These yahoos go after silicone, too. Last year, they were pestering my wife, saying things like "Nice rack!" The last time I saw her, she was being tied down to some guy's hood. I miss her sometimes.

Sitric O'Sanassa, Bacontastesgood Actually, not only is a chasuble a priestly garment... it's also the last name of a character in The Importance of Being Earnest. Ernest X. Chasuble is therefore a particularly unlikely name.

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/amatuers

Just had some deer steaks today. Killed with a shotgun though.

/my dog wanted deer steaks
//my dog got deer steaks
///gotta make room in the fridge

ornithopter:

For two extra Totally Worthless Trvia Points (TM), what literary work does the name "Sitric O'Sanassa" come from?

/looking at my profile is cheating

My ex's dad was always trying to talk me into going hunting with him. I have a sneaking suspicion that he kept a shovel and a bag of lime in his car just in case I was ever fool enough to take him up on it.

Some people like red abalone, others white. Some dumb twats shoot stop signs with a gun, others shoot lawn ornaments with a hunting bow. I wonder if anyone in Europe has anything as disgraceful to make fun about?

As a 20 "veteran" of bow hunting and a former information specialist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservaterion Commission I hang my head in shame at the fact that these "hunters" cannot distinguish a deer statue for the real thing.
I weep for the future.

\10 virtual points for the first correct farker (ette) who correctly verifies the movie reference for my 80's movie reference to this post.

Damned blue staters!

soze:Why yes, I'm totally hot for Green Arrow. Who else can get away with mouthing off at the Bat on a regular basis?

I think that's probably more because of his sweet filling-out-tights skills than his bowhunting skills.

Uh, I doubt it's by mistake.

Hunters love deer; that's why we kill them.

Love it, love it! keep it coming.

"Hunters love deer; that's why we kill them."

'nuff said.

huh huh....
they said Pussywillow!

Wow, I breezed over this before, I should have known it was Duluth. As someone that lived there for three years I can attest that yes, there are an awful lot of people living there that think plastic deer in their yards is attractive. There are also herds of deer that run rampant in the down itself, hence the bowhunting in the city...thank god I came to my senses and moved...

Hunters love deer; that's why we kill them.

There are a dozen reasons to hunt deer for every reason to not hunt.

These people do love deer. Which is why they are doing their best to keep their numbers healthy, via hunting.

This writer has a real W.C. Fields-like ear for funny names. In his films, Fields used names like Elmer Prettywillie, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Og Ogglby, Egbert Souse ("pronounced Sous-ay!"), and my favorite, Otis Criblecoblis.

It's no wonder I fell for this article at first, because I've watched so much Fields. Why shouldn't someone be named Pussywillow or Twelvetrees or Chasuble, after all? And there was a real old-time actress named Helen Twelvetrees.

I've personally met gentlemen named Dennis Glasscock, Romeo T. Whang, and Warpy Paternoster... honest.

2005-09-25 11:08:53 PM Fish in a Barrel [TotalFark]

So you can blow up your house? I don't think you guys thought that one through.

Asshole. I was looking forward to the FARK thread on that newsstory.

2005-09-26 01:17:34 AM EdMon [TotalFark]

These people do love deer. Which is why they are doing their best to keep their numbers healthy, via hunting.

Begging for Godwin.

Can I just point out three things?

1. they're shooting deer that are absolutely dead still. Not a usual state for animals. If you're close enough to shoot it with a bow, you're close enough to see if it's blinking, breathing, or has *some* sign of life.

2. they're shooting deer that are clearly in people's *yards*. Huh? Hey that deer's in someone's front yard. They won't mind if I kill it there. Or partially kill it, so it runs around and crashes through their plate glass windows.

3. This choice quote had me in stitches: 'Many of our own members have plastic deer themselves as inspiration for hunting season. Hunters love deer; that's why we kill them."'

Yep, I often kill things I love. It's a great hobby!!

Well, that's it's there fer, aint it? Targit practice? Why else would a body put a fargin plastic deer in his yord?

I have pink flamingos in my yard, some in trees, and two of them humping at the end of my driveway. I need a few deer for some hot plastic deer on deer action. I'm definetly going to do the Xmas deer hanging in the tree w/blood red lights this winter.

/likes snowman porn also
//God bless the freaks

Outlaw
Not only that, who the hell shoots a deer in the hindquarters? Everyone knows to shoot slightly behind the shoulder.


Daym thang musta moved.

"You can't blame our people for shooting plastic deer; they're so life-like. Many of our own members have plastic deer themselves as inspiration for hunting season. Hunters love deer; that's why we kill them."

yep...

"You can't blame our people for shooting plastic deer; they're so life-like."

WTF?? Shooting arrows at other people's houses is legal in Duluth? We're not talking about hunting on a farmer's pasture land. We're talking about somebody's front yard. Living room windows... kids making a snowman... There must not be any lawyers in Duluth.

This is what happens when Garrison Keillor fans go hunting. You can't expect much.

/Former Minnesoooootan, dontchya knooooowwww.

//Craves hotdish.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/16/hunters.shot.ap/

It's all in fun until someone says a bad word. I'm threatening to put some deer at the edge of the field to slow the drunks and soccer moms down.

Waxwing did point out that association members are complaining to him that their hunting arrows are being blunted by hitting plastic deer and not the soft flesh of real deer.

Let me get this straight: their members are complaining about dulling their arrows because they're too damned dumb to realize that the deer in someone's yard (!) is fake?

This brings up another question. Where are these people living? Are they out in the boonies or are Duluth hunters bowhunting in neighborhoods?

This has to be satire.

serutan: Shooting arrows at other people's houses is legal in Duluth?

It's a special urban hunt. Deer population has been increasing, and deer have moved into suburban and sometimes even urban areas. It's a real problem. The deer cause many car crashes and also damage landscaping.

Several midwestern cities have been quietly experimenting with special urban and suburban hunts.

No body commented that they didn't shoot the fat woman bending over statue?

/damn I hate those things.

don't know which is worse:
having a plastic deer
naming a plastic deer
naming a plastic deer Felicity
or
actually having the name Orval Pussywillow

Let me get this straight: their members are complaining about dulling their arrows because they're too damned dumb to realize that the deer in someone's yard (!) is fake?

It's satire! It's humor!

For crying out loud. Do you people really think hunters hunt IN TOWN?

i'm getting a good chuckle out of imagining some hunter sitting in the woods for 8 hours staring at a plastic deer thinking "Man, i wish that deer would move a little bit so I'd have a better shot"

I love Jesus...too bad he's been hunted to extinction...

I have a bunch of problems with this situation:

1) why would people shoot at ANYTHING in someone else's yard? Wouldn't they be concerned that shooting near homes might risk hurting someone? Don't hunt in the residential areas, morons.

2) people with lawn ornaments....well, nuff said.

3) "Finally, Professor Michael Angelo, head of the Sculpture and Human Sexuality Department at the Arrowhead College of Carnal Knowledge, said plastic ornamental deer are an important part of American art on a par with department store mannequins. "I once saw a fake deer with a nude female mannequin astride it. Priceless," said Angelo, 43, who is registered with the police."

WTF???? Registered with the police? As what? As a sex offender? As a bow hunter? As someone who would have a plastic deer on their lawn?

"I will raise the boy!

I will teach him the ways of the forest..."

(BAM!)

*drag-drag-drag*

/obscure, if you're a lame-ass.

Article has got to be a load of bullshiat, given the obviously made up names:

- Orval Pussywillow
- Professor Michael Angelo, head of the Sculpture and Human Sexuality Department at the Arrowhead College of Carnal Knowledge

/The names have been altered to protect the innocent

Drew's missing lawn gnome wanted for questioning.

Yes, people do hunt in town. The have marksman here in Maine that go to Peaks Island to knock down the deer population (by knock down I mean being nice enough to give 40-50 deer extra breathin' holes and a nasty case of lead poisoning).

Mmm... Lead....

Ok, time to clear some stuff up...

First of all, yes, the article is satire. BUT, the premise is 100% true. There IS a city-limits bowhunt going on in Duluth, MN at this moment.

There are designated neighborhoods where the deer population has gotten out of control. Hunters must register with the city and pass a proficiency test before they're allowed to hunt. After that, YES, they are allowed to kill deer within the city limits.

There HAS been a report (maybe more) of plastic deer being shot. There has NOT been an outcry from the religious community about nativity scenes.

That about cover it?

Bacontastesgood

Msgr. Ernest X. Chasuble

That's funny and I don't even know why.

Sitric O'Sanassa
"Msgr. Ernest X. Chasuble"

That's what gave it away to me. For those of you who don't know, a chasuble is part of a Catholic priest's vestments.

For those of you who still don't know, Dr. Chasuble was also a reverend/vicar type character in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"--where the required name for the male lead characters in the play was, in fact, Ernest.