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Fish Safety

Jesse Walker | 6.6.2003 12:50 PM

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Jay D   23 years ago

    I think it was The Muffin Man. Do you know him?

  2. scott   23 years ago

    Nemo is a cartoon fish with eyebrows...so kids, don't flush your cartoon fish

  3. Shrek   23 years ago

    The Muffin Man?

  4. Croesus   23 years ago

    Oh no, The Mothman is here!!!! He's speaking to me through my vacuum cleaner!!!! 🙂

  5. omnibus bill   23 years ago

    The muffin man.

  6. Plutarck   23 years ago

    Oh, do you know the muffin man,

    The muffin man, the muffin man,

    Oh, do you know the muffin man,

    That lives on Drury Lane?

    Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,

    The muffin man , the muffin man,

    Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,

    That lives on Drury Lane.

    And you know what's really funny? It turns out The Muffin Man was actually a candy man; pretty sick, even for children's rhymes.

  7. Jay D   23 years ago

    What was this blog originally about? Toilets or something?

  8. Jim   23 years ago

    Another childhood myth destroyed! Is there no innocence left in the world? Next someone is going to tell me Lemmings don't really commit mass suicide....

    🙂

  9. bomb bomb   23 years ago

    Lemmings do commit mass suicide. But you have to make them listen to Judas Priest first...

  10. Jay D   23 years ago

    Awww...poor Jim...

    http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm

  11. Jim   23 years ago

    Thanks, Jay D, but that was kind of a backhanded joke aimed at someone who put the same link on another post. Seen it already.

  12. bomb bomb   23 years ago

    dammit, there goes my weekend...

  13. Jay D   23 years ago

    Sorry, Jim...I'm esoterically challenged.

    😀

  14. Sgt. Pepper   23 years ago

    Glad we could be of service. We're here to burst bubbles, deflate fantasies, haul you back down to reality, and remind you that you're big boys and girls now. We're sure you can handle it.

  15. bomb bomb   23 years ago

    I am sure that Jay D can handle it, but I can't. It is just too much for my little lemming hating brain.

  16. Marbles   23 years ago

    Well that was just mean, wasn't it?

    "Kids, there is NO WAY that fish would have lived. It almost certainly would have been ground into tiny bits. And just in case you hope beyond hope it could miraculously survive the grinding up, we use deadly chemicals that would finish the job. So there."

  17. bomb bomb   23 years ago

    Now I'm gonna cry.

  18. Anonymous   23 years ago

    BWHHHMAAAAAAAAA-HNNNNNN-WHHAAAAAAAA!

    (Oh my gosh! Their staring at me!)

  19. Sean   23 years ago

    "Muffin Monster"? Holy crap, who came up with that name?

  20. Lefty   23 years ago

    I was at a corrections industry trade show a few years ago. Muffin Monster makes a grinder that goes in prison plumbing systems. I watched a beer can filled with concrete get chewed into sand. That thing was awesome.

  21. Russ   23 years ago

    Aren't almost all fish flushed down the toilet DEAD anyway? How many kids flush their live fish? Heck, when my goldfish was alive and I didn't want it anymore, I'd let him go in the Calumet River (where it was bound to die in seconds anyway).

  22. Fritz   23 years ago

    As a proud member of team "Muffin Monster" (JWC Environmental), we are just loving all this free publicity! And someone actually saw the machine at a correctional show! Yes, we can grind beer cans filled with anything, 2x4s, you name it. We really felt we had to straighten Disney's distortion of the facts out!

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