Posted on 11/16/2005 1:42:33 PM PST by girlangler
Dinner With an Anti-Hunter
November 15, 2005
by Humberto Fontova
I’d just hung the deer by its neck on the swing set for skinning and butchering when..... "Oh Hum-BERTO! Puh-LEAZE!”
I look over and it’s our new neighbor Freddie, wailing from his patio door, his face a mask of horror and disgust. "Humberto! How COULD YOU? Why that’s AWFUL!”
Freddie moved here recently from San Francisco. People didn’t skin deer in their backyards there. Freddie used to open his back door, prance to the fence, and discuss the screen and stage with fellow wine sniffers. Now he opens his back door and finds an assassinated deer dangling with its tongue hanging out, some guy in blood-spattered camo slashing at it with a skinning knife, between swigs from a sixteen-ounce Bud encased in crumpled bag.
I looked over after a hearty swig. "How could?” I belched. "How could I? It’s easy, Fred.” I wiped my bloody finger on my pants, held it aloft and curled it. "You do this,” then made trigger-pulling motions. "See Fred? See you easy? Bet even you could do it Freddie my boy. You’re good with your fingers aren’t ya? Aren’t...?”
"Oh! You... you...YOU!” —SLAM!
Good riddance. Then the door opens again and my wife, Shirley, storms out. "Haven’t I told you to do that SOMEPLACE ELSE! My GOODNESS! Can’t you... OH WHY BOTHER!” —SLAM!
Shirley’s always having coffee with that dizzy little queen. They get along famously. He’s a designer of some kind, designs Mardi Gras floats in fact. Always happens that way: straight women and gay men get along. Straight men and gay women.... well--I've never seem much of it.
But I was in no mood for sociological reflection. I was still giddy from the ego-buzz of a successful hunt.
Five hours later--sure enough-- there's Freddie's distinctive knock. I open and he dangles a bottle of wine from hand. Freddie looks primed to rip into the braised backstrap of the deer he denounced me for assassinating. Shirley had--naturally--invited him over for dinner.
He peeked into the kitchen where I slaved over a hot range. "Ummmm!” He exclaimed with an eye- flutter. "Smells heavenly in here!”
I gulped deeply from my whiskey, wiped my mouth with my apron, and turned around. "You’re in for a treat Freddie, my boy.” I rasped as the whiskey seared my throat. "See here?” And I lifted the lid. Thumper jambalaya... nice, hunh?”
"Oh yes certainly looks wonderful. But I...”
"And here!” I banged the spoon on the pot bubbling in the rear. "Donald and Daffy Gumbo Ya-Ya.” I pointed towards the microwave. "Bambi’s in there, on the serving platter.”
"Great!” He smacked his lips and rolled his eyes dreamily. I can’t wait!”
I turned quickly, shuddering with revulsion. Shirley balks, but I insist we throw out any silverware he uses when he dines over.
"Monica!” Freddie called to my teen-aged daughter upstairs. "Dinner’s served. Hurry before it gets cold.” Monica was home from LSU for the holidays. They get along well. Freddie helped pick her prom dress, did her hair, suggested a restaurant—the whole bit.
"Like your meat warm, do ya Freddie?” I said while pouring a hefty glass from his Chateau- something- or-other.
"Sure,” he twinkled. "Doesn’t everyone?”
"Of course we do!” I said while raising the wineglass.
"Oh brother,” Shirley sighed. "He’s starting already... Monica! Hurry down honey. Show’s about to start.”
"We all like it warm, Freddie, because that’s what fresh meat tasted like before the discovery of fire. Warm, the temperature of the blood of a living mammal. That’s how our primeval ancestors ate it, Freddie, like all predators.”
"Oh Humberto PLEASE!” Shirley huffed. Not now. Can’t you....”
"Carnivores, especially those lovable cuddly wolves your California buddies get so giddy over, start ingesting prey while it’s still alive, Fred!” I gulped again, emptying the glass. They hamstring or disembowel the elk to bring it down. Then dig in while it’s still moaning and writhing in agony. Those big furry puppies daydream about that when Cindy Crawford, Darryl Hannah, and Kim Bassinger nuzzle with them for the cameras.”
"That’s awful.” Freddie sighed. "And must we really hear all this while...”
"Your cat, too, Freddie.” I snapped. The effects of the wine and whiskey were beginning to manifest. "He knows that his claws...”
"It’s a she, for your information,” he corrected.
"Okay, whatever. I watched her by the bird feeder the other day. She grabbed a squirrel, Freddie. Shoulda seen that! It was...”
"No!” He gasped. "Little Muffin would never—”
The hell she wouldn’t, Fred!” I raved. She knows her claws and fangs weren’t made for that mush you give her in a bowl. She craves fresh blood. She longs to feel her fangs sink into a squirrels throat, to hear the piteous squealing as he scratches and thrashes, to feel the life slowly ooze out of it—then to rip straight into it’s heart and liver, smacking her lips, and licking her bloody chops in delight.... and that’s exactly what she did, Freddie. I saw the whole thing. Geezuz, and I used to hate cats.”
"Humberto!” Shirley glared. "That’s enough! Come, now. Don’t spoil...”
"We’re no different, Freddie. Look in your mouth—never mind! Point is, you have incisors too. And your eyes point forward Freddie, like those of all predators. Behold the hawk or falcon. His eyes point forward, unlike the duck or pigeon, his prey. Their eyes lie on the side of their heads. Behold the wolf and leopard and indeed, Muffin. Forward again. The deer, antelope, and squirrel, also on the side of the head. Hunting’s encoded into your genes Freddie, give in! Hunting made us what we are!”
I emptied my second helping of wine then leaped from my chair towards the bookcase, just as Monica entered.
" OH NO!” She wailed while rolling her eyes ceiling-ward. " Not again, mom! He’s grabbing that STUPID book of his again!”
"Stupid book?” I wheeled around and shook the dog-eared copy of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Hunting. A work of genius!” I yelled. Ortega was the century’s most acute philosopher!”
"Yeah, right,” Monica huffed. "My philosophy professor says he was a reactionary.”
"Figures!" I howled while turning to Shirley. "See? See what we’re paying for?”
"She won a scholarship.” Shirley said in her best Alice Kramden. "Remember?”
"That’s not the point.” Then I turned to my multi-earinged (but mercifully, still untattooed) daughter..."Tell me Monica. What philosophers are they teaching you about up there? Rosie O’Donnell or Courtney Love?”
"Alanis Morissette, actually” she said smugly. We’re discussing her lyrics.”
"Heaven help us!” I shrieked, then opened the book and read: "Man’s being consisted first of being a hunter.” I looked up with a Jack Nicholson-type leer. "Hear that folks. That’s not some editorialist at the NRA or Ducks Unlimited. That’s the man who wrote Revolt of the Masses—I don’t suppose they’ve assigned that for Philosophy class, huh, Monica?”
"No, Da-ad” she said with another eye-roll. "But in English they assigned Maya Angelou’s....”
"Silence! Before I puke! Now back to Ortega: If we imagine our species to have disappeared in the Paleolithic era the word man” would lack meaning. We would have to call him hunter.”
Then I pointed a white-knuckle fist inches from Freddie’s face. "And you.” Then I looked around the room with a lunatic leer, pointing. "And you... and you. You’re all killers! Every time you buy a hamburger you’re paying for the death of an animal, you’re putting a contract, a hit if you will, on a poor stupid cow. YES! It’s called the law of supply and demand—don’t suppose they’re teaching you anything about THAT up in college, huh, Monica?
"No, Da-ad, but we learned about Marx and Bakunin and—”
"Figures!” I snarled. "Anyway folks, I make my own hits, like Mikey Corleone. Remember Michael Corleone, Freddie? Remember when he whacked Sollazo and Police Chief McCluskey in that restaurant, huh? BLAM! I slammed the table with my fist. Right through the neck! "
WHATCHIT, you CLOD!” Shirley screeched. "You’re spilling the—!”
"Ooops!”
"And watch the lamp behind you! And the coffee table! And there goes the red wine all over the Damn RUG!”
"Ooops! Here, I’ll get the towel, nothing to it. Well, same with this deer we’re eating, folks. Poor sucker was enjoying his meal just like McCluskey, contentedly munching away on acorns. He hears my whistle...looks up – BLAM!” I slammed my fist into my palm inches from Freddie’s nose. Right through her white throat patch. Never knew what hit him.”
"Mom, tell Dad to shut up! Please!”
"We’re ALL killers!” I turned back to Freddie. "It’s encoded into your genes Freddie! Be true to your human heritage. Stalk the fields and forests, not public toilets!”
"HUMBERTO!” Shirley yelled as Freddie tried to leap to his feet. STOP IT! You’re...!”
"Yes! Freddie!” I seized him roughly by the shoulders. "I’m going tomorrow. Come with me and prey on deer and ducks, not boy scouts and altar boys!”
"Oh! OH! Shirley!" Freddie shook free and looked towards her for succor, nearing tears. "He’s IMPOSSIBLE!! This man is so MEAN! He’s simply IMPOSSIBLE!”
"More wine!” I snarled while holding out my glass.
Get it yourself!” Monica glowered. "Mom? Don’t! You’re not his slave!”
"You!” I pointed at Monica. You stay outta this, before I backhand ya!”
"Aahh-Ahhh!” Monica went apeshit. "Mom, did you hear that? Heard Dad? Ms. Rabinowitz, my Sociology professor says I can sue you for abuse!”
The HELL with that DINGBAT!” I raved. Probably a DYKE too! Now get me some more WINE!”
"Aaah-Aaah! Dad, you’re such a… a… a… fascist!”
"Oh Monica, hush-up.” Shirley said. "You know he’s never laid a hand on you. He’s just showing off in front of Freddie.” Then she turned to me and yelled: "Humberto! You know Freddie doesn’t do those type of things! You apologize this minute! And after drinking all his wine. Now you apologize! I MEAN it!”
But Freddie had already run home in a teary huff.
Humberto Fontova
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humberto Fontova is the author of Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, described as "absolutely devastating. An enlightening read you'll never forget." By David Limbaugh. "A remarkable book," says Newsmax' Phil Brennan. "An eye-opener. Fontova explodes myth after myth." Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart says, "Humberto Fontova has done a great service to all those who wish to discover the truth about the only totalitarian dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere." David Horowitz says: "Humberto has performed a valuable service to the cause of decency and human freedom. Every American should read this book."
Body parts frequently get chewed off in bar fights.
Sometimes in a Boxing Match.
Sorry bout that, but you set me up.
Monica really gave me the opportunity. ~ ; ^D
**Grin of the Day Award**
After reading this, I think the title should have been "Dinner With a FLAMING HOMO Anti-Hunter from the Gay Bay Area".
Fontova is the best.
In the animal kingdom, grass-eating mammals have smaller brains in proportion to their bodies. Manatees are a shining example. They have huge, thick skulls, but the acutal braincase is about the size of a small orange. No wonder they aren't smart enough to learn to avoid the propellers of noisy boats. Their brains are much smaller than a comparably sized dolphin, another aquatic mammal, who eats ONLY meat. The only exception I can think of in the world of herbivorous mammals is the elephant, which is pretty intelligent, but then again, the elephant is VERY large, hence has a fairly large brain.
But the proportion of brain size with regard to body size in mammals (we're not talking birds or reptiles here) is MUCH larger in carnivores. A horse is smart enough to learn stuff, but look at how BIG he is. A large dog probably has a bigger brain than a horse ten times his size. Cats have especially big brains with regard to their body sizes -- interestingly, although the sabertooth tiger was a LOT bigger in body than a modern cougar, and although he had a big skull, the acutal brain case in that skull allowed for a brain perhaps smaller than that of a modern cougar. In other words, the sabertooths weren't all that bright. Maybe not smart enough to stay away from the tar pits!
I got my buck yesterday morning at 8:35. It stumbled a few yards in a grassy field and keeled over. Two hours later, I had finished field dressing it (about 45 minutes of work) and dragging the 120 pound carcass across a bare, muddy field. I then consumed a 850 calorie lunch, a larger dinner, and was still worn out this morning.
Hunting is a terribly inefficient way to get calories.
I didn't read the whole thing, but I did get a nice big doe last Saturday!
Make sure to put the blood around the roses. It's great for them.
I think they might be on to something here: The vegans I have known have could not hold a thought for more than a second or two. They were airheads.
I know that if a breastfeeding mother follows a vegan diet, it is recommended that she takes fish oil, in order that the baby's brain not be malformed.
Even 45 minutes seems extended for gutting a deer.
I field dressed two deer last Tuesday in 15 - 20 minutes. With an hour one was hanging from my meat rack, the other was stretched out in the back of my truck to cool.
Admittedly, the butchering takes longer, but field dressing is pretty quick.
Can you imagine what it would have been like without a rifle.
Spears, arrows, and group strategy were the weapons. And there was a good chance that you might get injured if the animal wasn't completely dead. If only injured, maybe enough to cause infection and then death.
Not an easy life.
1.Where does milk come from? The Grocery Store.
we get ours out a handy throw away plastic jug now, not at all like those heavy glass bottles we use to get milk in
of course, we don't get all that heavy yellow milk on top that the bottles made, but its still good
;)
Which may explain why vegans are often mentally *off*! But no, really, with regard to how our brains "grew" to their present size, it is known that any mammal fetus requires protein for the development of the brain cells, and ONLY protein. The higher the protein content in a pregnant mammal's diet, the larger the brain of its offspring. Theoretically, when our ancestors "split" from chimps or apes and our diet changed to one of high protein (as in, meat!), pregnant females started "building" fetuses with larger brains.
Today, when you come across the very STUPID vegan woman who insists on keeping to a vegan diet while pregnant, what her body will do is to rob from her nutrients to "build" the baby. Hence pregnant vegan women are debilitated and weak during their pregnancies, and their babies are often underweight.
"Hunting is a terribly inefficient way to get calories."
Look on the bright side. It is a great way to burn them.
Makes sense. Very interesting -- "split from chimps." Didn't realize this.
Also read that our brain size is limited due to the size of the birth canal. And our brains might be much larger if it weren't for the fact that it would kill both mother and child during birth if the child's head were much larger.
Ask any mother -- it is tough enough as it is. :)
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