12:18
PM Mr. Blue
The
largest rodent is the capybara, which can grow to 200 lbs.
12:18
PM Mr. Brown
Yep
12:30
PM Mr. Silver
That
reminds me of a college professor story. I probably told it to
you already at some point; maybe not.
12:34
PM Mr. Silver
This
was the same anthropology professor who criticized Hollywood for
depicting archaeologists as having ridiculous, rollicking,
danger-filled adventures, yet was always telling us about his
ridiculous, rollicking, danger-filled adventures.
12:36
PM Mr. Silver
"...but
they spotted us when we trespassed on the site anyway and we had to
run for it in this beat-up old jeep on a washed-out dirt road with
the
Policía
Nacional
shooting
at us
and we barely managed to get away. Anyway...back to the Quitu
Culture...."
12:54
PM Mr. Silver
So,
he was at a carnival once, and saw a sideshow for "The World's
Biggest Rat!"
"I
didn't know what it was, but I thought 'stupid as this is gonna
be, I've gotta see this'. So I paid the guy and stepped in to
have a look. There were a few of us in there, and when I looked
in the pen, it was just a capybara.”
"Oh!"
I said to the guy next to me "That's a capybara, not a
rat." He seemed interested.
“Yeah?”
"Yes!
It's from South America; I've seen them in the wild. Some people
call it a water hog. It lives in marshy areas and is
semi-aquatic. They make all these trails though the high grass to
swim around their territory without leaving the water."
"That's
really cool!" said the guy, "but check out the size of this
RAT!"
12:57
PM Mr. Brown
lol
1:03
PM Mr. Blue
heh
1:10
PM Mr. Blue
I
guess they can be domesticated
1:14
PM Mr. Brown
Yep.
Like having a dog, but its a giant rodent.
Mr.
Brown
“You
mean lowercase as in not capital?”
1:52
PM Mr. Brown
“You
mean 9 as in the number?”
1:53
PM Mr. Silver
"Is
that a lowercase 3?"
2:05
PM Mr. Brown
They
really need to change our default to 1234abc or something like that.
2:08
PM Mr. Silver
I
still like "2tootwo22totutu"
Mr.
Silver
Here's
one for the “just change it” list I just ran across in the directory.
Richard
A Johnson.
"May
I call you Dick? or A Johnson?"
12:03
PM Mr. Brown
“Call
me Penis”
Wait
that is totally wrong.
12:06
PM Mr. Blue
My
pals call me Glandy.
12:11
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:13
PM Mr. Brown
Tatum
Scrotum, at your service.
12:14
PM Mr. Amethyst
Lo-Hong
Taintstride, sir.
12:15
PM Mr. Brown
Somebody
should name their kid NAME
12:19
PM Mr. Brown
Name
Here Brown
LOL
Mr.
Silver
I
hate this week. Its already been completely trashed and its only
Thursday.
8:43
AM Mr. Silver
2
deaths, one flood, dead phone, dead cable box, canceled vacation,
canceled game...
8:55
AM Mr. Silver
Anyway.
Now that it's all over, there were some amusing bits in retrospect.
8:59
AM Mr. Silver
Like
#1 - The wife and kid panicking over the National Weather Service's
“Rampaging Butler-County-Seeking Death Tornado 100% Certainty”
reports.
Even
though it was all the way out McConnell's Mill way.
8:59
AM Mr. Blue
Yeah
"Tornado
Watch for Butler County" =/= "Heading directly towards your
house"
I
guess there was a touchdown in Lawrence County, but it was in the
middle of nowhere and it didn't stay down long.
9:00
AM Mr. Silver
Right.
So
#2 was "saving the cat"
9:03
AM Mr. Silver
They
"saved" the cat and put it in the basement as they ran
around gathering all the essentials for the apocalypse.
9:04
AM Mr. Silver
The
essentials turned out to be 3 light sources, a radio, a 1/2 bag of
Fritos, and one light jacket...but I digress.
9:04
AM Mr. Brown
I
always figure with animals or pets, if they are not locked up in a
cage they will figure it out themselves.
9:05
AM Mr. Silver
So
after the panic subsided a bit, the cat is yowling in the basement.
He rarely gets down there. He LOVES the basement.
9:08
AM Mr. Silver
"What
the heck? Where is he? Is he still in the basement?
It sounds like he's stuck or something."
9:10
AM Mr. Silver
I
open the door. The wide-eyed cat, in shock, slinks out of Cat
Hell. A bit of further investigation on my part and they'd not
noticed they'd trapped him in a room with up to 3" of water on
the floor.
9:15
AM Mr. Brown
Speaking
of cats, I hate when you open a closet to do something, close it, and
then a hour later you hear meow meow meow.
Where
the hell is the cat?
Then
you search the whole house til you track the sound to the closet
door. You open it up, the cat runs out. “Why the hell did you go
in there?”
9:16
AM Mr. Blue
I
think cats think all doors lead outside.
9:18
AM Mr. Silver
Nay!
All doors lead to adventure and mice!
Mr.
Brown
I
hate when somebody says they had a electrical storm.
Do
you know Tesla or something, sir?
12:30
PM Mr. Blue
Yeah,
an electrical storm sounds like something that would happen on
Saturn.
12:31
PM Mr. Silver
I
picture tiny lightning bolts, falling gently.
12:31
PM Mr. Brown
LOL
Mr.
Brown
You
know what would be cool? Seeing wild horses running around again.
12:53
PM Mr. Blue
Horses
are domesticated.
That's
like saying you want to see wild cars running around again.
12:54
PM Mr. Brown
I
do.
LOL
12:55
PM Mr. Silver
Well...not
quite
the same...
12:55
PM Mr. Brown
There
are still wild horses, Mr. Blue, just not here.
12:56
PM Mr. Blue
OK...
It's like saying you wanna see wild dairy cows then.
12:57
PM Mr. Brown
You
could start a population with the wild horses that still exist.
12:57
PM Mr. Blue
There
are equine species that are in the wild still, but i think the animal
that horses trace their lineage from are extinct.
12:57
PM Mr. Brown
It
just would be crazy driving down the road – horse.
12:57
PM Mr. Blue
i
was driving down the road and saw a moose once, that was crazy
Therefore,
most "wild" horses today are actually feral
horses,
animals that escaped or were turned loose from domestic herds and the
descendants of those animals.[129]
Only two never-domesticated subspecies, the Tarpan
and the Przewalski's
Horse,
survived into recorded history and only the latter survives today.
1:02
PM Mr. Silver
Feral
Cows!
“Cowpocalypse!”
Next month on Syfy!
1:02
PM Mr. Blue
I
saw these too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_State_Park#Begging_Burros
1:03
PM Mr. Silver
Little
signs "Will bear burden for food"
1:03
PM Mr. Blue
Heheheh
1:03
PM Mr. Silver
"Can't
bray, every oat helps"
1:03
PM Mr. Blue
It
was pretty surreal. We didn't see them in a scene like the picture.
1:04
PM Mr. Brown
Donkeys
are awesome.
1:04
PM Mr. Blue
It
was a big, open, hilly field - like a giant prairie - and they were
all standing on top of a hill that had the only tree in the area. It
was like some kind of painting. When we stopped the car, they slowly
made their way down to us and mingled around for a while. It was
pretty cool.
I
guess some gold rushers left them there
1:05
PM Mr. Brown
Farmers
use them to protect other animals
Llamas
are good for that too, or was it alpacas?
1:07
PM Mr. Brown
They
are very smart animals. Definitely a survivor species.
1:16
PM Mr. Silver
One
left: "Barnless, please help"
1:16
PM Mr. Blue
LOL
Lol
I missed the 2nd one!
1:16
PM Mr. Brown
Lets
just say that if I had a choice between a horse or donkey, I would go
with a donkey.
1:17
PM Mr. Blue
They
seem more chill.
1:19
PM Mr. Silver
Independent...like
a cat.
And
all the crap you get with that.
1:21
PM Mr. Brown
Yeah,
they will kind of take care of themselves, but you can still ride
them or use them to pull or carry stuff.
1:21
PM Mr. Blue
...like
a cat, except for the useful part.
1:22
PM Mr. Silver
"You
were the one who wanted out! Go on Bucky! There's a good donkey."
(stands looking at you as you hold the barn open five
minutes...yawns)
(later)
"Get
IN you stupid bastard!" (donkey stands just outside barn
door five minutes, yawns)
1:23
PM Mr. Blue
This
rep lives on 2207 Horsecreek Rd
"So...them
horses bitin' today?"
1:24
PM Mr. Silver
"Baitin'
with carrots now...some folk swear by sugar cubes, but th'never last
long 'nough."
1:24
PM Mr. Blue
Hahaha
