# discovery channel commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-channel-commercial/25569 "2000-07-14T15:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-channel-commercial/25569/21 "2000-07-15T00:35:01Z")
Gary Larson once commented on a reactions concerning similar liberties taken for the purposes of humor. He once did a “Far Side” featuring a tired-after-a-long-day suburban Mr. Mosquito dragging himself through the door and commenting to Mrs. Mosquito something like “What a day, I must have spread malaria to half of North America”. He included it in his “annotated” edition, and commented on the number of people who wrote to tell him that only the females sucked blood. He observed that people objected to this but apparently didn’t see anything wrong with the fact these mosquitos lived in houses, wore clothes and spoke English … ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-channel-commercial/25569/22 "2000-07-15T04:57:37Z")
Don’t know about MP3s but there is a QuickTime file of the commericial on [http://www.adcritic.com/](http://www.adcritic.com/) (right [here](http://www.adcritic.com/content/discovery.com-meteor-atmosphere.html) to be exact). ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-channel-commercial/25569/23 "2000-07-15T06:32:34Z")
They are not partially **eaten** fish.They have been completely eaten! They are partially **digested** fish. Can I join Nitpickers Anonymous now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-channel-commercial/25569.md?page=1)