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This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Friday, July 19, 2002

Yet another antipossumite screed! O the horror--A's are in need of a new mascot Pesky little things that can't be crushed

Gwen Knapp

THE A'S need a new mascot. Forget the elephant; it's become irrelevant. Forget the mule that ruled the Finley era, although it's still useful.

They're both cuter, a lot cuter, than their heir from the animal kingdom, but this little creature just suits the A's.

It's the roach. An exasperating home invader, reputedly able to survive a nuclear winter, the roach easily wins this honor. The closest contender would be a possum, for playing dead, just like the A's the past two springs. But even when it stops pretending, the possum doesn't act all that dynamic. [...]

When will this constant barrage of specieist claptrap cease!? When will self-respecting marsupials be allowed to waddle the streets with their small, ratlike heads held high and not be subject to comparisons with insects or carrion? Golly, closest contender to a roach just makes us all feel great about ourselves, doesn't it!? Well, it seems to me that a certain Miz Kah-napp shouldn't be surprised to wake up one morning and find her trash cans turned over, and all of her dog food gone--not dynamic INDEED! Hmmph!

posted by Terry at 10:49:00 AM

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