Top 10 Reasons Why America Loves The Montauk Monster

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*He doesn't put on any airs. He is what he is: An ungodly mass of putrefying flesh.

*He's all things to all men. He's a dog, a raccoon, a turtle who's lost his shell, an alien, a Messiah figure, a government DNA-experiment gone horribly wrong.

*He's dead. We always speak well of the recently departed, even if it's a bloated ugly creature.

*He's a mystery, we can fill in the blanks. I see him as an alien who came here to save the world, but was killed instantly when he spied Britney Spears flashing her vagina.

*He has an air of integrity; I can't imagine him shilling for Viagra.

*His moniker "The Montauk Monster" has a nice ring to it. Montauk is an excusive municipality with the same cachet as Beverly Hills. If the monster had washed ashore on the Jersey shore, he would be a nobody.

*He has a Google-friendly name. It's easy to find out the latest about our favorite monster.

*He's an American for God's sake. The dollar may be worthless, our president may be a sick joke, but we have the coolest kick-a** monster in the world.

*He gives us something interesting to talk about at work. Americans were sick and tired discussing the price of gas and Madonna's veiny hands -- it's great to have something cool to chat about.

*He's not Dick Cheney