Ok.. the people at stupid animals have written back to me. I'll post you the entire correspondance here
----- Original Message -----
From: Naomi
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: question
I’m curious why you call all the animals on your site stupid? None of them are stupid – most of the pics are quite cute. What’s your reasoning for calling them names?
-----Original Message-----
From: Stupid Animals [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: March 25, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Naomi
Subject: Re: question
we've had plenty of quarrel with people not agreeing that the animals on the site are stupid.
they way i see it, some of the funniest animals on the site are made to look ridiculous by their owners. see animals in dressed and wheelchairs.
also, look in their eyes and try and imagine what they're thinking. ace.
stupidanimals
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----- Original Message -----
From: Naomi
To: 'Stupid Animals'
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:42 PM
Subject: RE: question
Thanks for answering. I’m still not clear though. If it’s the owners that make the animals look stupid, when why isn’t the site named stupid pet owners? I agree that sometimes animals who are dressed up look silly and somewhat humiliated, but the ones in wheelchairs?? That’s not ridiculous at all. That’s letting an animal that would normally be bedridden have a chance at mobility. Perhaps we have a different definition of “stupid.” I don’t doubt that you like animals.. I’ve seen your links and it seems like you are an animal advocate. However, not all your pictures are of animals in clothes. Do you define stupid as funny? Because if you do, then that makes sense. Some of the pictures are hilarious! Some are also very cute, and some are very sad (ie the EXTREMELY overweight animals). What is the message you are trying to convey with your site name?
Hope to hear from you soon,
Naomi
and the last response, 5:30 today:
i suppose by 'stupid' i do indeed mean funny. but a special kind of funny.. not the lame 'dog in shades in a hammock' kind of funny, but a more ridiculous funny. i'm not making any judgement on the IQ of any of the animals. i'm sure most of them are more intelligent than a lot of people i know.
by labelling the animals (or 'my pretties') as stupid, i guess i'm offloading my contempt for sites such as this> http://www.cutestuf.com/animals.html. i can't quite put my finger on why i hate such sites, but i think a lot of it has to do with the use of [crap] captions.
stupid.. ridiculous.. funny.. i think most if it is the idea that the animal has no control over how ridiculous it looks ( http://www.stupidanimals.co.uk/d/003.html ), or that it appears to be almost proud of how fruity it looks ( http://www.stupidanimals.co.uk/d/022.html ).
i do like animals, but i do also get quite a lot of satisfaction from winding up those strange animal lovers who seem to be just a little bit too upset at the website. the same people who write odd messages on the stupid animals guestbook.
stupidanimals
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EDIT: That cutestuff webpage doesn't work, so I'm not really sure what this person is referring to. Even with the extra 'f' it doesn't go to an animals site. Oh well
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