Oddly Enough Blog
News, but not the serious kind
Happy Father’s Day to dads everywhere!
Email 
Print
Welcome back to a regular feature we like to call, “What Year is this Again?” in in which we offer up news items which cause us to question whether we may have gone back in time.
Here, in a photo I had figured for about 400 BC but which turns out to have been taken just four days ago, this guy is holding his FIVE-MONTH-OLD SON over a crocodile.
Uh-huh, he really is.
I don’t want to spoil any surprises, but the dude is probably a shoo-in for this year’s “Michael Jackson Memorial What were you Thinking, Dad?” award from this blog.
Meanwhile, the caption tells us the man is seeking “blessings” for the baby.
You know, one blessing might be not to have a father who holds him over big-ass reptiles. I’m just saying…
Impress your proctologist. Join the Oddly Enough blog network
Follow this blog on Twitter at rbasler
A Sheedi devotee seeks blessings for his five-month-old son while holding him over a crocodile during the crocodile festival at the Manghopir shrine in Karachi, Pakistan, June 13, 2010. REUTERS/Athar Hussain
Singer Michael Jackson holds a child out of a window as he looks at fans after arriving at a Berlin hotel, in a 2002 file photo. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz/Files
Comments RSSPost Your Comment
-
Author Profile
-
Sum Dum Guy’s dinner turned out spendidly. The Szechuan turned out a little hot, but we like it that way. Hmmm. Felix! Oscar! Want to try some Chinese?
3 days to go, wooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! !!!
Off to the farm and then the Lake today. The Lads are excited to be packing for a trip to the Hinterlands. For the record, they are wonderful dogs. I gave them ice cream last night, and back, tummy, and ear scratches this morning. In return, they keep giving me a ball.
Yes Unca, I prefer things to go boom over things to go crunch.
I do like the things to go boom. But not as much as I like the “schkiff schkiff schkiff” of sharpening knives…
CrowGirl, Jeez Louise, um, so to speak….
Knives are good. Nice and quiet.
You’re not going to deny that’s a nice noise ?
I believe a quote from “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” said it best…
“Guns for show, knives for a pro!”
Aside from my M134 BB gun and Uncas Mr. Shooty of course.
A sharp knife is a wonderful thing, you get far worse injuries from cutting yourself with blunt ones. Trust me on this, I’ve done the research.
Ifly – to quote a former para friend “The scythe; too bulky for covert killing”.
Does cutting yourself deep with kitchen knives count here?
Yep Shra, join the club. I have marginally more burns than cuts, but cheffing for the win on the injury front…
If someone is coming at you with a scythe I am sure being covert is not really on the agenda. And if that person is wearing a black cloak and has bony finges yer screwed either way.
I am gonna but a comment here just so it has one more than David “Even he couldn’t make soccer popular in the U.S.” Beckham.
So um…yeah… I have too much time on my hands right now.
It wasn’t Unca, Spin. C’est moi. And I am not giving you David Beck”Canadian”ham until I get another VS blog!
So let’s just call it a tie them shall we? Until the next VS blog comes about then Beck”Glazed”ham can battle it out with the VS models.
How’s aboot that eh?