Song Challenge: Roo Poo Paper

Subject: Song Challenge: Roo Poo Paper
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:48 PM

No - I'm NOT making this up!

Actually, recycling roo poo is very suitable for making paper, something about the fibres being the right length, etc, and paper is made all around the world from similar sources, including elks. It's not as if we don't have enough of the little buggers hopping around here...

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Creative Paper Tasmania - Hand Made Australian Papers

Joanna Gair, manager of handmade paper company Creative Paper Tasmania, says production of 'roo poo paper' only started in the past two weeks but she has been thinking about the idea for some time.

"I've been inspired by the African paper makers who've created an enormous industry out of elephant dung paper," she says. "I thought we needed an Australian version."

Oh, they wash it VERY well....

Now if people are prepared to drink a certain type of coffee, what is wrong with Roo Poo Paper? Come on, the company needs a good song to help promote the product - write it and you may become a RICH Folkie! And you can tell all your folkie friends that you owe it all to sh...

Robin

Oh, Clinton, where did you go?

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Roo Poo Paper
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:50 PM

ROF!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Roo Poo Paper
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:51 PM

RooPoo paper coffee cups?

Eeeew.

~S~

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Roo Poo Paper
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:14 PM

Well, I just happen to have already written a song which is, in part, about roo poo and the dung beetles that evolved to harvest it. Here's the relevant verse:

If you're a biophysicist, then you can calculate
That beasts can't move efficiently above a certain weight
By hopping on their hind legs, and the mass this rule allows
Means kangaroos cannot evolve to be the size of cows.
In consequence, the dung they leave is golf-ball sized, or less,
And so Australia's coprophagous fauna could address
Itself to handling the smaller forms of pre-digested leaf,
But not the kind that's left behind by half-ton hunks of beef.

The song also refers to dung-based termite nests, which you might consider to be the result of a process akin to papermaking.

If you want to see the whole song, you can find it here.