You are the weakest link!
 

Yom Kippur?

ADMIN ALERT!!
 

Screw you, it's parody.

Even(and I mean that with love)Odds

You are the weakest link!
 

Actually, one of the funnier lists I've seen.

ADMIN ALERT!!
 

Eschucha a Blue Triangle. Esta a troubelmaking chingado.

You are the weakest link!
 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm looking hard on Google to try to learn more about the caiman living in that apartment. The tiger is strange enough, but a five-foot reptile? Were they buddies?

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My understanding from an acquaintance who works with some dangerous (if not usually man-eating) animals is that, it's not that they develop a taste for us (we really taste pretty crappy), it's that once they've chewed on us they simply realize that we are chewable, and they are no longer afraid or uncertain around humans. It's why animals that have attacked or eaten people are usually put down immediately, no second chances: there is no safe place to keep them. They remain a huge risk to humans in any human-managed environment, much more so than untrained, wild animals. And even if they can be reintroduced into the wild they are still a big risk to humans, because they won't avoid humans in favor of easier pickings like most wild things. Not to mention that, with some more social/intelligent species, other animals may learn by example.

Being really seriously endangered may help this one, if it is thought valuable enough as breeding stock to be worth the risk, but in zoos, nature preserves, etc. all over the world they routinely put down even endangered animals that have attacked humans.

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There's a death penalty argument hidden in here somewhere, but this ain't the PB, and it's Monday, and I'm just not going there right now.

You are the weakest link!
 

What's strange about that? Were you hanging out with Rush over the weekend? Speciesist.

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I was thinking that it belonged on the Big Board as an explanation of the pyramid structure of large law firms.

Inject this
 

SYDNEY, Oct. 6 — Australian researchers said on Sunday they had conducted a successful experiment using two hormones to suppress sperm production, which they said could lead to the first injectable male contraceptive.
None of the men’s partners became pregnant during the trial and none showed any side effects. The hormone treatment was the only form of contraception used during the trial, they said.
Developing an effective and convenient male contraceptive has been difficult, in part because of the rapid rate at which men produce sperm.
A recent British trial showed promise but side effcts stopped the trial. Testosterone is often linked with virility but treatment with the hormone can suppress the production of sperm by reducing levels of hormones called gonadotropins.

OK, be honest guys...you'd never take anything to suppress the sperm would you?

sperm reduction

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Only if you're one of those "animals have just as many rights as people!" pinkos.

Inject this
 

Absolutely yes, assuming no side effects (or minimal ones) and no requirement of injections "down there." 99.999999999999999999999999999% of sperm cause nothing but trouble

You are the weakest link!
 

you really ought to be here, getting your post count back up.

You are the weakest link!
 

Man, that guy had to have the biggest sand-box ever!

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assumiong you know what you are talking about, I have to say this is fucked. The ding dong provoked the tiger. i wonder it that would mitgate? tiger has no history of attacking unprovoked. and there is something inherently wrong with taking an animal ouit of its natural habitat, and putting it on a stage in Vegas so some plastic surgery addicts can feed their jones. Why dont they just skip the middle queens (NTTAWWT) and slaughter the tiger in Asia? It is a wild animal. It does not live in a place where tourons wander the plains. If this is the rule, then they should not be allowed to be removed from their home turf. Or to be bred as fucking entertainment. Bred to preserve the species? Yes. Bred to be pranced around on stage and provoked? No. ESPECIALLy since they are endangered. "Hey, hans, lets taunt this endangered animal by decimating (hi atticus) its dignity in front of hundreds of people from Missouri, and waving things in front of it so that we hope it sits and acts against instinct. t hen if it attacks, we will kill its endangered hide".

this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. and the fucking assclowns of this country support it. This is just as sick as a circus, if not sicker bc the aminals are endangered. Wonder where my friends at PETA are on this?

and if they do kill the tiger, DS and PJ, will you be lining up to turn his body into a nice white and black striped fur coat?

You are the weakest link!
 

I don't know about anyone else, but I really like that new SUV Snickers Crunch commercial.

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I take it, then, that you will be representing Montecore?

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Maybe so, but BRC's point is that it would take another ding dong to want to be near that tiger now. It just realized that we're wearing shirts that say "lunch".

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Interestingly enough, Salon has an interview up right now with David Quammen and his new book "Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind." He argues that we need to be eaten every now and then in order to remember the order of the food chain. http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/...men/index.html

In defense of Montecore
 

Peta hasnt gotten to this issue yet apparently, or the website hasnt. But here is a piece on Siegfreak and Roy from earlier. Looks to me the birght lights thing could add to the arugment that the tiger was provoked and would not normally do this kidna thing. especially if he was new to the act.

I guess the good news is that this freak show is shut down for good. Hopefully the animals will be put in the proper sanctuaries and will not be treated as the fucking entertainment anymore. MAybe its just a blessing in disguise. Oh, and what comes around goes around.

from peta. orgSIEGFRIED & ROY
Las Vegas, Nevada
The only magic trick that PETA would like to see Siegfried & Roy perform is to make animals disappear from their act. Animals used as stage props are subjected to loud music, bright lights, mishandling, and other frightening aspects of an alien environment.

Gilda, a solitary elephant used in Siegfried & Roy’s casino act, is deprived of a female elephant’s most basic need: the companionship of other elephants. The duo has refused PETA’s requests to send Gilda to the Elephant Sanctuary, where she could live the remainder of her life in peace and enjoy the company of other elephants.

Siegfried & Roy promote the breeding of white tigers, an abnormal color variation of Bengal tigers. All captive white tigers are inbred, and some suffer serious congenital defects. In an attack that occurred before horrified tourists at Siegfried & Roy’s compound, a male tiger grabbed a female tiger by the throat and slowly choked her to death. According to a tourist who witnessed the incident, the male tiger had a stranglehold on the female’s neck for at least 20 minutes, and “nobody did anything ... no animal trainer was on hand” to intervene.

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No, it did not, bc all it did was wound the neck. It did not eat the freak. It might have, given the chance, but it did not. So it doesnt know we are lunch yet.

I should represent this tiger.

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concur. but not me, bc I dont eat them. quid pro quo and all of that.

In defense of Montecore
 

I was just thinking about the inbred thing. So, when our fine zoos are trying to breed endangered species, are we only gong to end up with the inbred version that is prone to congential problems?

Five golden rings
 

So I guess JFUCK"s socks have nothing to say on the subject?

burning bright
 

Dante Hall is a mediocre kick returner who has been shamlessly overhyped by the liberal media who desparately wants to see a black kick returner succeed.

str(and the ESPY for 2003 play of the year goes to . . . )8

In defense of Montecore
 

That's the conundrum. In-breed or let the species die out. Most people prefer the inbreeding thing. Until that Jurassic Park thing comes to fruition.

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I bet Roy tasted funny.

It's either you or some publicity whore. Go for it.

Free Montecore!

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I heard him interviewed on NPR.* Paigow wouldn't be too happy to hear that his other thesis is that reintroduction of endangered species to populated areas is a real, honest-to-goodness hardship to humans, mostly to poor people. Reintroduction of the saltwater croc to sparsely populated northern Australia is one thing, but when India's reintroduction program for the same species meant that people randomly started losing toddlers in the mangrove marshes of western India --- after having hunted the same predator to virtual extinction to avoid just such a problem --- it's people like that wot cause unrest.

Long story short: rural inhabitants have always "managed" deadly predators. It's easy for urbanites to pontificate about peaceful coexistence among all species, but if there were grizzlies in Greenwich Village, American environmentalism would be a somewhat different science.

*Warning: This post contains 23% misinformation.

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Am I reading a "modest proposal" here?

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They should have kept that tiger and reptile in Manhatten, then.

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I am not sure you fully appreciate my view on this. My view is not so much about keeping endangered species from dying so much as keeping species from being endnagered. We do this by having people STOP GIVING BIRTH in huge numbers. Curb the sprawl. Stop relying so much on cars to get around. Keep it local. Stop polluting. Sopt littering. Tread lightly. It isnt just our planet, we cohabitate with plenty of other species. Moderation, people.

And if this means giving up your "no contraception" bullshit religion, then so be it. If we and the animals are all truly God's creatures, then I think Em would like us to share our space and coexist peacefully.

Of course, this could segue into a "fuck the poor and their religious (opiate of the masses) ways", but I wont bc that isnt really my point.

I'm TUAOM right now
 

I think Thurgreed already established this fact in post #48.

sf

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You mean, urban American environmentalism. Ranchers in Montana certainly understood what the reintroduction of wolves would do.

The problem with Paig's argument on Roy is that it works the other way too: Roy had gone through 30k performances and countless rehearsals using his tried and true training techniques and was yet to get bitten, or provoke the tiger to bite him. Who knows why, but the tiger snapped when it never had before.

I'm TUAOM right now
 

No. You're confused. That's one ton person named Star.

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Perhaps the tiger was just fixing Roy's grecian formula lockes, and Roy didnt appreciate this and whacked him on the face with his mic. Do we know how many tigers that uber professional Roy has whacked in the face iwth a mic?

fuck, if that's animal training worth zillions, sign me up I might even kick the tiger if he didnt listen to me.

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He was probably wearing that cologne that smells like cookies.

BTW, Ty, your memory about this being Manticore's* first performance was based on the news reports that Roy said so during the act --- as he had done 30,000 times before. If it's a joke, I don't get it. Mebbe all lying passes for SHOWMANSHIP in Vegas.

*Edited to add: Or Montecore. This is my United States of Whatever.

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I used to have a football coach who kept a three-foot length of 2x4 with which he would smack us over the head, screaming "Pain is GOOD!! Pain Builds CHARACTER!!"

He was fucked up, too.

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What did happen to Jessica Alba?

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concur.
think the recent Godzilla remake. she layed eggs in Manhattan. a bunch of people started killing the newborn. "catch and release", or daily limits weren't even side issues.

Sorry Thrasher
 

Thanks, Leagl, now if only I could find a way to blame those godforesaken Braves for his death (rather than Dany Heatley) I would feel a wee tiny bit better. Bastards, all of them are choking fucking bastards. At least the Bills won.

Clint Eastwood on ItAS. Not sure I see the Chris Walken thing that Paigs does, but I totally agree on the bangability of the old guy. I too have loved him from early on and, for a while there at least, he got better looking the older he got (a la Sean Connery). Alas, age is starting to catch up with him (like Sean Connery and Chuck Heston before him) but I'd still sit and spin with him. His new movie, Mystic River, looks good -- too bad Sean fucking Penn is in it.

Sigfried and Roy. I always asked myself WTF the big deal was about these goofballs. So they tease big fucking cats for a living -- I don't see the thrill. Then again, I don't like circuses or zoos either. Torn between that "shouldn't they be free" and "if they were free they would have been poached by now" stuff. In any event, when you try to make a wild animal bend to your will I suppose you get what you deserve. Still, prayers and such to the poor guy -- he's only human after all and a guy at that so he didn't know any better. I hope they don't hurt the kitty. Funny how they always put dogs and other anumals to sleep for attacking people when it is the stupid people who should be shot.

Replaced Texan legal inquiry. Many jurisdictions have statutes requiring you to park a certain number of feet/yeards/whatever/back from an intersection/stop sign/stoplight. So, yes, I have heard of it (and prosecuted a number people for it back in the day when my skin was more elastic and before I found my way to the big city in the South) and the ThrashersHusband states in a very coplike manner that he writes people for it often.

Did anyone else see this commerical this weekend -- dude gargles and spits mouthwash back into bottle, wife takes bottle and does same before handing to grandma...announcer says "high cost of travel got you cutting back in other areas?" ewwwww. I did NOT need to see that shit while trying to swallow some beer.

Oh yeah, and this morning my dentist tells me that "our teeth are sometimes a bit more sensitive when we are hormonal." WTF is up with that? What she calling me pre-menstrual or just bitchy?

Whew, all caught up. If I repeated anyone else, tough shit because I am in mourning for my Thrashers and Braves (those choking bastards) and cannot be held fully accountable for my actions.