Deirdre Sholto Douglas <finch.enter...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> brady r wrote: >> On Sep 24, 1:53 pm, Deirdre Sholto Douglas >> <finch.enter...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> No fleas, ticks or rats either...there's a limit as to how >>> far "back to nature" I'm going to go and residing with >>> vermin is on the other side of the line.
>> Groundhogs excepted, one assumes.
> Groundhogs aren't vermin and even if they were, they > don't reside _inside_ the house.
Ground hogs are a natural reservoir for bubonic plaugue, which is usually spread by fleas. Fleas have ways of getting inside: we just found fleas on an old ferret who hasn't been outside in a year and has had flea treatments since then. Maybe the dog got them from the grass, like maybe the local fleas have become resistant to this expensive anti-flea stuff we've been using since the other expensive anti-flea stuff the vet sold us quit working, or maybe the fleas "hitchhiked" on our sneakers, or something.
I'm sure you already knew this, you just didn't think about it as you typed, because groundhogs are cute furry critters. I know, we had one in our yard back in Louisville. I'd bring him good vegetables to eat. But I worried about his fleas, every outdoor critter has zillions.
> Anyway, I've not had one under the stoop since the bees > moved in there,
Are you anaphylactically shockable? I'm probably not but I don't want to test it. I was a test subject a couple of studies, dental studies: one that tested whether ibuprofen was effective again the pain of having wisdom teeth cut out (in my case it wasn't, severely, but I didn't follow up on the published results) and one that tested whether fish oil helps the body fight off gum disease (I don't know that it made any difference, it could be that I followed their instructions to floss more and brush better, and I haven't found that published study either). I participated in those because in the first one I needed my wisdom teeth cut out anyway (and they promised me a GOOD painkiller if the ibupropen didn't work), and for the second study, the fish oil one, I didn't see how fish oil could give me any pain and anyway they paid me just enough to buy some decent beer. But bee sting hurt even if you're not allergic to the vemon, and I dislike any kind of pain.
> since I haven't had a bible thumper atop the stoop for equally long, > I'm not inclined to evict my apian friends.
It's things like this that keep me reading your posts. Minimal wit is better than none.
> The only acceptable substitute for intelligence is silence.
I've been reading "minimalist" fiction and trying to teach myself the style. I think the idea is to write artlessly like a real person talks. A real person who might be a typical American in a red state, as most really real people are. I don't think I can cut it, I keep reaching for a semicolon, which most really real people must think is some kind of disease they don't want. Unlike "sugar diabetes" Granny just takes her shots for. Shots don't scare really real peole, they grind the Vicodin up really powdery and suck it up a Kools filter.
D.
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In article <f4f7957b3a46...@myofb.org>, Steve Thompson <steve49...@yahoo.on.ca> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:40:36PM +0000, Seth wrote: >> In article <2bd270ff52cb...@myofb.org>, >> Steve Thompson <steve49...@yahoo.on.ca> wrote:
>> >Why the hell were you looking at bugs in a museum? I can go out on >> >the street or to the park and find an infinite variety of bugs with >> >very little effort.
>> But they're not labelled.
>True. But if I were interested in bugs from the perspective of an >entomologist I would alread own at least one text on the subject, >making a museum display superfluous.
At that level of interest, probably (but even then, viewing the real thing can provide benefits that textbook photos don't).
> I know that tourists and their >inevitable children might benefit from seeing creatures they would >otherwise never encounter in their cubicles or homes, but that does >not necessarily mean that a museum is the place for it.
You think a zoo would be better?
ObPeeve: Delta changing my seat (from 6C (aisle) to 8E (middle)) without asking or even telling me.
In article <hbki3h$1f...@reader1.panix.com>, Seth <se...@panix.com> wrote: >ObPeeve: Delta changing my seat (from 6C (aisle) to 8E (middle)) >without asking or even telling me.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:39:45PM +0000, Seth wrote: > In article <f4f7957b3a46...@myofb.org>, > Steve Thompson <steve49...@yahoo.on.ca> wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:40:36PM +0000, Seth wrote: > >> In article <2bd270ff52cb...@myofb.org>, > >> Steve Thompson <steve49...@yahoo.on.ca> wrote:
> >> >Why the hell were you looking at bugs in a museum? I can go out on > >> >the street or to the park and find an infinite variety of bugs with > >> >very little effort.
> >> But they're not labelled.
> >True. But if I were interested in bugs from the perspective of an > >entomologist I would alread own at least one text on the subject, > >making a museum display superfluous.
> At that level of interest, probably (but even then, viewing the real > thing can provide benefits that textbook photos don't).
Can you put musem bugs under a microscope? No. Can you perform behavioral experiments on museum bugs? No. Can you breed museum bugs according to arbitrary selection criterion? No. Case closed.
Admittedly at textbook does not include the factilities for much of the above, but at least you'll have the information available to embark on some non-trivial course of study if you have one. A museum is probably only going to be good enough to encourage you to get a textbook. If you don't, all you've done is look at some dead organisims and perhaps gushed at all the pretty colours and markings.
> > I know that tourists and their > >inevitable children might benefit from seeing creatures they would > >otherwise never encounter in their cubicles or homes, but that does > >not necessarily mean that a museum is the place for it.
> You think a zoo would be better?
It occurs to me that a zoo with a hands-on approach might be worthwhile, even if most of the patrons never go much beyond *SPLAT*, "hey look honey, this one's all yellow on the inside."
> ObPeeve: Delta changing my seat (from 6C (aisle) to 8E (middle)) > without asking or even telling me.
Are there contractual obligations that require them to regard their ticket sales as if carved in stone upon issue? I suspect it is unlikely.
> ObBonusPeeve: The very attractive MOTAS in 6B.
Perhaps the airline is getting data back from the DHS and therefore knew you would make a pest of yourself if seated beside a hottie.
Regards,
Steve
-- This year's turkey is going to make at least two-weeks worth of turkey samwiches.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 04:42:33AM +0000, Seth wrote: > In article <hbki3h$1f...@reader1.panix.com>, Seth <se...@panix.com> wrote:
> >ObPeeve: Delta changing my seat (from 6C (aisle) to 8E (middle)) > >without asking or even telling me.
> >ObBonusPeeve: The very attractive MOTAS in 6B.
> Ob!Peeve: They gave me $25 when I complained.
How do they arrive at those figures? Last time I flew to Hannover I had the most amazing discussion with a tall German saleswoman returning from abroad. Had I been seated elsewhere as you describe and subsequently complained, I would have demanded at least $30.00 USD.
Regards,
Steve
-- This year's turkey is going to make at least two-weeks worth of turkey samwiches.
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