Rejection Issues

Once they got the rejection issues fixed, several things happened:

  1. Pet taxidermy disappeared entirely. When my aunt Stephanie concluded her cat Tiger was near the end, she had Tiger appended to her (Stephanie’s) left shoulder, and supplied Tiger with blood from her own heart thereafter. This fell into a grey area in the dress code at Stephanie’s office.
  2. A small number of insecure men had their torsos grafted onto stallions. At that point the men were really hung, but they were no longer to the taste of most of the available women.
  3. A subset of vegetarians went fully ruminant, their abdomens crowded with extra stomachs, their manner laconic, their mouths full of cud.

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Scary Monsters

  1. Zombie
  2. Vampire
  3. Werewolf
  4. Deznădejde: All hope bleeds away.
  5. невежество: You are forever marked. Everyone can see it but you.
  6. पागलपन: You shake with fear but are blind to the true danger.
  7. დამბლა: You see the danger clearly but are unable to save yourself.
  8. Ussid: You weaken until you are easy prey.
  9. Carrier: You go on as before but doom anyone who comes near.
  10. Gabim: You smile as you commit the single error that determines the rest of your life.

Image CC-BY by Mark D. Martin

10 Things I Hate About Monkeys

On May 1, 1979, seventeen capuchin monkeys escaped from a lab in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. The monkeys thrived, and there are now an estimated 10,000 capuchins living in Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arkansas.

  1. They steal my beer. I installed window locks, and they broke the windows. I installed bars, and they broke into Mac McCuller’s garage and stole his angle grinder. I left out poison bait for them, and they burned down my truck. Continue reading