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April 23, 2004
cow fisting on campus and drag kings
Tomorrow is Maryland Day (pronounced 'murr-lun-day' on campus, and it appears that it's going to be like a big carnival. It's an open house where we expect to draw 60,000 visitors. Today large noise making machines are doing their secondary tasks of grass mowing and sidewalk edging all over campus. I'll be there to showcase our temporary museum exhibits of old student / faculty engineering projects, such as an old human-powered submarine and a solar car. I am told you should not miss the cow fisting demonstration. Tard tells me he's gonna bring some of his schoolchillun's to come tour our museum (not the cow fisting) some time next week, which will be fun. Who knew the former park ranger would be giving engineering museum tours?
Hip tips for the weekend: The Great Big International Drag King Show. DC doesn't have much in terms of anything underground, artsy or unusual, but we do have the biggest drag king show in the world. The show (NOT a competition, mind you) piggybacks on the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition National Conference on Gender April 30 through May 2nd. And of course, the hippest, largest and must muscular set of big hips can be seen down at Gravelly Point this Sunday at Noon, when the Washington Renegades Gay/Bi/Tranny/M/T/Z/Q/M/D and Straight Rugby Team takes on the Washington Poltroons old boys. I might be playing a half or something, I don't know right now. Anyway, it's a real purdy field to play and watch rugby at though, along the banks of the Potomac River. It is screaming for a six-pack and a lawnchair. The game is continually interrupted by flights taking off from Ronald Reagan (whutevah) National Airport, I must add.
Friday Fun Page Activity of the Day: find the Action Jimbo in this photo.
Posted by jimbo at April 23, 2004 10:22 AM
Comments
We had a fistulated cow at UC Davis but they stopped putting on display when all the protesters convinced the administration it was wrong to exploit the poor cow like that. I went to go see it, the last year they showed it, but I did not stick my hand in it, eww gross.
Posted by: Scott at April 23, 2004 11:15 AM
I'll have to agree with the protesters. We know the science, and the rest is pure sideshow for 'eew' value.
Posted by: jimbo at April 23, 2004 11:51 AM
Awwww ... the Action Jimbo is so cute, and he even looks like you!
Posted by: rob at April 23, 2004 6:58 PM
funny - all the "Drag Kings" still look like chicks to me...
Posted by: Andy at April 24, 2004 8:51 PM
My father used to artifically inseminate our cows- which involved gloving one's hand and thrusting it into the cow's behind to trace the fallopian tubes. Yuck.
Posted by: homer at April 25, 2004 7:34 PM
So where can we pick up our very own Action Jimbo figure?
Posted by: mark at April 26, 2004 12:52 PM