ink's stories

Thu 4 Nov 2004 - 23:02

Concerned over those damnable atheist kitties:

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.

My buddy Puck notes that it wasn't even a Roman zoo. MSNBC has the full story, including photo.

Sun 10 Oct 2004 - 12:02

As children, most of us were taught that we should never handle baby birds. The mother would detect human scent on the nestling and abandon or kill the clutch.

Not true! In fact, most birds can't even smell a human, and there are times when handling a nestling is absolutely the right thing to do.

Snopes has the lowdown.

Sat 18 Sep 2004 - 21:06

It sounds like a rude film of the type that made Betamax popular, doesn't it? Actually, this is Flahrah, so you get a story about cats.

Inmates in Indiana prisons have started adopting felines who have wandered into the prison yard. There has been some speculation about how the cats have gotten into the jails, but so far the prison officials are permitting about 29 inmates to keep cats. Reportedly, it calms in the inmates. Another news site reported some skirmishes over the felines, but it sounds like so far they're doing more harm than good.

Wed 18 Aug 2004 - 15:27

A bear raided a campsite cooler and drank 36 cans of Rainier beer, puncturing each with a claw and guzzling the contents before passing out drunk.

He tried one can of Busch and that was more than enough.

The bear was chased off the grounds, but returned for more beer the following day. He had to be baited with a trap containing the usual sweets and... two more cans of beer.

Sun 21 Jul 2002 - 07:01

Okay, it's early for it, but Kay Shapero posted to alt.fan.furry:

Yep, it's official - Leslie Fish has signed on as ConFurence 2003 Filk GOH.

Long famed for her bardic prowess (if you have't heard her yet, you owe it to yourself to do so), Leslie is also the only person I know who's gone beyond writing about animal Uplifts to actually doing it... Yeppers, since starting it as a college project way back when, Leslie has been breeding a line of Aisian shorthairs for sturdiness and intelligence.. and lately she's added a polydactil strain. That's right, intelligent cats with thumbs...

Fri 28 Jun 2002 - 11:16

As many of you know, FluffMUCK is going away soon.

Zorin's life has become too busy to run the MUCK as well as he'd like, and so rather than letting it falter, he's closing the doors.

What you may not know is that the MUCK is going out with a bang this Sunday night!

Wed 26 Jun 2002 - 11:04

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- Residents in a Marion County, Fla., neighborhood said an aggressive pack of wild boars is terrorizing their neighborhood, according to Local 6 News.

"I saw a pig looking in the window," resident Edwin Aundrea said. "It spotted me when I tried to chase him away and it chased me in the house."

But it gets worse!

Mon 10 Jun 2002 - 18:19

Flayrah has been syndicated!

Well, kind of. If you're on Sociopolitical Ramifications MUCK or Here Lie Monsters MUCK, you'll find a dot-net channel dedicated to furry news updates.

(Read the rest of this article for more details...)

Thu 23 May 2002 - 12:07

I dare you to tell me that you're not looking forward to this little PS2 gem from SuckerPunch.