The Thread

Speedysteve · Post by **Speedysteve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:46 pm

ORIGINAL: fabertong

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

DING DING DING DING!!!

We have a winner!! Armadillo it is!!!

Stand by...
Lucky bugger..........my guesses were all skill based............

Of course they were shark bait...........

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:46 pm

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Wooohoohoohohohoho

Hoot!

What do I win for the day other than eternal respect from fellow Threaders that I possess immense intuition and knowledge [:D]

A personalized cartoon/photo. This might have to wait until later today (this evening???) depending on how my workload is going, etc. Probably this p.m.

Speedysteve · Post by **Speedysteve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:52 pm

I can live with that Robert...anything to beat Faber et al [;)][:D]

fabertong · Post by **fabertong** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:58 pm

Right, off for a sulk......

Nikademus · Post by **Nikademus** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:58 pm

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

what do you have against models???

what kind of models? supermodels? we likes supermodels........

DuckofTindalos · Post by **DuckofTindalos** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:01 pm

That would be rubber ones, in your case...

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:02 pm

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

what do you have against models???

what kind of models? supermodels? we likes supermodels........

Exactly![:D] and yet they do a lot of posing, therefore are Posers, no?

Nikademus · Post by **Nikademus** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:05 pm

Posers refers to those penquin loving fakers who are boosting their post total with short little burbs. REAL posters boost their count by writing novels. I like novels......and beer.

BEER!

niceguy2005 · Post by **niceguy2005** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:05 pm

Morning all. I see I just missed the naked animal contest. What does a naked amradillo look like anyway?

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:10 pm

OK:

Here we have it -

THE NAKED (DEAD) ARMADILLO!!!

This poor rascal was part of a population explosion of armadillos we had in our yard this spring. However, we also have a population of bobcats, and possibly (probably) a cougar. These beast consider armadillos as "possum on the half shell" and once they get ahold of an armadillo, the grab hold of its tail and yank. This leave the "shell" behind. In this case, i think it was just flipped over and devoured - and this is what we see here.

BTW, my wife insisted i use this pic, but forgot to e-mail it to me, so that was why we had the delay...

fabertong · Post by **fabertong** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:11 pm

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Posers refers to those penquin loving fakers who are boosting their post total with short little burbs. REAL posters boost their count by writing novels. I like novels......and beer.

BEER!

Like...."Catcher in the rye".............

Speedysteve · Post by **Speedysteve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:12 pm

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Posers refers to those penquin loving fakers who are boosting their post total with short little burbs. REAL posters boost their count by writing novels. I like novels......and beer.

BEER!

AND PIZZA!!

I actually might buy a 'Pizza Express' Pizza for home tonight. GF is not around = pizza is fine as is beer [8D]

P.S. I assume by your limited WiTP quality play you like 'novels' like the "Penquin book of WW2 for children"?

DuckofTindalos · Post by **DuckofTindalos** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:13 pm

Nah, probably too wordy for him.

Speedysteve · Post by **Speedysteve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:13 pm

Robert - why did she insist you use this picture?

fabertong · Post by **fabertong** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:16 pm

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Nah, probably too wordy for him.

How about "Horton hears a Who"....that goes well with beer.....

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:22 pm

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Robert - why did she insist you use this picture?

i am not really sure. The circumstances were a bit strange - i had taken her out to dinner (!!) and i was discussing the Naked Animal contest, and mentioned the other popular "dead animal" pics (well, popular to some, i guess...)

I said i was going to use her picture of an armadillo she had taken last year, and she insisted that i should use the much more bizarre flattened (well, collapsed) armadillo pic she made later. To be honest, i hadn't really seen the pic until she e-mailed it to me a few minutes ago. She thought it was more bizarre, and thus more fitting to be used on The Thread, i guess...[:D]

Anyway, this thing's kin are still living around the house and digging up the lawn on occasion. They are almost blind and use their sense of smell to keep them out of danger. This doesn't work too well, especially when dealing with cars... there are Texans around that claim they've never seen a LIVE armadillo (just squashed ones on the side of the road...)

BTW, my dog HATES these things, and one almost came to greef this weekend when it decided it was deep enough in his hole to escape. It wasn't, but fortunately for the armadillo, the dog was on a leash and restrained...[:)]

niceguy2005 · Post by **niceguy2005** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:29 pm

*sigh* Almost makes me long for Texas, once home.

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:29 pm

For those of you who haven't seen a LIVE armadillo, here's one. I suspect this might be the guy who the dog ALMOST got...

Notice, if you stay downwind from it and are quiet, you can walk right up to these rascals!

EDIT: From what i can tell, this is the Nine-band armadillo, popular in leprosy research. This things can carry leprosy, so i've avoided actual physical contact.

Speedysteve · Post by **Speedysteve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:30 pm

LOL. What dog have you got?

These things just live in your garden?

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:38 pm

ORIGINAL: Speedy

LOL. What dog have you got?

These things just live in your garden?

Well, there's one that has dug a hole that goes under the slab foundation, which is not actually IN the garden (hidden behind shubbery), but close enough. Most folks will kill them as pests, but i figure they eat the d@mned fire ants (and about nothing else does...), and so far it's been live and let live.

The dog is a male miniature Schnauzer, who is fearless when it comes to other animals (not good when there are bobcats, cougars, and coyotes about). We also have a female miniature Schnauzer, who is "alpha", but a shameless coward in these matters. She will bark, and then run away to fetch us to deal whatever problem she has (or hide)![:D]

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