Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 21:09
Place: Balmy Roosevelt Island in the Sunshine!
One of my favorite comic strips these days is "Pearls Before Swine" http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/ . The main characters are Rat and Pig, but the strip is tending toward some extraordinarily inept crocodiles from the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity. They moved in next door to the zebra character and try unsuccessfully to devour him. Their dialect is supposed to be read as a 60's farce movie Soviet accent. It's also refreshing to see a comic strip that is unafraid of directly slagging horribly unfunny strips like Cathy and Family Circus.
What put me in mind of it today was a pretty good rat joke I heard. It also kind of ties in with one of the themes of this blog, me whining about my shoulder, teeth, and plantar wart.
Early in the space program they decide to shoot a rat into space. They grab a lab rat and spin him around in a centrifuge until he's squashed to death (almost). They then take him out to field and shoot him across it with a cannon. They then put him a contraption that flips him upside down and sideways for about an hour.
They put the rat back in his cage and another rat says, "How was it?"
The astro-rat says,"Pretty bad, but it's better than cancer!"
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