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To: buccaneer81

That site lists a Rhinoceros Party. May ours become as small as theirs!


57 posted on 05/02/2011 7:52:04 PM PDT by Styria
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To: Styria
In the '70s and '80s they were the comic relief party, much like Britain's Screaming Looney Party. Here's their origin:

The party claimed to be the spiritual descendants of Cacareco, a Brazilian rhinoceros who was elected member of São Paulo's city council in 1958, and listed Cornelius the First, a rhinoceros from the Granby Zoo, east of Montreal, as its leader. Cornelius is still featured in the party's official logo. It declared that the rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are "thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, can move fast as hell when in danger, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces."

61 posted on 05/02/2011 7:57:39 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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