Posted on 02/02/2007 8:58:37 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
A Colossal Leap of Faith In Fight Against Famine
North Koreans See Potential in German Breeder's Giants
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, February 2, 2007; A10
EBERSWALDE, Germany -- Few people raise bigger bunny rabbits than Karl Szmolinsky, who has been producing long-eared whoppers since 1964. His favorite breed, German gray giants, are the size of a full-grown beagle and so fat they can barely hop.
Last year, after the retired chauffeur entered some of his monsters in an agricultural fair, word of his breeding skills spread to the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. Diplomats looked past the cute, furry faces with the twitching noses and saw a possible solution to their nation's endemic food shortage: an enormous bunny in every Korean pot.
The North Koreans approached Szmolinsky in November and asked whether he'd advise them on how to start a rabbit breeding program to help "feed the population," the 67-year-old pensioner recalled in an interview at his home in Eberswalde, an eastern German town a few miles from the Polish border. Sympathetic to the Koreans' plight, he agreed to sell some of his best stock at a steep discount and volunteered to travel to the hermetic nation as a consultant.
"They liked what they saw, and they liked how big they were," he said, as he showed off other bunnies that he raises in weathered hutches in his back yard. "It's harder than you think to raise them. They need a varied diet, but they have to be fed like pigs, basically, to get that big."
In December, Szmolinsky stuffed six of his rabbits into modified dog carriers and took them to the airport in Berlin, where they boarded a flight for Pyongyang, via Frankfurt, Germany, and Beijing.
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On a smaller scale, he wants to solve food shortage in his country by another grand stroke: growing numerous giant rabbits.
It is clear that Kim's life-time quest is to look for one grand stroke that would leave his mark in history.
Actually he did. One of the most brutal and nutty tyrants in history.
Ping!
OH MONK your "gift" is need on this thread ROFL
If he wanted to combat poverty he could just abandon communism and tyranny and introduce capitalism.
Or I guess giant bunnies could work, too.
I saw a photo of one of these rabbits in today's paper. My first instinct was to wish they would attack Jimmy Carter.
Curing famine with imaginary rabbits? OK.
OMG Monk now that funny about stamp how about birthday somebody would go Desert eagle on some gangstra dome ROFL
Hey Tiger going back imagine what would happen if Snoopy Doggy Doggy invented Google
If that's all you got it might be great--if the people there actually get any.
I prefer prime rib and baby back ribs meself.
But then, I don't live in abject squalor under a high-life communist dictator.
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Rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky shows off one of his bunnies, a "German Grey Giant", weighing almost nine kilogrammes. |
 Grappling with a monster. One of these rabbits can easily feed eight people. |
 Szmolinsky came to the Koreans' attention after winning a breeders' award last year. |
 Szmolinsky with a German Gray Giant (L) and a Vienna Blue, half the weight of the former but still a pretty big rabbit. |
They should get the rabbits from the Teletubbies' Home Hill. Those things are hugge. And ex-prez Carter has some expertise in dealing with rabbits. He could help out, too. Take him. Please.
Null that happen on MAD TV premire I seen it ROFL the guy who play Chia Pet is Bobby Lee funny guy
Is it wrong to find this story erotic?
Why? does the fur get in your teeth?:)
OMG I remember that ROFL that from Season 11 or 10 I not sure ROFL that funny ROFL
Not for you.
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