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History Forum / General / British History / April 2007America take back the damned Grey Squirrel
Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels the arch villain the Gray Squirrel. Our native Squirrel the Red which is much smaller has been forced into Scotland in much the same way as the Saxon chased the Celt. How would you like that you rotten bastards. As you did for the Cubans send a flotilla of ships to take this vermin home and unlike Castro I promise we British will not infiltrate them with the squirrels languishing in our prisons and mental institution. The Gray squirrel is undemocratic and damned right anti social. I have been lobbying PM Bliar to exterminate any Gray Squirrel on the Isle of Wight and to settle the red there. I tried to settle the Red Squirrel on my small island near Malta, 20 of them to be exact and alas they all died within 2 weeks. There are only a few tree's, I ran out of nut's and the only other people on the island 6 Benedictine Monks could do nothing to save them  SignatureCount Baldoni Red Squirrel/Methadone Alliance > Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the > last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > Count Baldoni We'll take back the gray squirrel when you come get the starlings and gypsy moths. >> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the >> last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > We'll take back the gray squirrel when you come get the starlings and gypsy > moths. And lampreys and rock doves (C. livia) and zebra mussels, and black and Norway rats, and Quakers and Plymouth Brethren. (We'll keep the Mormons, they're a problem of our own making -- and the Sally Anne are tolerable, perhaps even useful. We'll have to twist wrists to see who gets the Jehovah's Witnesses.) SignatureAndrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) >>> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses >>> the [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > perhaps even useful. We'll have to twist wrists to see who gets the > Jehovah's Witnesses.) I would like to say to our Nigerian guests in this part of British Columbia, the Beaver Valley, the following: We do not hunt and cook our beavers in stewpots. And, no, even if we did, we wouldn't throw in a fish heads and chicken feet. Thank you for your attention. - nilita >>>> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses >>>> the [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > Thank you for your attention. Shows how much you know. SignatureAndrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) On Apr 15, 10:21 pm, "Andrew Chaplin" <ab.chap...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote: > >>>> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses > >>>> the [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > We do not hunt and cook our beavers in stewpots. You're thinking barbecue? <g> > > And, no, even if we did, > > we wouldn't throw in a fish heads and chicken feet. > > > > Thank you for your attention. > > Shows how much you know. That would be a fowl surf'n'turf. Save the chicken feet for dim sum. Hal > On Apr 15, 10:21 pm, "Andrew Chaplin" > <ab.chap...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > You're thinking barbecue? <g> That would be raccoon. >> > And, no, even if we did, >> > we wouldn't throw in a fish heads and chicken feet. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> > That would be a fowl surf'n'turf. Save the chicken feet for dim sum. Those claws make good toothpicks! - nilita > > Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the > > last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Its painful to listen to Brits whine ad nauseum about a problem of their own making. If they hadn't planted all those Doug Firs after the Second World War, the little guys wouldn't have been tempted. Its tough to blame the Brits for wanting God's Own Trees (God, after all, is a Washingtonian who resides in the Cascades). But, they should really have the reserve not weep aloud over the critters they attract. Hell, I'll bet they bitch about the spotted owls as well. McCabe ||| Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your ||| arses the last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] | | McCabe Well I have to tell you that what the Americans have done with the ferret is scandalous. You have turned him into a fool and no he runs around inside your houses getting up to all manner of "Tomfoolery" to entertain your children. In and out of pipes and spinning around on his arse making silly noises like the Jerry Lewis of the animal kingdom. Our ferrets are tough smelly brutes and the closest we get to them is when the men in the North let them sleep down their trousers in winter. We used to hunt with Hawke and Ferret and it was a sight to behold. Sadly if this government are returned they will turn on the ferret next, and he will be turned into Jerry Lewis where once he was Jack Palance. SignatureCount Baldoni > Innews:1176701945.981615.191340@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, > kevinmcc...@yahoo.com <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> typed: [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > -- > Count Baldoni Indeed. My daughter kept two ferrets a number of years ago. The mischeivious little guys got out one night, fished my wallet, and knawed on my bar card. The corrections officers still laugh at me when I present it to go into the jail to visit my clients. Apparently, the name ferret has a french root meaning thief. Still and all, they were cute little buggers. Now own up and be fair, you do like the Doug Firs, don't you? McCabe On Apr 16, 10:23 pm, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Innews:1176701945.981615.191340@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, > > kevinmcc...@yahoo.com <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> typed: [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > > McCabe My niece was pretty good at hunting em with a .22. The trick to eating em is to remove the meat so you dont look as if you are eating a rat. You put it in a pot pie or else serve it with lots of gravy to hide the gamy taste. Her squirrel huntin ability later helped her get a marksmanship award when she joined the Marines. On Apr 16, 7:34 pm, oldfrogs...@gmail.com wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:23 pm, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 75 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Admit it, you and your whole family are squirrel bait. McCabe | On Apr 16, 7:34 pm, oldfrogs...@gmail.com wrote: || On Apr 16, 10:23 pm, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> [quoted text clipped - 86 lines] | | McCabe I was once accused by a security guard of leaving Wolf Bait in a toilet cubicle at Kings Cross Train Station in London. SignatureCount Baldoni > | On Apr 16, 7:34 pm, oldfrogs...@gmail.com wrote: > || On Apr 16, 10:23 pm, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > I was once accused by a security guard of leaving Wolf Bait in a toilet > cubicle at Kings Cross Train Station in London. No! No! You have it wrong - the security guard said, "Poof bait". SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). > On Apr 16, 10:23 pm, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 83 lines] > Her squirrel huntin ability later helped her get a marksmanship award > when she joined the Marines. Yeah! We call them tree rats over here. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). >> Her squirrel huntin ability later helped her get a marksmanship award >> when she joined the Marines. >> > Yeah! We call them tree rats over here. The Marines?! Since when did we get so polite about ill-trained thugs? >> Innews:1176701945.981615.191340@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, >> kevinmcc...@yahoo.com <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> typed: [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] > > McCabe If memory serves the Sitca Spruce choked out the Douglas Firs after the first year. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). > <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 84 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Beg to disagree, I saw a whole forty-year-old forest of Doug Fir on the Hills around Loch Ness back in 1992. A man explained to me they planted them in the wake of WWII to make sure they never ran short of timber again. McCabe >> <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 99 lines] > > McCabe You can differ if you like but the Sitka Spruce thing was reaching crisis proportions in Scotland with our traditional landscapes becoming covered in them from the borders to the Northern Coast. Everywhere you looked the bloody things were marching across Scotland faster than the Cane Toad across Australia. My remark about choking out the Douglas Firs was tongue in cheek but nevertheless almost true. There is a more enlightened regime in charge now and native trees have been replanted. Good forest management now means having a far better mix of trees. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). >> Beg to disagree, I saw a whole forty-year-old forest of Doug Fir on >> the Hills around Loch Ness back in 1992. A man explained to me they >> planted them in the wake of WWII to make sure they never ran short of >> timber again. >> >> McCabe That's about right - same thing happened after WW1 - we were worried we would run out of timber to construct trenches, so as soon as the war was over we planted millions of trees to plan for it. In the second world war it was was the war-time shortage of essential pit-props that sparked all the concern and again the planting programme for that war began as soon as it was over. It was a resounding success too. We never run short of timber for the trenches or (after Thatcher) pit-props again, though the latter was for reasons other than supply. The downside was that we ended up with hundreds of thousands of hectares of Sitka spruce and a lot of Douglas fir that cost almost as much to harvest than they were worth on the open market. In the case of 'first thinnings' it cost *more* than they were worth. Oops. Douglas fir is the more valuable timber but the reason so much Sitka was planted is because it's tougher and more adaptable and so losses are much less - particularly in the vulnerable first five years or so. Most foresters would have planted a mix if it was viable and in some areas of good soil and ideal conditions Douglas are the dominant planting. We also planted about half a dozen other species but few were as suitable as Sitka. The scadalous planting of the wetlands in Caithness was carried out with Lodgepole pine for example but it was a dismal failure. There are also several varieites of Sitka - the most common was 'QCI' from Queen Charlotte Island but latterly there was a 'Super Sitka' which has been nursery bred and grows about 25% faster. I'm way out of touch with UK forestry policy these days but SFIUI there are to be no more new plantings of Sitka full stop. I'm not sure how much of this is due to public pressure for more attractive wildlife-friendly native woodlands and how much is due to countries like Latvia and Estonia flooding the market with cheap better quality timber. They've got masses of it too. When I was in charge of some harvesting operations in Aberdeenshire about 10 years ago the Latvians could get their timber, ready processed into planks, to the habour side in Aberdeen cheaper than I could get raw logs there from 90 miles away. What chance have you got. Personally I think native woodlands will prove to be far more lucrative in the long run as they will beautify those ghastly desolate Scottish landscapes and attract wildlife and thus visitors. All other models in Europe show that extensive planting of native woodlands leads to an upturn in the local economy. If you can get something rare like Beavers to move in then the tourism benefits go off the scale. The biggest obsticle to achieving this in Scotland is the land ownership system and the chronic problem of drastic overpopulation with Deer. > You can differ if you like but the Sitka Spruce thing was reaching crisis > proportions in Scotland with our traditional landscapes becoming covered [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > in charge now and native trees have been replanted. Good forest management > now means having a far better mix of trees. This was a process that actually began way back in 1987 but it is only really now that the policy has become clearly visible to the untrained eye as the native hardwoods begin to become evident in the landscape. The Sitka forests were also radically 'restructured' age-wise and new forms of harvesting programmes were adopted. It became much more difficult to obtain permision for the huge 'clearfells' that used to blight whole hillsides for miles. Now the harvesting is carried out in much smaller coups and then replanted so you get a mix of 'age classes' in the one forest. The bigger the mix of age classes the broader the spectrum of habitats and the more wildlife freindly it becomes. Looks much better too. Sitka gets a bad press because of the mistakes of the past but, *properly managed* it can become a reasonably nice forest with plenty of biodiversity. > >> Beg to disagree, I saw a whole forty-year-old forest of Doug Fir on > >> the Hills around Loch Ness back in 1992. A man explained to me they [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] > Sitka gets a bad press because of the mistakes of the past but, *properly > managed* it can become a reasonably nice forest with plenty of biodiversity. WOW! That was quite a missal. Seriously, though, I see what both you and Mr. Peffers are driving at. I'm a big Doug Fir fan because I've hiked mountains carpeted with them (some of it even old growth) for 35 years. But, they're the native, dominant species here (alders grow, fall over, rot, then the firs really start to thrive). But, before that, I was from the East Coast and I still remember, a bit vaguely its true, the beauty of deciduous forests. You know what I would really like to do someday? Ski or snowshoe a birch forest. McCabe snip >> That's about right - same thing happened after WW1 - we were worried we >> would run out of timber to construct trenches, so as soon as the war was [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> trenches or (after Thatcher) pit-props again, though the latter was for >> reasons other than supply. Now there's me thinking that the reason 'we' never run out of 'pit-props' was entirely technological! IIRC; the introduction of _Retreat_ Mining , which utilses a hydraulic operated roof-prop-shield mechansim then a huge cutter/picker chipping off chunks of coal off the 'face' of the seam onto a conveyer belt back then to the surface meant that wooden pit props were no longer required. Almost synchronously the swinging sixties fashion for pine furntiture erupted into a Habitat near you - but perhaps that too was for 'resaons other than supply'! SignatureBrian > snip > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > chunks of coal off the 'face' of the seam onto a conveyer belt back then > to the surface meant that wooden pit props were no longer required. Sure - I said the trees were planted for pit props - I don't think any of them were actually used for that purpose. It's often the case with forestry - with some trees, like Scots pine for example - you are working on a 60 or even 80 year rotation. By the time they are mature the world is a different place. > Almost synchronously the swinging sixties fashion for pine furntiture > erupted into a Habitat near you - but perhaps that too was for 'resaons > other than supply'! Sitka isn't pine - it's a spruce and I don't think it's much use for furniture as it's too 'soft' to plane and sand weel - SFAIK these days most of it goes for paper pulp for newsprint. But As I admitted, it's been years since I ws in the woodland biz now and things change quickly so I might be wrong on that. The reasons 'other than supply' I was alluding to was that Thatcher closed the entire mining inustry down in revenge for the miners bringing down the previous Tory government. >> snip >> [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > the entire mining inustry down in revenge for the miners bringing down the > previous Tory government. Yes that's what your partisan viewpoint alluded to; but there's a slight dichotomy;- Mine engineering had moved to 'retreat mining extraction methods' whereby the collieries no longer needed timber pit props - as I've stated that technology had been replaced by huge steel and hydraulic mechanisms. So irrespective of whether 'the mines' were in production or not- the need for timber pit props had disappeared. Have you any experience of mining engineering other than reading left-wing articles ? SignatureBrian >>> snip >>> [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > irrespective of whether 'the mines' were in production or not- the need > for timber pit props had disappeared. What part of; "...Sure - I said the trees were planted for pit props - I don't think any of them were actually used for that purpose..." don't you understand? > Have you any experience of mining engineering other than reading left-wing > articles ? Have you any experience of politics other than making baseless assumptions about people of whom you know nothing? Touch bastard aren't you? [Plonk] >>>> snip >>>> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > don't think any of > them were actually used for that purpose..." don't you understand? You've ommitted the part of your diatribe which read " or (after Thatcher) pit-props again"! IIRC; Retreat Mining, which nugated the requirement for timber pit-props, was introduced by the NCB and to myknoweldge without reference to 'Thatcher' (sic). Your contatenation of the two disparate events is indicative of someone who's mind is made up! >> Have you any experience of mining engineering other than reading >> left-wing articles ? > > Have you any experience of politics I'll take that as a 'No'! > ....... other than making baseless assumptions about people of > whom you know nothing? As you're posting to a Naval group; RN signal; "Luke 7 -16" "Ye shall know them by their fruits" > Touch bastard aren't you? Evasive aren't you? > [Plonk] Pity the masquerading hide-behind-a-stupid-name won't read this; but;- Deo gratias! SignatureBrian > >>>> <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > >>>>news:1177135668.291322.309110@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 88 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Were the mine technologies you speak of developed after the forests were planted? McCabe snip > Were the mine technologies you speak of developed after the forests > were planted? Of course! Was the coal laid down before the forests were planted? 'Retreat Mining' -which inter-alia replaced miners working narrow seams with hand tools- was the result of developments in hydraulic actuators; electronic feedback controls systems and operator control-lery etc. etc. The technology matured, IIRC, about the mid-eighties. Was the technological developments occurring because of the Prime Minister extant? Would the demand for timber pit props have fallen if HMG was composed of Labour / SDP / Liberal Members of Parliament? I doubt it. -- Brian > <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Brian If they didn't have the technology you're talking about at the time the forests were planted, then planting it seems like a fair plan for future materials. McCabe > If they didn't have the technology you're talking about at the time > the forests were planted, then planting it seems like a fair plan for > future materials. In the context of the times of course it was - he's completely misunderstood me and missed my point in his attempt to troll me. The decison to destroy the mining industry in the UK was a purely political one, which is only further illustrated by the troll's remarks about the improvement in technology. Some of the mines that were closed were among the most technologically advanced in the world and perfectly economically viable. Personally I'm delighted that the miners were wiped out but it had nothing whatever to do with pit-props or retreat mining or even economics. You don't have to be a miner to understand that but you do have be politically aware. That's obviously where he is lacking - along with civility and manners. >> If they didn't have the technology you're talking about at the time >> the forests were planted, then planting it seems like a fair plan for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > politically aware. > That's obviously where he is lacking - along with civility and manners. But, luckily you don't have to read me! Do you? SignatureBrian >> <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > McCabe Absolutely true; you must therefore agree that the OP's point that the demise of the demand for timber pit-props was 'because Thatcher had closed the mine' was a prime example of post hoc and not propter hoc. { which was the point I was challenging ]. Technology and extraction methods evolve (improve?) and develop over time - which is more than can be said for the OP's understanding of the Real World. SignatureBrian >> snip >> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > for example - you are working on a 60 or even 80 year rotation. > By the time they are mature the world is a different place. When the Danish fleet was seized by the Brits in 1807, the navy frantically started to plant oaks all over to make up for the trees used to build new ships. The rotation for oak is about 200 years. One of these days!!! Soren Larsen SignatureHistory is not what it used to be. >>> snip >>> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > One of these days!!! : ) I can't remember where this place is but somewhere in England there is a cathedral that had some enormous oak timbers replaced some 400 years after it was built with oak that was planted when it was built for just that purpose. That's the story anyway and it makes sense. The French have 200 year rotations on some of their hardwood plantations. However, their history is such that most of these plantations are family owned and have been for centuries. They plant now for their great great-grandchildren. I helped draw up the management plans for most of the Woodland Trust's properties in the north of Scotland and one of those included a 200 year rotation on a SSSI Oak forest near Golspie. The trees are all of a similar age (about 300 IIRC) so the plan is to have younger trees coming through to take their place when they die. Seems obvious doesn't it but no-one had thought to make any provision for it in the last 200 years I even managed to persuade them to plant a new woodland of 7,000 sapling oaks. Probably about the only worthwhile and lasting thing I've ever done in fact. >>>> snip >>>> [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > woodland of 7,000 sapling oaks. Probably about the only worthwhile > and lasting thing I've ever done in fact. Some of the danish navy oaks are finally getting under sail. The historical US yacht coronet is being restored with some of them http://www.yachtcoronet.org/pr/FuttockPurchase.htm "Planted in the seventeenth century by command of King Christian IV to provide timber for the Royal Navy, these 200 year-old trees are individually registered and reserved for special projects by the Danish Crown." They are a bit confused about the dates though. The planting program started in the 16th century but the oaks they are getting are the ones planted in the early 19th c. to make up for the loss of the navy. Other oaks are being used for viking ship replicas and some has been used to restore Dutch windmills though that is stretching the sail thing a bit. Some has even been used to restore the Frigate Jylland which is as close as any of the oaks will get to be used for their original purpose. http://www.navalhistory.dk/images/Skibene/IJ/Jylland(1860)-1178-1970.jpg http://www.bil-fritid.dk/graphics/pictures/2721_full.jpg Soren Larsen SignatureHistory is not what it used to be. > Some of the danish navy oaks are finally getting under sail. Interesting. I've got a lot of Spanish friends and one of the usual arguments when I'm down that way is who is responsible for the demise of our respective Oak forests. Theirs built the Armada and ours went to defend against it but that's not the way they see it. It's all the fault of the bastard English apparently. : ) > History is not what it used to be. Neither is the future - where's my flying car? I've waited over 40 years for it now. Whilst perusing Usenet on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:20:24 +1000, I read these words from "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@westnet.com.au> : >> Some of the danish navy oaks are finally getting under sail. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Neither is the future - where's my flying car? >I've waited over 40 years for it now. The Feds shut down John De Lorean before he got round to building yours. -- jjj > I was from the East Coast and I still remember, a bit vaguely > its true, the beauty of deciduous forests. You know what I would > really like to do someday? Ski or snowshoe a birch forest. Living among civilized and God fearing folks, you were probably a sensible fellow back then, as well. Your descent into the west coast decadent and barbaric lifestyle is a common, but tragic tale we hear many times. From what I understand, Dubya spoke and wrote perfect American when he was here being educated, but after being assimilated by the ten gallon hat goofs, adopted the bumpkin vocabulary, replete with incomplete and syntax challenged sentences, disingenuous replies, and of course, peppered with *down home,* rustic references that have Webster spinning in his New Haven grave. The city fathers put up a born in New Haven sign when Dubya was first elected, but some of our concerned citizens kept knocking it down. The fathers finally got the hint and threw it away. Perhaps if California secedes, they'll take the Alamo folks with them. The gasoline prices would go up, but that's a small price to pay to regain our rightful spot again as leader of the free world. There are so many birch trees here, we cut them down and make lovely, clean white logs, which are sprayed with a sealer and sold as decorative logs for fireplaces. Mostly, they re-plant elms as we are known as the elm city, to counter the devastation caused by the dutch elm disease which decimated our trees earlier last century. Right now, I'm still getting rid of the oak leaves and dead branches littered across the yard. If you're not busy today... Turlough > There are so many birch trees here, we cut them down and make lovely, > clean white logs, which are sprayed with a sealer and sold as decorative > logs for fireplaces. We had a lot of them until the Birch Borer elected to visit...the lovely little clump planted tree in the front of my house, the one I see through my office window, succumbed to the beast despite extensive (and expensive) attempts to save it. Our neighbourhood, which used to be planted with a combination of Maple, Paper birch and Ash, now hasn't a birch tree to bless itself with, save for my (replacement) River birch which is resistant to the bug. > Mostly, they re-plant elms as we are known as the > elm city, to counter the devastation caused by the dutch elm disease > which decimated our trees earlier last century. They planted the Princeton or Valley Forge Elm rather than the old-fashioned American one though, didn't they? I like elms, I just don't like the mess they make in the spring when they drop their seeds...hard to believe something so small could so effec- tively block something as large as a storm drain. > Right now, I'm still > getting rid of the oak leaves and dead branches littered across the > yard. If you're not busy today... Hm...well, if you'd prefer Maple leaves and last year's crabapples, you could come and clear my yard instead of your own. We're in the process of replanting about forty feet of the border which was destroyed by a utility that didn't know where their line was...granted, they settled with us financially, but the work is still a brute. I keep telling myself this is "an opportunity" to rework things out there, but my lower back has a different opinion. Deirdre >> There are so many birch trees here, we cut them down and make lovely, >> clean white logs, which are sprayed with a sealer and sold as decorative [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Deirdre You seem NOT to be having too much luck ATM. As the father of the radio series, "The McFlannels", (way back in the 40-60), used to say, "Cheer-up, we've never dei'd o Winter yit". SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). > > We're in the process of replanting about forty feet of the border > > which was destroyed by a utility that didn't know where their line [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > series, "The McFlannels", (way back in the 40-60), used to say, "Cheer-up, > we've never dei'd o Winter yit". Ach, I've all the luck in the world...healthy family, work which interests me and enough leisure time and disposable income to pursue my interests...what more does anyone need? These wee trials are just the normal setbacks of life and while they may red-line the aggravation meter when they're happening, they're not insurmountable by any stretch of the imagination... and frequently they _do_ turn out to be "opportunities", but that tends to be in hindsight. The most aggravating thing about the border was that we had no warning, if they'd _told_ us they were going to dig it up, we could have moved some plants out of the line of fire, but I came home to fait accompli. S'okay though, I've spent many hours this weekend (and even more dollars) at every plant nursery within a ten mile radius of the house (all the mail order plants arrived on Friday)...and since my daughter is cash-strapped owing to a cut in hours at her job, I also have cheap labour at my disposal. Between the two (well, three, if you count His Lordship's refusal to count the cost), things are coming back together nicely. Life is fine...I make my own luck. Deirdre >> > We're in the process of replanting about forty feet of the border >> > which was destroyed by a utility that didn't know where their line [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Deirdre I presented a young married lady and her two wee boys, who pass my gate several times each day on their way to the local school, with a standard Fuchsia I had grown for a year or so. You would have thought I had given her the crown jewels by the way her face lit up. She and her husband are just establishing their garden in their new home. I must see what other surplus stuff I have - I just hate to throw pruning's away and always have a few little, more unusual, plants on the go. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). > kevinmcc...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I was from the East Coast and I still remember, a bit vaguely [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Living among civilized and God fearing folks, you were probably a > sensible fellow back then, as well. Well, I recall the trees as quite lovely. By contrast, I recall the people as quite ugly. One of the few times I have ever, subjectively experienced prejudice was in Pennsylvania. I was new to a town and went around after school to see if anyone wanted to play ball. The answer at twelve houses was that the kid wasn't allowed to because I was a catholic. Fortunately, in those days it wasn't a felony to have a fistfight behind the backstop. I was about nine, I think. > Your descent into the west coast > decadent and barbaric lifestyle is a common, but tragic tale we hear > many times. I have never experienced anything remotely si milar in Seattle. There always were, of course, fights with catholic schoolboys over uniforms. Btu, it was equal opportunity stuff. I was in as many scraps with them over the teasing as any protestant. By contrast, we don't lag far behind you lot in insitutional racism targetting persons of color by means of selective enforcement of the criminal law. However, some of us are trying to fight that. Given your responses in this forum, though, I know those arguments would fall on stone deaf ears with you. Like all of the Northeast, you seem perfectly happy to sign over your liberty and privacy to Big Brother in some vague attempt at security. > From what I understand, Dubya spoke and wrote perfect > American when he was here being educated, but after being assimilated by [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > citizens kept knocking it down. The fathers finally got the hint and > threw it away. I'm glad your finally laying claim to the bastard. Now, go and make good and heartfelt acts of contrition until doomsday to make up for his sins. > Perhaps if California secedes, they'll take the Alamo > folks with them. The gasoline prices would go up, but that's a small > price to pay to regain our rightful spot again as leader of the free world. Personally, I live for the day when Mexico retakes Texas and California falls into the sea. It would be the greatest victory for the left since the Russian Army left the fields of slaughter in the Great War. > There are so many birch trees here, we cut them down and make lovely, > clean white logs, which are sprayed with a sealer and sold as decorative > logs for fireplaces. I must be serious now. I really do want to ski a Birch Forrest. I had thought Poland, though. > Mostly, they re-plant elms as we are known as the > elm city, to counter the devastation caused by the dutch elm disease > which decimated our trees earlier last century. Right now, I'm still > getting rid of the oak leaves and dead branches littered across the > yard. If you're not busy today... Sorry, dealing with Maple leafs and a fallen laurel myself. McCabe >> >> Beg to disagree, I saw a whole forty-year-old forest of Doug Fir on >> >> the Hills around Loch Ness back in 1992. A man explained to me they [quoted text clipped - 108 lines] > its true, the beauty of deciduous forests. You know what I would > really like to do someday? Ski or snowshoe a birch forest. Unfortunately, the Douglas Firs are under attack in the Appalachian Mountains. Some sort of beetle plus heavy pollution are taking their toll. Sad, a beautiful and stately tree. > Unfortunately, the Douglas Firs are under attack in the Appalachian > Mountains. > Some sort of beetle plus heavy pollution are taking their toll. > Sad, a beautiful and stately tree. Probaby Tussock moth grubs - that's the most common one. But so many forests are under stress due to other factors - like drought and pollution - that they succumb more easily to natural pests that ordinarily they would recover from over time. >> Unfortunately, the Douglas Firs are under attack in the Appalachian >> Mountains. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > and pollution - that they succumb more easily to natural pests that > ordinarily they would recover from over time. That is pretty much the conclusion the experts came to around here. > <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Sorry to hear that. I hope the Rockies stop the damn thing. Still, the Appalachian trail is amongst the great natural wonders famed for its deciduous trees, yes? I was on part of it once, a lifetime ago. McCabe >> Unfortunately, the Douglas Firs are under attack in the Appalachian >> Mountains. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Appalachian trail is amongst the great natural wonders famed for its > deciduous trees, yes? I was on part of it once, a lifetime ago. Fortunately, other evergreens are taking the place of the Firs. Balsams if I remember correctly. > That's about right - same thing happened after WW1 - we were worried we > would run out of timber to construct trenches, so as soon as the war was [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > trenches or (after Thatcher) pit-props again, though the latter was for > reasons other than supply. I believe one of the major reasons for the replanting of trees in Scotland after the Great War was for aircraft construction. SignatureAndrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) || Innews:1176701945.981615.191340@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, || kevinmcc...@yahoo.com <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> typed: [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] | | McCabe You have to adapt your house with domesticated ferrets they will get anywhere. As for the Doug Firs I will have to get back to you. I am very envious of those bob cats and panthers you have though. SignatureCount Baldoni > Innews:1176776615.432022.227570@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, > kevinmcc...@yahoo.com <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> typed: [quoted text clipped - 77 lines] > -- > Count Baldoni You know, I've never seen a bobcat (outside a zoo), but I hear tell there's a lot of them over on Kate's side of the Cascades. We have plenty of cougars, though. Not just in the mountains either (though I saw one from fifteen feet up there once). We back up on twenty thousand acres of greenbelt, mostly gorges. Anyway, when my kid was in elementary school, they had to close the place down for a day because one the big cats was hanging out in the playground. We get a fair number of bears, but mostly black - so thats all good. Up in the North Cascades, though, they've got Grizz coming into the towns. McCabe On Apr 16, 1:39 am, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > "Baldoni" <antho...@amalfi.org> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > McCabe Dont you have cats? Maybe your cats have become like your navy (sorry, couldnt resist). However, if ya keep bitchin, we'll send you some racoons. On Apr 16, 9:03 am, oldfrogs...@gmail.com wrote: > On Apr 16, 1:39 am, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > (sorry, couldnt resist). However, if ya keep bitchin, we'll send you > some racoons. When we didnt have cats, the squirrels would eat all the pecans and throw the half eaten nuts into my boat. The cats think the squirrels are cat toys and obsess over catching them. They are successful just enough to keep the population down. One young cat (gonna have to rename her "Cornwall")just doesnt have the attention span to track the squirrels and eventually gives up and meows pitifully in frustration and then the squirrels sit up in the trees mocking her and throwing nuts down on her. > On Apr 16, 9:03 am, oldfrogs...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Apr 16, 1:39 am, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > are cat toys and obsess over catching them. They are successful just > enough to keep the population down. Mind you the squirrel problem isn't so much stopping them coming into gardens etc. The problem is that in the wild they are replacing the native red squirrels which have already all but disappeared from much of the island. I live in the Scottish Borders where we still have a fair population of reds, however even here it is much more common to see the greys! Allan > On Apr 16, 1:39 am, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > (sorry, couldnt resist). However, if ya keep bitchin, we'll send you > some racoons. No thanks. The rubbish your lot left on the bottom of the Holy Loch was more than enough gifts from your benighted country. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). > On Apr 16, 1:39 am, "kevinmcc...@yahoo.com" <kevinmcc...@yahoo.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > > Dont you have cats? Maybe your cats have become like your navy Is that the navy that were made silhouetted sitting ducks for U-boats because you refused to black out your coastal cities? Thanks a lot for not 'saving' all the thousands that died while you partied on, slimeball. > Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses > the last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading > vessels the arch villain the Gray Squirrel. Our native Squirrel the Red > which is much smaller has been forced into Scotland in much the same way > as the Saxon chased the Celt. How would you like that you rotten > bastards. The grey squirrel infestation is accidental. If we'd wanted to do you over we'd have sent black squirrels. They make MS-13 look like Girl Scouts. IBM > Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the > last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Red Squirrel/Methadone Alliance > Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses the > last time we thought was damned unsavory. You planted on trading vessels [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Red Squirrel/Methadone Alliance Once again, the New world's gift to mankind, the grey squirrel (universal food) is once again being reviled and denigrated by those who would wish to continue to promote the inferior red squirrel, currently ekeing out its existence in the woods and wildlands of the British Isles. The United states Department of State is currently contemplating facilitating the continuing importation of the grey squirrel into Old Blighty by promoting it as the latest event in the consolidation of Anglo-American friendship and co-operation--first Lend-Lease, later Iraq, now the grey squirrel--just us cheerful murkin types spreading joy and happiness and grey squirrels throughout the land; indeed, we may send a flotilla of ships over your way with as many squirrels that we can find to reinforce those that have already established a beachead--a second Normandy invasion (although it might be Dover this time), if you will... Among other advantages, the grey squirrel is considered amongst certain types of murkins as a rare delicacy (some say it tastes like chicken), and the undersigned is on the short list of those considered to help organize the culinary attack on English cooking ("No bubble and squeak! Have some creamed squirrel on toast!")! And my dear Count, I would consider it a personal duty on my part to present you with a crack squad of grey squirrels ready to overrun-- err, re-populate--your island. We'll even bring our own provisions so you would not have to worry about running out of nuts, just as long as you have a fresh water source available. And once a month, we'll send someone over to show you and the Countess, the residents of your monastery and other invited guests the many and varied ways to prepare and cook and eat grey squirrel... Of course, please be advised that we do keep the black squirrels in reserve; should you refuse our kind offer, we may consider unleashing the black squirrel on Auld Blighty--and boy, you'll be in trouble then, I tell you! The Honorable Jane Margaret Laight U.S. Supreme Plenipotentiary Commissioner to the Court of St James Grey Squirrel Resettlement and Culinary Arts Project (application pending) > Of course, please be advised that we do keep the black squirrels in > reserve; should you refuse our kind offer, we may consider unleashing > the black squirrel on Auld Blighty--and boy, you'll be in trouble > then, I tell you! I don't know about that, the black squirrels are originally from Ontario. > The Honorable Jane Margaret Laight > U.S. Supreme Plenipotentiary Commissioner to the Court of St James > Grey Squirrel Resettlement and Culinary Arts Project (application > pending) Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall >> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses >> the [quoted text clipped - 95 lines] > Grey Squirrel Resettlement and Culinary Arts Project (application > pending) Not another word of threats to send any other USAsian critters to our Sceptred Isles or we will send you the first battalion, "The Mighty Ring -Tailed Winged Haggis". These beasts are so powerful we do not even need to provide then either sea or air transportation. The little buggers just get themselves to the target. All that is required is to present each member of the attack force with a bottle of single malt, a handful of oatmeal and a large enough sporran to keep them in. We then give them an item that is unique to the country to be invaded and point them in the general direction. The last country we did that to was Aradobiland. What! You've never heard of it? Exactly. Now all we need is something unique to your benighted land. I wonder what we could use? SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). >>> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses >>> the [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] > Sceptred Isles or we will send you the first battalion, "The Mighty > Ring -Tailed Winged Haggis". Not fair! At least the grey squirrels are edible! Before the turn of the last century the squirrels in this area (mine and Jane's) were hunted almost to extinction. We had to *import* black squirrels from Canada and save some of the local critters in the National Zoo. > These beasts are so powerful we do not even > need to provide then either sea or air transportation. The little buggers [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Now all we need is something unique to your benighted land. I wonder what we > could use? Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall >Before the turn of the > last century the squirrels in tis area (mine and Jane's) were hunted > almost to extinction. We had to *import* black squirrels from Canada and > save some of the local critters in the National Zoo. in your area RSVP on a dinner invitation means "roast skunk very possible" >> Before the turn of the >> last century the squirrels in tis area (mine and Jane's) were hunted >> almost to extinction. We had to *import* black squirrels from Canada and >> save some of the local critters in the National Zoo. > > in your area RSVP on a dinner invitation means "roast skunk very possible" I'm talking about Washington D.C., you're not allowed to eat the skunks, just vote for them. Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall >>>> Your plan to destabilize our country in revenge for kicking your arses >>>> the [quoted text clipped - 121 lines] >> Now all we need is something unique to your benighted land. I wonder what >> we could use? So if we wish to get rid of our share of your national delicacy we could just stop all family tax credits, state pensions and unemployment payments and hand out recipes and free vegetables instead? I'm surprised that Scottish NuLabour, in their present difficulties, have not latched onto that one. SignatureRobert Peffers, Kelty, Fife, Scotland, (UK). On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote: > > Not another word of threats to send any other USAsian critters to our > > Sceptred Isles or we will send you the first battalion, "The Mighty [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > almost to extinction. We had to *import* black squirrels from Canada and > save some of the local critters in the National Zoo. The black squirrel is just a melanistic grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensus). Around here, they are considered to be just a rat with a fur coat and a press agent. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO > On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > The black squirrel is just a melanistic grey squirrel (Sciurus > carolinensus). I know, they interbreed with the other squirrels in my back yard. > Around here, they are considered to be just a rat with > a fur coat and a press agent. Not a very good press agent. The little buggers steal our tomatoes. My dogs are on standing orders to kill the little bastards. > -- > Andrew Chaplin > SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall >> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I know, they interbreed with the other squirrels in my back yard. That's not interbreeding, that's just breeding. SignatureAndrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) >>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > That's not interbreeding, that's just breeding. In the south it's miscegenation. Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall >>>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >>>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > In the south it's miscegenation. If they want to screw squirrels, that's up to them. We folks north of the Mason-Dixon Line tend to stick to H. sapiens sapiens. SignatureAndrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) >>>>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >>>>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > If they want to screw squirrels, that's up to them. We folks north of the > Mason-Dixon Line tend to stick to H. sapiens sapiens. And, a resounding *YES* from British Columbia! :) - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... >>>>>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >>>>>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... Having no personal experience with squirrels or H. erectus I won't argue with you. Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... : :Having no personal experience with squirrels or H. erectus I won't argue :with you. Nilita likes 'em long dead and extinct. They can't talk back that way... Signature"Well, I met a girl in West Hollywood. I ain't naming names. She really worked me over good. She was just like Jesse James. She really worked me over good. She was a credit to her gender. She put me through some changes, Lord. Sort of like a Waring blender." -- Warren Zevon, "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me" > :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... > : [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Nilita likes 'em long dead and extinct. They can't talk back that > way... Oh oh. Fred is sounding an awful like The Highlander lately. I wonder why ..... hmmmm .... And to Cory: Squirrels are the dead things my cats sometimes bring home. H. Erectus is ... well ..... warm and cuddly ... and has been known to send flowers ...%) - nilita > > :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... > > : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > home. H. Erectus is ... well ..... warm and cuddly ... and has been > known to send flowers ...%) Doh! ... I forgot most people don't understand the inside joke around these parts where some of us refer to the bodybuilders at the gym as Homo Erectus. Jokingly, of course ...%) - nilita, slapping hand to forehead ... >>> :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... >>> : [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > - nilita, slapping hand to forehead ... Don't worry we got it. the funny part is any reference to H erectus as an "inside" joke is itself a fine "inside" Double entendre since everyone knows body builders are Neanderthals not Erectus Vince :> > :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... :> > : [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] :these parts where some of us refer to the bodybuilders at the gym as :Homo Erectus. Jokingly, of course ...%) Really silly. You know steroids cause ED, right? 'Erectus' isn't something many body builders are likely to be good at... Signature"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn >> :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... >> : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > home. H. Erectus is ... well ..... warm and cuddly ... and has been > known to send flowers ...%) And they look like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pekingthr.jpg or this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Erectus2ZICA.png > - nilita Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall On Apr 19, 8:48 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote: > >> :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... > >> : [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > And they look like this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pekingthr.jpg > or this.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Erectus2ZICA.png Somewhat ... :) I forgot that most people don't catch the local reference to bodybuilders. See my previous post ... ;) - nilita :> :> - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... :> : [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] :Oh oh. Fred is sounding an awful like The Highlander lately. I :wonder why ..... hmmmm .... Oh oh. Nilita DOES know that H. erectus went extinct around half a million years ago, right? Too late for even Viagra to help, given that. Poor Nilita will stretch to any silly thought to remain the center of her little universe. :And to Cory: Squirrels are the dead things my cats sometimes bring :home. H. Erectus is ... well ..... warm and cuddly ... and has been :known to send flowers ...%) Wasn't Nilita just lecturing about how she doesn't read what I write? Sad, little girl. Really sad. Signature"I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight." -- Mark Twain On Apr 19, 11:25 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote: > >>>>>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > >>>>>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Having no personal experience with squirrels or H. erectus I won't argue > with you. Being that I have had personal experience with both, I would recommend that you may want to have more of a closer relationship with our four- footed friends. I can certainly appreciate your hesitation about H. erectus, as one can find both the direct descendants of Peking Man and those narcissists La Nilita describes at the local gymnasium or fitness center. I once knew one of those fellows who could bench press 500 pounds and he occasionally did so while gazing at his magnificent self in a handy mirror. Scary, scary... JML no stranger to gymnasia (retired) > -- > "For the stronger we our houses do build, > The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - > On Apr 19, 11:25 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > JML > no stranger to gymnasia (retired) I *so* agree with you, Jane. I had tongue firmly planted in cheek when I posted that. Having said that, I do have very fond memories of my former fitness trainer of many years ago - all 6'6" 280 lb. of him ...;) - nilita >> On Apr 19, 11:25 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > Having said that, I do have very fond memories of my former fitness > trainer of many years ago - all 6'6" 280 lb. of him ...;) The one with the great flat horns affixed to his head? > On Apr 19, 11:25 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > that you may want to have more of a closer relationship with our four- > footed friends. Oh I have experiences with squirrels, just not the type Nilita was suggesting. I once caught one square in the midsection with an overgrown zucchini. Knocked it clear off the fence. My previous dog caught one, it got away but not with all it's tail. We mounted her 'trophy' on the fence. > I can certainly appreciate your hesitation about H. > erectus, as one can find both the direct descendants of Peking Man and > those narcissists La Nilita describes at the local gymnasium or > fitness center. That may be difficult. Peking Man has no existing descendants. The current consensus is that archaic and then modern humans (h.s.s.) evolved in southern Africa. > I once knew one of those fellows who could bench > press 500 pounds and he occasionally did so while gazing at his > magnificent self in a handy mirror. Scary, scary... Ah yes... 'manly' men. Heh heh. > JML > no stranger to gymnasia (retired) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> - Show quoted text - Signature"For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall On Apr 19, 4:44 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 11:25 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > current consensus is that archaic and then modern humans (h.s.s.) > evolved in southern Africa. not that difficult--I've known some fellows that don't look too different than those pictures; they may not be Peking Man's direct descendants, but they damn sure favor him somewhat... :) JML happily single <snip> >>>>>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> >>>>>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > - nilita, preferring H. erectus to squirrels ... heheheh ... Oh come now, we all are aware of you Canadians and your carnal craving for Mooses. > > Oh come now, we all are aware of you Canadians and your carnal craving for > Mooses.- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You mis-spelled Moosehead Beer ...%) - nilita >> > Oh come now, we all are aware of you Canadians and your carnal craving >> for >> Mooses.- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > You mis-spelled Moosehead Beer ...%) The animal, not the beer (which ain't all that bad). One of the reasons for the low birthrate in Canada has been the annual Spring dash into the woods to corner and do unspeakable things to female mooses. On Apr 18, 9:45 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote: > >>> On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> > >>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > In the south it's miscegenation. |
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