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February 19, 2003

Some useful facts about Tasmanian devils

Tasmanian devil moms give birth to a litter of 20 or so Tasmanian devil babies and as soon as they are born the babies start frantically crawling towards the mother's marsupial pouch. There are only four nipples in the pouch. This means 16 Tasmanian devil babies are born only to die. Personally, I find this wasteful. I do intend to point it out the next time I'm arguing with a religious nut, though. Surely a just God would not allow the death of sixteen cute little devils.

A Tasmanian devil eats a large meal. Its meal is the equivalent of a human sitting down to a 50 lb steak. Plus they will eat just about anything. I think I should start a non-profit organization which hires people to lurk around the birthing sites of these devils and then, when the time is right, rush in and snatch up the sixteen who don't make it in time. Then they can smuggle the devils on airplanes back to San Francisco, where we can let them lose in controlled herds on Market Street to eat up all the garbage and yuck which floats around these days. Plus it would be really neat to see the Market Street businessmen fleeing before a herd of screaming devils.

Who's with me?

Posted by didofoot at February 19, 2003 04:29 PM

Comments

I disagree with capturing the baby Tasmanian Devils. But I heartily agree with allowing Tasmanian Devils to eat a manly pile in the wild.

Posted by: Jacob at February 19, 2003 04:42 PM

they ARE cute! what kind of supreme being would let these creatures starve and/or freeze to death???

Posted by: Ian at February 20, 2003 09:10 AM

oh! I'm with you!! I'm with you!! Especially if we can reserve a batch to rampage the jungle of suits congesting orange county...

Posted by: jade at February 20, 2003 09:20 AM

Poor little devils.

Posted by: tracy at February 20, 2003 10:07 AM

http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-53598S?open

SO cute. watch how he washes his face with his big old claws.

Posted by: holohan at February 20, 2003 10:35 AM

Huh. Carnivorous Marsupials and Bandicoots. And i though those were only found in videogames.

p.s.: could that file have been any bigger? it was like 6 f#cking megs!

Posted by: Ian at February 20, 2003 10:59 AM

16 are left to die probably for a reason. Imagine all 20 survived, the local wildlife in their habitat would be wiped out, seeing as how tasmanian devils are capable of eating our equivalent of a 50 lb steak. So next time before you start blaming God, think about it, it's common sense

Posted by: Someone educated at September 5, 2003 12:13 AM

a just god would leave 50 lb steaks lying around everywhere. in a just world, there would be steak in abundance. because cows are evil.

Posted by: didofoot at September 5, 2003 08:17 AM

heheheheh.

"next time before you start blaming god, think about it, it's common sense."

i'm so glad we agree on this! it crosses my mind every time i sit down with the intention of blaming any sort of deity. "hmmm," i think. "i'd better consider this carefully. all-powerful... judgmental... not known to provide sufficient nutrition for adorable baby marsupials... why, it IS common sense to blame this fellow! i'll go right ahead and do it!"

ambiguous grammar and intentional misinterpretation are the hobgoblins of YOU.

Posted by: dianna at September 5, 2003 10:55 AM

actually, it's "a FOOLISH ambiguous grammar and intentional misinterpretation are the hobgoblins of you."

Posted by: didofoot at September 5, 2003 11:34 AM

i am undone. this is the point at which i admit that i'm unsure of the original quote and only borrowed/mutilated the end of it because it sounded better than saying that ambiguous grammar and intentional misinterpretation are "really cool".

so how does the original quote go anyway?

Posted by: dianna at September 5, 2003 11:37 AM

i thought you were quoting the movie "next stop wonderland," which has a running joke about the quote that sounds like what you said, but i have no idea who said the thing originally, or exactly what they did say when they said it.

Posted by: didofoot at September 5, 2003 11:48 AM

"Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

don't be too impressed. i just did google. i've never actually read anything by ralph dubya emerson.

i'm wondering if he used the exclamation point when he first wrote it, or if they added that later, you know, like on a movie poster.

Posted by: holohan at September 5, 2003 11:58 AM

foolish consistencies r the hobgoblin of small mindz!!!!!!!!!1

sorry. blame the exclamation mark.

anyway, kristen, i've never seen next stop wonderland. should i?

Posted by: dianna at September 5, 2003 12:12 PM

it's good but not required. cozy, but not sappy. good for watching during the cold season.

Posted by: didofoot at September 5, 2003 12:19 PM

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: toofy at May 30, 2005 11:57 AM

THEY SHOULD NOT GET KILLED CUZ THEY ARE TOO SMALL AN DTOO CUTE TO GET KILLED

Posted by: mursal at November 29, 2005 08:24 PM

IAM ALWAYS WID U

REALLY IAM

Posted by: mursal at November 29, 2005 08:25 PM

well i think the devils are cute but i want to talk about he rainforests where rainforests animals live we all proberly think that we dont want the forest getting desroyed we want the animals to live and not destroy there homes for parks and stuff like that im just asking that we dont want the rainforest destroyed i hope that jhon howard and peater beatty dont destroy uor part of the nation the rainforest DESTROYED

Posted by: summa liegh griffiths at November 2, 2006 07:38 PM

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