I like how FREE is in caps, to stress how this is not like those other digging-in-the-garbage-to-turn-dead-animals-into-taxidermy services that charge through the roof.
Meh - this is sooo three months ago (which is when I saw it in TONY).
Afterwards we go for drinks and sniff our new finds...
"I have never been injured when digging my hands in fish crap, but the possibility is always there. SAFETY FIRST. Beware of sharp objects. It is very important that you are very careful and move your hands slowly. Treat that box of dead fish like a lady."
I guess it's important to have events like this in NY so all those like-minded folks can get together. He should add at the bottom, "Who knows? You may find frogs' heads, or you may find love!"
My guess is that a young NYC P.Z. Meyers would have loved this. Biologists are not like you and me.
You, I mean. It's something I might have liked at one time. Even today, I've thought of salvaging roadkill furs around here.
When I was a kid, I skinned snakes and tanned them. I am not squeamish. But (a) I was a really fucked-up little kid, and (b) I still wouldn't have dug through restaurant garbage looking for pigeon wings to sew frog's eyes onto.
Isn't this how a disease like AIDS or SARS jumps to humans?
Yes, Ogged. Chinese restaurants -- the Yellow Peril. Keep your dog indoors if there's a Chinese restaurants in your neighborhood!
I will be holding an 8x11 sign that reads "CHINATOWN TOUR".
Poor tourists.
Roadkill fur coats would be OK, right? Wouldn't they be transferred from the "killing innocent animals for luxury use" category to the "great cycle of nature" category?
Or are we supposed to stop our cars and give dignified funerals to the roadkill, with little tombstones and shit?
Roadkill fur coats would be OK, right?
Back in Buck's teen years, when he was trying to earn spending money with a trapline, you didn't walk past a perfectly good raccoon just because a Chevy got to it first.
Roadkill fur coats would be OK, right?
Should be, except those PETA fuckers are all 'spill fake blood first, ask questions later.'
I guess it's important to have events like this in NY so all those like-minded folks can be rounded up and sent to work camps at some remove from the metropolis for observation.
Fixed.
As the pyschiatrist Park Dietz observed with respect to Jeffrey Dahmer, it's not a good idea to combine sexual fantasies and dead animals.
My dad slung a deer he saw get run over into the trunk of his rental car, then cleaned and prepared it in his tub. Tasted good, but I keep thinking about the kid whose job it is to clean the car.
Back in Buck's teen years, when he was trying to earn spending money with a trapline, you didn't walk past a perfectly good raccoon just because a Chevy got to it first.
I was going to make this point, but LB beat me to it.
Should be, except those PETA fuckers are all 'spill fake blood first, ask questions later.'
So you need some really distinctive brand identification, like the people who drive hybrid SUV's and have massive decals on them. I'm thinking a logo with two thick black streaks and a stylized red splotch.
There's a section of the Museum of Natural History that looks like NYC-based-garbage can taxidermy: stuffed chipmunks, mice, rats, squirrels & possums just kind of nailed limply to the wall.
My dad slung a deer he saw get run over into the trunk of his rental car, then cleaned and prepared it in his tub
The late night comics got a lot of laughs a few years ago when the West Virginia legislature passed a law permitting this. Prior to that, you technically had to turn the carcass over the the Dept. of Natural Resources and were not allowed to eat it. It was actually a sensible piece of legislation, and solved a real world problem.
Or are we supposed to stop our cars and give dignified funerals to the roadkill, with little tombstones and shit?
If that's how they do where you're from, go ahead. Shit is typically not used a funerals in these parts.
15: This is easily solved by leaving large visible treadmarks across the garment. `Don't splash me, I'm roadkill'
We once spent a month or two keeping our eyes peeled for a decent roadside porcupine for a friend who was into mountain man stuff at the time and needed quills.