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2007-08-29 Down Under

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-29 00:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In ~~Soviet Union~~ Australia, kitty feed card player!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-29 01:07|| 2007-08-29 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Mmmmmm. Kitty burgers. :-P

Posted by gorb 2007-08-29 03:06|| 2007-08-29 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 "Made a beautiful stew" > you just know PETA, etc. is now gonna want to be involved.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-29 04:14|| 2007-08-29 04:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I think this gentleman once gave a news conference wearing a catskin hat, think Davey Crocket. This did not go over well with the PETA types.One reptile dealer has a copy of his "Killer Cat" posters.

Posted by bruce 2007-08-29 07:28|| 2007-08-29 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds me of the parody song "Cat's in the Kettle" (Harry Chapin, 'Cat's in the Cradle'):

Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese
It aint pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you dont complain.
But thats not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfields on my fork.
Hes purrin here on my fork.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-29 08:08|| 2007-08-29 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Absolutely, Positively No Puns Allowed

Whassamatter? Can't take the punishment? Afraid you'll be liable for punitive damages?

Posted by Mike 2007-08-29 08:32|| 2007-08-29 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 You calling him a pussy?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-08-29 08:34|| 2007-08-29 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he's one of those pun control fanatics.

Posted by Mike 2007-08-29 08:44|| 2007-08-29 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Its a Cats-ass-trophy!

-- PETA

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-08-29 08:49|| 2007-08-29 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Feral cats, the common man's rifle range.

Posted by wxjames 2007-08-29 09:49|| 2007-08-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Because they are higher on the food ladder carnivorosu flesh had higher rates of harmful substances. There is a good reason in most civilizations carnivorous are not eaten.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-08-29 09:54|| 2007-08-29 09:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Holy Mackrel JFM, Ima tuna that out.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-29 11:27|| 2007-08-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Worst of all is how feral cats and housecats alike are exceptional hunters. America's feline population rivals habitat loss when it comes to bearing responsibility for the steep decline in native songbird species. One can well imagine the havoc they are wreaking on Australia's much more fragile Outback.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-29 13:04|| 2007-08-29 13:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Cats were eaten in occupied France (and most probably anywhere where food was scarce, then or anywhen), including by my grandfather; it's supposed to taste and look a lot like rabbit. I had a work colleague's father who invited a friend, made him "rabbit", and revealed to him afterward it was a cat he had caught from the neighbourhood.

"And we should be eating donkeys and horse meat, like the French do."

There still are donkey dry sausages, but horsemeat is not eaten frequently anymore, horse butcheries are a thing of the past, this is an outdated view I'd say. I never have eaten any horse meat, and I've eaten *lots* of stuff.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-29 13:15|| 2007-08-29 13:15|| Front Page Top

#15 By the way, if you thought I was going to talk about something about aussies eating pussy, you're wrong, I'd never say that. Never. I'm way too classy, I go by the name of the Astounding Rotundity in chosen circles.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-29 13:18|| 2007-08-29 13:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Good to know, A5089.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-29 13:22|| 2007-08-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

#17 America's feline population rivals habitat loss when it comes to bearing responsibility for the steep decline in native songbird species.
The problem is we need cats in a lot of suburban areas to control the varmit population, because we have driven out all the other predators. I grew up with 5 cats, and we needed every one of them- plus the dog for 'quick response.'

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-29 13:52|| 2007-08-29 13:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Quick response? To songbirds and chipmunks?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-29 14:23|| 2007-08-29 14:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Quick response?

Most likely for the two-legged breed of varmits.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-29 14:32|| 2007-08-29 14:32|| Front Page Top

#20 So what's the next trendy food dish: Long pork?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-29 14:52|| 2007-08-29 14:52|| Front Page Top

#21 USN, Ret.: This is Australia, not Scotland.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-29 15:20|| 2007-08-29 15:20|| Front Page Top

#22 Or you can start a new bar craze by dropping a kitty in a blender, mix it with some gin and call it a "Catatonic".

Posted by mrp 2007-08-29 16:14|| 2007-08-29 16:14|| Front Page Top

#23 Or you can start a new bar craze by dropping a kitty in a blender, mix it with some gin and call it a "Catatonic".

Posted by mrp 2007-08-29 16:15|| 2007-08-29 16:15|| Front Page Top

#24 Quick response? To songbirds and chipmunks?
Problem was the cats would bring an injured chipmunk/squirrel/whatever back to the house and then sit there batting it around until they got bored. Not so the dog: natural born killer.
We kept lots of bird-houses on VERY high poles in the backyard to protect the songbirds.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-29 17:02|| 2007-08-29 17:02|| Front Page Top

#25 Sorry for the double post; I was dazzled by a sudden vision of Honor Blackman.

Posted by mrp 2007-08-29 17:12|| 2007-08-29 17:12|| Front Page Top

#26 Is this like the bad joke about "peach pousse"?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-08-29 17:55|| 2007-08-29 17:55|| Front Page Top

#27 Must.... restain.... self... from... eating... jokes...

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-29 17:57|| 2007-08-29 17:57|| Front Page Top

#28 I can just see this at a Hollywood theme restaurant in Alice Springs (if one exists):

Under the "James Bond" section of the menu, just below the "Shaken not stirred Martini" -

Pussy Galore cassarole.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-29 18:17|| 2007-08-29 18:17|| Front Page Top

#29 Open a Korean/Chinese restaurant, or import a mating pair of those cat eating Cougars from the Midwest, shortly cats will be scarce, either way you go.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-29 19:18|| 2007-08-29 19:18|| Front Page Top

#30 'Course one way you're overrun by Koreans, the other way by Cougars, then you'll wish for the relatively harmless cats back, but remember that the law of unintended consequences still holds sway.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-29 19:21|| 2007-08-29 19:21|| Front Page Top

#31 REMEMBER FOR SUPERIOR RODENT CONTROL CALL 1-800-KITTYKITTY, OUR EXPERTS ARE AVAILABLE AT VERY LOW COST.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-29 19:23|| 2007-08-29 19:23|| Front Page Top

#32 Dang, those Aussies are smart. Wish I'd thought of just *eating* them a few years ago.

Posted by Mike Vick 2007-08-29 21:18|| 2007-08-29 21:18|| Front Page Top

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