12.18.2006

I'm not dead!

Hi again friends (all three or four of you!) I'm not dead, I'm just suddenly way too awesome and important to find time to blog.

But I'm back now (assume from that what you will) and I'm so flattered by all the interesting and intelligent people who have come by to find the answers to life's great mysteries here on my blog. How did these modern day geniuses find their ways here? Let's have a look!

Google search #1: "Can you slaughter a goat in Georgia?"

First of all, I think I'm channeling my second grade teacher here because I feel the need to point out that of COURSE you can slaughter a goat in Georgia! The question you need answered is MAY you slaughter a goat in Georgia. That one is a little trickier, but since I love my readers with every inch of my bitter, withered heart, I'll try my best to answer.

The law seems spotty, at best on this. An example from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:


Sometimes the clash with the law stems from a simple dispute among neighbors
--- with a cultural twist. In several metro Atlanta communities, immigrants have
been accused of animal cruelty by neighbors who witnessed them slaughtering
livestock in their yards. In November, a Hispanic family tied a goat to a
neighbor's fence in Smyrna. The neighbor called police. Officers told the
Hispanic family it could not have livestock in the city. "They resolved the
problem by killing the goat," said Smyrna Officer Tony Leonard. "They invited me
to have a piece." A dispute erupted in Suwanee in 1998 when a couple tried to
slaughter and barbecue a goat in a subdivision. "That usually tends to end up
registering complaints from neighbors," said Gwinnett Planning and Zoning
Director Mike Williams. "They just don't know. Once they're informed, they're
usually pretty cooperative about correcting the problems. Most of the immigrant
population wants to follow the rules."


Judging from this, I'd have to say that if anything, you'll have to worry about local ordinances more than state laws. Worst case, it's against some codes, but probably weakly enforced unless you slaughter it in the middle of downtown Atlanta with a group of wide-eyed schoolchildren looking on in horror.

Onto the next search!

I'm number four on the google list for "what do djiboutians do everyday?" I'm not sure what kind of answer the searcher expected from this. If someone asked me "What do Americans do everyday" I could reply with anything from "paint ceramic baby jesus figurines" to "watch scat porn" and both answers would be right. In the interest of not stereotyping the regal people of djibouti, I'd say they probably breathe.

For more exciting info on Djibouti, see http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Costa-Rica-to-Georgia/Djiboutians.html

Onto the next search!

Someone wound up here after searching for "Prince William does not like garlic."

I can't imagine what they were expecting to find with that search. I think all the information you could possibly need on the topic has already been stated by the searcher.

And on that note, I think I'm done for the night.