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The Curse of Colonel Sanders?
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But I digress. Perhaps you heard that a long-lost statue of our arch-nemesis Colonel Sanders was dredged out of the Dotonbori River in Japan earlier this week, supposedly ending a 24-year curse on the Hanshin Tigers, whose fans tossed the statue in the river in the first place. Can't say I blame them. Well, the folks over at KFC are now offering the statue to the Chicago Cubs as a way to break the team's own "Curse of the Billy Goat," stemming from an incident in 1945 when a fan and his companion goat (yep) were tossed out of Wrigley Field's bleachers because of the goat's unpleasant odor.
Today, PETA wrote to the Cubs recommending that they turn down KFC's offer. If Cubs fans believe that they haven't won a World Series in 60 years because the ghost of one goat has it in for them, think about the consequences of offending the nearly 1 billion chickens who are tortured and killed for KFC every year. Here's my prediction—if the Cubs accept this Colonel Sanders statue, there won't be a World Series game at the friendly confines until KFC's slaughterhouse suppliers stop scalding live chickens to death and the company adopts PETA's recommended animal welfare program.
You heard it here first.
Posted by Dan Shannon
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Maybe its because the Cubs suck.
Posted by: Pepsi One is Fun | March 13, 2009 01:21 PM
Hanshin Tigers Now the Colonel is in police custody and is expected to remain there until it is decided whether or not to put him in the stadium as a mascot for the Hanshin Tigers team.
Posted by: Ed | March 13, 2009 03:44 PM
i am from colombia, I saw the the Chinese fur trade video and was very disgusting, I am completely shocked, the animals man that doing that are unconscious and don't know how can be so bad to doing that. I think that those people should not live cause just know destroy, destroy what the nature has done.
Posted by: javier | March 14, 2009 06:25 PM
Voodoo workings aren't hexes, they're called "tricks" or "fixins". A "hex" is indo-european folk charming. :)
In any case, cool story.
Posted by: David | March 15, 2009 10:52 AM