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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

We did not have a lot of that where I grew up.

I've talked to a lot of people in Northern Florida (Jacksonville to St. Augustine heading inland--real cracker country) who have said they recall some characters like that. [:)]

Yeah, but I grew up in northern New York[:D]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

We did not have a lot of that where I grew up.

I've talked to a lot of people in Northern Florida (Jacksonville to St. Augustine heading inland--real cracker country) who have said they recall some characters like that. [:)]

Yeah, but I grew up in northern New York[:D]

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Grump!

MORNING PUNKS! STAY OFF THE LAWN! [:D]

I'm a geezer.  I am also lazy.  Too dang old to go chasin after young punks.  Shotguns with rock salt works well but requires vigilance which takes me away from WITP.  There has to be a system for automatically reducing young punks to frightened quivering masses of jello.  Something like filling your sprinkler system with Pepper Spray and setting it up to turn on with a motion detector......would fix the problem of the neighbors dog leaving minefields as well.

You nailed it with the "minefields" thought. Just upgrade to real ones...end of problem. [:'(]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I'm a geezer.  I am also lazy.  Too dang old to go chasin after young punks.  Shotguns with rock salt works well but requires vigilance which takes me away from WITP.  There has to be a system for automatically reducing young punks to frightened quivering masses of jello.  Something like filling your sprinkler system with Pepper Spray and setting it up to turn on with a motion detector......would fix the problem of the neighbors dog leaving minefields as well.

Two words for the lazy geezer. Mean dog! [:D] Just make sure that your dog is bigger and meaner than anything that comes visiting. I think a rotwieler will do. [:D]

I've got two Jack Russells and a Pekingneese that thinks it is a Rotweiler.  They are good watch dogs {barking at anything that moves within three miles} but not really good guard dogs {they can tear up a stuffed animal real good, but that's about it}[:D]. 

With Jack Russells you will probably never have a problem with vermin (other than teenagers). On Guam they use them as anti-snake dogs. When I was a kid , my mom had a Peke. Pure agression. It would take on any dog , regardless of size. German shepards, old english sheepdogs, anything. Then there was the day she went after the St. Bernard. Who not only ignored her , but begane to urinate on her. My mother had to rescue the dog , before she drowned. She became just a touch less agressive after that day. [:D] I always affectionately called it "that $%%^&**&^% land piranha!". [:D]

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Our Pee-neeze grew up around the Jacks.  SHe thinks she is a terrier.  She leaps for the couch from six feet away and can't understand why she doesn't make it[:D].  And I understand the Pure Aggression.  She takes on all the dogs that come near us when we go out for a walk.....at least in the first part of the walk....pour thing tries to keep up with the Jacks and gets out of breath quickly.  Her senses are more highly tuned than the Jacks, though.
 
Nope don't have a problem with vermin.  Rats, birds, cats, skunks, Oppossums, you name it.  They can't catch the squirrels which is odd {squirrels are so dumb they run under moving cars}.  We have bird feeders and some seed falls to the deck.  My sister says I am feeding the dogs, not the birds[:D][:D].  If that were true I would be sitting out there with a lawn chair and a video camera......
 
[yelling out from the lawn chair]
"Honey?  Do you know where the video camera is?"

Squirrels are actually very smart. Too smart. It makes them indecisive. I can make it, no I can't , yes I can , splat! [:D]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Squirrels are actually very smart. Too smart. It makes them indecisive. I can make it, no I can't , yes I can , splat! [:D]

This happens to me a lot in my WITP PBEM's. Now I realize that I am simply too smart. So what's the best cure, heavy drinking maybe, sleep deprivation, or just continuing to age?

ORIGINAL: ChickenOfTheSea

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Squirrels are actually very smart. Too smart. It makes them indecisive. I can make it, no I can't , yes I can , splat! [:D]

This happens to me a lot in my WITP PBEM's. Now I realize that I am simply too smart. So what's the best cure, heavy drinking maybe, sleep deprivation, or just continuing to age?

Alcohol is always the answer! I always recommend it to my PBEM opponents! Get a snoot full, then send me a turn! You will play better , trust me! [:D][:D][:D] (insert manevolent laugh here!)[:D]

It's that old age and treachery thing.

MORNING PUNKS! STAY OFF THE LAWN! [:D]

Grump!

Maybe put a sign up..."WARNING!   MINES!"

MORNING PUNKS! STAY OFF THE LAWN! [:D]

Grump! Grump! Grump!