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May 13, 2008
Life imitates standup
So this penguin is driving down the road when suddenly smoke starts spewing from under the hood of his car and the engine dies. Not knowing anything about auto repair, he calls his road service and gets the car towed to the nearest mechanic.
"I'll put it up on the lift and take a look," the mechanic says. "You can hang out in the waiting room and I'll let you now what I find out."
The penguin takes a seat in the waiting room and idly flips through some magazines. After a while he notices that there's an ice cream shop across the street, so since the mechanic seems to be taking a while, he ducks out for a snack.
A little while later the penguin returns, just finishing up his vanilla cone, when the mechanic comes out, wiping engine grease from his hands.
"It looks like you blew a seal," the mechanic says.
The penguin blushes and wipes his mouth and says, "Oh! No, that's just ice cream."
ba-dum-dum
And now, back to the news:
MSNBC: Seal caught on tape molesting a penguin
In other news, a priest, a rabbi, and Britney Spears walked into a bar...
Posted by ray at May 13, 2008 8:47 AM | Permalink
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Comments
Oh man... shouldn't you be reading Generation Kill?
Posted by: racymind at May 13, 2008 10:29 AM
You object to a little Generation Facial?
Posted by: Ray at May 13, 2008 10:32 AM
Humph. There was no video.
Posted by: Hiromi at May 13, 2008 10:54 AM
You object to a little Generation Facial?
As long as you don't get any in my hair...
Posted by: racymind at May 13, 2008 12:10 PM
A nice Shecky moment, Mr. S. Kudos.
Posted by: Adrastos at May 13, 2008 12:14 PM
That's one of my favorite jokes.
At least when I don't have time to tell 'the aristocrats' properly.
Posted by: Karl Elvis at May 13, 2008 5:15 PM
Am I the only one who finds it creepy that the article's writer keeps interchanging words like "molesting" and "assault" with "amorous" and "affection?"
I know this is slightly off post, but I just gotta say that actually, I found the whole of the article's writing creepy--why is he trying to link sexual behavior in animals to sexual assault behavior in humans? The news story is about an occurrence in the animal world, NOT in the human world. A journalist sticks to the facts, doesn't postulate beyond them.
Plus, a wild animal can not commit "sexual assault,", because that implies the animal has some inherent moral or legal standard to judge its actions against. The seal didn't know it was doing anything wrong; it was just following a basic urge. To make a parallel like the write does basically implies there is no difference between a mammal's animal instinct and a sentient human who rapes another. Worse yet, he doesn't just imply it but goes on to almost condone that comparison.
And the slightly amused tone of it, like, oh oh ho, isn't this all so funny, even as he describes the "sexual assault" in detail?
This is totally a comment on the journalist and MSNBC, and not your post, Ray, but I don't think even lightweight joking about assault is acceptable--ever really, but especially in supposedly responsible news media. Boo, hiss to them.
Posted by: Miss Syl at May 13, 2008 11:01 PM
You read the article?
I just read the headline and looked for the video.
Posted by: Ray at May 13, 2008 11:44 PM
Yeah, I was curious about it, given where I work and all. Like I said, not really relevant to the post (and BTW, I've always loved that joke). But man, the senior editor should've had at that kid.
I shudder at the state of news journalism these days.
Posted by: Miss Syl at May 14, 2008 12:44 PM
That' my kind of news!
Posted by: hana at May 23, 2008 12:56 PM
I dunno, you'd think Heidi Klum would be enough for him.....
Gregg, didn't RTFA
Posted by: Gregg P. at June 2, 2008 1:19 PM
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