Thursday, July 19, 2007

Well, Good

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."

UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer denies rumours that British forces had sowed panic in Basra, Iraq, by unleashing ferocious honey badgers (pictured). The badgers, slightly larger and scarier than the British woodland version, are in fact indigenous to the Middle East.

Slightly scary badgers?

5 comments:

Karen Murphy said...

On, Wisconsin!

Cornelia Read said...

I think that in this instance the word "honey" could possibly be termed a "euphemism."

Daisy Bateman said...

As in "honey wagon"?

Anonymous said...

The UK spokesman added, "We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"

Daisy Bateman said...

How did I not think of that?