A giant red stag, thought to have been the biggest wild land animal in the UK, has been shot dead.It has always surprised me that nobody has bothered to shoot Mount Everest.
The creature, named the Exmoor Emperor, weighed more than 135kg (300lb) and stood nearly 2.75m (9ft) tall. It was killed in the middle of the annual rut.
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The Exmoor Emperor was given its name by photographer Richard Austin, who said he was not surprised at the shooting.
He said: "With a set of antlers that this deer had, it was going to kill him in the end.
"Growing that big and that huge and that magnificent, he was a definite target."
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Don't give the American Taliban ideas.
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"Growing that big and that huge and that magnificent, he was a definite target."
Perhaps it is time I trimmed my beard. And started wearing pants.
I don't want to know about the antlers.
Incidentally that deer was probably going to die soon anyways. The only folks with BMI's under 18 are sufferers of eating disorders and hardcore drug abusers.
Where can I purchase one of these eating disorders?
With a set of antlers that this deer had
We true sportsmen who have mastered the language of venery know to use the term "Attires". The term 'antler' is of course specific to the lowest branch or tine, closest to the eye (as the etymology "antoillier <- ante ocularis" would suggest). Then you have the bezantler, then the tres-tine or royal, then the surroyals.
I remember all this from a proper education, and not from reading T. H. White or anything.
Did you know that when the attires are mounted on the wall still attached to a plaque of the skull, they are properly called a 'massacre'? I did not know that.
If Everest could be mounted in some hick's rec room, it would've been long ago.
Enough of this should give anyone an eating disorder.
Have a care, ckc (not kc). You do not want to repeat the mistake of Sir Pellinore, who said "quarry" when he should have said "pluck", earning himself a spanking with the flat of the sword.
Everest is shot yearly by mountain climbers. What are you talking about? The only real difference is that sometimes it shoots back.
There is a very bad joke to be made here about an incident last week in NZ when a woman in a camping site was shot by a nighttime hunter as she brushed her teeth.
I would not make that joke and resent the implication that I might do so, Sir.
"Nighttime" hunting? No wonder the hobbits are leaving.
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