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xoxoxoBruce 09-16-2018 11:30 AM

Where does a Lion go... anywhere he wants.

Carruthers 09-16-2018 12:00 PM

Meals on wheels.

Look, somebody had to say it. :)

Gravdigr 09-16-2018 03:11 PM

If you hadn't, I woulda.

Griff 09-17-2018 06:19 AM

Phones interfering with experience? It's always a balance...

xoxoxoBruce 09-20-2018 10:38 PM

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Another Squirrel King, pine pitch to blame...

Carruthers 10-05-2018 05:28 AM

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It's not so much living next to nature, it's having nature move in with you...

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Stockport woman finds snake in oven
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An elderly woman had the "shock of her life" when she found a 3ft (90cm) snake in her oven.

The 82-year-old said she wondered if her "eyes were deceiving her" when she first saw the African brown snake, which is thought to be an escaped pet.

The reptile then disappeared, before turning up in the oven again two days later at the home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The RSPCA was called and rescued the snake on 26 September.

The woman, who was preparing to cook some chips, said: "When I opened the oven door and saw it, I got the shock of my life.

"I have recently had a cataract operation and was wondering if my eyes were deceiving me - but my husband saw it too."

The woman, who preferred not to be named, added: "I gave the RSPCA inspector a big hug and a cup of tea afterwards, but I went off the idea of oven chips so sent my husband to the fish and chip shop instead."
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Inspector Andy Harris said the species was not venomous and the serpent was likely to have escaped or been abandoned.

He said: "I managed to coax the snake from the oven. It must have squeezed through a wall cavity and there is a hole at the back of the oven so it was probably attracted by the warmth.

"It was lucky the couple didn't preheat the oven first."

African brown snakes are frequently found in homes in Africa and eat rodents, small lizards and birds.
BBC

The Independent (Includes video)

fargon 10-05-2018 06:25 AM

:eek:EEK!!!

Glinda 10-05-2018 01:15 PM

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BBC

The Independent (Includes video)

Oh, HELL no. If I opened my oven and found a big snake inside, :eek: I would slam the door, crank the oven to max, and cook that fucker to a crisp.

ACK!

Clodfobble 10-05-2018 01:17 PM

I'd be more worried about the "hole at the back of the oven." Fire hazard, anyone?

Glinda 10-05-2018 01:22 PM

Yeah, that doesn't seem right at all!

Gravdigr 10-05-2018 01:57 PM

Snek door. Work like doggie door.

Yeah, fuck snek.

Gravdigr 10-05-2018 01:58 PM

Never seen an oven door open that way.

xoxoxoBruce 10-11-2018 09:54 PM

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A month or two ago I was watching on a webcam, the brown bears in Alaska catching Salmon.
I noticed one huge bear under some overhanging brush against the far bank just below the falls.
Come to find out his name is Otis and this year, for the third year in a row, he was voted via the internet the title of fattest bear.

orthodoc 10-11-2018 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers (Post 1016251)
It's not so much living next to nature, it's having nature move in with you...

Cleaning out the storage rooms in the basement recently, and commenting to each other on the lack of 'mouse evidence' and our obvious success in persuading the mice to depart and live elsewhere in our woods ... we found two LONG (24-36") snakeskins shed against a back wall.

No wonder the mice have departed. The survivors, that is. :eek:

Gravdigr 10-11-2018 11:21 PM

What survivors?:eyebrow:

BigV 10-12-2018 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc (Post 1016613)
Cleaning out the storage rooms in the basement recently, and commenting to each other on the lack of 'mouse evidence' and our obvious success in persuading the mice to depart and live elsewhere in our woods ... we found two LONG (24-36") snakeskins shed against a back wall.

No wonder the mice have departed. The survivors, that is. :eek:

Now I want snakes again.

xoxoxoBruce 10-13-2018 07:29 PM

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Will you settle for a pet Moose? Not this one, he dead.

BigV 10-13-2018 09:54 PM

good lord.

How did he get it in the truck?

Winch it up on a gantry and back the truck under it?

captainhook455 10-14-2018 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1016258)
I'd be more worried about the "hole at the back of the oven." Fire hazard, anyone?

Electric stoves with visible elements have the same cabinet as gas stoves. The hole in the back is for the co2 module on a gas stove. My brother had a gas stove and one night we heard a loud boom in the kitchen. The module had enough and exploded. It was an old stove and was time for a new one anyway.

captainhook455 10-14-2018 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc (Post 1016613)
Cleaning out the storage rooms in the basement recently, and commenting to each other on the lack of 'mouse evidence' and our obvious success in persuading the mice to depart and live elsewhere in our woods ... we found two LONG (24-36") snakeskins shed against a back wall.

No wonder the mice have departed. The survivors, that is. :eek:

Got roaches and can't get rid of them. Spray em, fog em, call the exterminator. Nooo go out in the yard and catch a couple green lizards and put in the kitchen cabinet. Sometimes I have to replace one as the cats like lizards to play with.

Diaphone Jim 10-14-2018 11:32 AM

OK, WTF is a "63 rank moose?"

xoxoxoBruce 10-14-2018 11:52 AM

Don't know, that was the caption on the picture, but I'd assume it's the spread of the rack.

Diaphone Jim 10-15-2018 11:23 AM

Google doesn't seem to know either.

Diaphone Jim 10-15-2018 11:41 AM

Or maybe:
https://www.boone-crockett.org/bgrec...rds&type=Moose

Gravdigr 10-15-2018 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim (Post 1016763)
OK, WTF is a "63 rank moose?"

Never heard that phrase before.

Possibly ranked 63rd in a list, such as the B&C Records mentioned, or maybe Pope & Young Club Records.

I'd go with spread of antler, expressed in inches.

If that's a "journalist's" work, though, they prolly didn't know wtf they were talking about.

xoxoxoBruce 10-15-2018 04:59 PM

Boone and Crockett was my first thought but by their system a big moose would be at least 200.
I wasn't familiar with Pope-Young but they apparently use the same scoring system as Boone and Crockett.

Want to see a Canadian take a record moose with an arrow from 3 yards away?

xoxoxoBruce 10-18-2018 09:18 PM

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Huntsman spiders eat frogs/toads too. :eek:

Diaphone Jim 10-19-2018 11:45 AM

With the Cellar's rare failing to come through, I guess that "63 rank" must just mean "dead" in New Brunswick.

Gravdigr 10-19-2018 02:04 PM

Google search for "63 rank moose"...:yelsick:

xoxoxoBruce 10-19-2018 04:54 PM

In New Brunswick 63 rank means 63 inch spread on the rack.

Diaphone Jim 10-19-2018 06:45 PM

I was a little chilled when I saw the first Cellar hit on Google.
I like my answer better, though I'll click on a link to Bruce's.

Diaphone Jim 10-20-2018 11:28 AM

Maybe "rank" is just a typo for "rack."

Gravdigr 10-20-2018 02:37 PM

If that's a five foot spread, that man's four feet tall.

Clodfobble 10-20-2018 03:05 PM

Bucks are usually measured by the number of points on the antlers. I only count 40-something moose nubs from this angle, but maybe there are others that are harder to see.

Gravdigr 10-20-2018 03:11 PM

Points are not counted on a moose, they go by spread, in inches.

And shovels.

xoxoxoBruce 10-20-2018 08:02 PM

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If that's a five foot spread, that man's four feet tall.


Gravdigr 10-21-2018 02:02 PM

:smack:

gtown 11-05-2018 01:10 PM

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Clearing some old logs and found a few of these huge guys. I suspect it's the larvae of the ox beetle, previously seen here:
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=1008806&postcount=1226

It's not Friday so I don't know how to cook it...

BigV 11-05-2018 01:57 PM

Baby Chestburster

Gravdigr 11-05-2018 03:10 PM

Cook it? What are you, some kind of pussy, or something?:eyebrow:

gtown 11-05-2018 04:46 PM

fair point... :smack:

xoxoxoBruce 11-05-2018 11:33 PM

Guess what's chasing this boat. :eek:

Diaphone Jim 11-06-2018 11:31 AM

The deadliest animal (to man and besides man) in Africa.

Gravdigr 11-06-2018 02:28 PM

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The deadliest animal (to man and besides man) in Africa.

That's the biggest fucking mosquito I've ever seen.

Diaphone Jim 11-06-2018 07:31 PM

Good point. I missed the mosquito modifier, but we kill more of them than they do of us.

xoxoxoBruce 11-06-2018 10:36 PM

Mosquito is not an animal.

Happy Monkey 11-07-2018 05:13 PM

It is, by taxonomic, and by 20 questions rules.

xoxoxoBruce 11-07-2018 05:58 PM

Not outside biology texts, and certainly not in conversation. :rolleyes:

Gravdigr 11-08-2018 02:03 PM

Well, mosquitoes ain't rocks. They ain't plants. And they suck blood.















They must be ex-wives, then.

xoxoxoBruce 11-09-2018 11:13 PM

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The Hudson's Bay Company records of Lynx pelts reported.
note: it's 10 to the 4th power scale, so the 6 = 60,000.

Diaphone Jim 11-10-2018 11:18 AM

Damn, that's a lot of cats.
Cleaned 'em out in the "5" years, recovered in 10.

lumberjim 11-10-2018 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1018458)
Well, mosquitoes ain't rocks. They ain't plants. And they suck blood.















They must be ex-wives, then.

+1

Gravdigr 11-15-2018 09:52 PM

Nah, them raccoons ain't rabid...

...they're just drunk.

Gravdigr 11-16-2018 01:51 PM

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Wait'll he finds hisself a shiv and catches ya behind the laundry...

Griff 11-16-2018 03:55 PM

Pretty sure he has Anthrax.

BigV 11-19-2018 09:19 PM

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Pretty sure he has Anthrax.

You're thinking of the little ivy-eaters.

This one's secret is Hantavirus.

Griff 11-20-2018 06:22 AM

That'll get ya.

xoxoxoBruce 11-26-2018 10:45 PM

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Pooh...

Gravdigr 11-27-2018 05:42 PM

A bear with a toothache.

That's a pretty frightening thought, right there.

I turn into a bear when I have a toothache.

What do bears turn into? I'm guessing it ain't hugs and kisses.

Well, maybe hugs.

And big, wet, toothy, bloody kisses.

xoxoxoBruce 12-08-2018 02:57 AM

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Epic battle, the Grouper escapes but too damaged to swim and get eaten by something else right away...


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