sweet..so they dress them up, then eat them.

Come on people!!! Not one Richard Gere/guinea pig up his ass joke?? Not one? Really?

how immature. :D

Probably didn't occur to people because the story refers to hamsters.

Guinea pigs are quite a bit larger.

I find dressing up your food in cute lil' costumes before you eat it quite disturbing.

No, because it was Jerry Penacoli, with a hamster.

No no no, it was a Gerbil, folks.
That's why I invented the "Gerbil Jerk", to avoid tragic endings.

I thought it was a gerbil also...

Urban legends tend to morph as they travel. I suspect the details of the story depend on where and when you heard it.

There are about 39,000 google entries for gere and gerbil. About 72,000 for gere and hamster. You could probably plot a US map of who heard what story - like the map of what people call carbonated drinks.

There's probably a graduate project in social science in there somewhere.

I thought it was a pineapple.

No, that's Mau Mau

Pamplemousse!! :D

<snicker> the pineapple comment reminded me of a joke I played on some gay guys at a vending fair...

They had very large, er, sex toys for sale and the size amazed almost everyone. At one point, I slipped off to the supermarket, bought a pineapple and brought it back to our table, which was close to theirs. I sneaked one of their price tags off, put it on the fruit, and secreted the pineapple on their shelf. The looks on people's faces were priceless, as well as the fact that it took them two hours to spot the plant.