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Eugene Miya
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 Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
giving 4 species each of must see animals. Your net.species made the
cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
Polar Bear
condor
elephant seal
moose
gray whale
roosevelt elk
sandhill crane
gray wolf
bald eagle
grizzly bear
orca
bighorn sheep
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Let's see Grizzlies are on the CA flag and are extinct as the State
Animal. They recommend Klamath Falls to see Bald eagles (?, but then
I've had much better luck in S. UT to say nothing in AK). Orcas just a
month ago near Seward. No bats, hodags, etc.
A slight bias to land mammals.
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Puppet_Sock
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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On Aug 25, 2:51 pm, eug...@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya) wrote:
| Quote: | Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
giving 4 species each of must see animals. Your net.species made the
cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
Polar Bear
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Only in the zoo. One day, maybe.
Web cams.
Ok, there was some kind of critter swimming along in the Pacific
when I visited San Diego. But it was about 100 meters away,
mostly down, and in the ocean, so I'm not sure exactly what
it was. It seemed to be about 3 meters long, and it sure looked
like the critters in the San Diego zoo.
Any day now. My hiking of the Bruce Trail has me in moose
country. It helps keeps me alert.
Some day, maybe.
I've seen elk, but I'm not sure what species they were. They were
on the roadside in Banff. Whatever they were, I called them
road elk, because they were at the same spot every day for
a week, getting handouts from stupid tourists.
Not even sure I've seen these in the zoo. I have seen wild crane
a couple times, just no sure what kind they were.
I've seen wild wolves, from quite a distance.
Only on web cams and at the zoo.
Momma griz and her two cubs were about 1000 feet further
down the mountain. With a fairly vertical cliff between us
and them. It was fine with me that they were that far away.
Even at that distance they looked hungry.
Someday maybe.
Closest I've seen to that are these critters that hang around
near Banff. They look like mouflon, but I'm not sure what their
correct name is. I called them road goats, again because
they hung out on the same patch of roadside for days, waiting
for handouts from tourists.
Missing from the list:
- Various other species of deer and similar critters. White tales,
those miniature deer from the Florida keys, reindeer. I've come
face-to-face with white tales a few times. Always a thrill.
- Big cats: mountain lions, lynx, cougar, etc. Met a lynx on the
trail one day. He looked at me, I looked at him, we both froze
for about 3 seconds. Then he went into the brush at warp 90.
- Foxes, coyotes, and various other not-quite-so-big dog-like
hunting critters. I've met foxes on the trail a few times.
- Coy dogs and other half breeds like wolf-shepherd crosses.
Met a couple coy dogs in New Mexico. Took me a minute
to work out what I was looking at, and why it was so shy
but unafraid at the same time. Coy dog is the ideal name.
- Various reptiles: From diamondbacks and sidewinders, to
corn snakes and garter snakes, to lizards, to chameleons,
to crocs and gators. Met rattle snakes on the trail a few times.
Always a thrill.
- Porcupine. Takes a bit to realize what this odd looking critter is.
- Really big lake/river fish, like a monster Mississipi catfish.
- Skunk, though hope that it's a friendly encounter. There's a
skunk who comes into my yard fairly frequently. Very pretty.
- Owls of various kinds. Woke up about 3AM one moring.
Looked out the window to try to figure out what the noise was.
Came face to face with a great horned owl who was perched
on the very tip-top of the cedar tree growing in the yard.
He was about 5 meters away.
And this basically does not even get me out of North America.
Going a little afield, other critters I'd like to see:
- Dingo dogs.
- Kangaroos.
- Kiwis.
- Koalas.
- Platypus.
- Pandas.
- Lions.
- Tigers.
- Elephants.
- A really big annaconda. A really big cobra.
This is a good game. I know there's lots I've missed.
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Eugene Miya
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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In article <c4c3fc1f-48b9-430e-8b97-374702dfe545@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Puppet_Sock <puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote:
Your post is fine.
However as Huesers is the news.group net.polar-bear or net.polar.bear or
net.bear.polar, this list is more for the designations of personal
imaginations, if you will, which you declare, either via email to me to
increment panel 1 (and a certain degree of anonymity or not),
or posting to the group (but I have to see if panel 1 is to be modified).
That is for the people who declared species on panel 1.
Now, you can declare an existing species (multiple individuals) or any
new one. It's no biggie as a reflection of you or anyone else.
| Quote: | On Aug 25, 2:51=A0pm, eug...@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya) wrote:
Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
giving 4 species each of must see animals. =A0Your net.species made the
cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
Polar Bear
Only in the zoo. One day, maybe.
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I typically miss them by days or a few miles. This year was close to
Prudhoe.
Mt. Pinos or Sespe creek.
| Quote: | elephant seal
Ok, there was some kind of critter swimming along in the Pacific
when I visited San Diego. But it was about 100 meters away,
mostly down, and in the ocean, so I'm not sure exactly what
it was. It seemed to be about 3 meters long, and it sure looked
like the critters in the San Diego zoo.
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Ano Nuevo.
| Quote: | moose
Any day now. My hiking of the Bruce Trail has me in moose
country. It helps keeps me alert.
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Fairbanks Intl. Airport, Los Anchorage, etc. Make certain they are majestic
(another inside joke).
| Quote: | gray whale
Some day, maybe.
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San Ignacio preferably Jan.-March closer to March as they are
friendliest. Not that they are a big highlight of my life.
Oh, I did see 3 carved up in Barrow and next time I will bring some meat
back.
| Quote: | roosevelt elk
I've seen elk, but I'm not sure what species they were. They were
on the roadside in Banff. Whatever they were, I called them
road elk, because they were at the same spot every day for
a week, getting handouts from stupid tourists.
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Ditto elk.
Just another ungulate to me.
| Quote: | sandhill crane
Not even sure I've seen these in the zoo. I have seen wild crane
a couple times, just no sure what kind they were.
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Ditto.
Just another carbon based life form.
| Quote: | gray wolf
I've seen wild wolves, from quite a distance.
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Friend owned one. Considering buying another. She keeps the pelt.
| Quote: | bald eagle
Only on web cams and at the zoo.
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All over the place in AK.
CSAA recommended N of Klamath Falls of US97.
| Quote: | grizzly bear
Momma griz and her two cubs were about 1000 feet further
down the mountain. With a fairly vertical cliff between us
and them. It was fine with me that they were that far away.
Even at that distance they looked hungry.
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I've not seen one in a few years. The best way to see them is from the
air in a small plane.
| Quote: | orca
Someday maybe.
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A month ago near Seward.
Some years back with one of the women from the news group off Orcas
island (they were sleeping).
| Quote: | bighorn sheep
Closest I've seen to that are these critters that hang around
near Banff. They look like mouflon, but I'm not sure what their
correct name is. I called them road goats, again because
they hung out on the same patch of roadside for days, waiting
for handouts from tourists.
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Just driving on the White Mtn. road. Right next to us.
Well different species as well. Dall sheep in AK.
| Quote: | Missing from the list:
- Various other species of deer and similar critters. White tales,
those miniature deer from the Florida keys, reindeer. I've come
face-to-face with white tales a few times. Always a thrill.
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Oh Galen, you may be able to sell one
of your bear-pruf tents.
FL Keys deer.
Most netters are net.ungulates. Just grazers.
| Quote: | - Big cats: mountain lions, lynx, cougar, etc. Met a lynx on the
trail one day. He looked at me, I looked at him, we both froze
for about 3 seconds. Then he went into the brush at warp 90.
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Not too big. The big ones are tigers and African lions.
I've seen a couple of MLs but you have to go specifically to look for
them otherwise they are very private. Shasta and near Fresno in the
foothills.
| Quote: | - Foxes, coyotes, and various other not-quite-so-big dog-like
hunting critters. I've met foxes on the trail a few times.
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Yeah, seen some number. Arctic foxes are nice.
| Quote: | - Coy dogs and other half breeds like wolf-shepherd crosses.
Met a couple coy dogs in New Mexico. Took me a minute
to work out what I was looking at, and why it was so shy
but unafraid at the same time. Coy dog is the ideal name.
- Various reptiles: From diamondbacks and sidewinders, to
corn snakes and garter snakes, to lizards, to chameleons,
to crocs and gators. Met rattle snakes on the trail a few times.
Always a thrill.
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Oh yes. Have photos.
| Quote: | - Porcupine. Takes a bit to realize what this odd looking critter is.
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Had to clean our of our outhouses full of quills.
| Quote: | - Really big lake/river fish, like a monster Mississipi catfish.
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Sturgeon.
Salmon in the 20-50 lbs range (getting rarer).
| Quote: | - Skunk, though hope that it's a friendly encounter. There's a
skunk who comes into my yard fairly frequently. Very pretty.
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Common. Many road kill.
| Quote: | - Owls of various kinds. Woke up about 3AM one moring.
Looked out the window to try to figure out what the noise was.
Came face to face with a great horned owl who was perched
on the very tip-top of the cedar tree growing in the yard.
He was about 5 meters away.
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Many large to small. Had a large one in AK. Small ones around work.
| Quote: | And this basically does not even get me out of North America.
Going a little afield, other critters I'd like to see:
- Dingo dogs.
- Kangaroos.
- Kiwis.
- Koalas.
- Platypus.
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The above require .nz and .au travel ro zoos.
However the motion picture industry has special reserves with various
species used in film.
| Quote: | - Pandas.
I won't give away Tropic Thunder.
- Lions.
- Tigers.
- Elephants.
- A really big annaconda. A really big cobra.
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Well various zoos. Speaking of which SF killed one of their tigers.
A friend's grand daughter is a trainer at a theme park.
| Quote: | This is a good game. I know there's lots I've missed.
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Only works with good trolling and bait.
It's a little different from the REI member number thread and other
recurring threads.
It's largely a land bias mostly in the N hemisphere (except your special
bits in Oz, NZ, and Africa).
I can think of leopards and leopard shark breeding grounds.
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Dan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:29 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
giving 4 species each of must see animals. Your net.species made the
cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
Polar Bear
condor
elephant seal
moose
gray whale
roosevelt elk
sandhill crane
gray wolf
bald eagle
grizzly bear
orca
bighorn sheep
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This mobile text message is brought to you by AT&T
I keyed the list in with my Palm.
Let's see Grizzlies are on the CA flag and are extinct as the State
Animal. They recommend Klamath Falls to see Bald eagles (?, but then
I've had much better luck in S. UT to say nothing in AK). Orcas just a
month ago near Seward. No bats, hodags, etc.
A slight bias to land mammals.
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We have all the eagles we can see around here every calving season, and
even Golden Eagles on occasion...
I prefer osprey, which we have at the local lakes.
Condor is pretty darn rare.
I've looked off the cliffs at my prior residence to see gray whales.
I missed the elephant seal school field trip my wife and son went on.
Sandhill crane in wrong end of country and pretty rare.
I've seen griz at a respectful distance, and moose grazing in a pond.
I have yet to see a wolf or the Roosevelt Elk or Bighorn Sheep, though
there was a chance in the Glacier/Yellowstone area (and other people
with binoculars saw a sheep near Yosemite, but I couldn't find it on the
rock face).
Orcas are out of my range.
I'm assuming zoos do not count.
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Galen Hekhuis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Bear Pruf Tents main purpose in existing in existing is for people to
say loudly "I want a Bear Pruf Tent," if they don't see one, not to
make sales. People who put "Florida" and "reindeer" in the same line
deserve a special place in Heaven, unlike people who didn't even see
fit to mention the endangered Florida reindeer in the list of "must
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Chick Tower
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:17:16 -0700, y_p_w wrote:
| Quote: | There are plenty of turkey vultures flying on a daily basis above where I
live. Does that count? 
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Only as evidence that you lead an extremely sedentary lifestyle.
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Puppet_Sock
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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On Aug 28, 11:46 am, y_p_w <y_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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| Quote: | People have this idea that polar bears are cuddly from all this
anthropomorphized crap like Coke commercials and from seeing zoo
bears.
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Not me.
A former roomate was in the Canadian Cold Ocean Research group.
He spent 18 months on Baffin Island. Had a great photo of himself
standing on the ice in his cold weather gear. You could just about
tell it was a human under all that fur.
The cook from the next camp over was in the habit of taking his
garbage to the same spot every day. One day he was a little late.
They found the skidoo. They found bear tracks up to the sled and
away.
They never found any sign of the cook.
Polar bears should be viewed from behind some stout barrier
that is known to stop polar bears.
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Ed Huesers
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
giving 4 species each of must see animals. Your net.species made the
cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
Polar Bear
condor
elephant seal
moose
gray whale
roosevelt elk
sandhill crane
gray wolf
bald eagle
grizzly bear
orca
bighorn sheep
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Glad to see someone out there has some sense.
We had sandhill crane migrating through close to my area of ND. I
saw them out in a field a few times. Never did stop to watch them
though. Too busy for that as a youth.
I went up Longs about a month ago now via loft route:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZTT2aTq4-c
I know you don't like downloading stuff but for the others. ;)
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Ed Huesers
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | However as Huesers is the news.group net.polar-bear or net.polar.bear or
net.bear.polar,
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Slurp, oh, sorry, didn't mean to get your face all slobbery again.
| Quote: | Arctic foxes are nice.
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Our vixen was nice. Still missed.
Ground Owl... had them in a pasture right next to town and would
watch them. A friend from Florida gave me a picture of one living in FL.
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Ed Huesers
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Galen Hekhuis wrote:
| Quote: | People who put "Florida" and "reindeer" in the same line
deserve a special place in Heaven
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Len M. in heaven? Them's some pretty strong words there Galen.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | In article <c3a1b22c-cfa1-4ce3-8048-76aaada18de6@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
y_p_w <y_p_w@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey Ed,
Polar Bear
People have this idea that polar bears are cuddly from all this
anthropomorphized crap like Coke commercials and from seeing zoo
bears. I've seen a few and I guess zookeepers feed them fish to keep
up appearances. I've seen a few pictures of zoo polar bears feeding
on meat. I saw some clip from a National Geographic special showing a
real polar bear hunting for ring seals. They're stone cold killers.
I wonder how many kids would be scared off by seeing all that blood
all over that white fur as they tear apart a seal.
8^)
Oh yeah, they can be quite vicious. But they have also shown a
non-feeding freenze side. Biting a seal at its air hole and lifting
its multihundred pound mass by its face is hunting/eating.
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Seen footage of them breaking up through 6 to 10 inch ice and
grabbing the seal that was on top of the ice.
Ain't no igloo going to stand up to that.
Sleep with your spear.
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Eugene Miya
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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In article <48c0a063$0$33221$815e3792@news.qwest.net>,
Ed Huesers <ed@grandshelters.com> wrote:
| Quote: | However as Huesers is the news.group net.polar-bear or net.polar.bear or
net.bear.polar,
Slurp, oh, sorry, didn't mean to get your face all slobbery again.
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I have to mail you the shirt I found and something else. Also Deadhorse
was on TV Monday (they must have filmed in May).
Nothing like getting licked by a polar bear.
| Quote: | Arctic foxes are nice.
Our vixen was nice. Still missed.
Ground Owl... had them in a pasture right next to town and would
watch them. A friend from Florida gave me a picture of one living in FL.
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The Cliff Swallow is around, but she will not post.
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Eugene Miya
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:06 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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In article <48c0a380$0$89391$815e3792@news.qwest.net>,
Ed Huesers <ed@grandshelters.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Polar Bear
Seen footage of them breaking up through 6 to 10 inch ice and
grabbing the seal that was on top of the ice.
Ain't no igloo going to stand up to that.
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Crunchy on the outside, nice and chewy on the inside.
| Quote: | Sleep with your spear.
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That image reminds me that I chanced to see the end of what must have
been the next to last, if not just before, episode of the Sopranos,
where Tony after dropping Dr. Melfi and his lts. get bumped off goes to
sleep in a bath tub clutching his M-16.
Set out a guard.
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Ed Huesers
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | Crunchy on the outside, nice and chewy on the inside.
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I have the coffee cup.
| Quote: | Sleep with your spear.
Set out a guard.
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Have been going solo lately:
http://www.grandshelters.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=26&sid=db6ad9ad177f0178861b6e8b018cbb75
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Ed Huesers
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals. |
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| Quote: | Ed Huesers wrote:
Slurp, oh, sorry, didn't mean to get your face all slobbery again.
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Eugene Miya wrote:
| Quote: | I have to mail you the shirt I found and something else.
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You keep saying that. Trust me.
| Quote: | Also Deadhorse was on TV Monday (they must have filmed in May).
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Moab? Deadhorse?
| Quote: | Nothing like getting licked by a polar bear.
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Better than a sharp stick in the eye. Just not hungry today.
| Quote: | Arctic foxes are nice.
Our vixen was nice. Still missed.
The Cliff Swallow is around, but she will not post.
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Had them and Barn Swallows around as a kid. She... the weather lady
that went sailing?
What year did Cyli join you guys? Aprox is good enough.
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