Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks")
In light of our recent disclosure of the mule menace of terror, this picture is meant to show that there are good-American mules who are happy and well-adjusted.
For all of those muleophobes, I hope that this picture will dispel any prejudices against our mule friends. Most mules reject violence as a means of social change and remains some of the hardest working members of our society.
Thanks to Mespo, it is now possible to double your mule pleasure.
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Ahhhh . . . balance.
Yeah there is rampant prejudice against burros and mules–people say the animals are surly, but those people are the ones that are surly.
That mule is just the sweetest!
Turley, will you please learn–that is NOT a mule, THAT is a DONKEY!
I don’t see a happy mule. I see rampant anthropomorphism. I wouldn’t turn my back on that one. By the way I’ve heard that if a person dies alone with their mule the mule will eat you. I’m just saying….beware and they’re not kosher to boot.
JT:
I’ll see your happy donkey and raise you two.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/44565259_76c4a0967f_m.jpg
Alas, Betsy (from Pike & Sweet?) is correct.
Professor Turley *assumed* that his submission was a mule’s mug shot while, in fact, it strongly ‘appears’ to be an *ass* shot, aka a donkey, or burro. However, young mules sometimes resemble donkeys, but observing the equines’ body confirmation, the characteristic Nubian Ass gray color, the dorsal stripe, and the apparent pre-withers shoulder stripe, I would say that it is not a yearling mule resembling a donkey but that it is in fact the photographic likeness of a donkey.
Now, if you prefer to submit substantive evidence in the form of a certified karyotype showing 62 chromosomes (donkey) v. 63 chromosomes* (mule) then I will concur and admit that my eyes have deceived me after many years of packing and riding both mules and donkeys. (*disregarding rare genetic *mosaics* of 63 & 64 chromosomes).
Although I am an older man and more subject to error from over stimulated/dispensed brain cells, I will not concur that the mug shot is that of a mule—happy or otherwise—without the karyotypic evidence and until…well,
“cum mula peperit”
Mike Spindell,
Before you take Professor Turley’s advice to view the “double mules” and become one with them, please read the evidence I submitted. “See the Mule, Mike, be the Mule” might end up as See the Ass, Mike, be the Ass” which has a whole altogether different connotation.
Sorry ‘fessor, I just could not resist the overwhelming temptation…
And Mike, we know of your unstubborn character & intelligence…
Wha……?
Mike S.
I meant to post my last post above on the Yo Quiero (Chihuahua) thread instead of here.
lol – It’s still sound advice, FFLEO.
For a verified account of a mule foaling, read the following article. This rare event is quite fascinating and from my readings, this is only the 3rd scientifically verified account of this genetic improbability.
denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6464853
That article is were I got the “cum mula peperit”
Now here is one happy/smiling “equine” (Your choice, Mule or Donkey?)
http://flickr.com/photos/jefsnell/2986985161/sizes/o/
My guess, it’s a Democat.
Ha! and that must be a scared-white Republican sadly lurking behind..
The single supposedly mule looks suspiciously like a burrow, although it could be the lighting.
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Nawaranegm:
How would the destruction of Israel make this a better world?
How about a petition for the destruction of Saudi Arabia or maybe Syria or Iran or Red China or Zimbabwe or Cuba or Venezuela. I could sign on to that petition. But Israel, no, probably better to keep them intact as a state.
Off Topic
A friend introduced me to a band today. Flobots. They are a hip-hop group (yes, I do know the difference between rap and hip-hop) out of Denver, but I thought you all might appreciate the lyrics to their song, “Rise”. Enjoy!
_____
So much pain we
Don’t know how to be but angry
Feel infected like we’ve got gangrene
Please don’t let anybody try to change me
Me
Just me
In the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces
Some laugh some salivate
Whats in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases
It’s not equal
It’s not fair
Were different people
But were not scared
We ain’t never scared
To pave a new path
Make a new street
Build a new bridge
Say can you see by the dawns early light
Free slaves running
Songs words weren’t right
Now a new days coming
The few stay stunning while the many are handsome
Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom
The base drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons
And
Rise together we
Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream universities
Or you and i verse the tees
React automatic and we burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency amber to red like the turning leaves
Oh please let the hurting cease
Don’t let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that were marked for us
The answers obvious
We switch the consonants
Change the sword to words and lift continents
If you believe in redemption
I’m calling to you from another dimension
Enough with the mules and goats.
Where are the happy frogs?
Ok Bob you asked for it:
http://k53.pbase.com/o6/41/728941/1/74197230.P79QGX4Z.happyfrog.jpg
And just one more from my all time favorite cartoon, “One Froggy Evening”:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/wb/frog2.gif
“Where are the happy frogs?”
They can be found regaling here just for you Bob, Esq. enjoy!
Bob, Esq.
Are you old enough to remember the 1950s Buster Brown Show with Froggy the Grimlin? I used to watch it every Saturday on the first TV by parents bought in the early 50s (snowy reception with tin foil wrapped around the rabbit ears antennae and a black and white screen)
“Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!”
“Hiya kids, hiya hiya.”
The smilin’ li’l rascal Froggie @
http://www.froggythegremlin.com/
Everyone I know who has met a number of mules speak very highly of them. Muleskinners, I haven’t heard so much about one way or another.
Mespo,
Cute pic; daughter or niece?
Former Federal LEO,
Thanks for the link; my folks are going to freak when I show them seeing I’ve never had a picture to link to their saying “Hiya kids, hiya hiya” ever since I confessed my loyalty to the order of frogs.
CCD,
Impressive, most impressive. But you don’t know the power of the NYCPLR. And I have no idea how you put together the frog/Aquarius montage so quickly, but as soon as I can convert portions of dvd I made into a few .avi files… to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, we’ll “get down to brass tacks and find out just how much for that ape.”
SIYOM,
Bob
FFLEO:
that one tune sounded like Dixie, is this a backdoor into southern orthadoxy?
Bron
I am not sure of the tune you are describing but I can tell you that had I had lived during the Civil War Era, I would have been a dyed-in-the-wool Rebel. Not because of slavery, but because of the States Rights issue. My all-time favorite music comes from that era; both from the Confederacy and the Union.
Kingdom Coming (The Year of Jubilo)
Vacant Chair
The Battle Cry of Freedom
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Marching Through Georgia
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Dixie
I’m a Good Ol’ Rebel
All of the Fife and Drum Music; Drums of War; Quick Steps, Marches
Southern Soldier Boy
Lorena, (one of the finest)
Somebody’s Darlin’
Yellow Rose of Texas