Of lions and lioness

While on our way home, we were toking bout some animals topic and hubs suddenly got reminded by a joke made by me thousands of years ago and started teasing me.

It started with an innocent trip to the zoo, back when I still have access to free zoo passes, it used to be 1 of our fav dating place..There was this once, while at the lion enclosure, hubs found me squatting down there trying hard to peep under the lions who were walking about.

Puzzled, he asked me wat I was doing, and I replied I was trying to differentiate between the male and female. He then started luffing so hard that he nearly rolled on the floor. In between his laughters, he asked me whether had I not learnt in school that the lion is distinguishable by its mane while lioness do not have it?

I pondered hard..Seriously I tink I didnt pick this up from sch, neither did mummy tell me or I read frm anywhere else. How was I to know?

Today, he went 1 step further to probe :

He asked me, den why do I think there are lions with mane and some without? So I told him, I just assume some have more hair, others do not, why am I suppose to tink so much of the hair on the lion's head?

"So you mean some have hair, others are just customers of Bejing 101?" he asked again..

"Ya la, something like tat lo" I replied.

"Lucky for you that you've got me telling you this GK, else next time your children will suffer" he went on

"How so?"

Since he was so high on this subject, he went on to act out a scenario, assuming that I had taught our kid the wrong thing, 1 fine day the kid went n told his fwen bout what I taught him..

Kid saying to his fwens " But my mummy says can differentiate lions by lookin under them to see their reproductive organs"

Kid's Fwen:" You mean you dunno lion have mane while lioness dun?"

Kids" My mummy neber teach me wat.."

Kid's fwen started to luff at him.

Kid came running home tell me that its all my fault that he got teased in sch for not knowing lions have mane and he tot they just have more hair than the other lions.

He got so happie that this tot that he keep luffin at me on the way home, all the way making those noisy sound simitating a kid saying " my mummy neber teach me wat"

Then suddenly he stopped and look at me, "eh, you think your mummy knows about this or not? did you asked her before? scarily she aso dunno..."

Ok lo, since you so happie rite? Wait till I go ask my mummy infront of you, see whether you can luff so happily or not..HMMMFFFFFFFFFFF.......