Photo source: Knuttz.net
But it's a good thing to be reminded that I've got to have a healthy respect for those fangs. If someone were to set up a cage match between me and a baboon (I'm not sure why I'd sign up for that), the baboon would emerge the victor (assuming the baboon even saw my pasty self as a threat worthy of attacking in the first place).
I'll continue to mock baboons, but only with a CRT monitor, Cat-5 cabling, several servers, and temporal displacement between me and them.
By the gods! It looks like Jim Carrey!
ReplyDeleteGina Bouza was a female Italian wrestler in the 1940s or 1950s (sorry, can't remember exactly). She was quite formidable, and when she beat down all her human opponents after a few years, her manager started putting her in the ring with animals. He paired her with a baboon, and the baboon killed her literally within seconds of being tossed into the ring.
ReplyDeleteOh wow... being killed by a baboon would suck enough in the wild. Being killed by a baboon because your manager talked you into fighting it...well, words fail me.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it was a shock. The baboon snapped her neck.
ReplyDeleteWow, Yvonne. I had no idea that a human had actually tried to wrestle a baboon. That brilliant trainer killed his golden goose.
ReplyDeleteI would never, ever consider mocking a baboon without at least Cat-5e cables, perhaps even Cat-6!
ReplyDeleteCat-5 really doesn't provide adequate protection. Studies prove it!
mf, I'm not that up on my network hardware. I'll take your word for it.
ReplyDeleteYvonne - everything you said just confirms my beliefs about the formidable nature of the 'boons, and the inevitable stupidity of people.
ReplyDeleteThere is a picture of Gina Bouza on the wall of the bar of Buca di Beppi at Rush and Grand in Chicago. The narrative with it tells the story of the baboon.
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