Life lessons

On the way home from work today, Radio 3 was playing me a very silly song about a duck and a kangaroo; apparently the lyrics are by Lear. The duck was envying the kangaroo's ability to hop and bemoaning its own boring life in the pond. Eventually, the duck overcame the kangaroo's objections to its wet feet (for the knitters: by wearing four pairs of worsted socks that fit its webbed toes) and persuaded it to give it a ride. And they hopped three times round the world. But the song annoyed the hell out of me because all I could think was

YOU HAVE WINGS, YOU SODDING IDIOT!