The Aardvark’s Tongue

This weekend marked the third annual Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Hunt - American sport at it’s finest. Sure there were the usual small minded people that would like to stop the event, but for the most part the event went off without a hitch with the boat Waterbury hauling in a 399 pound Thresher-Shark.

In a report over at Boston Herald.com, Gregory B. Skomal, senior marine fisheries biologist with the state of Massachusetts shark research program said the annual hunt is one way the federal and state divisions of fisheries and wildlife keep tabs on the overall well-being of the shark population. That’s the kind of conservation thinking we like. Why theorize about animal populations when you can just cull a few and be darn sure of their numbers.

Speaking of sharks, be sure to sign up for the newsletter so that you can receive this week’s installment - The Great-White-Shark-Jaw Polar-Bear-Trap with Baby-Harbor-Seal Bait.

As we were flipping through Sun-Dried Aardvark-Tongue Swizzle-Sticks today looking for our next newsletter installment we noticed that over at The Art of Manliness they are serving up an excellent guide to snakes. Part 1: Know thine enemy. Now anybody who reads the Aardvark’s Tongue or subscribes to the newsletter knows that we are mighty respectful of our natural environment and that we enjoy everything manly - but that we prefer our animals converted to more suitable domestic uses. Snakewise we are mighty fond of this week’s free book excerpt torn straight from page 9: The Cobra-Head Beer-Bottle Opener.

It’s summer - time to heat things up.

Hopefully as you have been poking around the blog you have come across our Stranger than Aardvark Fiction category entries. We thought we were strange ones as we were dreaming up imaginary items and putting the book together (I mean a Shellacked Llama Bladder-Spittoon - get serious). But sadly no. As it turns out there are individuals who are creating actual items that exceed even our bad taste (interested in a Deer-Rectum Door-Ringer?

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