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RimRat
 Post subject: Reaching for ... something.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:48 pm 
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Skybox in Tuesday's National Post (Toronto):<p>Hard times for non-humans<p>Baghdad's suicide donkeys; Albino gorilla dies of skin cancer; urban bear hunt in Quebec. A4. A12. A13<p>Is it just me or does this seem like a real stretch ... or a little too precious? Of course, it came with the obligatory pictures of the albino gorilla on one side and a pair of donkeys (nationality ambiguous) on the other. This in a self-styled national newspaper<p>[ November 25, 2003: Message edited by: RimRat ]</p>
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pzicari
 Post subject: Re: Reaching for ... something.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:09 pm 
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Ewwww. I don't care if it's donkeys and gorillas or woodchucks and chinchillas, suicide and skin cancer aren't cute. Besides, if it's about the donkeys who pulled the rockets in Baghdad, they were burned but weren't killed and in any case, couldn't have committed suicide.
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Jackie
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I shudder to think of the scene that must have unfolded between "Hey, I've got an idea" to someone actually signing off on it.
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Powderhorn
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But moreover ... "suicide donkeys"?<p>As if the single-celled organisms of the world that find themselves on the exterior surface of bombs have anything to do with them.
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Gatekeeper
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Hmm. You just have to love the creative process — and, sometimes, scratch your head the next day, wondering, "What the heck were we thinking last night?"<p>Gatekeeper<p>-30-
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paulwiggins
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Correct. Mea culpa [bit not this time]
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