Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Dead Zoo
I actually composed this post yesterday. Today, I'm heading down with my brother, Sweetums, and my nephews to one of my all-time favorite places on the planet, a zoo in which the majority of the animals are dead. Of course, I'm a big old dinosaur freak, always have been. The boys share my enthusiasm. In a previous post, I mentioned that I used to be pissed off that the Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology was named after one of the Koch brothers. I now think that it's an appropriate moniker- its a hall filled with the fossils of extinct animals, bearing the name of a fossil who made his money on fossil fuels, and who is doing his damnedest to back policies which are sure to hasten the currently on-going extinction event. What could be a more fitting tribute for the evil old coot?
I'm a big old dinosaur freak
ReplyDeletehey hey hey....you may be big and bald, but that's still a HORRIBLE thing to say about you!
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History was my favorite non-outdoors destination when I was little.
ReplyDeleteLots of dinosaurs!
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The Dead Zoo
ReplyDeleteJust try it, bub!
What could be a more fitting tribute for the evil old coot?
ReplyDeleteOne. Word.
COCKPUNCH.
COCKPUNCH.
ReplyDeleteNot putting my hand near that. A heavy boot, maybe.
What could be a more fitting tribute for the evil old coot?
ReplyDeleteA full-sized, scatologicaly accurate reconstruction of the Augean stables before they were cleaned.
I have already complained to Substance McG. that the "Biodiversity Museum" he writes about so often is actually full of dead things, and would more correctly be called a Necrodiversity Museum.
ReplyDeleteNecrodiversity, good one!
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