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kjsimons
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Message 16 of 34 (235632)
08-22-2005 4:12 PM
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08-22-2005 4:08 PM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
Jar's post was tongue-in-cheek, so click on the link it's funny!

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Message 17 of 34 (235633)
08-22-2005 4:17 PM
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08-22-2005 4:12 PM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
Wow! That is a big snack for such a little doggie!
It's had telling when somebody is being facetious in print! Thanks for letting me see the cute doggie!

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Message 18 of 34 (235869)
08-23-2005 8:16 AM
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08-22-2005 4:17 PM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
Welcome,Ex-Ev. Just glanced at your site. In the Articles section, do you classify the Morrises as scientists or others?

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Brad McFall
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Message 19 of 34 (235983)
08-23-2005 11:55 AM
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08-22-2005 4:02 PM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
I guess my next "click" is to see what Jar contained here.
This picture of a snake below might not also count as funny. I had to make this creature my "pet". But despite Cornell being ranked as one of the best schools to eat one's way through the sname might not perfer this fare given what in the tumbnail picture I am thinking every time I force a salamander or worm down its throught. If it learns to eat on its own I will stop that practice.
It is unfortunate that pictures count for so much more than words. I dont feel like writing 2,000 words to Modulous to show this "belly" which he might see as the tail it is not. This is actually a picture of the head of the snake. You just can't see it. I made sirtalis a pet because I reached TOO far down in the strata looking for fossils and i roc'd a rock over on it's created tail. So this is either a picture of a stone without a fossil or a snake head not it's food. You decide. It is a pet anyway now.

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Message 20 of 34 (235997)
08-23-2005 12:14 PM
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08-23-2005 11:55 AM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
I love that print. It be great on a garden stone.
When I was about 22 my roommate - Steve - had a snake. An African red-tail boa named Sam. We'd feed Sam a mouse every three weeks or so and he was happy.
I'd never keep a wild animal as a pet today, but at that time I was young and crazy enough to allow a roommate to do it. It intrigued me quite a bit. I remember surprising the hell out of Steve by going to the bookstore and buying some books about snakes. Studying them and studying Sam became something of a hobby for a time.
Snakes are very interesting creatures.

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Brad McFall
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Message 21 of 34 (236003)
08-23-2005 12:19 PM
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08-23-2005 12:14 PM


Re: May not qualify as a funny story.
The only thing about "cold"bloods is that people over transfer the kinds of empathy they do for hamsters etc, if not on to them, onto their owners. The discoloration not red near the tail are the reasons I am keeping this one. I want to run it's lipids through an HPLC but I dont have access just now.
Anyway writing to you is more interesting than trying to twist my head upside down in THAT other thread going on concurrently. God Bless.

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Message 22 of 34 (236279)
08-23-2005 9:58 PM
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08-23-2005 12:19 PM


Pet Snakes
Brad writes me:
quote:
The discoloration not red near the tail are the reasons I am keeping this one.
Well there's a difference in your snake and Sam (at least I think so). Hard to tell for sure since all I can see is the underside, but I don't think your snake is potentially harmful to humans, is it?
Sam was a growing boy. He would eventually have made it to the point that he could threaten a human. I think after a couple years Steve gave Sam to some sort of rescue group.
One thing I remember is that you always wanted to check and see if he was shedding before picking him up. During shedding he wouldn't be very friendly and sometimes he'd bite.
I did an image search and found an African redtail that looks a lot like Sam:
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"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005

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Aztraph
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Message 23 of 34 (236288)
08-23-2005 10:44 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by X-Evolutionist
08-21-2005 9:07 PM


another funny story
We have 3 cats and a dog. The cats:1 gray and white neutered male named Barney,1 female calico named Minuet, and 1 grey bob tail named biscut. The Dog, female boxer lab mix named Merci
This story is about Minuet and merci. Min for short, is the sweetest little girl you'd never get to meet, she's timid and shy and as soon as a stranger comes in the house she hides. you look at her the wrong way and she'll start Kneeding in place and purr, if your a cat lover you know the temperment. One time we let the dog in and something in poor little Min's mind just snapped like twig and she lept 12+ feet across a room and landed on Merci's back with all FOUR sets of claws extended and rode her around in circles about the living room. they have never been in the same room since then.

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Message 24 of 34 (236306)
08-24-2005 1:22 AM


To set the table, one of my Labs and I developed a little demonstration of endearment where he would leap up and jump off my chest and back down again. I set up a signal for him to do it and saved it for special occasions like when he did a really good job at his drills and he knew I was pleased with his performance. I think it came to be very special for both of us and he was the only dog I ever did it with. When he got older and filled out, I really had to brace myself because he got up to maybe ninety pounds or so.
The event: One day I had all of my Labs at a pond running them through some handling drills. When I was done training the last one, I let them all out of the trailer to frolic around while I got a brush out and went back down to the pond to scrub my retreiving dummies/bumpers clean. I was bent over at the edge of the water scrubbing the bumpers. Little did I know that Jack (the scoundrel of this event) was stalking me from behind. He sneaked up behind me and laid there watching me.
As soon as I finished scrubbing my bumpers I turned around and put my hand to my chest, I guess to wipe off my hand. Well, that was the signal! Before I knew what was happening Jack took the two or three steps he needed to bounce off my chest. The trouble is, I had no idea he was coming and didn't brace myself at all. I went flying backwards into the water doing a perfect backflop a few feet out.
I came up sputtering and coughing and heard some uproarious laughter on the shore. It seems that a couple of fishermen had just been approaching and had seen the whole thing. One of them actually went to the ground holding his belly laughing so hard. They came over and told me it was the funniest thing they had ever seen and that they wished they had it on film because it would have been a winner on Funniest Home Videos. And I spent the next five minutes or so diving for my glasses at the pond's bottom. After I found them I went to shore and gave Jack a big old hug and then the four of us had another great laugh (I'm sure Jack was laughing with us).
I sure do wish Jack was still around to throw me in the drink just one last time! What a character he was.
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Brad McFall
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Message 25 of 34 (238379)
08-29-2005 7:52 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by berberry
08-23-2005 9:58 PM


Re: Pet Snakes
Hi bberry;
snakes came up in another discussion I am having on-line
more about my interests and a database proposal (Brad McFall 08/25/2005)
didn't know!! (Sharon Wavle/SUNY 08/25/2005)
Snakes (Christopher Horey 08/25/2005)
zeroing in on a database topic (Brad McFall 08/27/2005)
Snakes and databases (Christopher Horey 08/28/2005)
Yea, it is hardly a problem for humans. As a teenager however I was bit well over a couple hundred times by the critters that I became allergic simply to their saliva. A prof in Pennsylannia was interested in that. I haven't beem bitten lately and I never had a snake over 5 ft (a black racer which amazingly didnt bite when I "caught" it ( I stepped on its tail. It had about 4 feet to use but did not)).
I hope you all didnt get too wet down there.
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Message 26 of 34 (238549)
08-30-2005 9:20 AM
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08-21-2005 9:07 PM


Jumping Pooch
Before my wife and I were married, she already had a doga 10 year old Brittany named Patches. Both of us were bio majors and spent our summers together on Beaver Island, working at the CMU Biological Station and her dog stayed with us as well. We shared a two bedroom apartment with another student named Carla; with her using one bedroom and I, my future wife, and da pooch using the other.
One morning Carla was awoken by the sounds of squeaking bed noises coming from our room. At first she thought: Yikes!, but then she realized that first off, we were a bit more couth than that, and second, we had both already left for work. Intrigued as to the cause of the bed noises, she got up to peek in our room. We kept the door open so Patches could go in and out as he saw fit (it’s where we kept his food and water), so she just stood in the open doorway to look in and she sees this crazy pooch jumping up and down on the bed like a four-year old child. From her description, we’re talking about actually jumping up and downall four legs were coming off the bed, his floppy ears waving the air as he descends back to the bed, only to jump up off all fours again.
He did this quite a few times and then suddenly noticed that he was being watched. He looked over; saw Carla just standing therewatching himand he knew he was busted. His big ole doggie smile turned into a look of concern, cuz he was not allowed up on the furniture. So when he landed for the last time, he stared over at Carla, had a moment of surprise, got this incredibly guilty look on his face, and then slowly climbed back off the bed. Of course, being a dog, he sat there and looked at her as if to say: whatI wasn’t doing anythingthat wasn’t meit was some other dog.
She said she had never seen any thing like it in her life. A 10 year old pooch jumping up and down on a bedand seemingly enjoying the hell out of it ta boot. She actually came to find us at work to let us know what our crazy pooch had been doing. God, I loved that dog!

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iano
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Message 27 of 34 (243745)
09-15-2005 9:04 AM


Not so much a funny story but a nice one all the same:
A ferrule cat came nosing around my house. A wild one, wouldn't come anywhere near me. Bit by bit, using prime sliced ham, I could get her to eat out of my hand if she was on the shed roof and I had to stretch up to reach her. But no closer. I hadn't seen here for about a week until on day in my shed, I noticed 2 pairs of eyes peering out from under the jungle of stuff there. Kittens: 3 of em.
They were wild too and whilst I could come close when they were eating food and swing something on a string with which they would play with, as soon as they realised I was on the other end of it they'd scatter. Picking one up resulted in scrapes and scratches. Mommy, due to concern arrived at ground level but still wouldn't come any closer than about 15 feet. A phone call to the cat shelter told me that the kittens weren't wanted. Too many domestic cats available and if the kittens weren't domesticated within a few weeks, then wild they would remain. 4 weeks in and they were wild as hell. Put down they would have to be.
The dreaded day for visiting the vet arrived. Starvation for a day by locking them all in the shed got the kittens into the wash basket and the mother into a cat-box fairly easily. Tear flowing, I brought them all to the vet. "Put down the kittens, neuter the mother". The vet thought otherwise. "You must have been around them a bit - they're not so wild - I reckon I can get homes for them (which she did)".
I collected the mother later, brought her home groggy from the op, set the cat-box at the open back door and retreated to the couch, so as not to terrify her and cause her to bolt and maybe rupture stitches. Out she came, a bit unsteadily. Took a pace or two into the yard, looked back at me on the couch, turned around, walked gingerly over to the couch, jumped on on it and went to sleep in my lap.
And so I became a cat-owner

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Message 28 of 34 (243769)
09-15-2005 10:00 AM
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09-15-2005 9:04 AM


Iano, that's a sweet story
I'm glad the kitties all found homes and I'm glad you are now a kitty owner.

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iano
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Message 29 of 34 (243817)
09-15-2005 11:23 AM
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09-15-2005 10:00 AM


Re: Iano, that's a sweet story
Yup. I wasn't partial to cats before that - we'd always had dogs - and I always thought cats were unfriendly creatures. But a dog was out of the question as it would require a level of attention that wasn't possible. God being God, he came up with one of his typically classy and stylish solutions. "Iano could do with pet, so lets give him a suitable one and lets make it so that he can get to find out about cats without him realising that that is what's going on. Once he becomes attached to it, he'll see that it's as friendly and loyal as a dog. And why not let it chose him rather than the other way around!!"
Great site by the way (though prepare for some resistance to your 'asserions' here)

Romans 10:9-10: " if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved....."

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Message 30 of 34 (243820)
09-15-2005 11:34 AM
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09-15-2005 11:23 AM


Re: Iano, that's a sweet story
That's great that God made you into a "cat person" when the need arose.
Thanks for the comment about my site. I am aware that I am in the minority, but it doesn't bother me. I was an agnostic for over 40 years. I heard some pretty convincing scientific things that eventually led me to believe in God. I made the site to pass along what I learned.

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