Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Life imitates Scrappleface
Well, you know what they say, records are meant to be broken, but I am amazed to see the new benchmark exceeded so quickly. Yes, it seems that Spanish feministas are now demanding their own "running with the cows" in Pamplona.
This is ridiculous on so many levels I don't even know where to start, but I suppose I would point out that at the end of their famous Pamplona run, bulls end up in the arena where they serve a pretty important role in the traditional sport of bullfighting. There are plenty of folks who think bullfights to be inhumane, and there is even a movement to ban it in the EU entirely, but you could argue that it has cultural significance and that there is certainly a degree of danger to the humans involved in the practice. Is there anyone on earth who seriously advocates cowfighting? And if not, where the hell are all these cows supposed to be running to?
I suppose this is just a ploy to get on TV like the bull runners do every year, but they actually risk severe injury and death, and we usually get footage of some idiot getting gored or flipped by a bull. I'm sorry, but a street full of women slipping on cow pies just doesn't fulfill my voyeuristic needs in the same way.
4 Comments:
By 
Mystery Meat, at
Tue Jul 10, 06:26:00 PM:
Ahh, but what if the ladies are naked? Or Playboy Playmates? It could be sponsored by Hooters. Heck, I'd even watch the Congressional Women's Caucus if they were running down the street naked.
By 
, at
Tue Jul 10, 10:55:00 PM:
Use cape buffalo cows. That'll make it interesting.
By , at
Wed Jul 11, 01:07:00 AM:
What kind of wacky crack-pot is the guy how much tax money did he use to come up with this rediclous study? ANOTHER CRACK-POT AND PROBIBLY FROM THAT CRAZY BUNCH UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Fri Jul 13, 03:47:00 PM:
Bird, that was a remarkable leap.
Cowfighting. I'm surprised Gary Larsen didn't do a Far Side cartoon on it.
