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Is It a Boy, a Girl, or an Assmonkey?
Posted 27 July, 2007 in Assmonkeys |
Okay, one more quickie, because I couldn’t resist. This comes from Nikki Stafford, who is commenting on a column by the National Post’s Jonathan Kay. Seems Mr. Kay raised some hackles by writing about the war between “daters” and “breeders,” specifically the ire of the former group at having an intimate dinner spoiled by the offspring of the latter. Responses were many and varied, but Kay quotes this one, from an e-mail he received:
Mr. Kay, I hope we never have the misfortune to have your family ruin a nice restaurant near us, because I could hardly resist the compulsion to empty ice water into the faces of both you and your broodsow of a partner. Attention, Mr. Look-My-Sperm-Works, your job as a parent does not end at ejaculation: Would you please show the rest of us the Get Out of Courtesy card that they gave you when your wife [birthed] your first replicant? Polite parents do not assault diners with their loud brood of assmonkeys.
And another voice of moderation is heard from. How much of a frisson should I feel when I realize that I more or less agree with the spirit of what this correspondent is saying?