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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 4:24:34 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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I got this spice gift set for Christmas. There is something called "Albanian rubbed sage".

I am NOT going to eat anything that has been rubbed on an Albanian. I suppose it could be worse, Kirghiz rubbed sage or something like that, but it just sounds like a terrible idea to me.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 5:42:01 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 5:45:49 PM   
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Any place cold enough to have fire hoses frozen in the street for 4 months better have really, really good looking women or spectacular fly fishing.


No, Cap, only two months.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 7:05:11 PM   
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Any place cold enough to have fire hoses frozen in the street for 4 months better have really, really good looking women or spectacular fly fishing.


No, Cap, only two months.

Pretend he hasn't read the Message (Manual)

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 7:08:29 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 7:50:15 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 7:55:13 PM   
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Timely article in today's paper about Kenyans and their marathons. There was a tribe that was tired of the cheetahs killing their herds, so they chased the cheetahs. Those big cats are the world's fastest land animals, but only in spurts. After 4 miles the villagers caught up to the exhausted cats (which they captured and turned over to the wildlife officials).

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 8:29:47 PM   
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I am sure they are doing their research before they go on a marathon. Read down the article below about the 16 YO girl from Nigeria who decided to go to Canada for H.S. ( Exchange student?)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-deep-freeze-as-cold-as-uninhabited-planet-1.2479967




Winnipeg is home for me, and I can assure you it is more hospitable than Mars.

Not warmer, I don't mean. But we have booze.

Factoring in the wind (which we like to do here because it makes us feel tough) it was -58F on New Years. No typo.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 8:30:43 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 8:31:37 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 8:39:11 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 8:42:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		There are quite a few captive breeding programs for cheetahs here in South Africa. The programs are struggling to reintegrate captive-born cheetahs into the wild since the bloodline is so low. As a species they have an extremely low genetic variability - combined with fertility issues this makes them very difficult to breed.

They are actually not that large, and I've never actually heard of a human killed by one. They're actually quite weak, avoid confrontation, and are often chased away from their own kills, even by smaller animals.

Running at top speed is really tough on them, I don't imagine they could do it for more than about 800m (or half a mile). They also prefer to hunt when it's cooler, like dawn or dusk, or else they overheat.

The cheetah is relatively unrelated to the "big cats" - the four Panthera species. These are the lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar.

Now leopards are my favourite big cat. Powerful, able to run at speeds up to 60km per hour, brilliant tree climbers, stealthy - they're really problematic if (in extreme cases) they develop a taste for human flesh since they are more likely to enter human settlements than lions.

Of course none of these come close to a polar bear.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 9:26:38 PM   
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Wait....was that annoying?


Nah, I like real weather.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/3/2014 9:28:26 PM   
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Of course none of these come close to a polar bear.


You have polar bears in South Africa?

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 12:53:03 AM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 6:26:58 AM   
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I referenced polar bears due to a discussion with a Canadian at a dinner last night. Apparently they are the only animals that, as a given, consider humans prey?

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 6:27:36 AM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 12:53:02 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I got this spice gift set for Christmas. There is something called "Albanian rubbed sage".


Was it a small (and by definition well-rubbed) Albanian guy that was really smart? You know, a kind of swami or guru? That may be kind of fun to have around for a while.

"Yo. Albanian sage. What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
"Oh sa dua unë nuk e kishte humbur atë bast kumar!"

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 2:16:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think what you are describing is a "rubbed Albanian sage"..unless he was an Albanian sage (likely an oxymoron) and he went to an Albanian spa (also likely an oxymoron) to get a rubdown..

whereupon he would be an "Albanian rubbed Albanian sage".





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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 3:01:38 PM   
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Hahahaha, no, only in zoos!

I referenced polar bears due to a discussion with a Canadian at a dinner last night. Apparently they are the only animals that, as a given, consider humans prey?

You are forgetting politicians.

And Milo.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 3:08:35 PM   
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Sage of Tirana (hand-rubbed): <with a crowd of elders about> Here eees good wun. <they draw nearer>

Eef Albanian mahn and Albanian wooomahn get deevorce'ed...are they steel brother and seester? <After a second or two or cogitation, there is great deal of murmuring and discussion over the cleverness of reedle>

Elder 2: She ees steel seester if Allah veels it! <tremendous roar of approval at the apparent cleverness of the answer>

Sage of Tirana (hand-rubbed): Ahhhhhhh, but how do YOU know if Allah has weeled it?

Elder 2: If Allah weels that I know. <smiles broadly, quite convinced that he has the sage by the sort and curlies, of which he has many thousands>

Sage of Tirana (hand-rubbed): Ahhhh...my son, that is reecooorsive argument. How do you know from epeesteemological standpoint?

Elder 3: <after a long pause> Eef woomanhn float?

Sage of Tirana (hand-rubbed): YES! YES! But how do we know if woomahn float?

Elder 2: If Allah weels it!

Crowd: <groans loudly>

Elder 3: <stands up in ecstasy> POOT een vater!

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 3:14:51 PM   
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I think what you are describing is a "rubbed Albanian sage"..unless he was an Albanian sage (likely an oxymoron) and he went to an Albanian spa (also likely an oxymoron) to get a rubdown..

whereupon he would be an "Albanian rubbed Albanian sage".
I was doing a Google search for Albanian goat herder as part of a clever response, and one of the suggested links was Albanian goat smegma. You should consider yourself lucky you received Albanian rubbed spice.

Just in case anyone is interested, they can purchase genuine Albanian goat smegma here. I know what I am buying for the next White Elephant Christmas gift exchange I attend. This one should go over better than the Spotted Dick I brought to the last one.


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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 3:20:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I think what you are describing is a "rubbed Albanian sage"..unless he was an Albanian sage (likely an oxymoron) and he went to an Albanian spa (also likely an oxymoron) to get a rubdown..

whereupon he would be an "Albanian rubbed Albanian sage".
I was doing a Google search for Albanian goat herder as part of a clever response, and one of the suggested links was Albanian goat smegma. You should consider yourself lucky you received Albanian rubbed spice.

Just in case anyone is interested, they can purchase genuine Albanian goat smegma here. I know what I am buying for the next White Elephant Christmas gift exchange I attend. This one should go over better than the Spotted Dick I brought to the last one.


Did not follow link.

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:20:02 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:20:54 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:21:57 PM   
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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:31:45 PM   
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Any place cold enough to have fire hoses frozen in the street for 4 months better have really, really good looking women or spectacular fly fishing.


The Governor closed all Minnesota schools for Monday due to cold. Last time that happened was 97 or so.

But I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world, so I have first hand knowledge that the most beautiful woman in the world lives in Minnesota. (Everyone should be married to the most beautiful woman in the world).

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:54:41 PM   
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Any place cold enough to have fire hoses frozen in the street for 4 months better have really, really good looking women or spectacular fly fishing.


The Governor closed all Minnesota schools for Monday due to cold. Last time that happened was 97 or so.

But I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world, so I have first hand knowledge that the most beautiful woman in the world lives in Minnesota. (Everyone should be married to the most beautiful woman in the world).



How is the fly fishing?

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 5:59:34 PM   
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But I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world, so I have first hand knowledge that the most beautiful woman in the world lives in Minnesota. (Everyone should be married to the most beautiful woman in the world).



We'll be right over. What's the address?

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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 1/4/2014 6:04:49 PM   
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Harry roughers at the sea front today






Oh...oh..are those _________'s Folly fort hotels out there? I wonder if they had guests.

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