—They’ve found fossilized remains in Madagascar of a toad about the size of a bowling ball that weighed ten pounds and co-existed with the dinosaurs. This sucker also had an armorized hide and teeth!–Called beelzebufo or “devil frog,” this new specimen shows us that we continue to discover new life forms, extinct and present today, with many more certain to be discovered in the future
Archive for February 2008
Mother of All Toads…
February 28, 2008Ordeal of the Animals
February 20, 2008
—Most people don’t really want to see what goes on in slaughterhouses; it’s not pretty, muchless apetizing. Hamburger is not harvested in the sterile, bloodless styrofoam containers you buy in supermarkets. Beyond the usual butchery, however, is the treatment of “downer” cows as videotaped by humane society agents in a California slaughterhouse. These animals, too ill and weak to move, are shown in the videos as being kicked, jabbed in the eyes, and even rammed with forklifts by some workers in an effort to get them to move to their own slaughter! The inclusion of clearly sick cattle in the meat supply has caused the biggest recall of beef in the nation’s history, and much of it has already been eaten…some in school lunch programs!
Watch the Skies, Too…
February 15, 2008
–Fear not!–Your government, which put up a non-functioning spy satellite (your tax dollars at work), has now developed a plan to have the navy shoot down the sucker before it can fall on our sorry heads later this month, or in early March. This is good, because even if the spy in the sky doesn’t hit us directly, a component of it could poison an area the size of two football fields…we’ll just hope that the rocket being sent to knock out the spy satellite works better than the satellite itself…
…as Pogo the Possum once said long ago, “we have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Vintage Wierd
February 10, 2008
—Not for the queasy!–In November of 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton carcass of a dead whale washed up on the coast of Oregon. It was rancid and they wanted to get rid of it, so a group of highway engineers decided to blow the sucker up with dynamite! This was on the theory that the dynamited whale parts would then be consumed by seagulls and the problem would be eliminated. So they put half a ton of dynamite next to the dead whale, and set it off…and in the resulting explosion, some rather big chunks of dead whale blubber filled the air, threatening the spectators and causing them to beat a hasty retreat. One big chunk o’ dead whale impacted with the roof of a car with predictable bad results. All in all, it was not a pretty sight…
…and this is not an “urban legend”…this really happened! The event was taped, and the video may still be seen…
FOXSYLVANIA 