Hobo Jungle

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Oh, I have to make an adjustment. The elevator indicated we have more than a total of 400lbs aboard."

Welcome back Murph. I missed your long windedness. I see from the post above you are just getting warmed up.

Now about that weight adjustment. How did your client/host manage to lighten the load? I need to adjust about 60 pounds myself. (Which is probably why I laughed so hard when I read that.)

[rogruth]

Murph,

It must have been the other guy.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, I have to make an adjustment....about that weight adjustment. How did your client/host manage to lighten the load? I need to adjust about 60 pounds myself. (Which is probably why I laughed so hard when I read that.)

He pressed a button which I assumed effected an adjustment electronically (for the unexpected load.)
Regarding losing 60lbs. (approx. a whole fifth grader,) that's about what I should shed to get normal again. I began my current weight control quest by havng a smaller amount of vanilla ice cream plopped atop my pumpkin pie at dinner tonight (orange veggies are good for you.) Oh, the discipline!

P.S. And since we're on the topic of things that are dubious for us, I want to know who walked up to a cow, for the first time in human history, and said, "Hey, I'm squeezin' one of those things; then, I'll add some ice and sugar and some vanilla bean essence and make myself a dessert.

Next, I wanna know whothehell walked up to a GOAT and decided to yank and squeeze one of those teats, had the goat accept the fondling, and everybody lived happily everafter eating goat cheese. Forget about the smell of it all; the appearance "in the raw" and the look of it. We had some courageus and inventive ancestors, I wanna tell ya', mebuckos.

That's enough fer now (huh, 'ole Wayne.)

P.P.S. O' course, I saw (on TV) a man make a brown scorpion strike a stick with its business-end, picked it up by its squirming mid-section, facing him at mouth level, no doubt pissedoff, only to have Mr. Nature Boy slowly feed it - head first - into his yapper, lookin' straight at him. Then, crunch, crunch. Yeegods, if I had been there, I think I'd have smacked him upside his dome for being such a eccentric (the man, not the hapless arachnid.) So, I suppose the moral is we'll eat just about anything. (Imagine vomiting cartoon head spewing forth here.)

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(Imagine vomiting cartoon head spewing forth here.)

Since we do not have a "Lighten-up" button to push, maybe a scorpion diet would work? I have plenty of them in my back yard.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Next, I wanna know whothehell walked up to a GOAT and decided to yank and squeeze one of those teats, had the goat accept the fondling, and everybody lived happily everafter eating goat cheese. Forget about the smell of it all; the appearance "in the raw" and the look of it. We had some courageus and inventive ancestors, I wanna tell ya', mebuckos.

Hunger is an impressive source of motivation and invention,

P.P.S. O' course, I saw (on TV) a man make a brown scorpion strike a stick with its business-end, picked it up by its squirming mid-section, facing him at mouth level, no doubt pissedoff, only to have Mr. Nature Boy slowly feed it - head first - into his yapper, lookin' straight at him. Then, crunch, crunch. Yeegods, if I had been there, I think I'd have smacked him upside his dome for being such a eccentric (the man, not the hapless arachnid.) So, I suppose the moral is we'll eat just about anything. (Imagine vomiting cartoon head spewing forth here.)

You obviously have not indulged in viewing Andrew Zimmern's show on the Travel Channel,

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods

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Cat-From-Hell (looking for lunch) considers, "How big could the dog be that uses this little door?"

[MurphOnMillerAve]

How does a hapless, poor li'l kitty like that deal w/ the irresistible, wiggling scorpions that trundle through his corral?

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Cat-From-Hell attacks. Scorpions, foot long centipedes, snakes, lizards, anything. If they sting or bite, they usually get away (at least those I have observed.)

I used to wonder why Cat-From-Hell's head was always covered with spider webs. Then I caught her in action, stealing bugs from a spider.

This afternoon Cat-From-Hell was following me around when a yellow and brown wasp flew by. After knocking it down with a swat, she picked it up in her mouth, got stung and spit it out. Wasp flew away with Cat-From-Hell in hot pursuit.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I see you believe in kitties learning by experience and in not crowding their sense of freedom (not that they'd listen a wit to ya' though).... seems you're a tough daddy.

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Cat-From-Hell is able to attack desert vermin other cats leave alone. Cat-From-Hell is a desert cat. She has long hairs growing between her toes. These create a cushion of fur over the foot pads, helping to insulate them while moving over hot sand. In the summer, when other cats in the neighborhood hurry over the ground from one shady spot to the next, lifting their paws high in the air, Cat-From-Hell walks calmly on sand hot enough to fry an egg.

[rogruth]

Wayne,

What a great cat.If it is from hell,who wants to mess with it.

The photo with the red eyes is perfect.

[2railjon]

Here's another one for Airborne! My Sig Saur P556 pistol and my flight helmet.

[2railjon]

Some cool history on Dirty Harry's .44 Auto Mag handgun:
http://www.uzitalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53514

[rogruth]

V E R R R Y Interesting.

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