Slog - Comments on Magnolia's Rodent Stud Farm

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:22:58 -0800

business man.

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:26:31 -0800

Only your proctologist knows for sure.

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:31:19 -0800

I second "business man". Sleepless in Magnolia sound a lot like what I'd imagine most Magnolia residents think everyone thinks they sound like. Or something.

Comment by MadDogM13

MadDogM13 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:41:17 -0800

Yes.

Comment by kid icarus

kid icarus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:56:37 -0800

That "webpage" is horrifying.

Comment by Oh! The Rodents!

Oh! The Rodents! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:57:24 -0800

Yeah, that's what 911 and the police are for. Cracking down on Seattle's cottage industries.

Fucking hand wringing numby.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:58:54 -0800

not to perpetuate an urban legend, which sometimes has some basis in fact*, I might refrain from eating in divey Asian restaurants in that neighborhood for awhile...

*in my youth, I worked in a fantabulous Asian restaurant, (best job ever; all the waitstaff were college kids and we'd hang out and get high after work, but I digress), and one of the Vietnamese employees told me that he personally had cooked housepet enfused meals in previous places he had worked, but not in this particular establishment...maybe he was pulling my leg, but...

Comment by M

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:04:02 -0800

what you got against the skinny pigs? they need somebody to protect them. Puppy mills are bad and so are rodent mills.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:25:19 -0800

he's not a businessman, he's a business, man. sorry if the first one didn't make sense.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:39:42 -0800

I think the complainer is a tad confused - hamsters are used in archane, possibly apocryphal sexual fetishes involving duct-tape and anal insertion, while Guinea Pigs are just cute, fuzzy little pets used for no untoward purpose whatsoever.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:05 -0800

"Ginger Knuckle" (check her picture)? "Keith Shartpant"? "im waiting for them robbers to come into my house Ill be waiting with my cold hard steel crowbar"? This is not the Magnolia I remember from my youth.

Your last name is SHARTPANT? Like short pant, or shat pant? Seriously?

Comment by torrentprime

torrentprime — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:33:19 -0800

So after seeing a man selling something, the writer immediately called 9-1-fucking-1 to report it? "Quick! Someone's doing something I don't like, at first glance and with no analysis! Call the SWAT team!"

No wonder this country can't leave gays alone. The Outrage Industry (and the left and the right are both guilty for fostering this crap) has truly left its mark on America; people actually believe that anything they don't like or don't want or just have never heard of should be illegal, as in, men with guns should come and stop it. Land of the free, my ass.

Comment by Big_K

Big_K — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:48:21 -0800

Guinea Pigs are frequently raised in homes and eaten in South America. My wife was in Ecuador for almost two years and ate them frequently at the rural people's houses.

Comment by Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:51:09 -0800

Ginger looks quite a lot like one of Betty Bowers' friends from the Landover Baptist Church.

Comment by Epimetheus

Epimetheus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:10:57 -0800

@5, horrifying? it's just a custom http 404 page, rather more interesting that the one for the Slog IMHO.

And who are Ginger and Keith? Boy, the Slog seem to be the kiss of death for web pages, first that republican hit piece on Obama, now this.

Since I didn't see the web page, which might have provided "a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor" I suspect a "Poe" (not the Slog's Mr. Poe)

Still, "no license plates" is suspicious, "Hi little girl, would you like to pet this cute Guinea Pig?, just step into my van"

Comment by lauren

lauren — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:38 -0800

What fetish?

Comment by M

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:37:04 -0800

It's the fetish of breeding hundreds of animals in filthy conditions. Cat ladies have had it going on forever. Nobody could put a skinny pig up their ass. At least I hope not.

Comment by kid icarus

kid icarus — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:19:43 -0800

@15 - I meant the content, as expanded on more articulately by 11 & 12. As a previous resident of Magnolia, this NIMBY behavior is immediately reconizable and still makes me shudder.

Comment by Juliet

Juliet — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:41:21 -0800

I understand Magnolia residents' need to feel secure in their homes, but their site did seem a bit alarmist and out of touch--calling 911 over environmental activist signature-gatherers? Who knocked on the door at 8pm, a time when it would be reasonably safe to assume most people are at home? That doesn't sound like a casing criminal to me.

Although he *was* wearing a hoodie, which as everyone knows is a clear indication of hooliganism.

Comment by josh bomb

josh bomb — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:00:02 -0800

anthony bourdain told me that guinea pigs are delicious. therefore, i believe that guinea pigs are delicious. they certainly look delicious. cute can still be delicious, right?

http://perufood.blogspot.com/2007/09/seor-cuy-in-san-isidro-yes-peruvians.html