Post #129,248
12/6/03 9:07:00 AM
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Big deal.
One coyote. Pah.
My dad's place has packs of them. Plus black bear.
Of course, he does live out in the sticks... ;-)
Reminds me of when we had a cougar roaming around Mt. Clemens.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #129,257
12/6/03 10:22:53 AM
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Re: Big deal.
Michigan, that model of Euclidean geometry, has a "Mt."?
(The highest point in Kansas is right on the Colorado border, and the locals have a lot of fun with it.)
-drl
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Post #129,263
12/6/03 10:38:24 AM
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It's a city... :-P
Not much as far as mountains down here... the U.P. and northern parts of the L.P. get pretty hilly, though.
The highest point in Michigan is 1,979 ft. above sea level (Mt. Arvon). The lowest point is around 500 ft. above sea level, so there's only 1,500 ft. of variance.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #129,265
12/6/03 10:41:12 AM
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With a capital T that rhymes with P...
...and that stands for Pool.
(dunno where that came from)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #129,291
12/6/03 1:47:00 PM
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Re: where that came from?
[link|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000F14B/102-6284588-1153766?v=glance|"The Music Man"] and the song "There's trouble in River City.".
Alex
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Post #129,294
12/6/03 2:23:11 PM
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Well...that part I knew...
...I just have no idea why it sprang in my head after reading that particular exchange.
I suppose "left field" is a strong possibility ;-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #129,268
12/6/03 10:52:32 AM
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Mt. Sunflower KS
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In Colorado, it's a hobby to climb all the 14teeners, one of which is Mt. Evans. People wear T-shirts with their conquests marked off. For the non-mountaineering, I thought it would be fun to make a t-shirt that stated "I Climbed Mt. Evans". Mt. Evans is a 14teener right outside Denver. There is a road (Colo. 5) that goes almost to the top - there is a parking lot about 200 feet below the summit. So, the T-shirt would have a picture of the parking lot with the grueling 200ft climb to the summit marked as a dashed line, from some random car door all the way up the manicured path to the top.
(BTW the view from the top, of Pike's Peak 50 mi south and Long's Peak about the same north, is awesome beyond words. If you're ever going through Denver, take a couple hours for the detour.)
-drl
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Post #129,297
12/6/03 2:58:30 PM
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Aye, but to go up Pikes I always take the cog railway
Your "I climbed Mt Evans" T-short reminds me of one we were going to make for gags at the World Freefall Convention. The hot shirt is "I jumped the Jet" (727) but we were going to make some that said "I jumped the Cessna" (always the last resort up).
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Post #129,348
12/6/03 9:26:16 PM
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It is a "Big Deal"
as you say, since we're talking about a wild animal running around in the heart of the third largest city in the country, and 99 44/100% of its residents have never even SEEN a coyote in their life, except maybe on The Discovery Channel. These people don't have a clue on how to treat it.
Didn't you read the story from about 2 weeks ago, about the lady that jumped the moat, scaled a fence and stuck her arm into the wolf compound at Brookfield Zoo late at night? Wolf acted as expected, and the woman is now an amputee.
lincoln
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Post #129,349
12/6/03 9:34:26 PM
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Was she trying to commit "lupicide"?
"Hey! I feel frisky! Let's go pester the wolves and tease them! It'll be fun!"
Think how long it's gonna take to make the dot over the "i" into a heart with her left hand...
"Hey Lori! Why do you make the "i" with a pancreas hovering over it?"
-drl
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Post #129,355
12/6/03 10:47:57 PM
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Re: Big deal. - yeah pretty much
My folks place in AZ is pretty much a zoo.
Wild pigs, mountain lions, coyotes, tarantulas, scorpions...the works.
But its warm there :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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