Secrets of the City

I’ve been in a park where baboons wander around like that, walking among the people, picking through garbage cans. They made me nervous.

I’m with Kwatt: This is another animal I don’t like very much.

It’s the red butt, isn’t it Rat? Those are terrifying.

For me, it’s the unpredictability.

agreed. this baboon behavior was unpredictable as well.

This whole melange makes my skin crawl.

The Tea Baggers ought to bring a half-dozen of these animals to a Town Hall meeting. People screaming and waving signs, animals screaming. Tearing around the place, having sex in front of people.

That’d be a spectacle.

I’ll go, and I’m happy to tear around the place, but I am not sure I would feel comfortable having sex in front of a baboon.

I, for one, welcome our baboon overloards.

You’ll be singing a different tune once they get their hands on the cigarettes and the levers of power, Bob.

You wanna see payback? — I don’t think so.

Hey, just a rememberation to MnRead peeps that we should all be reading John Sandford novels. We’re meeting on September 3 at the 331 in NE Mpls at around 6. Anything by Sandford will do.

If Graveyard Book is out in paperback, I propose the next one be a Hallowe’en MnRead with that book. Boo!

When baboons take over.

I mean really, who couldn’t love a cute little critter like this?

If I had a nickel for every time this has happened to me…

That baboon is gross.

On another note, do you think mixing heavy whipping cream with 2% milk would yield something close enough to half-and-half?

I think that’s what half and half is.

@douglas g: you’d be no richer?

Has anyone ever done the Jesse James Bike Tour? I’m planning to register for the 100, but wonder what the route is like. Is it OK if I take 10 hours to finish?

Careful, Jerad, there’s a shootout at the finish line.

For example, the photo of the LOLcat in Bob’s comment on some other thread is an especially good one.

@shopgirl: Yeah! I know…

Jane, at the pace we’ll be keeping, the ammo will be spent by the time I have my first mirage-vision of the finish line.

This thread is racist toward baboons.

I don’t know how but I’m going to angrily call it racist since Jane suggested in another thread that if we came over here we’d be able to join discussions on cats and cooking. I just see a baboon with anger management issues that could really use a good dental plan.

So, who is cooking with cats? Or did I misunderstand?

Bix: Those hairy brothers and sisters come from the Motherland. Of course, we all come from the Motherland. Hello, Uncle!

So, let me get this straight. Bob’s uncle cooks with cats? Perhaps I should read rather than skim…

@DouglasG: Here’s Catty Crocker. Probably a recipe involving fish. Or chicken. Or squirrel.

Bob’s your uncle.

…and your Mack Daddy, too!

Where’s Kevin? He’s supposed to be along around now to shake his head at the low post turnout for an open thread.

I’d say this thread just got off on the wrong foot and went down hill from there.

Don’t feel too bad you all gave it a shot but with me at the pga you never really had a chance.

Fucking baboons.

(This is not a Twitter update.)

The end.

Orangutans are more friendly than baboons:

Those baboons are from my motherland? Since when did Minnesota have a baboon problem. I hope Pawlenty does something about that. I don’t trust those baboons running around on the loose like that.