It's All Happening At The Zoo, Especially Racism

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abalk2

07/27/06 11:30AM

Filed to: Central Park

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From the website of The Central Park Zoo:

The new zoo is divided into several different sections which provide the animals with homes as close to their natural habitat as possible. These include tropic, temperate and polar zones that house everything from tiny leafcutter ants to the hugely popular polar bears. The zoo is also actively involved the preservation of endangered species, providing a home for rare tamarin monkeys, Wyoming toads, thick-billed parrots, and red pandas. Rumors of a secret exhibit featuring English-speaking cab drivers have never been confirmed.

Jesus, we must have been out of town the week they announced the hiring of Pat Buchannan.

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rachmanut abalk2 07/27/06 11:47AM

This is all part of the proud american tradition of urban zoo self-mockery. The New Orleans zoo has (had?) an exhibit on "the natural habitat of the swamp" replete with marshy, floating tires, rusting cars, etc. The roach exhibit shows the buggers running around a kitchen. there's even a swamp monster!

Helen Damnation abalk2 07/27/06 10:43AM

However, it does appear that the asshole exhibit is fully stocked and ready for public viewing.

Fenni Fentu abalk2 07/27/06 10:42AM

On whose behalf should I be offended— cab drivers who speak English or cab drivers who don't speak English? I'm confused.

Rudy Huxtability abalk2 07/27/06 11:42AM

i find the rest of it way more offensive than the cab-driver part... so all leaf cutter ants are "tiny" huh? and hello, thick-billed parrots? who wrote this... ANDREW DICE CLAY???????