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The carbonara was a really good choice. :-)

I'm leaning towards a kitten stir fry. ;>)

The neighbourhood cat, whom I have named Mittens', has adopted our new home as its happy hunting grounds and hang out place. Today it left a half eaten rat on our front steps.

When I was young, I thought this was our cat's way of offering up tribute or showing the humans that it was earning its keep. Later I learned just how wrong I was.

Apparently, leaving partly eaten corpses on the steps is the cat's way to point out that we humans suck at hunting and move with all the grace of a wounded moose. The corpse leaving is an invitation, the same made to a kitten, for the human to join the cat so it can be taught to hunt and maybe not be such a klutzy embarrassment to hang out with. Basically, the cat is being all passive aggressive with you and rubbing your face into the fact that it's a pint sized murder machine that pound for pound is out of your league. Cats can be such #$$@&*%#.

So, unless you manage to take down an elk with a pointy stick and make it look graceful, while the cat is watching, you're just going to keep getting those 'kind' invitations to maybe learn to earn your keep around the yard.

Dub dizzle wrote:

Isn't that part of the daily routine for Canadians? Usually during the lengthy portage home from the office?

Don't be silly Dub Dizzle, we make far too much noise carrying a canoe through the brush to be able to sneak up on an elk. They can hear us coming a kilometer away!

Dub dizzle wrote:

Funny, they can never get out of the way quick enough when they see a car coming from a mile away...and I know you meant kilometre, we'll just blame that on the spell check. ;)

I probably use the American spelling for kilometer more because of the time spent using US sources to convert miles to kilometres. I also use the US military slang "Kliks" a lot, since I got a better grounding of metric from the military than I did in school (where a lot of older teachers in rural areas were hostile to the metric system).

Hail Hydra! I mean-Rise of the Ottoman Empire!

It’s another short-term market report today, with upholsterers last featured September 3rd, less than a month ago. The “+” indicates moving up the ranks from the last time this category was featured; “-“ indicates losing ranks; and nothing means that your ranking was unchanged. Only when short-term variations, up or down, are part of an overall trend should they be considered a diagnosis of your movement in the overall standings.

The Wysterian market index was down 62 ranks in the world standings.

The Largest Furniture Restoration Industry in the World: September 24th

Nak nak 1st, the Grendels 2nd, the Centauri 3rd, Koffee 5th, Sdaeriji 6th, Complete Bastards 7th (+1), Isla Vista 10th, Wulfhelm 15th, Tremalkier 19th, Cosmovania 23rd.

Miratejo 38th (-1), the Zocalo 39th, the Captain 60th (+1), Dienes 63rd (+1), Mackintosh 71st (+2), Marldeep 76th (+1) the Colonial Fleet 93rd (+1), Galicia-Volhynia 93rd (+2), Caphtoria 155th (-1), Cthonian Wasteland 180th (-4).

Dub Dizzle 220th (+1), South East Europe 292nd (-3), the Comedian 385th (+21), Qanzona 392nd (-19), Obstinacy 430th (-33), Go Canucks Go 466th (+2), Keyser Soze 637th (+8), Wars Forever 659th (-5), Medved 698th (-4), Mort Nex 769th (-33).

The Bruce wrote:

Just like deer, the light receptors in their eyes are so sensitive at night that when they get hit with bright light in the dark it completely overwhelms their brains, paralyzing them. It doesn't help that people on unlit roads are also using their high beams whenever possible or those new ultra-bright headlights that even blind oncoming traffic with the low settings.

I was going to use a deer whistle for my car, but after doing some research realized that aside from making all the local dogs go insane they're pretty useless. Deer don't hear high frequency sound any better than we do, so frequencies beyond our hearing are beyond theirs too. If the deer whistles worked at lower frequencies than people can hear then you'd have something. I think that there might be a pricey electronic deer whistles that use low frequency sound, but testing has proven that even most pricey electronic deer whistles don't work worth a damn.

This is why locomotives on the old BCRail used to shut off their powerful headlights when they spotted moose/elk on the rails. They would "sneak" up on said animal and turn the lights on at the last moment and sound the horn. It would scare the living bejeezus out of the moose and make it get off the tracks, thus avoiding the disgusting task of picking meese innards off the front of the engine/traction motors.

I was given a second hand detailing of the the moose guts traction motor part by an old locomotive engineer. Happened on a passenger train in full view of the customers! Lol must have been fun to be in the customer service that day.

NEVER put pineapple on Italian food.

Tyryte wrote:

This is why locomotives on the old BCRail used to shut off their powerful headlights when they spotted moose/elk on the rails. They would "sneak" up on said animal and turn the lights on at the last moment and sound the horn. It would scare the living bejeezus out of the moose and make it get off the tracks, thus avoiding the disgusting task of picking meese innards off the front of the engine/traction motors.

Yes, moose pebbles are much easier to deal with than moose innards...

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The Islander’s Beach Championship is going to be A 24/7 Beach Party where Alcohol is running wild & weird accidents are bound to happen.

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Car Wars!

It’s another short-term market report today, with auto plants last featured July 26th, two months ago. The “+” indicates moving up the ranks from the last time this category was featured; “-“ indicates losing ranks; and nothing means that your ranking was unchanged. That or you weren’t in the region last time this category was shown (Caphtoria and Silver Star HQ ). Only when short-term variations, up or down, are part of an overall trend should they be considered a diagnosis of your movement in the overall standings.

The Wysterian market index was up 321 ranks in the world standings.

The Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector in the World: September 28th

Nak nak 1st, the Centauri 2nd, Koffee 3rd, Sdaeriji 7th, Complete Bastards 8th (+1), Isla Vista 10th, Wulfhelm 13th, Tremalkier 14th, Grendels 21st, the Zocalo 27th (+1).

The Captain 33rd, Cosmovania 39th, Miratejo 44th (-2), Mackintosh 50th (+1), Marldeep 58th (+4), Dienes 70th, the Colonial Fleet 81st (+8), the Bruce 87th (+1), Cthonian Wasteland 98th, Caphtoria 157th.

Go Canucks Go 163rd (+8), Dub Dizzle 194th (+7), Wars Forever 235th (+5), Galicia-Volhynia 247th, Qanzona 286th (+1), the Comedian 313th (+51), Silver Star HQ 502nd, Live to Ride 563rd (+99), Keyser Soze 658th (+140), HotRodia II 661st (-4).