I was on the computer in the bedroom when I heard my wife call “help!” in a rather weak, scared voice. A possum had fallen into the fireplace and had knocked out the cover and was sitting on the DVDs stacked below the TV, growling.
Took a bit of effort, but I got it out after about 2 hours work. It’s funny they don’t understand when you you’re just trying to help them get out. :-)
Welding gauntlets. Thick, heavy, elbow-length leather gauntlets can protect you from more than hot metal. Then stick him in the ash bucket (empty it first) and take it outside.
No. There is literally not enough alcohol on the planet, I’m too poor to afford even a squinch of that much booze, my stomach let alone my liver would burst like an overfilled water balloon, and I don’t drink alcohol anymore.
The only times I’ve ever interacted with faecesbook it engendered a nigh irresistible urge to find a way to reach through the internet and slap the stupid out of a whole group of people, all at once.
Nope is the right way to go. Even when I was drinking, there were a lot better uses of my limited time.
I do not have TiwtX or Instagram, but am on Facebook, and MeWe. Post nothing and comment on very little on MeWe. There for the Comedy memes group. Facebook is to, follow extended family members, although they are mostly on Instagram these days, and private groups. Mostly service dog, and national park, groups. The most controversial comment I made there was regarding the adolescent male grizzly, one of 399’s quads she kicked late spring 2022 at 2 1/2 years, that was murdered before the summer was out, because local residents couldn’t be bothered with bear proofing, whatever. Guess what my stance is?
FYI. I am fully on board of relocating excess grizzlies to other locals of their native range VS taking them off the endangered species list. Cascades, Sierra’s, Olympics, Rainer, Hood, Helen, Blues, Steens, Pacific Coast Range, move them in. Wolves too. Already have black bear and cougar. Only wildlife that will be negatively affected will be coyotes.
I was just thinking that D.C. would be much improved by the introduction of some grizzly bears. Even more so if they could be discreetly slipped into the headquarters of, say, the IRS and Department Of Education. Among other places. Just hope that snacking on bureaucrats won’t give them indigestion. :-P
What do you have against grizzlies? An unnaturally fed bear (people food) is a dead bear. We Like grizzlies … to watch anyway. Not that I don’t think something needs to be locked in with those groups. But not grizzlies. Black bears OTOH which are already common on the east coast … After all BBLM so protected if they munch on a few bureaucrats and democrats, they’d be protected. Right?
Through a high focus telescope. Watching Yellowstone NP (YNP) Obsidian sow with her new cub of the year (COY) tiny triplets was a joy this last June. FYI
There have been enough incidents with respect to wolves that I agree with the ranchers who’d rather they get relocated to Salem. Not sure they’d be noticed in Portland.
I’ve read (not sure if it’s confirmed) that these are no relationship to the ones that were native to S. Oregon, but are rather more aggressive. At least one of the collared ones went missing, and nobody saw nuthin’. They didn’t drag the lakes.
“It’s like a lost and found in a border town,
looking for a diamond ring.
They look at you like you’ve lost your mind,
ain’t nobody seen a thing.” — Brooks & Dunn, “Lost and Found”.
I have no problem with grizzlies and wolves getting relocated to the Salem and the Willamette valley. We have black bears and cougars already. Not valley proper but they are in the foot hills of the Cascades and Coast ranges, and on into the mountains. See sign all the time hiking/backpacking, especially looking for it to show scouts. Even postings of home and wildlife cameras of local urban fringe sightings.
Personal sightings in 67 years (not counting NP visits)? Three. One Umpqua NF (on the NF road, 1976), Wallow NP (from a trail, it was on a ridge across the small canyon, 1972), and the last Yoncolla, OR (old Jesse Applegate homestead, 2020. Minutes from the Historical Graveyard annual members meeting, list of (living) attendees + “one black bear, in pasture west of graveyard < 100 yards out”.)
Don’t know if bears and cougars are more numerous now. But do think that not allowing dogs to hunt them in Oregon does make a difference on their being sighted more now than before. (Still bear season, and can hunt with tags, just can’t use dogs to run them down. There are government hunters who use dogs to hunt problem animals, but those are generally cougars, not bears.)
Same here, So why do I keep getting emails that someone logged into my Facebook account?!? Isn’t logging in to the nonexistent supposed to be bad for you? ;-)
That sounds like the emails telling me that a service I never used is up for renewal, and they just happen to need my banking information.
Almost fell for that once on a phone scam. Got smart when they asked for a CC number. Hung up, but the perps called the next day. I wasn’t entirely polite, but once they knew that I knew, they left me alone.
Like the phone calls alerting me to a problem with my “Windows computer.” I think I might have one that I haven’t booted in years… it might still run.. Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
Back when we regularly got calls to “do maintenance on your Windows”, I would pretend to get all enthused. “Oh, you do windows? Great! I have several on the second floor that I can’t reach. Do you clean them inside and out?” About then the (always heavily-accented) caller would usually just hang up in disgust. ;-)
I got a call once. He identified himself as lieutenant somebody from the Sheriff’s department and told me that I was listed as a witness to a traffic collision. I told him I’d never been in that part of town. He told me that I had failed to appear in court and would have to post bail using some sort of cash card or a bench warrant would be issued.
After hanging up on ‘lieutenant somebody’ I called the real Sheriff’s office and they told me they were already investigating that scam. I gave them all the information I had.
A few years ago, Mom was getting these strange calls and since Mom was “going down hill mentally”, I took the calls for her.
Basically, the callers were trying to tell her that she had won a Publishers Clearing House prize but to receive it she’d have to send them money electronically.
Obviously, I saw it as a scam and said no. Note, Mom was able to understand me when I explained the situation.
After the scammers made several attempts to scam Mom, they tried a “new” trick. The scammers claimed that they were FBI and wanted Mom’s help to trap the scammers.
Well, that didn’t work especially since the scammers were apparently calling from Jamaica. :lol:
Did I ever tell you the horrendous scam that scared the crap out of me, mostly because I was on pain killers that made it seem very plausible?
I was on pain killer following surgery and we were paying mortgage and rent while trying to sell house in downtown col springs (which we were obviously also paying utilities on.)
They targeted us saying they were the electrical company and that they were turning off electricity/utilities to our business address because we hadn’t paid.
Now our previous house was linked as a business address for stupid reasons.
I was suspicious enough to ask for a number and name to call them back. The response was weird, like they didn’t expect that, which was the first “this is very wrong.”
So I called Dan to make sure we’d paid utilities. We had. So we called the police.
It was a scam targeting first-generation immigrants with businesses, most of which were restaurants.
Part of it was saying to go to some address that was an additional utilities paying office. And if we paid by cash or money order, they’d predate it and–
I can see how someone with limited English and a business that would die if utilities were turned off would panic. I ALMOST DID. Except the cash thing was really suspicious and more so, if I hadn’t been on vicodin and such.
The police asked if they called again, to call them and then play along, but they never called me again. I think asking for a name and number to call back spooked them, because they’d already moved on when the police followed through.
Mom is 89. She is getting emails, and calls. She does not answer phone #’s without a name. Period. Luckily even T-Mobile has gotten good about “potential spam” notifications. Emails, messages, or notifications. Finally got through to her that unless she just triggered it she does not click on links, period (one of our common banking apps does this as double verification, either a code via messaging or email, or a phone notification icon. I have her use message for code, no clicking needed, just write down code, and enter that on app.) If it is banking/CC then she can go to the appropriate app and login, do not use the message, etc., links to trigger the website or app. To the point where she has one email that she needed to click on the link but I had to go over, read it, and fix the “problem”.
Sometime back she signed up to use the free introductory Audible Amazon membership. The one where if you don’t cancel it, it is $14.95/month after the introductory period? Then couldn’t figure out why she was getting charged for this when she didn’t know what it was? Sigh. Sure could have gone direct to Amazon Account and canceled from there. In this case just easier to trigger the link. Now here is the conversation of “do not sign up for stuff you don’t know what it is or know how to use”. Did not add “damn it”. Wanted to. Didn’t. (I have learned better in the last 67 years.)
Empty garbage can. We had a really large one antagonizing terrorizing the cats, and the neighborhood dogs. Got tired of the barking. Hubby and son took an empty garbage can, using brooms, herded it into the can, put the lid on it, then using the open bed pickup to transport the animal to a field further away. We still see smaller possums (since they eat *ticks this is a good thing), but we don’t hear about it from our dog or the neighboring dogs.
((*)) Also eat snakes. Rather they’d leave the gartersnakes alone. Eat snails and slugs, etc., too.
We seem to find the dead possum clingingentangled frozen on the top of the fence. Sigh. Let in terrified cats. Round up dog. Houdini possum vanishes. Naturally dog is pretty proud of herself. The 18# mutt single handily saved everyone from dire peril.
Haven’t seen a possum IRL since we lived in San Jose. We get rabbits, a few flavors of squirrels (pine, gray and ground), and badgers. Haven’t seen badgers since we let Kat run around the property, but when she was a puppy in the outdoor kennel, we had two badgers emerge from a hole in back. They slowly swaggered to the fence and to the neighbor’s ranch. Some years before, I had one pop up to see what I was doing in its meadow. (“Building the pumphouse. And it’s my meadow.”) OTOH, there’s lots of holes that have been made bigger by hangry badgers.
While I’ve never seen one myself, the one or two that appear in Watership Down are largely identified as, “Predators that usually leave us rabbits alone. Usually.” That’s in comparison to their cousins, the weasels and stoats, that are pretty much guaranteed to attack rabbits on sight.
Of course, this is all from a lapine point of view. And the author might be wrong.
Also, since the book is set in Britain, there are no wolverines, which I’ve heard are very aggressive and downright nasty.
There was a story years ago about a badger that lived under the UW-Madison observatory. The astronomy folks and the badger supposedly were with each other – they each carefully ignored the other and all was well. This seems strange as it would be something at least somewhat sensible, which is not how to bet for UW-Madison.
Perhaps the astronomers thought the badger belonged to the athletic people…
I took a couple of astro classes for tech electives, and one of the professors admitted that U of Redacted’s best telescope would fit through the “Cass hole” of the Palomar 200″ Hale. (And he used that exact phrasing. There might have been a female student in that class. Maybe.)
I looked at U of R’s website a couple of years ago and saw that the 12″ on-campus refractor I did some of the labs on has been retired, with the objective as a museum piece. It was a fun telescope to use, but rather old, circa 1890 or so.
The house “next door” was unsold for many years, and the greedy unmentionable (won’t call him an SOB; his mother was decent) Southern Californian who inherited it was letting it out to rent. Some of the neighbors were far more interesting than we liked, but one of the more-or-less OK couples had guinea hens. Loud critters. Really loud. Between them and one of their sight-hounds of uncertain breed, it was lively. (I know some of the SH breeds, but not these. Salukis, possibly.) One hated everybody but Mom and Dad. The other acted embarrassed at the other’s barking.
Said SOB thought S. Cali prices were appropriate for $TINY_TOWN, while even Flyover Falls would have blenched at his price. After about 12 years, he sold for 40% of his original asking price. I had enough dealings with him that the Schadenfreude over the terms of the sale was awesome. And, the buyers are really good people.
Came home from date night and the babysitter pointed us to an upended cardboard box in the hall. Yep, there was a possum under it. That was her way of keeping it trapped until my beloved got home. I should probably have let him deal with it with the shovel, but I didn’t and we had a couple more run-ins with it. Including one episode where we discovered the cat knew how to point.
Same with our so called elites right now. If they just gave up and left, there would be hardly any repercussions, and probably they’d keep their ill-gotten gains. But they think we’re like them and out to kill them….
I’m not out to kill anyone. But I do subscribe to the concept of do unto others before they can do unto you. Just have to know when they’re getting serious about the doing. Hopefully before they paraglide into your concert while shooting.
This is one of the best meme posts you’ve done in a while! I got a chuckle out of a few of them (like Vlad) and can already see the Wojak faces in response to some others (like the Build Back Better Group).
The Reader thinks that Disney could do worse (and probably is) than have Pixar make Rittenhouse, Find Out, and Magic Island. The Reader would pass on the Princess of Gaza though.
A temporary solution. Steel and concrete tend to work better. Well, they last longer. Biomaterial tends to rot… err… desiccate would probably be more likely given the location.
Actually, signs, barbed wire, and mines tend to work best. Invasions require invasion resistant solutions. We got those.
Given that all his biographies were written by people who didn’t care for him, I find him sympathetic. No, he wasn’t nice to people who either 1) flipped sides without good reason, 2) supported Hungary’s claims to Transylvania and Wallachia, or 3) balked at doing what they’d agreed to do. He sure as heck wasn’t nice to the Ottomans, but they’d asked for it.
Shrugs tail He’s answering to someone who knows far better than I do what was in his heart, depending on what you believe.
He was a man caught in a cleft stick. But also a man with the determination to set a plan and go through with it no matter what or who stood in his way.
I’m given to understand his people were rather more pleased with him than not, given the alternatives.
According To Hoyt 
I love (and will steal) your “Tony the Tiger” one!
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I was on the computer in the bedroom when I heard my wife call “help!” in a rather weak, scared voice. A possum had fallen into the fireplace and had knocked out the cover and was sitting on the DVDs stacked below the TV, growling.
Took a bit of effort, but I got it out after about 2 hours work. It’s funny they don’t understand when you you’re just trying to help them get out. :-)
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Welding gauntlets. Thick, heavy, elbow-length leather gauntlets can protect you from more than hot metal. Then stick him in the ash bucket (empty it first) and take it outside.
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That sounds like it’s coming from experience.
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I’ve handled uncooperative cats with welding gauntlets. Doesn’t make them any more cooperative, but gets the job done.
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It is.
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Why would uncooperative cats be wearing welding gauntlets?
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Artistic welders of course.
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Out of spite?
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It is.
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New Facebook game?
No. There is literally not enough alcohol on the planet, I’m too poor to afford even a squinch of that much booze, my stomach let alone my liver would burst like an overfilled water balloon, and I don’t drink alcohol anymore.
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Nor any less?
Or a whole lot less?
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Just as well. You’d be constantly drunk anyway.
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You’d rather deal with Facebook sober? You’re obviously an alien. :lol
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The only times I’ve ever interacted with faecesbook it engendered a nigh irresistible urge to find a way to reach through the internet and slap the stupid out of a whole group of people, all at once.
Nope is the right way to go. Even when I was drinking, there were a lot better uses of my limited time.
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No, no. I don’t deal with fakebook at all. Never signed up for that scam.
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Same for me. If I want to be tracked and surveiled all over the internet, I’d do something obvious, like give my honest opinion of Brandon.
More or less the same reason I don’t have an account on TwitX. (That and I’d like to get things done at times.
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I do not have TiwtX or Instagram, but am on Facebook, and MeWe. Post nothing and comment on very little on MeWe. There for the Comedy memes group. Facebook is to, follow extended family members, although they are mostly on Instagram these days, and private groups. Mostly service dog, and national park, groups. The most controversial comment I made there was regarding the adolescent male grizzly, one of 399’s quads she kicked late spring 2022 at 2 1/2 years, that was murdered before the summer was out, because local residents couldn’t be bothered with bear proofing, whatever. Guess what my stance is?
FYI. I am fully on board of relocating excess grizzlies to other locals of their native range VS taking them off the endangered species list. Cascades, Sierra’s, Olympics, Rainer, Hood, Helen, Blues, Steens, Pacific Coast Range, move them in. Wolves too. Already have black bear and cougar. Only wildlife that will be negatively affected will be coyotes.
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I would suggest some new range. Places like Boston, NYC, LA, San Fran, Seattle, etc.
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I thought Boston already had bruins? Innocent kitty look
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I was just thinking that D.C. would be much improved by the introduction of some grizzly bears. Even more so if they could be discreetly slipped into the headquarters of, say, the IRS and Department Of Education. Among other places. Just hope that snacking on bureaucrats won’t give them indigestion. :-P
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What do you have against grizzlies? An unnaturally fed bear (people food) is a dead bear. We Like grizzlies … to watch anyway. Not that I don’t think something needs to be locked in with those groups. But not grizzlies. Black bears OTOH which are already common on the east coast … After all B
BLM so protected if they munch on a few bureaucrats and democrats, they’d be protected. Right?Through a high focus telescope. Watching Yellowstone NP (YNP) Obsidian sow with her new cub of the year (COY) tiny triplets was a joy this last June. FYI
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“I thought Boston already had bruins? Innocent kitty look”
So does LA. :P
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There have been enough incidents with respect to wolves that I agree with the ranchers who’d rather they get relocated to Salem. Not sure they’d be noticed in Portland.
I’ve read (not sure if it’s confirmed) that these are no relationship to the ones that were native to S. Oregon, but are rather more aggressive. At least one of the collared ones went missing, and nobody saw nuthin’. They didn’t drag the lakes.
“It’s like a lost and found in a border town,
looking for a diamond ring.
They look at you like you’ve lost your mind,
ain’t nobody seen a thing.” — Brooks & Dunn, “Lost and Found”.
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I have no problem with grizzlies and wolves getting relocated to the Salem and the Willamette valley. We have black bears and cougars already. Not valley proper but they are in the foot hills of the Cascades and Coast ranges, and on into the mountains. See sign all the time hiking/backpacking, especially looking for it to show scouts. Even postings of home and wildlife cameras of local urban fringe sightings.
Personal sightings in 67 years (not counting NP visits)? Three. One Umpqua NF (on the NF road, 1976), Wallow NP (from a trail, it was on a ridge across the small canyon, 1972), and the last Yoncolla, OR (old Jesse Applegate homestead, 2020. Minutes from the Historical Graveyard annual members meeting, list of (living) attendees + “one black bear, in pasture west of graveyard < 100 yards out”.)
Don’t know if bears and cougars are more numerous now. But do think that not allowing dogs to hunt them in Oregon does make a difference on their being sighted more now than before. (Still bear season, and can hunt with tags, just can’t use dogs to run them down. There are government hunters who use dogs to hunt problem animals, but those are generally cougars, not bears.)
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Same here, So why do I keep getting emails that someone logged into my Facebook account?!? Isn’t logging in to the nonexistent supposed to be bad for you? ;-)
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That sounds like the emails telling me that a service I never used is up for renewal, and they just happen to need my banking information.
Almost fell for that once on a phone scam. Got smart when they asked for a CC number. Hung up, but the perps called the next day. I wasn’t entirely polite, but once they knew that I knew, they left me alone.
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Like the phone calls alerting me to a problem with my “Windows computer.” I think I might have one that I haven’t booted in years… it might still run.. Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
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Back when we regularly got calls to “do maintenance on your Windows”, I would pretend to get all enthused. “Oh, you do windows? Great! I have several on the second floor that I can’t reach. Do you clean them inside and out?” About then the (always heavily-accented) caller would usually just hang up in disgust. ;-)
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I keep getting emails that someone has tried to login to my Faecesbook account. Remarkable, since I don’t have, and never have had, such an account.
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I got a call once. He identified himself as lieutenant somebody from the Sheriff’s department and told me that I was listed as a witness to a traffic collision. I told him I’d never been in that part of town. He told me that I had failed to appear in court and would have to post bail using some sort of cash card or a bench warrant would be issued.
After hanging up on ‘lieutenant somebody’ I called the real Sheriff’s office and they told me they were already investigating that scam. I gave them all the information I had.
He asked: “What made you suspicious?”
Me: “Hell, I wake up suspicious.”
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Pretty much nails it:
“Why were you suspicious?”
“I was awake.” :-)
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A few years ago, Mom was getting these strange calls and since Mom was “going down hill mentally”, I took the calls for her.
Basically, the callers were trying to tell her that she had won a Publishers Clearing House prize but to receive it she’d have to send them money electronically.
Obviously, I saw it as a scam and said no. Note, Mom was able to understand me when I explained the situation.
After the scammers made several attempts to scam Mom, they tried a “new” trick. The scammers claimed that they were FBI and wanted Mom’s help to trap the scammers.
Well, that didn’t work especially since the scammers were apparently calling from Jamaica. :lol:
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Did I ever tell you the horrendous scam that scared the crap out of me, mostly because I was on pain killers that made it seem very plausible?
I was on pain killer following surgery and we were paying mortgage and rent while trying to sell house in downtown col springs (which we were obviously also paying utilities on.)
They targeted us saying they were the electrical company and that they were turning off electricity/utilities to our business address because we hadn’t paid.
Now our previous house was linked as a business address for stupid reasons.
I was suspicious enough to ask for a number and name to call them back. The response was weird, like they didn’t expect that, which was the first “this is very wrong.”
So I called Dan to make sure we’d paid utilities. We had. So we called the police.
It was a scam targeting first-generation immigrants with businesses, most of which were restaurants.
Part of it was saying to go to some address that was an additional utilities paying office. And if we paid by cash or money order, they’d predate it and–
I can see how someone with limited English and a business that would die if utilities were turned off would panic. I ALMOST DID. Except the cash thing was really suspicious and more so, if I hadn’t been on vicodin and such.
The police asked if they called again, to call them and then play along, but they never called me again. I think asking for a name and number to call back spooked them, because they’d already moved on when the police followed through.
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At least the call wasn’t from Nigeria.
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Mom is 89. She is getting emails, and calls. She does not answer phone #’s without a name. Period. Luckily even T-Mobile has gotten good about “potential spam” notifications. Emails, messages, or notifications. Finally got through to her that unless she just triggered it she does not click on links, period (one of our common banking apps does this as double verification, either a code via messaging or email, or a phone notification icon. I have her use message for code, no clicking needed, just write down code, and enter that on app.) If it is banking/CC then she can go to the appropriate app and login, do not use the message, etc., links to trigger the website or app. To the point where she has one email that she needed to click on the link but I had to go over, read it, and fix the “problem”.
Sometime back she signed up to use the free introductory Audible Amazon membership. The one where if you don’t cancel it, it is $14.95/month after the introductory period? Then couldn’t figure out why she was getting charged for this when she didn’t know what it was? Sigh. Sure could have gone direct to Amazon Account and canceled from there. In this case just easier to trigger the link. Now here is the conversation of “do not sign up for stuff you don’t know what it is or know how to use”. Did not add “damn it”. Wanted to. Didn’t. (I have learned better in the last 67 years.)
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Yep, those are my go-to hand protection for biting and scratching critters. Haven’t tested them on rattlesnakes though.
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Yep. Very thick gloves and a ton of determination. Those bad boys ended up all over our little brick house when I went to college in South Carolina.
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Empty garbage can. We had a really large one
antagonizingterrorizing the cats, and the neighborhood dogs. Got tired of the barking. Hubby and son took an empty garbage can, using brooms, herded it into the can, put the lid on it, then using the open bed pickup to transport the animal to a field further away. We still see smaller possums (since they eat *ticks this is a good thing), but we don’t hear about it from our dog or the neighboring dogs.((*)) Also eat snakes. Rather they’d leave the gartersnakes alone. Eat snails and slugs, etc., too.
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A few years ago, I was checking on my Beagle Lilly in the back yard one evening and saw her sniffing something.
I went out there and it appeared to be a dead possum.
I got the snow shovel and was moving it to the garbage can in our garage.
But it appeared to be staring at me so I wondered if it was still alive.
No way was I going to put a live possum in the garbage can let along inside our garage.
So I dumped it over the fence into our neighbor’s yard.
The next morning the possum was gone. :wink:
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We seem to find the
deadpossumclingingentangledfrozen on the top of the fence. Sigh. Let in terrified cats. Round up dog. Houdini possum vanishes. Naturally dog is pretty proud of herself. The 18# mutt single handily saved everyone from dire peril.LikeLiked by 1 person
Haven’t seen a possum IRL since we lived in San Jose. We get rabbits, a few flavors of squirrels (pine, gray and ground), and badgers. Haven’t seen badgers since we let Kat run around the property, but when she was a puppy in the outdoor kennel, we had two badgers emerge from a hole in back. They slowly swaggered to the fence and to the neighbor’s ranch. Some years before, I had one pop up to see what I was doing in its meadow. (“Building the pumphouse. And it’s my meadow.”) OTOH, there’s lots of holes that have been made bigger by hangry badgers.
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‘Hangry badgers’? That would be, what, a combination of hungry and angry? :-D
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Yes. It’s common slang in my internet reading, possibly including our BBESP and hostess. (Merriam-Webster includes it online, too.)
Do badgers ever come across as anything other than pissed off and hungry? Asking for a friend.
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While I’ve never seen one myself, the one or two that appear in Watership Down are largely identified as, “Predators that usually leave us rabbits alone. Usually.” That’s in comparison to their cousins, the weasels and stoats, that are pretty much guaranteed to attack rabbits on sight.
Of course, this is all from a lapine point of view. And the author might be wrong.
Also, since the book is set in Britain, there are no wolverines, which I’ve heard are very aggressive and downright nasty.
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MacBadger who did the accounting for Toad Hall!
I mean, he was annoyed, but he had reason to be.
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There was a story years ago about a badger that lived under the UW-Madison observatory. The astronomy folks and the badger supposedly were with each other – they each carefully ignored the other and all was well. This seems strange as it would be something at least somewhat sensible, which is not how to bet for UW-Madison.
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Perhaps the astronomers thought the badger belonged to the athletic people…
I took a couple of astro classes for tech electives, and one of the professors admitted that U of Redacted’s best telescope would fit through the “Cass hole” of the Palomar 200″ Hale. (And he used that exact phrasing. There might have been a female student in that class. Maybe.)
I looked at U of R’s website a couple of years ago and saw that the 12″ on-campus refractor I did some of the labs on has been retired, with the objective as a museum piece. It was a fun telescope to use, but rather old, circa 1890 or so.
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I find that if the possum doesn’t move for more than 3 days, or if it’s thinner than 1 inch, it’s probably dead.
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Guinea Fowl eat ticks to, and are very good alarms as well.
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The house “next door” was unsold for many years, and the
greedy unmentionable (won’t call him an SOB; his mother was decent)Southern Californian who inherited it was letting it out to rent. Some of the neighbors were far more interesting than we liked, but one of the more-or-less OK couples had guinea hens. Loud critters. Really loud. Between them and one of their sight-hounds of uncertain breed, it was lively. (I know some of the SH breeds, but not these. Salukis, possibly.) One hated everybody but Mom and Dad. The other acted embarrassed at the other’s barking.Said SOB thought S. Cali prices were appropriate for $TINY_TOWN, while even Flyover Falls would have blenched at his price. After about 12 years, he sold for 40% of his original asking price. I had enough dealings with him that the Schadenfreude over the terms of the sale was awesome. And, the buyers are really good people.
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Backyard birds like Guinea Fowl attract rats. There is enough of a rat problem, no thanks. We are county, but not rural.
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My grandparents kept them for years and never had rats.
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Came home from date night and the babysitter pointed us to an upended cardboard box in the hall. Yep, there was a possum under it. That was her way of keeping it trapped until my beloved got home. I should probably have let him deal with it with the shovel, but I didn’t and we had a couple more run-ins with it. Including one episode where we discovered the cat knew how to point.
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Same with our so called elites right now. If they just gave up and left, there would be hardly any repercussions, and probably they’d keep their ill-gotten gains. But they think we’re like them and out to kill them….
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Yes but once a critical mass joins team heads on pikes that’s when things will get interesting.
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I’m not out to kill anyone. But I do subscribe to the concept of do unto others before they can do unto you. Just have to know when they’re getting serious about the doing. Hopefully before they paraglide into your concert while shooting.
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400 year commitment… so what will they do the REST of the millennium?
(No, I do NOT want one. I am SO over anything of the sea.)
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Very Off Topic, but Israel is starting to invade the Gaza to destroy Hamas.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/october-28-israel-hamas-war
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/cheer!
Hope Mossad goes after the Hamas members hiding in other countries.
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Die Habsburger? Fantastich! [Habsburgs? Fantastic!]
And the dark angsty scream one. Because that’s how I roll this time of year.
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The Princess of Gaza. I’m still laughing out loud.
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If you’re having trouble concentrating, add some water and re-constitute.
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OK, the “What band is this?” one made me actually laugh out loud.
The one of the guy fighting off Tony the Tiger was pretty good too.
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You posted the vlad meme twice.
You must like …fences
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I miss my friend, Kate Paulk.
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Vlad’s enemies were all stuck up Muslims.
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Bravo sir, although perhaps that should get you a carp. Perhaps a carp on a stick, a carpsicle?
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Wouldn’t that be a frozen Carp on a stick? :-D
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If you’re going to put it on a stick, I’ll start the campfire to roast it on.
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This is one of the best meme posts you’ve done in a while! I got a chuckle out of a few of them (like Vlad) and can already see the Wojak faces in response to some others (like the Build Back Better Group).
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The Reader thinks that Disney could do worse (and probably is) than have Pixar make Rittenhouse, Find Out, and Magic Island. The Reader would pass on the Princess of Gaza though.
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I’m good with that one too…. EG
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A temporary solution. Steel and concrete tend to work better. Well, they last longer. Biomaterial tends to rot… err… desiccate would probably be more likely given the location.
Actually, signs, barbed wire, and mines tend to work best. Invasions require invasion resistant solutions. We got those.
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The more I see, the more Vlad’s fence becomes an option….
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Yep. I’m becoming fonder of him as the years pass. He wasn’t a nice man, but he was a good one.
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Not sure I’d go so far as to call him good. But he sure as heck was effective.
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Given that all his biographies were written by people who didn’t care for him, I find him sympathetic. No, he wasn’t nice to people who either 1) flipped sides without good reason, 2) supported Hungary’s claims to Transylvania and Wallachia, or 3) balked at doing what they’d agreed to do. He sure as heck wasn’t nice to the Ottomans, but they’d asked for it.
Shrugs tail He’s answering to someone who knows far better than I do what was in his heart, depending on what you believe.
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The Ottomans were the ones that taught him about impalement. Talk about hoist by their own petard! :-P
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I’m sure Vlad would have also used petards if he’d had ’em…. ;)
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He was a man caught in a cleft stick. But also a man with the determination to set a plan and go through with it no matter what or who stood in his way.
I’m given to understand his people were rather more pleased with him than not, given the alternatives.
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“Karma Delivery Person”
That’s a strangely nice name for Demon.
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Does Demon look like a chameleon? Innocent kitty look
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Well met!
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Snort… some of those are going to leave a mark!
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Snort… some of those are going to leave a mark!
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