Stingrays are like Hitler

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Cliff May of The Corner:

[M]ost Americans probably are not in imminent danger of death by stingray. But I do wonder if Irwin, having taken risks so oftten in the past, having cheated death on so many occasions, may not have gradually become over-confident in the face of danger.
Nations, as much as individuals are susceptible to such thinking. Kissinger said - I wish I could find the exact quote - that past victories can lead to defeat because those past victories can appear to have been inevitable.
I worry that because Americans proved equal to the task of defeating the Axis is the 1940s, and because the Communists lost the Cold War, too many of us have come to think we will of course defeat the Militant Islamists or the Islamo-Fascists or Radical Jihadis or whatever term you prefer. But the outcome of those other pastwars was not inevitable. Nor is the outcome of this one. Every stingray is a very real and present danger.

Hunter translates:

I'm pretty sure the stingrays are supposed to be Muslims, but they're also like Hitler and the Soviet Union. Or maybe they are mostly Hitlers, but Islamic versions of Hitler. And they're also communists, of course, because stingrays do not believe in individual ownership of the sea's resources. [...]

Makes sense when you think about it. Look at the mustache on this one.

Comments

[Madison Guy]

And, according to the NYT, praying mantises are like holy terrors.

Personally, I'm not too worried about my head being bitten off by a predatory female, but maybe the New York Times editors were more deeply traumatized by their encounter with Judith Miller than we realized. Hyper-castrating female insects: New York Times, what's your problem? You're creeping me out. Why?

[aeroman]

It was Irwin's policy of wildlife appeasement that did him in. He should have given them two options: disarmament or death. In other words, your claws or your corpse!

[j swift]

Yeah aeroman you are right you know. He would stand up to those wild animals, cautiously circle around them, study them, explain them to anyone who would listen, even harass them a little but not to hurt them. He tried to understand the enemy, tried to educate others so that they could protect themselves without having to commit some version of -cide. Pffffft, fucking hippie, what the hell did he know.

[John Lucid]

White people are majestic blue whales, being hunted to extinction by all the minorities in the world/sea. Muslim/sting rays are also Japanese/Norwegian whalers, and baby harp seals are all the aborted white human/blue whale fetuses. Eels are like North Koreans, because they use electricity to stun and kill their prey and protect themselves from attackers, much like North Koreans use electricity to light their homes and factories. The French are like barnacles, clinging to America's hull and watching Jerry Lewis films non-stop. Jews are like Portuguese man o' wars, while the Portuguese are like Alaskan king crabs: the Islamo-fascists of northern Pacific tide pools. The Irish are like rock lobsters.....

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

Now I get it:

Alaskan king crabs are the Nazis for invading Norway; and according to real-life Canadian biologists the real-life Norwegians are like the Sudanese who failed to kick Al Qaeda out of their country which means the Alaskan king crabs are also like Al Qaeda, who are today's Nazis.

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

And if the Canadians are saying that the Norwegians are the Sudanese then the Canadians are really the Americans which means that we're never going to win the war on king crabs, but the Canadians will probably strike at the sturgeon allegedly to preemptively control the crab, but really to get ahold of all that delicious black caviar, which is crude oil.

[Dan]

Since stingrays are undeniably a threat, it's obvious we must attack Iran and Syria, and quickly, before Hitler has a chance to put jellyfish in the hands of terrorists.

[John Lucid]

Now you get it, Lindsay. Hey, how did you find out all this? Oh, that's right; you're a Jew, which means you read all about in your secret Protocols of the Man 'O War Elders of Portugal. Confound you! You Jew/bluebottles (Jewbottles?) are always one step ahead of us.

[ballgame]

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Wait a minute … "Stingrays Are Like Hitler" … wasn't that Siouxie and the Banshies?

[janet]

It all gives a new dimension to
this.

[mudkitty]

Have you no shame...people, have you know shame. Stingrays don't have armies marching across Europe, bombing London...

[mudkitty]

Here's the real deal, and I'll sell it to ya real cheap...the Stingray is a Bush opporative, and this whole tragedy is meant to distract from the Bush Agenda.

[1984 Was Not a Shopping List]

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Wait a minute … "Stingrays Are Like Hitler" … wasn't that Siouxie and the Banshies?

Mel Brooks, I think.

[1984 Was Not a Shopping List]

Oops, meant to add itals:

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Wait a minute … "Stingrays Are Like Hitler" … wasn't that Siouxie and the Banshies?

Mel Brooks, I think.

[KH]

I've heard this same line, minus the giant fish, 3 times in the last week (or so), once from Chas Krauthammer, I don't remember whho the other people were. Prizes await the 1st person to find all the places it's been said.

[Craig Shergold]

The Russkies beat the Germans, we helped.