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OlafTheBent		2009-03-26 08:09:36 AM

Are they going to the Canadian East Coast ice floes?

... do a little clubbing

40yoVirgin		2009-03-26 08:17:36 AM

OlafTheBent: Are they going to the Canadian East Coast ice floes?

... do a little clubbing

:(

DslainteC		2009-03-26 08:30:58 AM

"We're only supportive of the plan if the toads are killed humanely _ in other words, they're not hit with baseball bats or cricket bats and golf clubs."

In other words, Australians shouldn't go whackabout.

Walker		2009-03-26 08:31:41 AM

/obligatory mention

dittybopper		2009-03-26 09:05:48 AM

Australia schedules "festive mass killing" for Saturday

You know what other Australian like mass killings?

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Thisbymaster		2009-03-26 11:22:10 AM

Weird Al did it first

Oldiron_79		2009-03-26 11:22:11 AM

I thought the Alps was too cold for cane toads?

You know who else was Austrian and liked mass killings?

CruJones		2009-03-26 11:22:32 AM

WHACKING DAY!

destitute college kid		2009-03-26 11:23:19 AM

It is Whacking Day, and the ironic thing is it's all Bart's fault...

Claude Ballse		2009-03-26 11:25:28 AM

dittybopper
You know what other Australian like mass killings?

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"G'day, mate!I see what you did there!"
/hot like a shrimp on the barbie

Parthenogenetic		2009-03-26 11:26:00 AM

From FTA:

"An organizers' tip sheet gives advice on how to create toad traps - or "detention camps" - and recommends that participants "study detention techniques to ensure your own, as well as the toad's safety - they must be alive and unharmed for interrogation."

Live toads brought to the collection points will be examined by experts to ensure they're not harmless frogs and then killed, either by freezing or by being placed in plastic bags filled with carbon dioxide."

You know who else like detention camps and mass killings?

Hmmm. Well, actually that's not so Hitlerific. More like "reset the carbon freezing chamber for Skywalker."

monkey314159		2009-03-26 11:26:02 AM

/The correct way to use the toads

Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom		2009-03-26 11:26:40 AM

"What's Whacking Day?"

buffcubby		2009-03-26 11:27:16 AM

"We're only supportive of the plan if the toads are killed humanely in other words, they're not hit with baseball bats or cricket bats and golf clubs," said spokesman Michael Beatty.

Isn't the whole point of "humanely" supposed to be keeping them alive?...

satanorsanta		2009-03-26 11:29:14 AM

/amused, and hotlinked

FatherDale		2009-03-26 11:29:15 AM

It's them toady lederhosen that work my nerves. Kill 'em all with your beer steins!

Cyborg77		2009-03-26 11:29:31 AM

toonz		2009-03-26 11:29:55 AM

buffcubby: "We're only supportive of the plan if the toads are killed humanely in other words, they're not hit with baseball bats or cricket bats and golf clubs," said spokesman Michael Beatty.

Isn't the whole point of "humanely" supposed to be keeping them alive?...

regardless, bats and golf clubs seem pretty quick, they're toads not lions.

Wight Power		2009-03-26 11:30:07 AM

That should go nicely with the basement rapings

Ponzholio		2009-03-26 11:30:18 AM

You will not attend festive mass killing...

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blahpers		2009-03-26 11:30:37 AM

Obligatory

Hack Patooey		2009-03-26 11:30:46 AM

OlafTheBent: Are they going to the Canadian East Coast ice floes?

... do a little clubbing

Oh, our schooner and our sloop in Ferryland they do lie
They are already rigged to be bound for the ice
All you lads of the Southern we will have you to beware
She is going to the ice in the Spring of the year

[Chorus:]

Laddie whack fall the laddie, laddie whack fall the day

Our course be east-north-east for two days and two nights
Our captain he cried out "Boys, look ahead for the ice!"
He hove her about standing in for the land,
And 'twas in a few hours we were firm in the jam.

Oh our captain he cried out, "Come on boys and lend a hand!"
Our cook he gets the breakfast and each man takes a dram.
With their hats in their hands it was earlye for to go,
Every man showed his action 'thout the missing of a blow

Some were killing some were scalping, some were hauling on board,
Some more they were firing and a-missing of their loads.
In the dusk of the evening all hands in from the cold,
And we counted nine hundred fine scalps in the hold.

We are now off Cape Spear and in sight of Cape Broyle
We will dance, sing, carouse, my boys, in just a little while.
We will soon enjoy the charms of our sweethearts and friends,
But it will not be long before we're down to the bend.

sigersonic		2009-03-26 11:31:01 AM

Death to the Noxious bastard toads.

But if the authorities really wanted to get shot of introduced species they'll need to include cats dogs cows sheep camels foxes rabbits all of which are total bastards to the habitat in Oz.

mayble		2009-03-26 11:31:38 AM

"We're only supportive of the plan if the toads are killed humanely _ in other words, they're not hit with baseball bats or cricket bats and golf clubs," said spokesman Michael Beatty.

Hockey sticks, on the other hand, are okay.

rodeofrog		2009-03-26 11:32:12 AM

teurmuhnate zhem.

subaudio		2009-03-26 11:32:12 AM

I think this is kind of gross. Not the killing of the toads, which seems like a good idea. But there's a difference between killing animals out of necessity and making a mockery of death camps.

Tatsuhiko		2009-03-26 11:33:06 AM

I wonder if the cane-toad is attempting the same thing for the plague of humans on their land.

necropoultryac		2009-03-26 11:33:51 AM

I licked what?

gilgigamesh		2009-03-26 11:35:35 AM

Say, did anyone make a statement referencing the similarity between the country names "Austria" and "Australia", deliberately confusing them for the humorous effect of implying Hitler was from Australia?

Because I totally want to be the first one to think of that.

/DIE MEME, DIE

/the meme, the?

rodeofrog		2009-03-26 11:39:55 AM

gilgigamesh: Say, did anyone make a statement referencing the similarity between the country names "Austria" and "Australia", deliberately confusing them for the humorous effect of implying Hitler was from Australia?

Because I totally want to be the first one to think of that.

/DIE MEME, DIE

/the meme, the?

That one and the one with the owls - they're the only ones I ever really loved.

dittybopper		2009-03-26 11:46:29 AM

When the Austria/Australia meme is dead, Magua will eat it's heart.

Hoax_Device		2009-03-26 11:48:41 AM

Came for the Simpsons. Will leave satisfied.

rioone		2009-03-26 11:48:44 AM

It's been covered, but this idea is a sham. It was originally conceived in 1922 as an excuse to beat up on the Irish.

twowlz		2009-03-26 11:51:58 AM

I wonder if putting ground up poisonous toads, that also carry salmonella, in the soil where food grows is such a good idea. I'm no farmer and I guess they already considered that.

Fluorescent Testicle		2009-03-26 11:54:48 AM

A "Novel solution"? We've been doing this since before I was born.

My favourite way to ice the bastards - literally - is to stick them in the freezer overnight after impaling them on pitchforks.

/Toadsicles.
//Testicles?

DaddyRat		2009-03-26 11:54:57 AM

OlafTheBent: Are they going to the Canadian East Coast ice floes?

... do a little clubbing

Ooooh! - stop me if you've heard this one!

A baby seal walks in a club...

/Thanks, I'm here all week!
//Tip the veal
///Try your waitress!

tomcatadam		2009-03-26 12:02:33 PM

Came for reference to awesome Simpsons episode, leaving satisfied.

ElFugawz		2009-03-26 12:03:00 PM

dittybopper: Australia schedules "festive mass killing" for Saturday

You know what other Australian like mass killings?

came here to do this

/obvious

gilgigamesh		2009-03-26 12:29:06 PM

rodeofrog: That one and the one with the owls - they're the only ones I ever really loved.

*sigh* Whatever.

I miss the "Ha! Ha!" guy.q

Sylvia_Bandersnatch		2009-03-26 01:17:22 PM

I don't dispute the need for this -- cane toads have overrun the land there -- but it really is their own damn fault, for bringing them there in the first place. And it's hard not to laugh, when one tries to count the number of times the colonial English have screwed themselves with one would-be-clever 'natural' solution or another.

As for humane, I don't know how human it is to gas them in bags of CO2. I've had to do this myself, and it didn't seem very humane to me.

HeadLever		2009-03-26 01:24:41 PM

FTA: "We're only supportive of the plan if the toads are killed humanely _ in other words, they're not hit with baseball bats or cricket bats and golf clubs," said spokesman Michael Beatty.

Ahh, reminds me of the big "bunny bash" we used to have in Idaho every couple of years.

gruxx		2009-03-26 01:27:57 PM

These bloody things are everywhere.
They're in the lift, in the lorry, in the bond wizard, and all over the malonga gilderchuck.
We have them in America. They're called bullfrogs.
What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them "chazzwazzers".

ah... memories...

dittybopper		2009-03-26 01:28:48 PM

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I don't dispute the need for this -- cane toads have overrun the land there -- but it really is their own damn fault, for bringing them there in the first place. And it's hard not to laugh, when one tries to count the number of times the colonial English have screwed themselves with one would-be-clever 'natural' solution or another.

As for humane, I don't know how human it is to gas them in bags of CO2. I've had to do this myself, and it didn't seem very humane to me.

We could blow them up with small explosive charges. That is certainly very humane: TNT has a detonation velocity of 6900 m/s, much faster than the speed of nerve conduction (about 25 m/s).

They would never know what hit them: They exist one moment, and then they don't.

HeadLever		2009-03-26 01:51:50 PM

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: As for humane, I don't know how human it is to gas them in bags of CO2. I've had to do this myself, and it didn't seem very humane to me.

The word 'humane' is now used as one of those nice touch-feely words that baically allows animal rights folks to feel better about themselves. Technically, there is nothing much humane about killing an animal, other than minimizing the time of pain before death.

If you really pay attention to the Animal Rights folks, much of what they rail against is just as 'humane' as their alternatives. As ditty mentioned, in the technical sense of the word, sticking a blasting cap down a toad's throat would be very humane. Applying a baseball bat or golf club to the noggn' would be very fast, however, using CO2 and freezing will take much longer (although debatable on how much pain they feel).

The way I see it, it is the violent nature of death that they don't want to see. They assume the less of a mess the more humane it is.

grizzlyjohnson		2009-03-26 02:04:14 PM

So apparently PETA doesn't draw much water in Oz, eh? Or have they just not weighed in on this one yet?

Tachikoma		2009-03-26 04:30:33 PM

FTFA: Goodies range from cane toad trophies (made of actual stuffed cane toads)

Was I the only one who found that... icky?

colatf		2009-03-26 06:29:52 PM

sigersonic: Death to the Noxious bastard toads.

But if the authorities really wanted to get shot of introduced species they'll need to include cats dogs cows sheep camels foxes rabbits all of which are total bastards to the habitat in Oz.

Camels actually aren't that bad. The theory is they're taking the place of the diprotodon, a large herbivore that went extinct relatively recently (a few thousand years. I think). But camel feet don't tear up the land and they're pretty harmless, i.e. a good fit for Australia, ecologically speaking.

foxtail		2009-03-26 09:49:59 PM

I am astounded that no one has posted this yet.

foxtail		2009-03-26 09:51:34 PM

Lets try this then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mfn7uLY_dI&feature=related

Whytie		2009-03-26 11:23:22 PM

Sometimes when it's raining and you're driving on a residential street you hear a loud crunch every couple minutes, this is the noise a cane toad makes.

Plus if your dog eats one it will get really sick.

I've heard that some abos get high from them, but that's probably just an urban legend.

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