How quickly things change

YESTERDAY - Bubba, 22 lb lobster, is moving from the Pittsburgh Fish Market to the Zoo / Ripley's Museum. Hehe, that's a fun interesting "news of the weird" story. Yeah, big lobster!!!

TODAY - Bubba, 22 lb lobster, dies.

The comedy I find is the way the stories are written. Yesterday's is funny, quirky, with lots of funny examples of "if Bubba is x years old, what has he been alive for?" There's even a joke at the end of the article - "If you sat down and ate this thing, wouldn't that be a bit shellfish?"

However, today's has a somber, obituarial tone to it. And, without apologizing for the upbeat tone of yesterday's article, they list 3 examples of large lobsters moving homes and dying the next day. As if to say it makes perfect sense that he didn't live. Except they didn't mention that there's a good chance he wouldn't make it through the move when they wrote yesterday's article. Bastards for getting our hopes up.

Thank you to Natalie for suggestion this blog topic. I think you'll all find humor in this change of events for Mr. Bubba the Lobster. It's funny.