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Norfolk lost another zoo animal this past week when a white rhino drowned in its moat. I cleaned up a week's worth of southside papers at work yesterday, and learned what happened -- the rhino was chasing around with a zebra and fell in. Apparently, they engaged in horseplay from time to time in the enclosure they shared. Witnesses say the zebra was chasing and nipping at the rhino when it ran into the moat.

Dang. It was the zebra. No doubt a funny remark is called for, but I seem to have no motivation. The zebra.
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*now* how much would you pay?

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VIZ number 139 came a day or so ago. I started reading with issue 38. It's been a while (they used to do fewer issues a year, too).

Anyway, the inside front cover has an ad(vert) for volumes 5-6 of the Tom & Jerry Collector's Edition. 57 animated classics! How classic are they? Just read this blurb: "This third HMV exclusive double pack concludes the series of vintage Tom & Jerry cartoons newly available on DVD in 2004." Concludes? Ah. The bottom-of-the-barrel years. Though I must note that one Deitch T&J and one Jones T&J made it onto my list of 50 favorite cartoons. Anyway, it goes on: "Drawing from the work of such celebrated animators as Fred Quimby, Gene Deitch, Chuck Jones and Hanna Barbera." Sentence fragment in original.

Impressive, yes? Who knew that Fred Quimby was an animator? I mean, I have seen his signature on the syndicated Tom & Jerry cartoon strip, but who knew the man could animate as well? A triple threat! Cartoonist, animator, and pointy-haired producer. And of course, in addition to the unknown trove of Quimby-animated Tom & Jerrys, there are also the works of the previously unknown Hanna Barbera -- maybe Joe's wife?

Yeah, I know. No punch line. Hey, how about them zebras?
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