FirePhrase: Pin-stripes

Thursday, October 8, 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091008/od_nm/us_gaza_zebras;_ylt=Ah6CEVrkLBt6OTdKDZsc_Ous0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMxamc3N2h2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMDkxMDA4L3VzX2dhemFfemVicmFzBGNwb3MDMTAEcG9zAzcEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNwYWxlc3RpbmlhbmQ-

On the one hand, it's kinda sad. In a I-shouldn't-be-laughing-that's-kinda-sad-no-seriously-just-because-your-hand-is-over-your-mouth-doesn't-make-laughing-okay kind of way.

On the other hand, I have to admire his chutzpah. A donkey, a bottle of Clairol and some masking tape. That's can-do spirit.

On another hand (if you'll allow the handsiness), little kids should see real zebras, and okapi, and pandas. And goofing on a kid this way is just wrong. Funny as HELL. But wrong.

And, fourth hand, it just shows that kids are excited to see zebras. Any zebras. Even jacked up, tagged, could you just even try to get the stripes kinda right, hillbilly ingenuity zebras.

WashingtonGardener said...: Shame shame on the embargo - same continent and never seen a zebra live? Poor kids. If I was Oprah-rich, I'd fly them all out to an African safari.; October 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM
FirePhrase said...: Some of it is just city kids. A lot of them never see anything but dogs, cats and, maybe, horses, no matter what country they're from. And even though zoos can sometimes be a necessary evil, the necessary part is showing kids all the variety of life on this planet. How are they going grow up to love the Earth and want to protect it if they don't even know it.; October 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM