Mark Steyn: 'I'll have the rhino,' I said

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 08/31/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Pinging the Steyn list.

[dighton]

... our old friend George Monbiot ...

[RobFromGa]

I've always been partial to 'Spotted Owl' myself, but it tastes a bit like chicken if you overcook it. Never had panda, sounds yummy...

[Pokey78]

Monbiot's columns are some of the most bizarre I've ever read.

[johniegrad]

Now that's funny!!

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Dog Gone]

Oh, man, this Steyn at his satirical comedy best. Bravo.

[johniegrad]

Now that's barfalicious!!

[Notforprophet]

I bow to you, Pokey78. Steyn at his merciless best.

The canned laughter - an authentic recording of happy Ethiopian peasants clutching their bellies and corpsing - filled the room.

I'm a bastard, but LOL.

And then I saw her. She was wearing a low-cut dress and had the most fabulous pair of melons. "Holy cow!" I said...

And wholly chao

Notforprophet

[Gritty]

BTTT

[dennisw]

thanks!!!!!!

[dighton]

Monbiot is the dictionary illustration for smug.

[Billthedrill]

BTT. I hate it when I spray the monitor like that.

[dread78645]

lightly poached panda with a goldenseal salad and two green-cheeked parrot's eggs over easy.

When do we eat ? bump.

[Mike Darancette]

"In southern Ethiopia, for example," wrote George, "the poorest half of the poorest nation on earth, the streets and fields crackle with laughter. In homes constructed from packing cases and palm leaves, people engage more freely, smile more often, express more affection than we do..

Said not unlike the apologists for Slavery and their tales of "Happy Darkies, sitting outside their slave cabins on a warm Summer night strumming banjos and singing Gospel Hymns in anticipation of another day of bracing stoop labor".

There is nothing noble about hunger or hopelessness.

[Remole]

Rivals Evelyn Waugh for sheer wickedly humorous.

[aculeus]

Thanks!

[another cricket]

There is nothing noble about hunger or hopelessness.

Sure there is! As long as you are sitting in your air-conditioned home, with a refrigerator full of food and your biggest problem is whether you should rent a video or go to the movies.

If however you are a parent in Ethiopia and living in a packing crate, with eight mouths to feed and only enough food for five and you have to decide who eats and tomorrow you are going to have to turn your two oldest children out because they are twelve and thirteen now and it is time they learned to fend for themselves.... Then it sucks.

a.cricket

[Savage Beast]

It's hard to know which characterises "Liberalism" better:

"Poverty is happiness"

or

"Arbeit Macht Frei"

The former is more Orwellian; the latter more Hitlerian; and both so characteristic of the Left.