Originally Posted by Keeper

Quite out of topic I know but... have you read a book called The Eyre Affair? It's in fact the first of a series. The setting is an alternative 1985 England. Mammoths are still alive there and roaming England freely... Also Dodos are alive (a funny name for an animal, too).

The main character in those books is called Thursday Next and she's so funny!

I know I missed your point completely, though. Sorry!