We have two items today, one real and one Photoshopped, but both are funny.
The real one: part of the menu from a Thai restaurant in Hong Kong, sent by reader Winnie. Do any of the dishes look weird?
That beef must have had a good time!
And a fake but funny picture sent by Mark Sturtevant:
Lagniappe: Why you should never get a fennec (Vulpes zerda) as a pet. The species is notorious for its hyperactivity when domesticated.
Extra lagniappe: a BBC reporter mobbed by ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) as he tries to report. There’s another lemur in there, but I can’t identify it.
That Fennec Fox is like my 108 pound dog when she was younger. Thank goodness she has quieted down a bit at 9.
We have an exuberant 60 pounder that is 5…no hints of quieting down however. Maybe when he’s 9?
Yes you might get lucky by 9. My dog still throws her toys in the air though. She has, for the most part, stopped jumping off the deck as if the grass below is water.
Well that photo of Lil’ Fatty with a cat may be photoshopped, but this video of Lenin (with his wife), talking to someone, opining on atheism while playing with his Kremlin cat is no fake.
Red Ruffed Lemur? Varecia Rubra.
Lil’ Kim gotta big button. (Shhh! Don’t tell the Donald.)
Stop giving Red Bull to critters!
I trust that the feline montioring Kim’s big red button is not Schrodeinger’s car. Or we are all both dead and not-dead.
Graham norton did a bit on english translations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbHGH-NnkU
Moan and pho. Ha.
The menu reminds me of the restaurant scene in When Harry Met Sally. “I’ll have what she’s having.”
More humor, with some bite.
Re. lemurs: serendipity! I just learned the other day that John Cleese is a bigtime lemur fan, and even has one named after him. You can read about that on his W’pedia page.
But I just found this 2hr program on lemurs, narrated by him on YT, that someone took the time to transfer from VHS because it was otherwise unavailable. Be patient, the video starts ~0:35. Haven’t watched it yet since it’s time to sack out – just posting before this post gets too old for anyone to notice.
I was once (pleasantly) mobbed by lemurs at the Singapore zoo, where one is free to wander with them in their enclosure. Once they figured out I didn’t have treats for them, they abandoned me.
Is it rump roast or tenderloin?
It’s common in NYC to see menus and even storefront signs with misspellings and odd wordings. A local tv station did an investigative report and found the problem that both the restaurant owners and the printers are not fluent in English and neither catch the mistakes.
So what *does* the “bed of moan” dish actually involve?