Just a quick follow-up on the group you guys sent to the top of Deceiver Madness ‘09: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, AKA NAMBLA. I mean PeTA.
When they’re not tricking people into giving them dogs to kill and then toss into dumpsters, these plucky pet-plunderers are always brainstorming for unique and exciting new ways to draw even more attention to themselves. Their latest ploy isn’t any less stupid than usual, but it’s definitely dumber. Via the BBC:
Pop group Pet Shop Boys have revealed they have turned down a request by animal rights group Peta to rename themselves the Rescue Shelter Boys.
“Peta Europe has written to Pet Shop Boys with a request they are unable to agree to,” reads a post on the band’s official website.
But the band admits the request “raises an issue worth thinking about”.
Peta’s letter requests the name change because of the cruelty it alleges takes place in the pet trade.
If the band were to agree to the name change, it continues, it would “encourage your millions of fans to consider giving a home to an abandoned or unwanted animal from an animal shelter”.
Well, it sure beats the dumpster behind the Piggly Wiggly.
Which other no-longer-relevant “pet” references can PeTA retroactively change?
- The Beach Boys’ Ridiculous Media Stunt Sounds.
- The Naked Activist Rock.
- Ace Ventura: Illogical Press Release Detective.
- Stephen King’s Hypocrisy Sematary.
Add yours in the comments, if you feel like letting me trick you into doing my job for me. Here’s the bucket of whitewash, there’s the fence. Now get to work!
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“But the band admits the request “raises an issue worth thinking about”.”
Really? Does it? So the band is actually stupider than peta. That’s right I said stupider.
Or, they know their audience.
Oh… And millions of fans? The Pet Shop Boys? Did I wake up in 1989 today or something?
Good Lord! What next for PETA? Can they acutally even think about a band changing their name? And since when does the “Pet Shop Boys” have millions of fans? And since when does PETA care what happens to animals in the shelters? All they do is kill them instead of rehab them, care for them and adopt them out.
Maybe Phish could rename themselves “Sea Kittens”
Forget petshops, PeTA should help that poor little def leppard!
Not only cursed with a poor auditory sense, but deaf AND dyslexic?
Poor wittah spottee kitteh. I’s feelz bahd.
I don’t know for you but those sea kittens taste good.
My husband and I were discussing how polite the Pet Shop Boys were with their response. We wouldn’t have been, but one can’t fault them for taking the higher ground and not making a big deal out of it either way.
You’d be surprised. I didn’t realize that the Pet Shop Boys still had fans and were still making music and producing until I moved to this side of the pond.
I had a really clever one in mind, but it slipped away. I got nothin’.
Yeah, Chronic, I too admire the restraint modeled by the PSB. I would have gleefully told PETA to get bent.
This isn’t them trying to change something no longer relevant, but they freaked about the plight of poor baby seals and their treatment in-game in World of Warcraft. I thought you might find it entertaining:
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/04/help_battle_sea.php
http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/04/peta-organizes.html
and the reaction:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/13/peta-event-seals-got-clubbed-pigs-got-eaten?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_wowinsider
I’m with you, Minnow, free the def leppard!
This request is not surprising considering that dozens of Petards are running around the interwebs claiming that the Obamas “broke a campaign promise” by accepting Ted Kennedy’s gift of a Portuguese Water Dog puppy. They also claim that the family is encouraging “breeders and puppy mills” and consigning millions of rescue dogs to destruction with their decision.
Yeah, one should recognize class and respect, even if it’s directed towards someone we wouldn’t ourselves be respectful to. This immediately brought to mind that Taco Bell thing where they tried to get 50 cent to change his name (FOR A DAY!) for some promotion. Granted, it was just as retarded an idea as the one PETA just put out here, but he went absolutely ballistic and threatened to sue. It’s nice to see some people have the class and dignity to just say, “thanks, but no thanks.”
Hypocrisy Semetary sounds like it’d be more terrifying than the actual movie was.
I, for one, am more concerned about the actual baby seals who get killed during the annual seal hunt in Canada than I am about virtual seals. Of course, it shows where PETA’s priorities really lie: protect the fakes, let the real animals die!
Speaking of hypocrisy, why don’t they call themselves RESCUESHELTERA? How about a little leadership?
I’m tossing in my vote to change White Snake, which has the double whammy of referring to rare and endangered animals as something you want to have sex with on top of a car and being, what do they call it nowadays, “culturally insensitive?” How about “Platonic Snake Whose Color Doesn’t Define It?”
Oh! Bonus points! You could say the same thing about White Lion, PLUS I’ll bet a lot fewer people have heard of them.
“AKA NAMBLA. i mean PeTA” hahahaaaaa thank you for the LOL simon! the pet shop boys were popular in the 80s right? and MC Mom i was thinking about that today.. i heard the obamas got a dog and it was from ted kennedy. i told my mom ‘i remember obama saying he was going to adopt the dog and all i know is the dog came from ted kennedy. if it came from a breeder its going to cause an uproar’ i’m not 100% sure where it came from, i personally would never buy a dog from a breeder but i’m waiting for some people (and peta) to freak out.
‘Une Frommage Andalou’
Yep, another broken campaign promise. The Dog came from a breeder in Texas where the Kennedy’s get their dog. I guess from the same line as their dog, so the dogs are related. Great. Headline news. Supposedly the first owners did not want him. Funny how they insisted that they would get a dog from the shelter and funny how this topic made it first page on many websites AND papers when we should have been celebrating the safe return of the Captain taken by the pirates.
What about them taking on the plumbing industry with its use of that replacement for copper pipe – PolyEthylene Tubing, aka PET? They could also join forces with the environmentalist wackos,as that is a product of the evil & greedy petrochemicals industry. . .
Let’s see: A Portuguese WATER dog, given by TED KENNEDY. Did he drive it over to them personally? Because if he did…
Eh, there’s a Chappaquiddick joke in there somewhere, but it’s early in the day and I’m not through my second cuppa yet.
Beige, yes the irony is that he owns several Protuguese water dogs. I guess he bought them after that fateful night. They could have come in handy.
A.A.W., you are inferring the Teddy would have wanted his dogs to help. This giving the “fat bastard” more credit than he deserves.
Hee. Teddy is the original ManGinPig.
Good one, RNB. I suppose if a dog had gotten its eye sliced open at the beginning of ‘Un Chien Andalou’ PETA would be desecrating Bunuel’s grave right about now.
MC Mom, you’re not far off. Buñuel used a cow’s eye for that shot.
Correction: Pet Sounds is always relevant. Give it a listen again.
If I recall correctly, PETA had a similar request for the band Suede years ago, no joke…they suggested ‘Velour’ as an alternative name, amongst others.
Uh oh, Holly, now we’ve done it. Sorry, Bunuel, if your remains get dug up by a bunch of idiots running around naked. Or wearing velour.