Further gnus from the zoo...

and yeah, sorry about the title, but it had to be done.

So a few days ago I posted on the bizarreness of using a barbecue as a fundraising for a local zoo (please see previous post). Yesterday I was back in The Big City and got to hear another radio ad for this event.

The commercial in question starts with a woman explaining that she has four kids and a wide variety of pets, including cats, dogs, hamsters, birds, etc., so her children obviously love animals. The radio announcer says, 'why don't you bring them to the zoo?' He then explains how the zoo is holding a fundraiser called "Brew at the zoo." Yes, that's "brew." It's a day of a wide variety of beer to sample, free live rock music, and zoo tours. (Plus the aforementioned barbecue, of course.)

Bring the kids.

For beer.

And to see the animals who have nothing better to do than spend a day in a zoo imbibing to their hearts' content.

Plus, you know... there are the zoo tours... and the barbecue....

The ad ends with the mother presumably surrendering to the inevitable when her children want to add a monkey to the home-based menagerie.


And I find myself unable to even begin to explore on how many levels that this fundraising idea is wrong. So I'm going to go back to my corner to rock, and you are all welcome to join me.

A few thoughts

Took a trip to "the big city" today, and came home with a few thoughts:

1. It somehow seems wrong to have a barbecue as a fundraiser for the local zoo. A fair, yes; selling stuffed animals (of the toy, not taxidermy variety), yes; but a barbecue? "Come eat some animals and look at others lucky enough to be considered inedible." Or... "come eat some animals and look at what you're eating." *Shiver*

2. KFC is now selling brownies made of "real chocolate." Is there FAKE chocolate? Seems kinda like fake sex.... If it's not real chocolate, what's the point? And what is "fake" chocolate made of, and just who is making these "dildos" of the chocolate world?

For the record, I don't do drugs.

Meds, yes, when appropriately prescribed.
But not recreational drugs.

That said... this song came to mind... and I couldn't resist.... I probably should have. But it's hot, it's summer, and I'm tired of being responsible!!!

What a Wonderful World (II)*

I see trees of green, red roses too,
I see them bloom for me and you
and I think to myself...
these are really good drugs!

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
the bright blessed bag, the dark sacred pipe,
and I think to myself,
this is really good pot.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
are also on the music that I see floating by.
I see friends shaking hands, saying 'how do you do!'
They're really saying, 'can I have some too?'

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow,
they'll learn much more than I'll ever know
'cause I think that by now, my brain is so fried.
Yes with all of these drugs, my brain is so fried.

*A parodied/plagiarized version. Original lyrics and music by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele. Parodied version by Muser Anonymous. Permission to parody and plagiarize was not sought, but will be, if I ever turn professional. Or even amateur.