DougR.
A Bunyip is an imaginary creature of Aboriginal dreamtime legend, said to haunt swamps and billabongs. Although I've never met him it seems as though our American friends have one of their own 'cept they call theirs Spaw.
It was the only thing I could think of, to end my ramblings, that would give the overly serious folk a clue that it was all in my imagination.
Now, a spit-roasted Bunyip, that's another thing -----------

JG / FME.