But in Central Illinois they say they would rather be a Fisher Bunny than be beat by one.
The Green Bay Produce Confinement Specialists™
I dunno. It just doesn’t sing.
Once again, this gives me a chance to regale the Straight Dope literati with an old non-combat war story.
The time: High Summer, 1968.
The place: General Court Martial court room at Ft. Leonard Wood and US Army Training Center, Missouri.
The trial of a stockade sodomy case featuring anal penetration.
The witness, the consensual victim of the act, is testifying under grant of immunity:
CPT. Gelding: After the Defendant took your pants down, what happened?
The Witness: Sir, he packed my shit.
CPT.: G.: I beg your pardon?
WIT: My shit, Sir. He packed it.
The next day the Judge Advocate Office played baseball against the post dental clinic Drillers. The JA team came on the field with their new team name carefully lettered in magic marker on green t-shirts: PACKERS.
And trying to fit that into a headline would be hell!
What about the Catskill Mountains?:rolleyes:
How about the Green Bay People Who Kill Fellow Humans But Pet Fuzzy Bunnies?
The Packers may not slaughter real animals, but they certainly manage to slaughter their rivals, the Albert Lea Tigers, all the time.
(Seriously, Albert Lea’s football team sucked, at least when I went to high school there just a couple years ago. The soccer team scored more points in a season than the football team.)
Sorry, I’m just tickled when the area of the world I grew up in is in the news, for any reason. 
I used to go to college in Austin, and knew several people who used to go to high school there.
PETA is probably picking on Austin because it’s the headquarters of Hormel, the makers of quality canned luncheon meat products such as the infamous SPAM. (Austin has dubbed itself “SPAMTown USA”. There are banners all around the town proclaiming this. The town hosts an annual SPAM Jam festival to celebrate the product, which must give PETA members absolute fits.)
I honestly think PETA has done more to hurt the cause of animal rights than it has done to help it.
PETA makes me frustrated, for two reasons:
a.) People assume that as a vegetarian, I sympathize with their bullshit, and
b.) Like other extreme (leftist or rightist) groups, they waste their time on non-issues when they should be working towards real solutions to our problems.
I really, really wish PETA wasn’t the most well known vegetarian organization in the US. I really do.
Hmmm, doesn’t Green Bay PIABOST’s* sound like a good name…
PETA Is A Bunch Of Stupid Twerps.
This is true, but it comes from the French word BARCOON (not sure of the spelling) meaning stocks that the slaves were restrained with, not the cute little critter with the mask and oposing thumb.
(That’s what I thought at first. But don’t tell anybody - I have my reputation to think of.)
I thought PETA was anti-candy.
You know, fudge packers.
BTW, Stockade Sodomy featuring Anal Penetration - Band name.
[News Announcer] And in sports today, The Chelsea Football Club won the Stanley Cup, the World Series, and the Triple Crown. Unfortunetly, they still suck at soccer. Now for the weather…[/News Announcer]
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Hmm. Does this mean they want Kerry and James outlawed as well? I know I do.
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Got Beer?
Here’s a solution. Pack meat cans full of PETA members (or at least their organizational mouthpieces) and give them away at halftime.
I’ve never had a problem with vegans, vegis or the anti-cruelty causes. I don’t agree with fur opponents or anti-meat causes or, actually, any environmental causes, but I’m willing to grant anyone the right to their opinions and beliefs, just as I demand the same for myself.
But for fuck’s sake, these thundering shit weasels at PETA are so far beyond the Pale in the crusades they undertake as to make anyone who remotely shares any of their viewpoints get painted with the same brush.
Pack 'em, grill 'em and serve 'em on a bun, I say.
I just like the idea of the results service
Chelsea 4 - Chelsea 1
Chelsea 2 - Chelsea 2 (Chelsea relegated)
Chelsea 21 - Chelsea 28
Chelsea beat Chelsea by an innings and 38 runs.
pan
I’m a vegetarian, and I believe in animal rights…
… and I’m seriously annoyed when PETA does stupid crap like this!
Peta generally knows that what htey’re doing is stupid – at least, that’s the impression I get from reading their self-explanatory essays. Did everyone catch their recent “Eat the Whales” campaign?
Their philosophy seems to be that any attention to vegetarianism is good attention: that by raising awareness of the issues, you get them discussed. And they know that the media is more likely to report outrageous ridiculous shit than they are to report something sensible and reasonable.
In a way, they’ve got the same advertising philosophy as 1-800-callatt. However awful it may be to see Carrot Top on a daily basis, the advertising does raise awareness of the product. I think that, by PETA’s standards, their campaigns are successful.
One more point: I think that PETA might generally be targeting adolescents and college kids with their ads. These are folks most likely to make radical changes in their eating habits, and they’re also likelier to be attracted to radical, no-compromise politics. So part of the reason these ridiculous campaigns annoy us is that they’re not designed to appeal to us. (This is a WAG).
Daniel
Oh, those wacky tongue-in-cheek animal rights activists. What kind of kooky “over the top” kind of tactics will they come up with next? What kind of radical, no-compromises street theater can we expect to top this? How 'bout assassinating a Dutch party leader?
Those crazy kids!