Beware the Nauga

The original link for the post above is at sell sell:

http://sellsellblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/advertising-greatness-1-nauga.html

Corrected - thanks msaleem!

Ugly and persistent. His hide will still be around in 10,000 years.

Once these valleys teemed with herds of wild nauga. Then, as the settlers moved in and the ecosystem was changed by man's ruthless greed they all but died out except for a few prize naugas kept by enthusiasts. However, all is not lost.

As global warming makes more of Canada and Alaska suitable for the nauga's habits we again will see the shy hen naugas peeping through the trees and the boistrous fledgling naugas leaping down freshets splashing each other, making their characteristic ullulating call, "Yerwot, yerwot, yerwot". Meanwhile the cock naugas strut their stuff on the brow of the hill, proudly staking their claim to the surrounding square mile or so.
And, of course, getting shot for being so stupid as to pose on a skyline.

This reminds me of an episode of "Alf" where Alf complained that the bamboo furniture the family had purchased wasn't even real bamboo. "It's Naugaboo," said Alf. Funny!

I remember having a Nauga when I was a kid. Hadn't thought about it in years! You can still adopt one today at nauga.com.

Wasn't there a joke in the first Leisure Suit Larry game about Naugas? Something like "The door is covered in Naugahyde, and you wonder how many Naugas had to give their all."

you wonder how many Naugas had to give their all.

None! According to nauga.com:

Q: With all the cruelty in the world, how can you kill those cute little Naugas just for their hydes?
A: We don't. Naugas shed their hydes without harm to themselves, making Naugahyde the Cruelty-Free Fabric.

Here is a photo of an adorable little boy and his Nauga, circa 1969 (the boy is me)

Here's a photo of an adorable little boy and his Nauga, circa 1969.

http://fc74.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/021/c/c/Me_and_my_Nauga_by_Schwingding.jpg

Me and my Nauga by ~Schwingding on deviantART

@shecky: I'm so relieved to know it. Now I don't have to feel guilty about my loveseat.

I used to work with a guy who had an off-beat sense of humor: he claimed he had his wife in tears by telling her that the hides had to come from baby Nauga, no more than two days old, but the better ones were fetuses aborted a few days before birth.