Drybones wrote:
They should wipe her nose in it to get her properly trained.
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
it be cool if they find the culprit...like a three pound egg with Widmanstatten lines.
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Hahahahauncle meat wrote:
...and in other news
Breaking news:
The Chicago Police Dept has replaced
all sirens with the National Anthem to
force suspects to stop running and take a knee.
Hahahaha "Dazed and Confused"
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Apparently the PD in my hometown now has a sense of humor...
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BIG NEWS! Published just this week in Current Biology, DNA proof that Dryococelus australis (aka the Lord Howe Island stick insect) is not extinct.
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31098-9
This giant insect was thought to have gone extinct in 1920 after a infestation of rats from a shipwreck on Lord Howe Island eradicated the insect from it's endemic home on the idyllic South Pacific island between New Zealand and Australia. For over 80 years it was on the list of extinct species until in 2001 scientists found a population on Ball's Pyriamid (the world's tallest sea stack) located 14 miles off the coast of the island. This 1844 foot rock jutting out of the sea is so steep it was thought that no significant terrestrial plant or animal life could be supported. However the scientists found 24 specimens living under a single shrub about 330 feet up the rock. Two breeding pairs were captured for a breeding program. This weeks publication reports that DNA testing showed the captive insects from Ball's Stack are less than 1% divergent from the museum species from Lord Howe Island, confirming that they are the same species and not a new species. Climbing of Ball's Stack is prohibited but there are hiking trails on the island. However no camping is allowed and the few hotels run by the 380 residents are very expensive, so bring lots of cash. Also just announced is approval to begin a rat eradication program so the insect can be reintroduced to the island. Start packing.
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Super cool!
odd man out wrote:
BIG NEWS! Published just this week in Current Biology, DNA proof that Dryococelus australis (aka the Lord Howe Island stick insect) is not extinct.
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31098-9
This giant insect was thought to have gone extinct in 1920 after a infestation of rats from a shipwreck on Lord Howe Island eradicated the insect from it's endemic home on the idyllic South Pacific island between New Zealand and Australia. For over 80 years it was on the list of extinct species until in 2001 scientists found a population on Ball's Pyriamid (the world's tallest sea stack) located 14 miles off the coast of the island. This 1844 foot rock jutting out of the sea is so steep it was thought that no significant terrestrial plant or animal life could be supported. However the scientists found 24 specimens living under a single shrub about 330 feet up the rock. Two breeding pairs were captured for a breeding program. This weeks publication reports that DNA testing showed the captive insects from Ball's Stack are less than 1% divergent from the museum species from Lord Howe Island, confirming that they are the same species and not a new species. Climbing of Ball's Stack is prohibited but there are hiking trails on the island. However no camping is allowed and the few hotels run by the 380 tourists are very expensive, so bring lots of cash. Also just announced is approval to begin a rat eradication program so the insect can be reintroduced to the island. Start packing.
In life there are no limitations. Except stupidity. If you're stupid, you're screwed.
Stephan Pastis -
OMO, I was thrilled when I heard of their rediscovery. There is till so much waiting to be explored in this world.“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
If they made it to the sea stack and thrived, isn't it possible they made it off the main island to somewhere else?
Remember, everyone thought the coelacanth had been extinct for...oh...65 million freaking years until the 1930's...
However, it is cool to find the little buggers anywhere. The rat story is one of the classics about foreign invasive species causing havoc in paradise... -
except it's 370 miles to the closest land (Australia) and further to an island where the bugs might have a chance to survive. It's not like they can swim. That these remote islands get populated in first place is amazing.
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Sometimes it is hard to protect people from themselves.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
so very true.
Astro wrote:
Sometimes it is hard to protect people from themselves.
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Fentanyl is a blessing to those in the final stages of cancer. Taking it off the market harms the innocent. No bueno.
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yup, my dad had it as a result of cancer.
ScareBear wrote:
Fentanyl is a blessing to those in the final stages of cancer. Taking it off the market harms the innocent. No bueno.
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This is very cool. Of the 750,000 asteroids that have been observed, this is the first one to have come in from interstellar space. Plus it is the first to have such an elongated shape. From its trajectory, it must have been hurtling all by itself through interstellar space for hundreds of millions of years. For decades, scientists have speculated that there should be debris ejected from forming solar systems hurtling through space but this is the first evidence that there really is. After a close encounter with the sun, it is now on a trajectory to leave the solar system for hundreds millions more lonely years.
doi:10.1038/nature25020
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pay attention to shaq -- shaq graduated from LSU, the harvard of the south...Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
2,000 miler -
Ga Tech as the MIT of the South I will buy, but LSU as Harvard I know is a joke.
max.patch wrote:
pay attention to shaq -- shaq graduated from LSU, the harvard of the south...Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!"Dazed and Confused"
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Yes, and to you and yorn...our turkey received no pardon.
jimmyjam wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!
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I'm hoping that everyone has something to be thankful for this year and that you find a way to celebrate the day.
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As long as spiders don't have wings, everyone has something to be thankful for.
LIhikers wrote:
I'm hoping that everyone has something to be thankful for this year and that you find a way to celebrate the day.
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I was putting on my back porch two weeks ago and my ball got stuck under a pile of seat cushions, when I went to dislodge it with the putter head, along came a spider and sat down beside ‘er and jumped 18” in through the air in my direction, startled the bjeezies outta me...my putter became a one wood and then a potato masher.
SarcasmTheElf wrote:
As long as spiders don't have wings, everyone has something to be thankful for.LIhikers wrote:
I'm hoping that everyone has something to be thankful for this year and that you find a way to celebrate the day.
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Great T-Day in these parts. Started with a sunrise mountain walk, startled a flock of wild turkeys, a herd of deer and spied fresh mountain lion tracks.
Enjoyed T-Day dinner with friends. She not only made a tasty standing rib roast, but also shared stories about her great grandparents crossing the plains via wagon in the 1850s. She made a delicious cranberry cobbler and shared the recipe.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
I went to Valparaiso. You know what they say. Harvard is the Valparaiso of the east, Stanford is the Valparaiso of the west, and Duke is the Valparaiso of the south.
Astro wrote:
Ga Tech as the MIT of the South I will buy, but LSU as Harvard I know is a joke.max.patch wrote:
pay attention to shaq -- shaq graduated from LSU, the harvard of the south...Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
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Valparaiso? was that Indiana, Florida or Chile? for the fun factor, I vote for Chile.
odd man out wrote:
I went to Valparaiso. You know what they say. Harvard is the Valparaiso of the east, Stanford is the Valparaiso of the west, and Duke is the Valparaiso of the south.Astro wrote:
Ga Tech as the MIT of the South I will buy, but LSU as Harvard I know is a joke.max.patch wrote:
pay attention to shaq -- shaq graduated from LSU, the harvard of the south...Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
https://www.tfes.org/
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My vote would be for Indiana, whose most memorable moment was Bryce Drew's shot in the NCAA tournament.
chief wrote:
Valparaiso? was that Indiana, Florida or Chile? for the fun factor, I vote for Chile.odd man out wrote:
I went to Valparaiso. You know what they say. Harvard is the Valparaiso of the east, Stanford is the Valparaiso of the west, and Duke is the Valparaiso of the south.Astro wrote:
Ga Tech as the MIT of the South I will buy, but LSU as Harvard I know is a joke.max.patch wrote:
pay attention to shaq -- shaq graduated from LSU, the harvard of the south...Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
https://www.tfes.org/
While they may say those things, doesn't necessarily make it true. The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Jake Ace wrote:
Astro I couldn’t find where you mention exchange students, but were you an exchange student as well. Great program, my wife’s family did that, and my sister in-law went to France, she’s since visited her adoptive family several times over the years, and vacationed there, very neat.
We had two different Chinese students live with us for a total of 3 1/2 years when my middle son was in highschool. The Thanksgiving guest we're all friends of his at the university I teach and my children attend.Jake Ace wrote:
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Went to the ABC store to get some holiday cheer and they have a heck of a sale on Evan Williams. Buy two 750 ml (14.95 ea)and get $10 off or buy one1500 ml (24.94) and$10 off. I went for the 1500 ml honey. So I got a half gallon for $14.95. mail in rebate.
We'll be playing cards tonight so if I post anything after say 10pm, let me go ahead and apologize for it now. "Dazed and Confused"
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We hosted two exchange students. The first was from Moldova. The second was from Turkmenistan. Both were amazing, but couldn't be more different. They were FLEX students, with scholarships from the Future Leader Exchange program. This competitive program funds exchange opportunities for the best students from countries that are former Soviet Republics. Talented students from these countries have few opportunities.Jake Ace wrote:
Astro I couldn’t find where you mention exchange students, but were you an exchange student as well. Great program, my wife’s family did that, and my sister in-law went to France, she’s since visited her adoptive family several times over the years, and vacationed there, very neat.
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Well, we're waiting, what's taking you so long?
jimmyjam wrote:
We'll be playing cards tonight so if I post anything after say 10pm, let me go ahead and apologize for it now.
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Poker face or Colonial Klink? Hahahaha"Dazed and Confused"
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Told ya so!!!!!"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
Make a difference -
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