Tori tells me she still has some moose meat but I gotta motor or I won’t get any (twas a care package from her g’ma in NFLD). IN honour of this, a Swedish moose, editorializing in mime.
Category: Moose
Buffy gone, Lister moved in
Buffy has now officially saved the world one last time, tossed down her dirty great axe, and she’s gone shopping; and Lister has moved in. Yup, thass right, Red Dwarf, all seven seasons PLUS the Smeg-ups, have moved into our house. Paul’s response to this was quite rhythmical, quite musical, quite unrepeatable, and caused Katie and me to double up laughing. The dreaded hopelessness of life that is about to descend on me – so I’ve been reliably informed – hasn’t happened yet. I’m starting to feel like that broad in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – you know, when Hero says “For us, there will never be happiness,” to which Cute Snoggin’s response is “We must learn to be happy without it…”
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000
Foregoing site is ‘the bastard spawn of Sam Peckinpah and Monty Python, channeled through a German safety video production company’. Believe me, ya don’t need to know German to appreciate it – like all good physical comedy, it’s universal. PS it’s PG 13 for grossly unrealistic depictions of decapitations, and other limb losing events. I will say that forklifts will never have the same cachet again.
what is that moose doing there?
Dateline someplace in Alaska. Yes, that is a moose fifty feet above the ground. No, this picture was not photoshopped. Yes, this was a freak accident. No, the moose didn’t make it. Yes, somebody got to eat him. No, this accident could not have been prevented. That is why it’s called an accident.
As best we can reconstruct this tremendously weird confluence of events, while an electrical crew was tightening the cable for this project, using a dirty great winch, a moose decided to get tangled in the cable. Nobody is entirely sure what motivated him to charge the cable and get his rack entangled, but that is essentially what the poor son of a cow did. As the crew was many miles away they had no way of going, oops, what about the moose? Picture his discomfort and surprise as he got hauled into the air. The cable crew detected (I’m not entirely sure how) that there was a problem, and went down the line to have a look, at which point I’m sure they ran out of epithets, because of course then they had to get the poor son of a cow down, and he wouldn’t quit thrashing about, so they had to shoot him, because the locals who ended up eating him commented that really they didn’t want him tranquillized when they already had a gun handy and the tranquillizer would render the meat unfit to eat.
Normally I run cute animal pictures, and I know that there is nothing funny or cute about this picture. It’s just surpassing weird.