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Subject: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Wesley S Date: 18 Jun 09 - 01:51 PM PETA has some good points. But raising an objection because the President swats and kills a fly? That's just silly. And it dilutes the good messages and reforms they want to put forward. To the majority of people in the world it just makes them look like a bunch of idiots. You might feel differently however. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: john f weldon Date: 18 Jun 09 - 01:56 PM If it wasn't for idiots I would have had a very short career. Thank you to idiots everywhere. And thanks for an excuse to post this again: Peta Gals |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: C. Ham Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:00 PM Thanks John. The video was LOL funny and I thought Obama was pretty cool in the way he handled the fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: maire-aine Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:13 PM Did PETA really come out with a statement? or was that just a late-night comedian's joke??? M |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeffp Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:21 PM PETA apparently released a statement complaining that Obama is not the Buddha. They think he should have thought before he acted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: frogprince Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:25 PM Just when you think it can't get any sillier... |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Ebbie Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:28 PM But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling it an "execution," wants the commander-in-chief to show a little more compassion to even "the least sympathetic animals." "Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution," a blog on the group's website explained. "In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act." The group has sent Obama a device that traps a fly so it can then be released outside. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Freidrich explained. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Ebbie Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:31 PM For some strange reason the URL I posted for PETA didn't take- but here it is: PETA STORY LINK |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Wesley S Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:40 PM I think Obama DID think about it. Then he swated the fly. That SHOULD be the end of the story. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: maire-aine Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:45 PM Seem to me like PETA has "jumped the shark" with this one. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: C. Ham Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:49 PM I wonder if PETA types ever wash their bed sheets. Every time they do, they murder thousands of dust mites. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Gervase Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:52 PM They really must sort out their PR - that sort of claptrap just plays into the hands of those who think they are a bunch of wankers. I assume they don't use soap, antibiotics or any sort of cleanser that might kill bacteria... |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: bobad Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:53 PM I hope they don't find out about the mosquito I killed today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: john f weldon Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:17 PM Friends in New York tell me it is teeming with bedbugs these days. How lucky to live among so many of our six-legged cousins! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:31 PM 1) "Beware of stupid people--in groups." 2) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." 3) "House flies ain't animals." |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:34 PM " those who think they are a bunch of wankers........" they are and I thought so loooonnng before this yet another mountain out of a molehill |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: meself Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:37 PM No kiddin'. Some of you sound like everything they have done up to now has made sense ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Sorcha Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:38 PM Wankers, idiots, stupid...those are just the NICE names for them! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:39 PM I assume the deceased animal in question was a common housefly. Houseflies do not want to be captured and released to the outside. They want to be inside your house. That's why they call them "houseflies" instead of "outdoorsflies". The height of a housefly's ambition is to invade your house, feed on your decaying garbage, and transfer pathogens onto your furniture so you can transfer them into your own body, get sick, and die. In other words, the housefly wants to kill you. It wants to kill you so it can lay its eggs in your rotting flesh, thus giving its children (maggots) plenty of food and a nice warm place to stay until they're ready to perform their own home invasions. Ayway, if there were no flyswatters, what the hell would redneck babies chew on while teething? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:46 PM In their 2007 Form 990, PETA states that they gave US $3,000,000 to the Foundation to Support Animal Activism (I think that's the name), which just happens to be located at 501 N. Front St., Norfolk, VA. That's also PETA's address. It was the largest single grant they made. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: C. Ham Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:46 PM White Houseflies are the very elite of houseflies. But they still gotta be careful around a president with a good eye and quick swat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: frogprince Date: 18 Jun 09 - 03:46 PM "I'm not hungry, momma; I just ate all the raisins off the sticky paper". |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:28 PM PETA (which also spells TAPE and PATÉ and EATP) has been shooting off its mouth before loading its brain a lot lately. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:30 PM I wanna start an organization that will be just as worthy. I hope to call it PETC Anyone gonna join? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: robomatic Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:30 PM I had some friends (of friends) who were not happy to learn I was using inhumane mouse traps to discourage the voles who moved in with me. They volunteered to give me human traps for 'em. I modulated my remarks when I found out they are campers who leave nothing on a trip to the outback. NOTHING. They pack EVERYTHING out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:32 PM C. Cannibals? Canadians? Crematoriums? Communists? Czars? Chlymidia? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:38 PM Get serious, Rapaire. The organization I have in mind is People for the Ethical Treatment of Crabs |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeffp Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:39 PM Critters? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:39 PM PETA runs spay and neuter clinics for cats and dogs. As a public service shouldn't they also run one for flies? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:40 PM They could neuter crabs, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:45 PM "I modulated my remarks when I found out they are campers who leave nothing on a trip to the outback. NOTHING. They pack EVERYTHING out." I do that, too. However, rodents that want to move in--had a plague of deer mice once, and they are disease carriers--got the fast treatment. I tried humane traps and got called away one time for a few days. Came home to find a barely living field mouse about to expire. He'd/she'd had no water for that long--since it got trapped. I felt so sorry for it I got it some water. It revived in about 20 minutes. I took it to a field about a mile away and released it. Since then, the old snap has been the one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:46 PM Well, I suppose there might be a benefit to having just one crab. But, what would it be? I need some help to 'flesh out' this idea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don Firth Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:50 PM I don't think that there are any comedians around who could think up something this incredibly stupid! So it has to be real. Like . . . the fly is an endangered species? So PETA is located in Virginia, eh? Is the housefly the Virginia State Bird or something?? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Becca72 Date: 18 Jun 09 - 04:56 PM PETA also euthanizes something like 86% of the animals they take in. They feel that it's more humane to kill them than to make them stay in shelters while waiting for a permanent home. These people are a bunch of morons. I don't trust any organization that lets Pam Anderson speak for them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:04 PM So the President knew that that poor housefly would never find a home as a pet, so he euthanized it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:14 PM Piss on you folks, then. Here I am tryna get an organization off the ground and what friggin' help do I get? CRABS have rights too, ya know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:16 PM WHAT ABOUT HIS RIGHTS? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:18 PM or HERS |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don Firth Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:18 PM Inquiring minds want to know. Did he bury the fly with full military honors? Did he wash his hands? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:20 PM or OURS. Have you people no hearts? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Jeri Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:24 PM Peace, you've undoubtedly overdone the whole guilt thing about crabs and are doing penance. I think you've confessed to having killed millions of them. I think you must dream of zombie crabs coming to drag you and your nether regions into some as yet un-dreamed of circle of Hell (or maybe a rhombus of hell) that involves itching instead of burning, freezing or listening to Barry Manilow. I feel pity for you. You and your false pro-crab righteousness. FEH! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Lonesome EJ Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:26 PM From Annie Hall I believe. Annie has asked Woody Allen's character to come to her apartment because there is a spider in the bathtub. As he prepares to swat it with a rolled up newspaper, she pleads "don't kill it!" And he replies "what do you want me to do, capture it and rehabilitate it?" One of my favorite lines. God save us all from zealots of all stripe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:27 PM I object most strenuously to the heartless lady from Maine's statement. I killed perhaps ten to fifteen thousand crabs, but I was only following label directions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:34 PM Mice caught in "humane" traps and released will either find their way back to your house, or find their way to somebody else's house. Once they've learned to associate human habitation with food, there's no going back to scrounging through leaf litter looking for whatever the squirrels haven't found. You can make pets out of 'em, or you can kill 'em. Relocation just doesn't work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:39 PM I used to catch flies live with one hand. It required careful stalking, positioning the hand just ahead of the fly wherever he was sitting, then a sudden sweeping grab. The fly MUST move slightly forward as he takes off. If you're fast enough, the fly ends up enclosed but unharmed inside your closed fist. I would then feed the little rascal to my pet chameleons by putting him in their cage. ;-) They will only eat live food. So let's see if PETA gets upset about that too...and if they do? TOO F-in' BAD!!! ;-) Bite me, PETA! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Jeri Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:59 PM Wrong state, Mr Kanadian Krab Killer. (I didn't know the ice pick and the flame thrower came with labels!) I had a chameleon that used to keep the stupid flies for pets. Starved to death. Personally, I usually take the big spiders outside and let them go. Their chance of survival greatly increases based on how big a splat they'll make if I smoosh them. I used to be a little arachnophobic, but I can deal with the little 8 eyed darlings now. The thing PETA have got to figure out is when they need to stop being offended so that people don't laugh at them. Then again, where would be the fun in that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Cool Beans Date: 18 Jun 09 - 05:59 PM I was going to post the words to "Never Swat a Fly" (1930) but they're nowhere to be found on Mudcat. Let's see what I can remember... Never swat a fly He may have another fly He may sit with her and sigh The way I do with you. Never harm a flea He may have a favorite she That he bounces on his knee The way I do with you. Never harm a bee if he is going anywhere You may be concluding some terrific insect love affair. Be careful. Don't step on an ant In the middle of a plant He may want to but he can't The way I do with you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don Firth Date: 18 Jun 09 - 06:07 PM Anybody see the "The Fly"—that is, the original one in 1958, with Vincent Price? No, not the 1986 remake with Jeff Goldblum. I can't help but keep hearing that teeny, tiny, high pitched little voice crying Help me! Help me! Please! Help me! CLICKY. And move the slider up to 5:00 for the relevant part. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: GUEST,beardedbruce Date: 18 Jun 09 - 06:14 PM Cool Beans, I think these are the lyrics you are looking for: Never swat a fly, he may love another fly He may sit with her and sigh the way I do with you Never harm a flea, he may have a favourite she That he bounces on his knee the way I do with you Never stop a moth when he is gliding through the air He may have a date in someone's flannel underware Ah ah be carefull Never spray a nit with a great big can of blitz He may think some nit has it the way I do with you |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 06:18 PM OK. I give up. It's easy to see that PETC will never take off. So much for "support on Mudcat". Bah. Humbug. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:06 PM I just wanted to know what the "C" was for. PETC beats the others cold, PETC pours it on. PETC-cola's up to date With modern folks who want to mate We've made it light and dry for you, Refleshs without killing, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:09 PM Too late now, Rapaire. My dream is crushed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Leadfingers Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:39 PM In UK we have Animal Liberation Front - If you think PETA are loonies . try the clots who released a few hundred MINK into the wild !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: frogprince Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:40 PM By the way, Peace: you identified those two crabs above as a male and a female; congratulations, you must have incredible eyesight. I thought a friend was good who said he could identify male moths by their little mothballs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bobert Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:49 PM Well, that's the last straw fir this ol' hillbilly... Next time around I'll go with Sarah Palin... (But, Bobert, she kills mooses...) Anyone have piccures??? If not, it's Palin in '12... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Ron Davies Date: 18 Jun 09 - 09:33 PM I can just hear the sighs of relief coming from Jon Stewart, Letterman etc. As long as PETA and like groups are around they need never worry about material. Wonder if this will be a long-running gag. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bill D Date: 18 Jun 09 - 10:23 PM reposting from a long ago thread: "many years ago, I knew a woman who considered herself to be a 'Buhddist'...but was really trying to practice 'Jainism', which teaches reverence for all life..she even worried about eating eggs, and had to be sure they were unfertilized..... well, she was noticed one day scooping up cockroaches in her kitchen,and, since she would not squash them or spray them, tossing them outside----into below freezing temperatures! "All I'm doing is getting them out of my house", she said,"what God does with them after that is not my concern"...... my, the human mind can certainly create any rules it needs to justify whatever it feels like doing " |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jun 09 - 11:53 PM If it tries to feed on ME while I'm still alive I'm going to try to kill it, or at least make it go away. Then again, I don't want Obama or anyone else taking a swat at my fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 19 Jun 09 - 02:34 AM I wrote to PETA to ask if this was true. Haven't heard back. Likely won't. I suggested--no, I said, "If it's true, then the fellow who said that should be let out alone." I'll let y'all know. Now, one more time. I'm attempting to start an organization entitled PETBL. I don't need any nay sayers getting all wiseguy about it. This is a serious attempt on my part to emulate PETA and do something good for the treatment of creatures on this Earth. NOW, who's with me? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 19 Jun 09 - 05:49 AM People for the eating of tastey boiled lobsters? I'm in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:22 AM I'll join yours if you'll join mine: PETP. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Jeri Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:42 AM I'm not saying anything. I felt terrible after the dream-crushing of last night. So you starting a catch-and-release program with you as the sanctuary? Are you writing a protest song? I can see the posters now: Say 'hello' to my leetle friends! Don't you grumble Don't you grouse My best friend is a body louse Oh babe, you better believe it's true He's always here, even if he ain't as fun as you. Take him for a walk Don't need a leash, he's From a homophilic species Babe, you better believe it's true He's always here, if he ain't as much fun as you Don't you wash and don't you scratch You might kill his babies before they hatch ...etc |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 Jun 09 - 10:26 AM Crabs: A Haiku Genitalia With crab lice infestation Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jun 09 - 03:29 PM Are Crabs Haiku anything like Crab Rangoon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 19 Jun 09 - 03:58 PM I'm attempting to start an organization entitled PETBL. I don't need any nay sayers getting all wiseguy about it. This is a serious attempt on my part to emulate PETA and do something good for the treatment of creatures on this Earth. NOW, who's with me? People for the Ethical Treatment of Baba Looey? That's cool by me, Bruce. From: Rapaire Date: 19 Jun 09 - 09:22 AM I'll join yours if you'll join mine: PETP. People for the Ethical Treatment of People? I'll join. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 Jun 09 - 04:16 PM Yes, Crabs Haiku are a lot like Crab Rangoon. Just substitute Kwell Ointment for the cream cheese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeddy Date: 19 Jun 09 - 04:28 PM hey bruce i will joinbut only if you post some posters that i can put in my window!!!!i am sure your' group will take over the world!!!! peta are complete idiots over this, i wonder if they flea or worm their dogs and cats? which would be worse, killing the fleas ticks and worms or having to pay the vet bills ehen your' pet gets really ill? i'm glad you mentioned the mink leadfingers, they had no idea that they would destroy everthing they came accross, what kind of moron plans a rescue mission and doen't research what they are rescuing!!! i did'nt know that peta put down alot of dogs if this is true then that is somewhat out of order. i rescue spiders but have great fun hunting down the pesky flies, when they go too high so the dogs can't get them, in the caravan however the dogs are very successful, maybe we should be reported!!! take care all and please remember that all life is sacred, we should not be so glib about murder, now where is that fly swat???? jade x x |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jun 09 - 04:33 PM Do some research, Jeddy. PETA is a bunch of hypocrites. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeddy Date: 19 Jun 09 - 06:37 PM i have always thought that they were well respected. thankyou for bringing this to my attention, i will look into it take acre all jade x x |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NEVER SWAT A FLY From: pdq Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:03 PM Never Swat A Fly Never swat a fly He may love another fly He may sit with her and sigh the way I do, with you Never harm a flea He may have a favourite she That he bounces on his knee the way I do, with you Never stop a bee if he is going anywhere You may be concluding some terrific love affair. Be careful! Don't step on an ant In the middle of a pant He may want to but he can't the way I do, with you |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:21 PM Splat! Oops. PETA that! A short poem by gnu. If you don't like it, Guess who. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 19 Jun 09 - 11:10 PM As I posted on a related thread: Well, it's a good thing that Obama did not swallow that fly, or we'd be composing a commemorative ditty. I know a President who swatted a fly, Oh, my, he swatted a fly –– The fly died! Short ditty, long story! Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 09 - 01:45 AM Here are three poets' views of the fly: Ogden Nash The Fly God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. William Blake The Fly Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die. KARL SHAPIRO The Fly O hideous little bat, the size of snot, With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes, To populate the stinking cat you walk The promontory of the dead man's nose, Climb with the fine leg of a Duncan-Phyfe The smoking mountains of my food And in a comic mood In mid-air take to bed a wife. Riding and riding with your filth of hair On gluey foot or wing, forever coy, Hot from the compost and green sweet decay, Sounding your buzzer like an urchin toy— You dot all whiteness with diminutive stool, In the tight belly of the dead Burrow with hungry head And inlay maggots like a jewel. At your approach the great horse stomps and paws Bringing the hurricane of his heavy tail; Shod in disease you dare to kiss my hand Which sweeps against you like an angry flail; Still you return, return, trusting your wing To draw you from the hunter's reach That learns to kill to teach Disorder to the tinier thing. My peace is your disaster. For your death Children like spiders cup their pretty hands And wives resort to chemistry of war. In fens of sticky paper and quicksands You glue yourself to death. Where you are stuck You struggle hideously and beg, You amputate your leg Imbedded in the amber muck. But I, a man, must swat you with my hate, Slap you across the air and crush your flight, Must mangle with my shoe and smear your blood, Expose your little guts pasty and white, Knock your head sidewise like a drunkard's hat, Pin your wings under like a crow's, Tear off your flimsy clothes And beat you as one beats a rat. Then like Gargantua I stride among The corpses strewn like raisins in the dust, The broken bodies of the narrow dead That catch the throat with fingers of disgust. I sweep. One gyrates like a top and falls And stunned, stone blind, and deaf Buzzes its frightful F And dies between three cannibals. Charles |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 20 Jun 09 - 10:53 AM Flies are good. I like the Royal Coachman when you don't know what the hatch is. Poppers and spinners are good too, as are spoons. Sometimes I rig a spoon or a spinners with some bacon rind, or salmon eggs. But for a REALLY good time, you can't beat minnows or worms or best of all, good old home-made stinkbait. I like to make stinkbait out of old raw liver, limburger cheese (if I can get it, otherwise some super-sharp cheddar will do as a distant second), and a drop of rancid fish oil. Put in enough flour of thicken it up good, knead it all together well, and leave it out in the sun for a couple days before using it. Don't open the container in the house or, perhaps especially, in the bar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Jun 09 - 11:17 AM I do like the Karl Shipiro ditty! Thanks for posting it. This little Victorian ditty came from Songs for the Little Ones at Home, © 1852, p. 25-26: 'Twas God who made the little fly; But if you pinch it, it will die! My mother tells me, God has said We must not hurt what God had made; For God is very kind and good, And gives e'en little flies their food; And he loves every little child, Who is kind-hearted, good, and mild. It's a songbook with a great many such "treasures." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 20 Jun 09 - 11:53 AM If it was God who made the fly, Intelligent Design's a lie. A fly is most unsanitary. Who knows what ills a fly can carry? A fly can take a dread disease And spread it among Man with ease. So, if Man holds a special station, The pinnacle of God's Creation, Then why, oh why, would God on high Create the fly to make Man die? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Ebbie Date: 20 Jun 09 - 12:00 PM Checks and balances, perhaps? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Leadfingers Date: 20 Jun 09 - 12:04 PM Little Fly upon the wall Have you got no clothes at all ? Have you got no mom or dad ? Fly Bastard ! SPLAT ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 20 Jun 09 - 03:34 PM True story. Years back when I was living in Edmonton, a housefly was buzzing around but not landing on food at the kitchen table or me. So, I decided--in a Zen moment (I was heavy into a martial art at the time)--to leave him alone if he left me alone. He did very well. Lasted for three days. On the third day something possessed him, and in the words of Jack Higgens, I said, "The Eagle Has Landed". However, I decided that it would insult the 'dignity' of death to kill him with anything less than a front kick, and so began the saga that lasted another two days. On day six of his brief yet shelterd life in that apartment he landed on the wall and I unleashed a kick of devastating power and lightning speed. He died. I had to then repair a hole in the drywall. It took about three weeks before my toe healed enough that I could walk without limping badly. The next day at class, my Korean master inquired what had happened to my toe. I told him the brief story I related above. He nodded his head. The following day he called me over after class and gave me a small package. He presented it to me with a slight bow. I bowed deeper and left. I was quite excited and I opened it on the bus. It was a can of Raid. The End |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jacqui.c Date: 20 Jun 09 - 03:46 PM LOL Peace. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 09 - 04:27 PM Ditty? Charley, that's exalted odic poetry--sublime in form, gripping in imagery, a startling unity of subject and theme from the opening line to the final grisly stanza it is as perfect as its subject is disturbing. Charles |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeddy Date: 20 Jun 09 - 04:34 PM peace you crack me up!!! pmsl take care your freind always jade x x |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don Firth Date: 20 Jun 09 - 04:38 PM Great, Peace!! I gotta pass that along. That's too good!! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Jun 09 - 10:44 PM Charles- You wouldn't believe the songs included in Songs for the Little Ones at Home. There's one about the mother who feeds her baby to the crocodile, and if we'd only send the bible there pronto she'd spare the little tyke: Send, oh, send the bible there, Let its precepts reach the heart; She man then her children spare, Act the mother's tender part! Now that's a disturbing image! Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 10:59 AM I like "Ruthless Rhymes For Heartless Homes": Willy, with a taste for gore, Nailed his sister to the floor. Mother said, with humor quaint, "Careful Will, don't spoil the paint." or Into the well That the plumber built her Aunt Eliza fell. We must buy a filter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Ebbie Date: 21 Jun 09 - 11:35 AM "Daddy, why can't I go out and play like everyone else?" "Shut up and deal!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 12:21 PM "Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones! Can Bobby come out and play baseball?" "Now, you boys know he doesn't have any arms or legs." "Yes'm, but we want him for first base." |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 12:28 PM "Tommy, did you and Daddy have a good time while I gone?" "Oh yes, Mommy! Daddy took me swimming in the lake every day!" "Really? You're pretty little. Wasn't that hard?" "No, Mommy, not after I'd get out of the sack." |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 21 Jun 09 - 05:47 PM Rapaire- Very true but these are contemporary verses. Songs for the Little Ones at Home is sequestered in the early Victorian period, which gives it its own special edge. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 08:20 PM My copy of "Ruthless Rhymes" is a reprint, but the original American publication date is 1901, the first edition (English) was 1899. It's been published several times since and, I suspect, some verses added. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: open mike Date: 21 Jun 09 - 09:43 PM the early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 10:08 PM Young bull, standing on a hillside looking at herd of cows below: "Let's run down a do a couple of those cows!" Old bull, standing next to him: "Let's WALK down and do ALL the cows." |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 09 - 11:46 PM If I get a chance I'll dig out some of the god-awful stuff I inherited from my great-great-Aunt Tilly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Cool Beans Date: 22 Jun 09 - 12:39 PM Lenny Bruce used to do a riff on flies. People always complain, he would say, that flies carry disease. My sister gave two guys the clap and nobody hit her with a rolled-up newspaper. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 22 Jun 09 - 03:54 PM Rapaire... on The Mighty Miramichi, the Green Machine rules. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 22 Jun 09 - 03:59 PM Now, Ted Williams gave me a Brown Bomber in low, hot water, but I can't find a good pic of it. This comes close. But, there was no reddish on his. It was Whitetail tail. And, the hook size was larger. Worked well, but I never hooked a grilse on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jun 09 - 06:42 PM Well, of course not. To hook girls you need things besides a hook and some fuzzy stuff. Maybe dinner, a show, some drinks afterwards.... (Your spelling needs work, man.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:01 PM It's a vile slander. This is not Geedubya Warmonger we're talking about. That nice Barack Obama simply used his far superior hand eye co-ordination (those who've seen GW stumbling around know what I mean)to knock the little bastard unconscious long enough to complete the interview without interruption. Simple good manners really. I saw the TV close-up of that fly, and it was definitely still breathing. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:16 PM Don is correct. The fly then flew away when the cameras were turned off. In fact, a friend of mine sent me this picture of that VERY SAME FLY which landed on the roof of his house in a location that will remain unnamed. The still-living fly that was barely touched by President Obama. The veracity of that picture was sworn and attested to by four guys I know named Dave, Alan, Leroy and Wu. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Leadfingers Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:01 PM 100 |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:04 PM Well, I'd better be honest about it. There were just three guys. Wu is me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Leadfingers Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:08 PM Though I'm not sure why I bothered |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeddy Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:10 PM hardly a superior trick even i could hit that bugger!!! if it landed on me it would crush me, that thing is taller than i am!! well, being 5 ft it wouldn't be hard for anything to be taller than me lol jade x x |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jun 09 - 10:05 AM And the black flies, the little black flies Always the black fly no matter where you go; I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' on my bones In North Ontario, io, in North Ontario. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:01 PM Maybe we could send PETA to North Ontario.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:04 PM ""And the black flies, the little black flies Always the black fly no matter where you go; I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' on my bones In North Ontario, io, in North Ontario. Cheerily, Charley Noble"" Try the Scottish midges Charley. About the size of a DC9, with a bite like a Rottweiler. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:52 PM Don- Black flies are little but they make up for their size in terms of voraciousness. Now in Maine we also have the moose flies. You don't even want to know what one of those could do to you. DC9 indeed! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: GUEST,Peace Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:55 PM A lucky shot brought down this moose fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:12 PM Ontario black fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:15 PM Cleaning this sonuvabitch off a building . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:23 PM "If you catch a fly in California, it must be housed in a container large enough for it to turn around and extend its wings without touching another fly. Clarification about whether or not it must be kept under 'free range' conditions and supplied with an adequately large fresh cow patty will be forthcoming from that state's legislative arm before 2015. Musca Domestica's expected life span is only 21 days, though, so don't sweat the law on this one." For anyone who was worried . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jun 09 - 10:10 PM "Mmmmmmmmmmmm...them's gooooooood eatin'!" --Kermit |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Donuel Date: 23 Jun 09 - 11:27 PM The family of maggots that called that fly Father, is saddened by this disrespectful display of callous indifference to his murder. When questioned the young maggots said "mmmm shit" The mother was unavailable for comment and was last traced to a motel six in Tyson's Corner. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Stringsinger Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:13 PM Before you put PETA down you should consider where your meat products come from and the inhumane processes that adorn your table. The fly thing was symbolic. The abuse of overcrowding of chickens, pigs, in filthy pens and the indiscriminate slaughter of cattle are not. Also, the contribution of these practices to global warming and to contaminated drinking water are something to be considered. Somebody please tell Al Gore. Give PETA a break. They are making a valid point about the abuse of animals. Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:00 PM This is about the killing of a fly. Yes, animals that are raised for butchering have needed and still need better conditions. For that, PETA is correct. For this fly thing they have their heads up their arses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:03 PM Maybe PETA could help with this situation. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:09 PM People are animals, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:12 PM Which is why I'm more interested in the ethical treatment of people. Once that is achieved all else will fall into place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Stringsinger Date: 24 Jun 09 - 02:33 PM Rapaire, not necessarily. Remember the original quote of the Golden Rule which has been misquoted in the bible. "Don't do unto others as you would not like them do unto you." I'm sure Bush thought he was doing the "ethical" thing as so many politicians and religious leaders advocate. They still eat meat which is produced by inhumane practices. Whose ethics are we talking about here? PETA is making a point, many humans treat animals badly regardless of their "ethics". Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 24 Jun 09 - 02:41 PM It ain't about ethics. It's about eating. The Jains feel it is not right to pull an apple from a tree, thus 'killing' the apple. So, they wait until it falls. THEN thay can eat it. Should we have PETV telling us we are murderers because we tore a carrot from the ground? And next time I shoot and skin and butcher a moose, will I have some asshole from PETA on my doorstep telling me I should have used a tranquilizer dart, waited until the moose fell asleep and THEN shot him? Watch a cat with a mouse. The animal kingdom knows very little about 'ethics' or PETA when it comes to eating. No offense meant, Frank. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:36 PM WHAT? Shoot a moose with a tranq dart and wait for it to fall asleep? That would be putting the moose under undue trauma and strain. Better to kill it cleanly and quickly with a well placed round so that it does not suffer. Besides, it will bleed better and be far more tastey at brekky. Now, what about the live lobsters in the display tank at the grocery store? That REALLY bugs me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:39 PM Lobsters are just insects that weren't smart enough to evolve. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:53 PM I think that PETA, like other organizations and so many people, confuse ethics and morals. It is, in most cultures, immoral to eat other people, and yet ethically it is (under certain circumstances) permissible. It is unethical to kill another, but permissible under certain circumstances. Theft is unethical, but if you are starving...? Morals are what our cultural beliefs have told us is right and wrong. Ethics are those practices which are universally right or wrong. It is very easy to confuse the two, as they often overlap. In one of the South Pacific cultures the groom was required to kill his mother-in-law on his wedding day. Morally, given the culture, this was just fine. Ethically, it was taking another's life. Was it suicide or a praiseworthy act for an elderly Inuit to walk away from the group and freeze him/her self to death so that the communal food supplies would stretch a while longer? Moral or immoral? Ethical or un-? You decide; I can't decide for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: meself Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:59 PM "Ethics are those practices which are universally right or wrong." I'm not sure there are any such things, are there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: gnu Date: 24 Jun 09 - 04:07 PM Rapaire... "In one of the South Pacific cultures the groom was required to kill his mother-in-law on his wedding day." But, what if she was a really nice person? And the FiL even said he'd like to keep her around for a while longer? |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 09 - 06:31 PM Nope, couldn't do it even if it was Mother Theresa. I believe the idea was to prevent any possibility of the groom being sexually active with his mother-in-law and thereby |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 09 - 06:39 PM Meself, that's were the study comes in. What is universal and what is local mores? Spartan youth had to steal their food and eventually kill a peasant/slave. The Papacy burned quite a few Gnostic "Perfects" alive following the fall of Monserrat -- and not to even get into the Inquisition. I don't pretend to know The Universals, but I'd guess at some of them, recognizing that circumstances can alter the ethics of the act. E.g.: Don't kill anyone unless you have to. Tell the truth whenever possible. Try not to hurt anyone unnecessarily. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -- G. B. Shaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: frogprince Date: 24 Jun 09 - 06:56 PM When it comes right down to it, common sense is the only reliable guide to right and wrong. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: jeddy Date: 24 Jun 09 - 09:35 PM i stand by the thing... if you can't kill it you shouldn't eat it. which is why my mrs is a veggie. i rekon i could kill and bucher my own meat if i had to, would quite like to challenge myself. sorry if this is a repeat, i cannot remember where i posted what to!! PETA do flag up some important issues, but when you jump on something like this it only serves to make them look stupid and over sensitive. nobody will take anything they say seriously after this, which is a shame. take care all and happy munching! jade x x |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 25 Jun 09 - 05:59 PM Seems to me PETA needs to heed the sage advice of the old soldier. CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES! Lashing out blindly, and taking a principle to ridiculous levels, simply makes you look stupid, especially when the context makes it look like a snide dig at a political opponent. You need something much more serious to have a pop at a President. Even in Bill Clinton's case, half the world's males were saying "Lucky B***ard". Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Peace Date: 25 Jun 09 - 06:05 PM So, Obama swatted a fly. Tell me then, why isn't the so-called 'moral majority' up in arms about it? Instead, PETA gets involved. Fawk . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: PETA looking foolish over a fly From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 26 Jun 09 - 06:39 AM So THAT'S why the host spent most of the interview time bent double, with his hands in his lap. I thought he was leaning forward to concentrate. I bet he didn't ask any awkward questions after that. New, and impressive, aspects of the new Pres emerge day by day. Don T. |
