Now that we've got that out of the way, I've got an interesting tale to tell and only roughly 4-5 months late. Turns out that 4 months is how long it takes my B.S. alma mater (you read that right) to inform me of what may possibly be Idaho's greatest achievement (next to the Humanitarian Bowl win last year, of course)....
I was just reading through my alumni magazine, Here We Have Idaho, and came upon a fascinating article: "It was a good legend...as worm legends go." It turns out that back in March, a UI grad student and a research assistant broke a 20 year drought by collecting the first live and wholly intact giant Palouse earthworm. Here's what the Spokesman Review had to say about the find.
For those not familiar with the giant Palouse earthworm, they are fabled to grow as long as 3 feet and are said to spit when threatened. Rumor also has it that they smell like lilies. And they are only found in the Palouse prairies of southeastern Washington and North Idaho.
So what about this story makes this sligthly-past-its-prime news a candidate for Idaho's greatest achievement? Well, when news of the find broke, the story was picked up by newspapers across the country. And somehow, without my knowledge, the news was picked up by the man, the myth, the legend, Stephen Colbert. Wag of the finger or not, here's Colbert's take on the find...
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