Animal Internet
July 10th, 2007
It’s like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom meets The Onion.
For example, take this deer’s review of the iPhone:
Animals have a hard time using high-end mobile phones. I know because I’m a deer, and I’ve owned them all: the Sony Ericsson W810i, the Motorola Q, Samsung’s BlackJack… All nice to look at yet totally unusable by those of us without fingers. That’s why I’m excited about the new iPhone. By replacing the copious buttons found on other cell phones with a large touch screen, Apple has created a device that can be operated by the entire land-dwelling animal kingdom.
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One feature I am personally looking forward to is iPhone’s access to YouTube videos. Until now, my television viewing has been via the store window of Ace Appliance which means I’m at the mercy of the guy who closes up for the evening. Whatever random channel he leaves the display TVs tuned to is it for the evening. Sometimes I get lucky and get to watch Animal Planet. Other times I’m stuck with the Fox News Channel. With the ability to stream YouTube videos direct to the iPhone, I’ll finally be in control of my nocturnal entertainment. (Goodbye O’Reilly Factor, Hello Andy Kindler and reruns of The Pet Shop. I also like the animal clips on America’s Funniest Home Videos. The old ones with Bob Saget were the best. Whatever happened to him? I heard he started working blue.)
Hilarious, right?