sphinxwithoutasecret
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There was this brilliant guy who for whatever reason was a manager at Borders who had the idea for a reality TV show in which all of the guys that wrote garbage right-wing adventure fiction (think Clive Cussler) had to live their books and be filmed doing it.

The Most Dangerous Game—The Funniest Comedy In Years!

Parasites aside, people think the most dangerous beasts in Africa are lions or crocodiles or what have you - but of what we think of as “safari creatures” (aka African charismatic megafauna) hippos are the biggest assholes in the bush. They’re ill-tempered as hell and they weigh 3,000 lbs and they run a lot faster

I can only give a complex answer. The species, as a whole, is doing fine and there are probably millions of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) in North America. But the populations in Montana are termed “of concern” and under research because if/when a colony gets hit with a disease (e.g. plague) they

There isn’t a song about Christmas Mosquitos because I can only rhyme mosquito with libido, cheeto, dorito, burrito... thats about it.

i would pay money to see donald trump get gored by a live boar (his undomesticated porcine cousin) on live television.

Hippos killing things is still cuter

I have no problem with shoot and eat, but killing things just for fun is not cool. That’s specifically what this guy’s response was, not that it served a purpose. I was just fun.

Okay, but what kind of loser travels from New York City to the prairies to shoot rats or mice and thinks of it as a fun vacation? There is no angle to this that doesn’t make it clear that Junior is a pathetic idiot.

Only if we can have DJT jrs head mounted on a wall. There’s a trophy!

no one ever made a nickel from mosquito merchandise

Mosquitoes don’t kill anyone. Plasmodium falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale, P. vivax and P. knowlesi kill more people than hippos.

Yeah sure the mozzies carry those, but say what you like about the hippo - at least it does its own dirty work!

“Anyone here knowledgeable about the topic could tell me if there is another remedy if prairie dog culling isn’t an option?”

I think there is room for both mammalian and insect mass murderers. But I do think the hippos would make better tv.

I’ve seen sources that will argue either way. Besides, no one ever made a nickel from mosquito merchandise and there is no Christmas song about mosquitoes. So work with me on the Hippo character.

I hate to tell you this, but mosquitos kill a lot more Africans than hippos.

With all the rich trophy shooters out there, you’d need a few seasons!

More people in Africa are killed by hippos than any other animal, so plop their sorry asses in the middle of a herd, and make it during the mating season, so the violence and the sex factors get amped up. Hippos (at least the plush versions) are cute as hell and there is a great Christmas song about Hippos. This has