Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Now I'm wondering... what the heck is a "just so story"?
> 
> Generally childrens' stories explaining parts of the world as fables. 
> Like, "why does the rabbit have long ears and sit up?"  The story goes 
> that some mother-nature figure caught the bunny spying on her one time, 
> so made it so he had to sit up straight when he stopped, but gave him 
> long ears so he could hear anyway, or some such.

My God... Is there anything Wikipedia doesn't talk about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

So it's a story that fits the evidence, but is completely unprovable. (?)

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