Today is the last of the 7-day annual Spanish Festival Encierro (running of the bulls). And, despite animal rights protesters showing up like skunks at a party, a goring good time was reportedly had by all.
Unwelcome guests: Festival organizers had to moooove streaking animal rights activists – many of whom looked like fat cows – because they were exciting the bulls to make love instead of charging after runners for a good fight…
This bloodthirsty revelry gained international notoriety after being featured in the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises. But the game residents of Pamplona have hosted it since 1591. And every year, people from all over the world trek there for the most thrilling vacation of their lives. Indeed, many of them return home proudly battered, bruised and bloodied (as their red badges of courage) from running with the bulls the way other vacationers return with red faces and sunburned bodies from beaching in the sun.
So, here’s to the bull runners: This bud’s for you!
Note: Perhaps next year the animal rights party-poopers will favor the fun-loving people down in Buñol with their presence. At least there the only blood they’ll see will be the puree from tomatoes that are the weapons of choice in the world’s largest food fight called Tomatina (an annual tomato-tossing festival that began 45 years ago as an act of protest against Franco’s brutal regime).
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Anonymous says
LOL! that’s too funny.