It might be funnier than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (I know, I'm blaspheming His Noodliness; may He strike me down with a flaming meatball.) I was just leting my normal snarky side through.

I said I bet a lot of people think that a turtle can retreat into its shell and then stick its legs and head out of different holes because that's how they are depicted in cartoons.

... intends the story as humorous satire, the sad fact is, there really are people that stupid. I know a couple, and give them wide berth. Sometimes I withdraw into the comfort of my shell.

Also recall that the motto of Allium cepa (the common cultivar of the widely consumed bulbous vegetable—the onion) is Tu stultus es—You [familiar] are dumb/stupid—which has also proven to be true: especially when Onion articles are quoted on RW News.

I, myself, have, of course, never mistaken such a quotation as anything other than satire. Honestly—Never Ever. Cross my heart on this Holy Monday