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Noacat
Age. 49
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. YAHTZEE!!
Location Wyoming, MI
School. Grand Valley State Univ
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The Man-eating Lions of Tsavo and Other Children's Tales
Wednesday. 9.19.07 8:52 pm
So, I was watching an interesting show on the History Channel called Man-eaters about the man-eating Lions of Tsavo in 1898 and the more recent man-eater in Tanzania in 2002 (I'm not sure if the date is exact, I came in the middle of the program).

It was damn interesting. I mean, how could it NOT be??? It's a show about man-eating lions, for fuck's sake!

This got me thinking about looking it up on the wiki, which I did.

MANEATERS OF TSAVO! GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!

This, of course, leads me to the Field Museum's website. So, I start looking around. OOH! Interesting facts! OH! Pictures of the lions! And then I reminisce, because I've been to the Museum and I've seen the lions myself.

They're really not THAT big, though I suppose size is relative -- plus I think any animal would be huge when they're sneaking into your tent to KILL you.

Just for shits and giggles, I hit the merchandise link.

SELL ME SOMETHING!

Yeah, they have the typical stuffs -- books about the lions. Patterson's account of killing the lions. A bookmark. A pen.

LIONS OF TSAVO KIDS TRAVEL BUDDY??? WTF??!


No, seriously. What the fuck? Dude, how 'bout they have a Lions of Tsavo action playset while their at it? You could have a Lt. Col. Patterson figurine with shooting platform and an Indian train worker set, complete with workers, who'd have detachable limbs so that your Tsavo Lions figurines could disembowel them. WHEE!

Wow, some people will do anything to sell a plushie.

Actually, it IS kind of cute.



**Note: This was originally posted at my livejournal account. But I love you all so much, I've posted it here as well.

[EDIT] Side note. I am an IDIOT! I was looking at my "Pimp My Ride Post" and I accidentally recommended myself by incautiously hitting the buttons like a clumsy, random oaf. I looked for a way to remove it, but there isn't. I'm really not that self-centered a tool -- I'm just a regular tool, who apparently can't grasp the concept of buttons and when to hit them and when NOT to.

*head-desk*
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