Are Sea-Monkeys Better Than Your Family?
What a lovely family.
It’s the question people have been asking themselves for ages: are Sea-Monkeys better than my family?
Don’t be ridiculous, of course Sea-Monkeys are better than your family.
Sea-Monkeys aren’t constantly shoving pictures of their potato-faced baby in your face, forcing you to lie about how cute their potato-faced baby is.
(Their baby isn’t cute: it has a potato face.)
Sea-Monkeys don’t get angry when you use the phrase “potato-faced” to describe their baby.
Note: turnip-faced doesn’t seem to be any more agreeable than potato-faced. Your family appears to have a bizarre bias against root vegetables that Sea-Monkeys don’t possess.
Sea-Monkeys don’t show up to family picnics all liquored-up on Coors Light, and vomit into your aunt’s potato salad.
Sea-Monkeys don’t get all pissy when you comment that your aunt’s potato salad was destined to be involved with vomit related incident at some point before the day was over.
Unlike your aunt, Sea-Monkeys aren’t overly sensitive about their disgusting potato salad and chunky hippo thighs.
Unlike your family, Sea-Monkeys tend to be very fit. It’s probably all the swimming they do, coupled with their general reluctance to shovel fatty foods into their fat gaping yaps.
Unlike your in-laws, Sea-Monkeys don’t sit around at family functions, guzzling Wild Turkey and openly lamenting their obviously questionable life choices.
Sea-monkeys don’t drink bourbon at all.
Unlike your brat cousin, Sea-Monkeys don’t scream at the top of their lungs until your aunt fills her face full of candy.
Sea-Monkeys understand that shoving sugar into an already intolerably loud and manic child, is the last thing you should do.
As brine shrimp, Sea-Monkeys are bottom feeders.
(Sorry, that last entry is from the list of how Sea-Monkeys are exactly like your family.)
Sea-Monkeys never set fire to their face.
Note: to be fair, it is difficult to start a fire inside a bowl of water. Still, your bone-head uncle could do it, and burn off his eyebrows in the process.
Unlike your aunts, Sea-Monkeys aren’t a gaggle of cackling hags who put curses on their nieces and nephews; Sea-Monkeys rarely dabble in the black arts.
Sea-Monkeys don’t disgust you.
Sea-Monkeys aren’t reading this blog and becoming enraged.
Sea-Monkeys have a far better sense of humor than your family.
And Finally…
When you refer to someone as a “miserable squinty-eyed back stabbing rat-bastard” you’re almost never talking about a Sea-Monkey.
You must admit, this Sea-Monkey is the spitting image of one of your aunts.
idiotpruf 
Hey, thanks for the mention! I’m proud of my status as muckraker, but I can’t divulge the identity of my source for the dredging permits. Let’s just say I have contacts high up in the sea-monkey world.
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So much corruption, I am a little disturbed how much our brains think alike.
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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What are your thoughts on cement bricks as replacements for family members? Or failing that as suitable weight to hold the recently deceased drug dealers that a certain member of family insists on bringing round often even though she’s not sleeping with them, honest, at the bottom of the local river?
Wow. That was a bit wordy.
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Cement bricks would be much better company than several of my relatives, and a tad more intelligent.
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And sea monkeys look cute swimming around – – I know – I’ve caught quite a few wirth my paw…(not very tasty)!😸
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I wish I could dispose of a few family members with a quick swipe of the paw.
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Dude – me too! Flippin morons!😾
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” it is difficult to start a fire inside a bowl of water” Only if you do not have access to either
A a swimming candle
B phosphor or
C gas …
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Sea-Monkeys are neither clever nor dexterous. But they’re still better than your family.
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I wonder when you have met my family, but you are scaringly right.
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I’m everywhere.
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And sea monkeys wouldn’t continuously require new clothes because they continue to grow and grow like a 14-year-old son. Or suddenly discover that J Crew is much nicer than Target when it comes to clothes…
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Sea-Monkeys are definitely not label conscious. In fact, they don’t wear clothes at all.
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I’m so glad you didn’t monkey around with this post.
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I never joke about brine shrimp or their relation to other forms of bottom feeders.
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Because really. What’s to joke about.
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Exactly.
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Mustard in the fish tank. That’s quite a vision. That’s a really bad mix. Funny post.
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There’s some really bad DNA involved.
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LOL, great post! I was actually just contemplating sea monkeys and longing to replace my extended family with them. You are quite right, it is not even a question anymore. Sea monkeys are clearly an improvement over extended family.
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The post practically wrote itself.
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