Apologies in advance for this joke.
William Honey, a famous 19th century British biologist, once had a theory that life may have arisen in tidal ponds. He travelled all over the world looking for a modern pond that could confirm this theory, but kept coming up short. He was particularly convinced western Africa had the right tectonics and geography, so he concentrated his search there. Mauritania and Guinea were busts, but as he crossed the border into Mali immediately he saw exactly the kind of pond he was looking for, took the samples, and the preliminary analysis seemed to confirm his theory.
Rushing back to the nearest town with a telegraph station, he immediately wanted to cable the Royal Society, hoping he might be elevated to the Peerage for his work. But he was a parsimonious man, so he typed up the shortest message he could think of: "Honey saw key Mali ponds".
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