sounds kitteny

the latest press release from PETA has been getting some mockery from the news discussions here:

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/about.asp

"People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face if Jaws is anything to go by.

Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat. Whoever was in charge of creating a positive image for fish needs to go right back to working on the Britney Spears account and leave our scaly little friends alone. You've done enough damage, buddy. We've got it from here. And we're going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it's time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?"

you can see where the mockery comes in.

change the name and you're still left with a fish.

still the idea of giving something unpleasant a nice name to improve iys image has an appeal:

"israel says that it will take action if hamas continues to fire kittens over its borders"

"kitten epidemic worsening in zimbabwee"

"climate change caused by global kittens"

"george w kitten"

gotta go, i'm having sea kittens and chips for dinner