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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/11/2016 12:07:37 PM

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Right, how could anyone utter "Lucy! You have some 'splainin' to do!" to that thing on the right?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/11/2016 6:16:57 PM

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I live in a duplex, and am half owner of it. The other half owner lives in the other unit. He mows the grass, of which there is a considerable expanse. One year he was mowing the back yard and mowed across the entrance to a rabbit warren neither he nor I was aware of and a baby bunny leapt up out of fear from the warren straight into the blades of the mower. Glad I wasn't doing the mowing that day. So this year I spotted a warren freshly dug and pointed it out to him and gave him a milk crate to put over it whilst he was mowing so that hopefully that wouldn't happen again. Today, while out watering things, I ran into two baby bunnies, one not far from the entrance to that warren. I dialed the sprayer I was using to "mist" and misted them down, because it was oppressively hot. They did not seem to mind.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/11/2016 6:19:34 PM

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I know what you're thinking. You're right, I will be feeding them to a lady gorn friend in the near future.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/11/2016 11:01:33 PM

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I know what you're thinking. You're right, I will be feeding them to a lady gorn friend in the near future.

Are their actually lady gorn's ?
If so, do they have the "Mom Voice" feature which human females excel at ?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/11/2016 11:58:40 PM

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Well, there's a lot of debate about that. Some scientists claim that in a single sex environment some of us can become female and thus reproduce. Others say that we can reproduce asexually. I frequently try to do that, but without any luck so far. In any case, if you are a male gorn and you have successful carnal relations with a female, expect to be consumed by her in order to feed your young. If you have unsuccessful carnal relations she will not know the difference and eat you anyway. My advice, for any gorn out there, is try the asexual method instead.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/12/2016 7:17:02 AM

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I live in a duplex, and am half owner of it. The other half owner lives in the other unit. He mows the grass, of which there is a considerable expanse. One year he was mowing the back yard and mowed across the entrance to a rabbit warren neither he nor I was aware of and a baby bunny leapt up out of fear from the warren straight into the blades of the mower. Glad I wasn't doing the mowing that day. So this year I spotted a warren freshly dug and pointed it out to him and gave him a milk crate to put over it whilst he was mowing so that hopefully that wouldn't happen again. Today, while out watering things, I ran into two baby bunnies, one not far from the entrance to that warren. I dialed the sprayer I was using to "mist" and misted them down, because it was oppressively hot. They did not seem to mind.

Gruesome. I would be ill if I did anything like that.

We have a lot of rabbits around here. They build warrens under the blackberry bushes.

The rabbits don't stay still long enough to spray water om them, but I do mist the praying mantises in the greenhouse when I see them.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/14/2016 1:55:23 AM

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Okay, so the cicadas are getting really out of hand. I am told that they are neither the periodical 13 or 17 year varieties but the annual sort. That may be so but they are getting really, really loud to my experience. I've had cats that loved to eat them. One cat I had broke his leg somehow and it was put into a cast. He managed to hobble around pretty well and succeeded in capturing a cicada and bring it into the apartment. Now he wanted to bat it around like cats do, playing with it before the denouement. Well, that denouement came early as he lifted his leg in the cast and brought it down and it went splat!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/18/2016 4:30:53 AM

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Just a little music to listen to. It sounds like country, it sounds like Cajun, delivered by Chicanos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0coPhlpy4

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/18/2016 4:34:36 AM

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The lyrics are actually rather dark. That's art.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/19/2016 7:13:27 AM

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We need to find some way to keep steel wire from being abused in this way: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/music/moonlight-sonata-electric-guitar/#PbuRPVdYBuzXT0mA.97
Perhaps we could use up all the steel wire for a while rebuilding the Berlin wall?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/19/2016 5:40:55 PM

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We need to find some way to keep steel wire from being abused in this way: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/music/moonlight-sonata-electric-guitar/#PbuRPVdYBuzXT0mA.97
Perhaps we could use up all the steel wire for a while rebuilding the Berlin wall?

I think there are some other walls in the plans that could use up all the steel. Berlin has done its time with one and decided it wasn't a good idea, so they are not likely to welcome a new one.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/20/2016 12:16:55 AM

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When I saw this, I thought it was a brown bat hanging from underneath my birdbath. I took a picture before it was disturbed by something.
Clearly a large butterfly, maybe a swallowtail of some sort. You can see two legs and two antennae.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 7:15:33 PM

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Here is a case of beak-to-beak combat at one of my feeders by very territorial hummingbirds.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 7:16:30 PM

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Did this guy think he was flying a hummingbird?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 7:21:40 PM

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There was more than half a dozen of those birds chasing each other around having dogfights when I took that video.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 8:00:07 PM

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How can a bird have a dogfight? Shouldn't they have birdfights?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 8:34:22 PM

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There was more than half a dozen of those birds chasing each other around having dogfights when I took that video.

During the fall migration I was at the English Garden in Assiniboine Park when I saw two hummingbirds sitting a few yards apart from each other. They both launched at each other and hovered in the air, fencing with each other for over 30 seconds. You could hear the clicks as their beaks struck each other. First and only time I have seen such behaviour (from birds, that is).

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 10:14:18 PM

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How can a bird have a dogfight? Shouldn't they have birdfights?

And what it is called when a cat fights a dog?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/24/2016 10:50:38 PM

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How can a bird have a dogfight? Shouldn't they have birdfights?

And what it is called when a cat fights a dog?

Politics??

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 2:01:15 AM

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How can a bird have a dogfight? Shouldn't they have birdfights?

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And what it is called when a cat fights a dog?

Usually a howling dog.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 12:32:29 PM

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If the cat hasn't been declawed, that is. My owners considered declawing me but, happily, have procrastinated on that so far. I try not to shred the upholstery.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 5:56:43 PM

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I don't believe I'd seen any of this documentary before, though I was aware of some elements from another source, I believe. This is part two of five parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYdd1e-1pyo

Worth a watch, I think.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 6:20:00 PM

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I've caught an error, but it is by a German soldier. He's talking about the winter of '41 and says something like "Our weapons didn't work but their Kalashnikovs did." He's speaking auf Deutsch but you can clearly hear him say "Kalashnikov". As you likely know, the Kalashnikov was first produced in 1947, so unless Captain Kirk went through a time warp and delivered some AK-47s this was not true. I know nothing about the rifles the Soviets were using at the time or about their reliability versus the Mauser or whatever.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 7:29:03 PM

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Probably a faux pas indeed. Modern writters / actors.

Hypothetically possible its accurate.

I believe Kalishnakov (i.e. the company) was a major armaments producers / dealer during the war for many many things ; rifles, anti-tank guns, Flak guns. In Russia / USSR

Much like Mig was more than an aircraft name it was an aircraft brand.

GG War in the East Experts can confirm or correct me in the above statements...

I guess in theory the German soldier in an anti tank unit might know the difference but..... I don't think the average soldier referred to his weapon by its manufacturers name... i.e. he wouldn't have referred to Pistol 38 as a Walther for example...

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/25/2016 8:50:22 PM

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Probably a faux pas indeed. Modern writters / actors.

Hypothetically possible its accurate.

I believe Kalishnakov (i.e. the company) was a major armaments producers / dealer during the war for many many things ; rifles, anti-tank guns, Flak guns. In Russia / USSR

Much like Mig was more than an aircraft name it was an aircraft brand.

GG War in the East Experts can confirm or correct me in the above statements...

I guess in theory the German soldier in an anti tank unit might know the difference but..... I don't think the average soldier referred to his weapon by its manufacturers name... i.e. he wouldn't have referred to Pistol 38 as a Walther for example...

Happy to correct. Michael Kalashnikov was a soldier in WWII, not a major armaments mfg.. He was quite the engineer though and he did do some minor things fixing weapons of the period. That German soldier never heard of him until the Korean war at the earliest.

Incidentally, due to his diminutive size and his handiness with metal he was made a tank mechanic.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/26/2016 2:26:03 AM

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I've caught an error,

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"Kalashnikov".

I picked up on that too gorn. Standard Soviet infantry rifle of WWII was the Mosin-Nagant. To my knowledge a pretty reliable bolt action weapon of the time. Of course the Soviets fielded many other types of small arms, like most WWII nations. IIRC the Mig was the name of the A/C manufacture. Most, if not all Soviet A/C (or at least modern fighters) were named for the manufactures. Kalishnakov was a tank mechanic IIRC who 'invented' the AK while recovering from wounds. The AK-47 (yes, in 1947) was named in his honor.

Not that its in error, but at one point you can see a Matilda moving across the field. Its not close enough to see any markings, but the Soviets used lend lease western tanks at times, especially at the time of this action. On the southern sectors of the field of operations, these would be coming up from Iran.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/28/2016 6:41:16 PM

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If a reindeer dressed up as a ghost for Halloween, what would you have? A scaribou.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 8/29/2016 3:49:02 PM

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I really like Chinese food. Have it once a week usually. I notice most of the signs over Chinese restaurants have the same slogan. I've never seen them illustrated, though, so I thought I'd take a stab at it.