A "Hints for Happier Living" Digression.

we use em for bait to catch groundfish . They are about 6" long abd have aseries of biting mouth parts that can give a pinch.

At least we dont have funnel webs and tai pans and box jellyfish and cone shells. We can handle anything over here and usually make a decent sammich out of it.

how many people has President Bush bitten and envenomated them with neurotoxins?

Besides that one incident in Texas a couple years ago. Anyway, we love our president , as well as the other homicidal maniacs..

lezzles wrote:

Yep, they don't come any wiser or deeper!

What about the mastiff women?

It's important to know what to wear when walking in the deep woods of America. One should always carry pepper spray and tie some small bells to one's shoes in order to alert the wildlife to your presence.

You should learn to differentiate between the scat of brown bears and the scat of the Grizzly. Brown bear scat is smaller and contains mostly pieces of nut shells and sometimes matted grass.

Grizzly bear scat is much larger, darker and smells like pepper spray and has little bells in it.

Joe(Look, Ed, it's a little baby bear cub. What a cuddly little be.... .)Nation

At least we dont have funnel webs and tai pans and box jellyfish and cone shells. We can handle anything over here and usually make a decent sammich out of it.

dlowan wrote:

lezzles wrote:

Yep, they don't come any wiser or deeper!

What about the mastiff women?

I know it's going back a bit now, but I could not let this go unanswered.

As a still grieving mother of a long departed beagle I feel justified in saying - What else is a beagle if not a very cleverly disguised mastiff?

It's important to know what to wear when walking in the deep woods of America. One should always carry pepper spray and tie some small bells to one's shoes in order to alert the wildlife to your presence.

You should learn to differentiate between the scat of brown bears and the scat of the Grizzly. Brown bear scat is smaller and contains mostly pieces of nut shells and sometimes matted grass.

Grizzly bear scat is much larger, darker and smells like pepper spray and has little bells in it.

Joe(Look, Ed, it's a little baby bear cub. What a cuddly little be.... .)Nation

((((lezzles))))

Gracie sends a lick and a "Ruff."



Anyone else still wondering why farmerman needs bait for ground fish?

farmerman wrote:

At least we dont have funnel webs and tai pans and box jellyfish and cone shells. We can handle anything over here and usually make a decent sammich out of it.

Most people here have never seen any of these critters. I've seen the snakes (not taipans) and the funnel webs.

Think US is scarier, though! More guns and people ready to use them!

You want a critter story?

When I lived in Kenya I would go down to Mombasa for a break every now and then. I knew this guy who ran a glass-bottomed boat tour of the reef, and for the price of a slab of Aussie beer I was always welcome on board. We had been exploring the reef and it was time to head back to shore. I was swimming back to the boat and realised two things - 1: I was the last one back and 2: everyone was leaning over the side of the boat urging me on. As I reached the ladder, helping hands came from everywhere and pulled me on board. My friend told me I had had a rather large coral snake swimming at my shoulder all the way from the reef to the boat. He didn't want to warn me because if I knew I might give off panic vibes which could trigger an attack.

Never eat anything bigger than your head. (I disremember whose advice that was.)

Setanta wrote:

Never eat anything bigger than your head. (I disremember whose advice that was.)

Similar to Miss Piggy's advice: Never eat more than you can lift!

As Bill Bryson said "In a Sunburned Country", and I paraphrase of course,

"What the Australians have become accustomed to is that almost anything in that country can kill you with large gobs of toxc venom"



Jeez Louize squinney, a GROUNDFISH is just a group name for xcod and halibut, pollock etc. These are deep marine bottom feeders.


GRIZZLY BEARs are overrated asa danger. Over 90% of the American acreage DOES NOT contain grizzly bears. SO, when walking or hiking in the other 10%, its good to go in larger groups and make lots of noise. A 50 calibre doesnt hurt either.

Black bears can be more a problem because theyve been suburbanized and will stalk you (especially if youre carrying a SNickers bar, they love Snickers bars). SO there may be a lesson in that.


But, we dont have to worry about bears hiding in our shoes and dosing us with a lethal jolt of poison.

You should learn to differentiate between the scat of brown bears and the scat of the Grizzly. Brown bear scat is smaller and contains mostly pieces of nut shells and sometimes matted grass.


Joe(Look, Ed, it's a little baby bear cub. What a cuddly little be.... .)Nation

When you go sparring in the ring, ALWAYS remember to take your nose ring out beforehand.

Oh, yeah! Nipple rings, too. Don't forget those!






(Snicker - I made farmerman say "Jeez Louise,squinney!" No one has said to me in a long time. Brought back memories.)

Joe Nation wrote:

You should learn to differentiate between the scat of brown bears and the scat of the Grizzly. Brown bear scat is smaller and contains mostly pieces of nut shells and sometimes matted grass.


Joe(Look, Ed, it's a little baby bear cub. What a cuddly little be.... .)Nation

Joe bubbele, Grizzly bears are brown bears. I think Mr. Nation meant to compare grizzlies to black bears, the smaller member of the U.S. ursine clan.

And--on topic--if you don't want to know how you look in something, don't ask me.

Msolag, if somebody serves me slop, I won't eat it. I won't say something unkind. I'll just eat around it.