On Mar 16, 12:24=A0am, Taylor <tayl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bob Barker Bursts an Elephant-Filled Bubble
> Posted Mar 15th 2008 5:34PM by TMZ Staff
>
> http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2008/03/0314_bob_elep...
>
> Pet reproduction isn't the only thing Bob Barker wants put a stop to!
>
> The ex-"Price is Right" host wrote a letter to the Discovery Science
> Center in Santa Ana, CA -- opposing an educational stunt in which an
> Asian elephant would be enclosed inside a soapy bubble. Yes, an Asian
> elephant enclosed inside a soapy bubble.
>
> Barker criticized the zany stunt for its lack of educational merit,
> saying, "Such a stunt does not instill respect for these very special
> and endangered animals ... it sends the message that elephants are
> mere objects of entertainment."
>
> Bob has a point -- but who wouldn't want to see an elephant enclosed
> inside a soapy bubble?
The idea of protecting an elephant from a concept like "object of
entertainment" that the elephant itself does not understand seems like
kind of a waste of sympathy. Besides, nobody is hurting it, although I
do want to see the bubble ring they're going to use to pull off this
rather dumb stunt.
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