Well, if Stephen says so...

I was casually browsing the Internet, looking up the chief food of the flamingo (as you do), when I happened upon this mention of Stephen Fry on Wikipedia. Surrounded by solid facts, this 'matter-of-fact' sentence seems to postulate the theory that the powers-that-be (by this I mean the random bloke that decided to contribute to the article) consider the word of Stephen Fry, a notorious intellect, to be itself a perfectly valid argument against a documented fact. How flattering that must be for him.

I decided that in order to preserve the visual impact of said sentence, I would not annotate the following screenprint. By finding it yourselves, the humour and unusualness of it should be as great as it was when I first stumbled across it.

I love the fact that his name is not even linked to the corresponding 'Stephen Fry' Wikipedia article - whoever wrote it appears to think that everybody knows of Stephen Fry.

As a fan of Fry's popular comedy quiz QI, I know that the fact in question was originally questioned on that show. I'm not sure whether that particular factoid arguing against the feeding methods of zoo-keepers was a personal contribution by Stephen himself, or just supplied by the researchers, but if I was Mr Fry, I would be extremely proud, albeit a bit selfish, about taking all the pride for a theory about the artificial colouring of wading birds.

Wivell out.