Lunch Meats
January 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am by Preston Taylor HolmesPaging Smantix, paging Smantix!
Please tell me you took your digital camera to work today, S. Get some extra meat on your lunch hour.
Animal rights activists from PETA are promising to hold a nude protest in downtown Nashville today, even with frigid temperatures currently around 12 degrees.
A protester will be nude and will be “charred” and “cooked” on a grill while slathered with barbecue sauce, the group said in a press release. The protest is against eating meat.
It will be at noon at the intersection of Fourth Avenue North and Church Street, the group said in a news release.
You know, funny thing, I once dated a vegetarian chick and she had no problem eating meat.
h/t Krummy
January 31st, 2007 at 11:47 am
Preston, did she take all six…uh…”meats”?
January 31st, 2007 at 11:53 am
Mmmmmm,,,,, BBQ Sauce
January 31st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Ace had a video of a PETA activist stripping while preaching on cruelty to animals (go find the link yourselves, pervs).
What PETA doesn’t understand and I won’t venture to explain is that even though $ex sells, it must engage a different part of the brain from the part that learns anything.
Sure you got my attention, but it’s picture without sound.
But please, don’t let me stop you.
January 31st, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I remember a song about that:
She don’t eat meat, but she sure likes the bone.
By the way, PETA’s headquarters are on the water in Norfolk, Virginia. The first day of striped bass season is big thing around there. One year PETA decided to make a big stink about fishing. In response, a local radio station encouraged people to fish directly off shore from PETA’s building. They said that they wouldn’t leave until PETA sent some of their hot naked chicks out on to the balcony overlooking the water. I never did hear if to save the fish they sent out the chicks.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Preston,
I work off of this intersection. Trust me, you DO NOT want any pictures.
It was a naked DUDE!
And not a cute one either…
January 31st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I was gonna say I was sorry I chose today to eat at the Gerst House, because I’m usually around that intersection at lunchtime..but based on dsmith’s comment, I’m thinking I was pretty damn lucky.
January 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Billy, I don’t know what on earth you’re talking about.
DSmith, thanks for the review, but the story didn’t say which gender protesters would be out there, so I just assumed the best. Oh well.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:26 am
Preston,
Guerilla Women Tn posted photos. Unfortunately (for me) they were of a woman.
Gordon and Billy,
Back to music trivia, guys. What 60s icon had a song called “I don’t eat animals and they don’t eat me?”
Chorus
I don’t eat animals cause I love em, you see.
I don’t eat animals I want nothing dead in me (***she never slept with my ex husband, but I digress***)
A little bit of raisins and oats from a tree
I don’t eat animals and they don’t eat me.
February 1st, 2007 at 8:14 am
I’m totally guessing here – Joni Mitchell?
February 1st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Nope, Cranky. Same type in term of a flower child/songwriter-singer, though not nearly as good as Joni. However, she had three major hits.
Clue–one of her songs was in the film “Boogie Nights.” It was a #1 hit song in 1971.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:40 am
60′s Icon? Female? Gosh, Janis Joplin comes to mind…but ’71 rules that out I guess.
Judy Collins?
I’m stumped.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Did she have rollerskates? Did someone have the key? Don’t know who that singer is, but just goofy enough to write a song about not eating animals. I’m not sure if she was a one hit wonder or an icon.
Janis Ian?
“I want nothing dead in me…” Eww. Just ate a turkey sandwich.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Just ate a turkey sandwich.
I guess we could rule out Mama Cass
February 1st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Michelle…
If dat’s who you are talking about, that is Melanie.
And come to think of it, that song was in Boogie Nights and 1971 sounds about right to me (1st grade, had the rollerskates, key and everything).
But “icon”. Hmm…I wouldn’t call Melanie an “icon”.
But then I’m not a hippie like Sharon. When I think 60′s “icon”, I think this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9PwhPREQ4
Uh oh. Did Sharon just turn this into a Tubing Thread?
February 1st, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Mr. Cranky
Get your facts straight. Mama Cass choked on a HAM sandwich, not turkey.
As you know, we take fact-checking and accuracy VERY seriously here.
The Mamas and The Papas await your sincere apology.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Ham, Turkey? What is with you Wingnuts?
The point is, that it was a dead animal. You know, just like Cheney’s face.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Mmmmmm,,, ham and turkey,,,,
February 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I just thought of a new diet. The Empathy Diet. Just learn all you can about the processing of your food, find out who dies, gets injured or disenfranchised along the way, and let your guilt rule your tummy. BTW Did anyone ever hear how many cute little bunnies and mousies get their heads chopped off by threshing machines when farmers are harvesting corn? How many feet high the pile of rats that a rat terrier kills in a day to keep the barn from getting infested? There is just no way to avoid the unfortunate facts.
So I guess it wasn’t Janis Ian?
February 1st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
It’s times like this where I should finally tell my blogmates my name and a working phone number.
I was made privy to Peta’s Arctic Poon Division setting up snatch at 4th and Commerce and had I more than an hour’s notice, I would have been there with my “Peta Can Eat Me” sign as we splash BBQ sauce on our scrawny-assed activist. Even had my camera.
Next time fellas.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:31 pm
This, of course, reminds me of the old joke: If Mama Cass had just given Karen Carpenter that ham sandwich they’d both still be alive today.
It was never proven whether or not Mama Cass actually ate Karen Carpenter, inadvertently causing their simultaneous demise. But that’s just my theory.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:40 pm
It was never proven whether or not Mama Cass actually ate Karen Carpenter…
NOT the good gay.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Damn, Feisty…
How the hell am I going to get THAT vision out of my head?
Wait, I think Cranky has the remedy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUWRkv4Y1Bk
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
Michele,
You are correct. It was indeed Melanie. While she wasn’t in the same league as Joni or Judy, her first hit Lay Down (Candles In The Rain-with the Edwin Hawkins Singers) was up there with the song “Woodstock” for defining that era and time.
Cranky–And who was that nice Jewish girl Naomi Cohen? None other than Mama Cass, who actually had a heart attack. The ham sandwich is urban legend…not to mention not kosher.
Preston and Feisty–If Mama Cass had eaten Karen Carpenter, they both still would have died, but happy.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:47 am
And who was that nice Jewish girl Naomi Cohen? None other than Mama Cass
Who knew? Next thing you’ll tell me is that Bob Dylan was Jewish.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
Gordon,
I still have photos of Bob Zimmerman at the Western Wall in Jerusalem wearing tefillin.
Now, to bring this all back to the 80 music, (I found a way!) what outrageous member of a huge 80s group was born in Israel and his real name is Chaim? (Chaim pronounced Hi-em) Hint: From watching him, you can be sure he eats meat.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
Gene Schneider
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
There are more Jews in the music industry than you might think. For example, did you know that 84% of all music executives are Jewish?
Also, 96% of THOSE voted Democrat in the last election.
Just wanted to educate you unenlightened hicks…
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 am
Shut up Faux J. Ryan.
That would be the nice Jewish boy who vomited fake-blood on stage in the 70s?
Michelle, are you sure you mean Schneider?
BTW, I wrote an Adam Sandler Hanukkah song spoof on my old web site. It was the “Neo-Connikah Song”. Gene is mentioned. If I can find it, maybe I’ll paste it in here.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Michele,
Not sure who Gene Schneider is…but I’m pretty sure that Fred Schneider eats meat.
Actually give credit to Michele for getting this one first, Sharon. I am sure she meant Gene Simmons.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:05 am
Cranky…
That is a MUST post. And then after you do that, make it a Tube. Maybe we can get Gene Simmons to perform it.
And be nicer to J. Ryan. I suspect his statistical musings are all he really has in his life.
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Mmmmm,,,, statistical musings,,,,
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Er…Simmons. I was remembering a freeway in Louisville Ky. Yay. Do I get a prize?
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Yay Michele… It is Gene Simmons from Kiss.