So how would you doper mommies react if some PETAphile gave your kids a brochure like this?
Peoples’ unvarnished opinions on this are being given over in the Pit.
Yes, and maybe when confronted with their childrens hurt looks, parents will accede to all the wishes of their children who obviously know much better than their parents!
Har!
Mommy should reply, “about sixteen, why do you ask honey-boo?”
“I don’t know, son, let’s go to the pet store to find out, and make mommy a nice birthday gift at the same time! Won’t that be fun?”
“Cool!”
I know this is horribly, horribly crass, but when I was a teenager I had this antique scarf made of minks, with the head and feet and everything.
This woman came up to me and said “Oh My Gawd, are you wearing DEAD ANIMALS??!”
I just deadpanned and said, “Why yes! You should see the one I have of little aborted fetuses”
Her hair curled up and she walked away.
Don’t EVEN get me started on this…
PETA’s inability to distinguish people who wear fur from people who raise and kill the animals is, I think, the very least of their problems.
“Really, honey, my wrap is just made with the bits left over from what I give you in the form of McDonald’s lunches and Jell-o.”
“Oh, okay.”
A kolinsky! I haven’t seen one of those in years!
They tried to take a stole off my neck once… didn’t realize it was growing there.
:eek: I SHOULDN’T be finding this funny. Must resist…urge to laugh…
I have a beautiful fake fur coat that is a dead ringer for a fur coat. It is gorgeous and feels about 95% furrish. Did I tell you it’s fabulous?
Every time I wear it ( Every blue moon after a typhoon after a Virgin is Sacrificed.) I get stopped by some " Oh, you’re wearing a dead animal."
I flip the fur coat open to reveal the label and say, " Only polyesters were killed in the making of this." And then I note their shoes, wallet, belt,purse are made from dead cows.
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That’s what you call ‘Ironic’
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Now all I need is a big furry matching hat, and I’ll look like an extra from Dr. Zhivago.
Ummm… zero? Unless you can kill animals twice.
My kids would just say, “yeah, and you should see the bear that was in the freezer last year”. My small son is very proud of that, and wants to take it to show-and-tell when I get it back from the taxidermist.
My 5-year-old daughter is just now coming to grips with the fact that the food on her plate comes from formerly living creatures. She was watching Pirates of the Caribbean the other night and spotted the roast pig on a platter. The ensuing conversation went something like this.
SHE: Daddy, they’re eating a pig (as if to say, eeeeeeww).
ME: Why not? You had pig for lunch.
SHE: Uh-uuuuuuuh!
ME: You ate ham, didn’t you?
SHE: (pause) That was pig?
ME: Yup. Good, wasn’t it?
SHE: Yeah!
End of conversation.
Yes, my sisters kids went throught the stage of “eeeew, I don’t want to eat that, it comes from a dead animal!”
Well, suddenly there were such things as the hotdog tree and the hamburger bush.
My father gave us no such dilusions, when we had big parties at the house, and they roasted a whole pig, the HEAD sat on a plate in the fridge. You’d open the door to get some eggnog, or a sandwich, and there it would be, staring at you “turn out that light!!” it seemed to scream.
The first time it scared the crap out of you, but then we got to inviting other kids over and telling them, “oh, you wanna pop? go ahead, there’s one in the fridge”
Sit back and wait for the scream.
Dear PETA:
My mommy might kill animals but your mommy is going to hell.
Love,
SnoopyToddler
Sigh Even though PETA has a point - killing several small and possibly endangered animals to make ONE coat is, at the very least, wasteful* - they can’t seriously think they’re going to win any fans with this schtick!
Patty
*Now COWS, on the other hand, I have no problem with bumping off. You could probably get a couple of shoes out of one those big ole heffas, most people would’ve eatten the sucker anyway AND there’s just too darn many of those fart-machines, especially here in Ohio!
Marvel, I can’t keep myself from pointing out that the quote in your sig is from Robert A. Heinlein – still attributable to an AI, but it was Lazarus Long’s ship’s computer, Dora, in Time Enough For Love.
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