Vultures So the current ritual at the Beat here is...well...it's not so much a ritual as it is the norm. Law & Order is on for like, three or four hours on Monday. Excessive? Surely you jest. Anyway, so this one case went down like this: Some dude steals some AIDS infected monkeys from an experiment lab. The monkeys get inoculated by this potential vaccine and then get infected with AIDS. Some die, some live. During the burglary one gets loose and bites one of the lab dudes. He dies. So the case turns into this big animal rights issue. The defense lawyer tries to convince the people that a monkey is entitled to the same rights as a human. And mind you! 150 years ago, African Americans weren't considered human beings before the law, so we must continue this progress of spreading around rights (uh...so Afro Americans are like...monkeys?) At any rate, the defense fails and the guy goes down for Man 2.

Okay. Cool. I love animals. I even dabbled in vegetarianism. Not at home of course (mmm, pot roast). But according to Silliman, even vegetables feel some semblance of pain. So we've got to either A. concede to causing pain to others to keep ourselves alive or B. only eat things that have died from natural causes (as in, "be a vulture," as he put it).

Cool words: (Be sure to check out the beatblog for the list of desciptives about the Beat.)

Skigility= skills + agility
Scrumdiddlyumptious = adj. meaning tasty or n. meaning one's nether regions
Trogdor!!! The Burninator
Pukesgiving = I haven't experienced this thankfully. Probably because I'm not vegan.
Boner = Middle English for "compassionate."
Horrorclaus = Santa after being burned by a giant egg monster.
El Soccerclaus = Santa after the elves graft soccer ball material in place of his previously charred skin.

Aqua Teen in T minus 69 minutes

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