Even if you don't like ME...

Skunks · 05-31-2005, 04:42 AM

<img src="http://www.claymont.org/photos/gravel_road.jpg">

<img src="http://www.niar.twsu.edu/belize/images/walking%20on%20dirt%20road.jpg">

= 2000 words?

LCanal · 05-31-2005, 05:30 AM

Ok I was kidding. Looks tropical where is it?

LCanal · 06-01-2005, 10:31 PM

Skunks. This is a real gravel road = 3000 words

Tonchi · 06-29-2005, 12:30 AM

I love the Endangered Species Act, but you could write volumes about the bizarre ways it gets enforced here in California. (Above and beyond the volumes you could write about how we do ANYTHING in California) Two fascinating examples:

On one of the Channel Islands (that's basically Catalina for those who don't know West Coast geography) there is a tiny little fox which is native there and found nowhere else. Cutest little bugger you ever saw, but they are practically extinct. Seems that the introduction of pigs that went feral messed up the balance for that area, and to make a long story short, a species of EAGLE which had not been living there before came over from the mainland to take advantage of all the baby pigs and they have forced out the Bald Eagles which DID "belong there". So now, in order to enforce the Endangered Species Act, the Park Service and the ecologists find themselves in the messy position of having to shoot both pigs and eagles, which wipes out the currently dominant life forms there, in order to "save" the little fox who might not survive anyway.

The other case is up at the newly ground-broken University of California Merced, where in one of the most brazen sweetheart deals of the century a local rich guy was allowed to "donate the land free" so that the UC system would start building an entire university from the ground up in the middle of nowhere instead of taking over available areas with fully constructed structures, utilities, and access (one of which was in downtown Fresno). The payoff is that the guy owns all the rest of the land surrounding this spot and will be able to cash in bigtime with his monopoly on all housing sites, shopping centers, and anything else that follows a growing university. Ooooops! Vernal pools

Itty bitty fairy shrimps, only found during the few months of the year when it rains enough, but on the List. So now we have a scheming would-be developer turning purple because he has to set aside many prime acres right in the middle of where he planned to put a golf course and luxury housing (which every university MUST have) so as not to harm something which is difficult to see with the naked eye. Yep, spotted owls are great, but fairy shrimps rock too

LCanal · 06-29-2005, 02:32 AM

I love the University one. Maybe I will start a thread called "Spot The Scam". If your into the endangered thing there a guy who comes into the bar in Bangkok we call him the tiger guy his "job" is saving tigers in Thailand.

Tonchi · 06-29-2005, 03:47 AM

Yes, I've hear how much the inhabitants of those countries are interested in "saving" tigers, specifically the penis which is attached to said tiger. Unfortunately, in the process of detaching the penis the tiger has to be sacrificed. But oh well, the virility of some old Chinese rich guy does so much more for the local economy than a few pesky cats

LCanal · 06-29-2005, 03:56 AM

Ah so you've heard about the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo that doesn't have tigers anymore because they had to be put down because the zoo didn't have a license to keep tigers. Nod, nod, wink, wink.
Damn I'm gonna start that spot the scam thread.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-29-2005, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Skunks. This is a real gravel road = 3000 words

No, that's a dirt road. A gravel road is built so when it rains you aren't up to your hubs in mud like a dirt road.

05-31-2005, 05:30 AM	#2
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Ok I was kidding. Looks tropical where is it? __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

06-01-2005, 10:31 PM	#3
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Skunks. This is a real gravel road = 3000 words Attached Images __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

06-29-2005, 12:30 AM	#4
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	I love the Endangered Species Act, but you could write volumes about the bizarre ways it gets enforced here in California. (Above and beyond the volumes you could write about how we do ANYTHING in California) Two fascinating examples: On one of the Channel Islands (that's basically Catalina for those who don't know West Coast geography) there is a tiny little fox which is native there and found nowhere else. Cutest little bugger you ever saw, but they are practically extinct. Seems that the introduction of pigs that went feral messed up the balance for that area, and to make a long story short, a species of EAGLE which had not been living there before came over from the mainland to take advantage of all the baby pigs and they have forced out the Bald Eagles which DID "belong there". So now, in order to enforce the Endangered Species Act, the Park Service and the ecologists find themselves in the messy position of having to shoot both pigs and eagles, which wipes out the currently dominant life forms there, in order to "save" the little fox who might not survive anyway. The other case is up at the newly ground-broken University of California Merced, where in one of the most brazen sweetheart deals of the century a local rich guy was allowed to "donate the land free" so that the UC system would start building an entire university from the ground up in the middle of nowhere instead of taking over available areas with fully constructed structures, utilities, and access (one of which was in downtown Fresno). The payoff is that the guy owns all the rest of the land surrounding this spot and will be able to cash in bigtime with his monopoly on all housing sites, shopping centers, and anything else that follows a growing university. Ooooops! Vernal pools Itty bitty fairy shrimps, only found during the few months of the year when it rains enough, but on the List. So now we have a scheming would-be developer turning purple because he has to set aside many prime acres right in the middle of where he planned to put a golf course and luxury housing (which every university MUST have) so as not to harm something which is difficult to see with the naked eye. Yep, spotted owls are great, but fairy shrimps rock too __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

06-29-2005, 02:32 AM	#5
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	I love the University one. Maybe I will start a thread called "Spot The Scam". If your into the endangered thing there a guy who comes into the bar in Bangkok we call him the tiger guy his "job" is saving tigers in Thailand. __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

06-29-2005, 03:47 AM	#6
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Yes, I've hear how much the inhabitants of those countries are interested in "saving" tigers, specifically the penis which is attached to said tiger. Unfortunately, in the process of detaching the penis the tiger has to be sacrificed. But oh well, the virility of some old Chinese rich guy does so much more for the local economy than a few pesky cats __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

05-31-2005, 04:42 AM	#1
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	<img src="http://www.claymont.org/photos/gravel_road.jpg"> <img src="http://www.niar.twsu.edu/belize/images/walking%20on%20dirt%20road.jpg"> = 2000 words?

06-29-2005, 03:56 AM	#7
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Ah so you've heard about the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo that doesn't have tigers anymore because they had to be put down because the zoo didn't have a license to keep tigers. Nod, nod, wink, wink. Damn I'm gonna start that spot the scam thread. __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

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