whiner
Second star to the right, and straight on till morning
Wine Thief
Posts:2875
 | | 10/13/2006 5:53 PM |
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Scanning through VC right now, look out my office window and a nice size bear is 20 feet away in my back yard. Guess I better go find my dogs.
Make that two bears.
Godless killing machines...
No one caught my refrence? Or no one cared to respond? | |
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
-- Woody Allen | |
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Eric White
San Ramon, CA
Advanced Sommelier
Posts:9258
| | 10/13/2006 7:08 PM |
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Scanning through VC right now, look out my office window and a nice size bear is 20 feet away in my back yard. Guess I better go find my dogs.
Make that two bears.
Godless killing machines...
No one caught my refrence? Or no one cared to respond?
Well, I had to google it myself... | | | |
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TBird
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5221
| | 10/13/2006 7:12 PM |
| i'm lazy. please 'splain.  | | | |
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whiner
Second star to the right, and straight on till morning
Wine Thief
Posts:2875
| | 10/13/2006 7:15 PM |
| | It is from The Colbert Report. I thought everybody watched. Funny stuff. | |
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
-- Woody Allen | |
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AlexRed
Northern VA
Barrel Filler
Posts:1357
| | 10/13/2006 9:35 PM |
| i got it. i thought it was funny. Love the Threat Down! 
sorry, i didn't want to spoil it by pointing at it... i could ask the same about my small joke
" there is plenty of humor out in the world thatbears "no indication of jocularity" "
i wanted to see if anyone noticed... but i figured that if i pointed at it too much it would cease to be funny.  whoops. | | | |
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mountainman
Mammoth Mountain
Wine Bottler
Posts:3164
| | 10/13/2006 11:48 PM |
| "i wanted to see if anyone noticed"
we are all drinking, we miss a lot.  | | | |
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Dick Bonder
Grape Fermenter
Posts:484
| | 10/14/2006 1:19 PM |
| Three summers ago, fishing the banks of the Madison River in Montana and a good 100 yards downriver from my guide I got that prickly feeling on my neck. I turned to see a large mountain lion eyeing me who froze in midstep one front leg frozen in mid air. Obviously, facing the river, I was being stalked. Actually, I wasn't fishing. I had my waders at my knees and was relieving myself behind a willow. Bad moment. Not many choices. Jump in the river and probably drown with my waders half down? Face down the lion? Roll into a ball as if it was a bear (this behavior with a lion gets you eaten)? Anyway, I pointed my rod (the flyrod) at it and screamed at it, jumped up and down in my down to my knees waders, fell on my face got up and the cat was gone. My guide upriver heard the commotion, jumped into his boat and came down to give me a lift.
In retrospect, my guide, a real mountain man, said that that lion should not have been at that low an altitude (7000 ft) that time of year since the elk herd was still a couple thousand feet above us and the lion was probably either sick or old and unable to hunt big game. It was probably looking for an easy meal(moi). Dan alerted the rangers who immediately went to the surrounding campgrounds to warn people about their children and pets, and then the neighboring ranchers were notified about their stock. The lion was seen by a jogger the next morning, but not after that.
Trust that feeling on the back of your neck when your hair follicles feel prickly.
Dick | | | |
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Rigga
Grape Sorter
Posts:288
| | 10/16/2006 3:49 PM |
| | A couple of days ago I woke up to the sight of a full size bull moose in my front yard. He eventually sauntered up the street out of sight. A few minutes later my son had to leave for school and had to walk up the street to catch the bus. As he walked by a neighbor's house near the bus stop he got the shock of his life when the startled moose, who was laying down in some tall grass, came bounding by him and ran up a long driveway and out of sight. When his friends showed up to catch the bus he tried telling them about the moose but none would believe him until he pointed out the huge hoof marks left in ground. | | | |
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mountainman
Mammoth Mountain
Wine Bottler
Posts:3164
| | 06/23/2008 5:48 PM |
| | Almost hit one of those varmints on my mountainbike this morning. About the time I hit the brakes, he went 0 - 20 MPH into the brush. I see bears often on my rides but this was the closest encounter. | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Thief
Posts:2968
| | 06/24/2008 1:16 PM |
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits...
ps - friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon. | |
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