins might disapprove. He wouldn’t want people to confuse the platypus with the evolutionary principle of a “common ancestor” …
  
  Are you suggesting that the keytar is a common ancestor of both guitars and electronic keyboards?
  - Anonymous
    
    Well sure, the keytar is obviously the common ancestor of both guitars and keyboards, Spore!
    
    Keytars are the final instar of the offspring of an accordion and a ukulele (which are of course true primordial musical instrument forms). Keytars rarely breed true, so half their offspring are keyboards and half are guitars. Keyboards are mostly sterile, with the occasional exception producing harpsichords and glockenspiels, but guitars are prolific and randy little devils.