You moose-st remember this

by the Night Writer

In case Tiger Lilly’s previous post wasn’t enough to lighten up your Thursday, you might want to consider the Strib’s laughable expose from earlier this week, What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose? Then go over to Powerline’s devastating rebuttal, which perhaps ought to have been entitled “What’s Killing the Star Tribune’s Credibility?”

Personally, I give moose a lot of credit. Nobody, however, gives them more credit than Monty Python:
Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen
– Røtern nik Akten Di
– Wik
– Alsø wik
– Alsø alsø wik
– Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
– See the løveli lakes
– The wøndërful telephøne system
– And mäni interesting furry animals
– The Characters and incidents portrayed and the names used are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional.
Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
– Including the majestik møøse
– A Møøse once bit my sister…
– No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”…
– We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have
been sacked.
– Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…
– We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
– Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA
– Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT
– Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL
– Møøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III
– Miss Taylor’s Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME
– Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG
– Møøses’ noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER
– Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and “O” Level Geography by BO BENN
– Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER
– Antler-care by LIV THATCHER
– The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
– Executive Producer
JOHN GOLDSTONE & “RALPH” The Wonder Llama
– Producer
MARK FORSTATER
– Assisted By
EARL J. LLAMA
MIKE Q. LLAMA III
SY LLAMA
MERLE Z. LLAMA IX
– Directed By
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED
ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS
6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS
142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS
14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS
(CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)
REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON
76000 BATTERY LLAMAS
FROM “LLAMA-FRESH” FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
and
TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES

5 thoughts on “You moose-st remember this

  1. Moose are stately and majestic creatures. I wish I were a moose. Alas, I am only a smelly and chubby rat.

  2. One would figure that before writing a headline “What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose?”, the writer and editor might actually ask about excess carcasses found, even if they couldn’t bring themselves to actually perform a statistical test to find out whether the change is statistically significant in light of the gauge they’re using.

    But regarding the latter, I think any good science beat reporter or editor also ought to have a working BS detector that would call out clowns who admit their data are not statistically significant, but insist the conclusion is valid anyways. Yeesh.

  3. how’s that moose you got boarding with you?
    hopefully, he wont migrate with the rest.
    well, i second thought…

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