weirddave:
New York city? Dude. Get a grip. In New York, you could probably get together eight people to protest against ice cream.
Nose around long enough and you could find that many people to protest evian. You could find that many ice cream makers to protest evian.
you could probably get 8 rat-eating Ice Cream men to protest against evian
I like rodents, I really do. My daughter has some as pets and they are cute. I have a hamster. I also have a Ball Python. Guess what he eats. It’s the food chain. Everthing dies and everything gets eaten even if its posthumously.
sung in an eight-year-old’s voice The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out…
Damn tpea, that’s funny.
PETA is going to find their cause drops credibility just about as fast as the anti-castro cubans did in Miami. Never underestimate the damage a million rolling eyes can do to the seriousness of a cause…
I think they’ve already lost a lot of credibility, but the hardcore fanatics won’t care. I think the cause of prevention of cruelty to animals is less important to them than getting everyone to conform to their standards.
I seem to remember when they started they were really trying for the ethical treatment of animals (trying to do away with taping open rabbit eyes to test some stupid cosmetic to make sure it was hypoallergenic and things like that). But like a ball rolling down a hill they seem to have picked up so much momentum that they just can’t stop themselves!
Here’s a small CNN story on the PETA protest of “Survivor.”
See hflathead, they care about the stingrays, too! Now aren’t you sorry you were so mean to the psychos?
[quote]
aeLeeann Smith, a PETA spokeswoman said, CBS should show ways of surviving on an island “using the rich vegetation, not by abusing rats and stingrays.”
[quote]
Now I’ll have to apologize and find another worthy cause…
Put me in with the rat ice cream eating men against lawyers drinking Evion.
later, Tom
Oops, I thought this was going to be a thread about my bosses.
Thank goodness my husband doesn’t share your prejudices!
AerynSun, Esq.
What are these people bitching about? It isn’t like rats have ever done anything to endear themselves to us humans. When was the last time a rat woke somebody who was sleeping and warned him or her of a fire? Let us not forget that whole Black Death thing either.
Dammit, you people are missing the point…rats have rights, too…one rat, one vote…sufferage for rats… give me your poor, your hungry, your rats…
Do you think PETA really thought they were going to rake in the donations and sign up millions of new members? What, the Rat Defense League and PETA form a new, powerful, vegan coalition? Right.
Lynn, can we please retitle this thread? What it should be called is, “No person or group should ever consistently stand up in public for things in which it believes, no matter how distasteful; and certainly PETA, who is always accused by its detractors of only sticking up for the rights of cute, fuzzy animals, is damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
Think of how much time was wasted by all y’all today posting to this message board. I’m surprised you took time out of your obviously busy schedule of volunteering at homeless shelters and orphanages.
Shit shit shit shit shit . . . the post above was me, not my wife. Although, come to think of it, it sounds way funnier coming from her.
All of this is just ridiculous. Some people have nothing better to do than to bitch about the treatment of rats meanwhile people around the world are starving, getting killed and being forced to watch The Gong Show reruns. What a cruel world we live in!
Time wasted? Hell no…I just had a few minutes while sittin’ outside the local soup kitchen, helpin’ the good folks here prepare meals for those less fortunate…see, I got a buncha rats on the grill, and the folks here like it when they have those lovely grill marks on 'em.
You betcha. The plump when you cook 'em.
May it quickly come to pass in the next iteration of Survivor.
(Incidentally, after today, 22 June 2000, you’ll have to find that strip in the archives. Sluggy Freelance is always worth a look, however, whatever the topic.)