Fucking Gary Larson could see the future.
The cartoon was 10 years after the dingo ate her baby.
I cannot imagine (and don’t particularly want to) what the first responders saw when they arrived. I suspect they may have nightmares for a long while.
But to the best of my knowledge, that incident in Australia did not actually involve domesticated canines or a nursery/daycare, unlike this most recent incident in Georgia. Which makes that cartoon disturbingly prescient.
I’ve been reading the Far Side strips as they’re posted each day, and noticed many that reference people or events (like that one involving a dingo) that are going to be unfamiliar to younger people.
Yeah, “dingo ate my baby” is relevant to people who remember the 80s, less so for anyone younger than that.
Unless they are Buffy tVS fans.
Ask somebody under forty about “clubbing baby seals”. You’ll get a look of total bafflement.
Seems pretty obvious to me.
Missing Australian 4 year old ongoing story.
And of course the first thing that came to mind was a shopworn four word phrase
I wish I could see this skit again. (Links to 12/2014 thread.)
I’m gonna guess that one was on Larsen’s banned list.
The original reference, probably, but at this point, more people probably know it from Seinfeld.
I guess this didn’t work out as planned.
Hold on. Maybe not. He was sentenced to death (or it was recommended that he be), so maybe they can grant his wish and skip the jail part?
I mean, I’m 48, and I’m familiar with it memetically, but I have no idea the actual origin. Did someone ever literally bludgeon seal cubs? Why?
Of course. Blunt instruments prevent the pelt from being damaged.
Seriously, it was legal and regulated in Canada.
In 1970, the Canadian government enacted regulations that restricted the hunting of baby seals, allowing only older seals to be hunted with rifles rather than clubs.
Possibly, but he’s still going to have a tow bill.
Atamasama’s link gives the facts but the
were more visceral.