Discussion: Unexpected Visitor: Alligator Found At North Carolina City hall

The gator was there to get a permit for his pet fish Eric.

A license. For a fish.

You’re a loony.

I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I’ve heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn’t call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you’re calling the author of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

Look, it’s a bleeding pet, isn’t it? I’ve got a license for me pet dog Eric, and I’ve got a license for me pet cat Eric…

do you number your erics? you know, just so they’ll know who you are talking to.

Which Republican district does it represent?