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2003-08-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-19 8:54:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In Chinese, the word gerbil is spelled "tribble". Odd, that...

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-8-19 9:27:59 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-19 9:27:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hollywood special forces has already dispatched a task force led by Richard Gere to deal with the problem. Probably gonna stop by the "bachelor" villages too...

Posted by flash91 2003-8-19 9:31:48 AM|| 2003-8-19 9:31:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL Flash -you got there first - this is obviously a curse sent by Gere in response to their continued repression of Tibet and the Dalai Lama

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-19 9:45:49 AM|| 2003-8-19 9:45:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tastes just like chicken.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-19 9:50:55 AM|| 2003-8-19 9:50:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hordes of giant gerbils... famine in North Korea...

I see a business opportunity for the Chinese!

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-8-19 10:28:05 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-8-19 10:28:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Chuck Simmins: LOL!

Robert Crawford: Great idea - but how do you herd gerbils? :-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-8-19 10:40:15 AM|| 2003-8-19 10:40:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 First, you have to set out special traps. These are giant, clear-plastic balls with doors that snap closed after the gerbil enters...

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-8-19 10:44:52 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-8-19 10:44:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "how do you herd gerbils?"
With little tiny horses.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-19 10:46:10 AM|| 2003-8-19 10:46:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe those cat herders from that EDS commercial can give them some pointers.

Posted by Dar 2003-8-19 11:51:38 AM|| [http://users.stargate.net/~dsteckel/] 2003-8-19 11:51:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 New Star Treck Episode: Trouble with Gerbils

Nah, just does not have a good ring to it....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-19 1:47:16 PM|| 2003-8-19 1:47:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Yereee Haw! Yippie-tie-one-on!
Get along, little fuzzballs..."

Posted by mojo 2003-8-19 4:27:05 PM|| 2003-8-19 4:27:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Start exporting .22LR varmint loads to China. Should do wonders for the balance of trade.

Posted by Mike 2003-8-19 6:07:23 PM|| 2003-8-19 6:07:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Sometimes this blog reads like the Weekly World News. I'm deleting any Bat Boy posts, dammit!

Posted by Fred 2003-8-19 7:39:04 PM|| 2003-8-19 7:39:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The journey from the People's Eagle, to the eagle's people, is but a single step....

When mankind unleashes forces that it barely understands, etc., etc... you get the drift.

The Beginning. [roll credits]

Posted by Mark IV 2003-8-19 7:49:56 PM|| 2003-8-19 7:49:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Has Al Queda taken credit for this yet? They probably escaped from Binny's secret stash.

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-19 9:54:01 PM|| 2003-8-19 9:54:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 It's the CIA! They did this! Parachuted a pair in by night... and the rest is history.

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-19 10:32:17 PM|| 2003-8-19 10:32:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Reuters Flash! CIA Scientists develop new breed of Y-Chromasome-free Gerbil! (Available with parachutes in pastealth colors!)

Posted by john 2003-8-19 10:44:26 PM|| 2003-8-19 10:44:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 the gerbils are coming to my country they are taking over the towns and villages. we have no food or fresh water to drink. the gerbils are keeping us in tiny cages and feeding us catnip and elephat feisies

Posted by fred gunnniidddyyy 2003-9-3 8:46:00 PM|| 2003-9-3 8:46:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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