I just played my first game of this Scrabulous of which you all speak. Got my ass kicked, but by a nice enough person. Problem is, I play Scrabble slowly, and the timer stresses me out, man. I doubt I could play a decent game in less than fifteen minutes. But still - online Scrabble! Fun!
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Oct 09, 2007 7:23:17 pm PDT #5898 of 10001
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2007 7:51:00 pm PDT #5899 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression.
The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother.
The veter inarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.
Check out the pictures.
DavidS - Oct 09, 2007 7:55:48 pm PDT #5900 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Check out the pictures.
Oh shit, that made me laugh so hard.
BigDuluth - Oct 09, 2007 7:59:03 pm PDT #5901 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Aww... still, the pictures say 2004, I wish they had more on the story
meara - Oct 09, 2007 8:04:00 pm PDT #5902 of 10001
DavidS - Oct 09, 2007 8:07:59 pm PDT #5903 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Real pictures, false story
The pictures alone made me laugh.
And all it took was the cruel manipulation of tigers and pigs for several generations.
BigDuluth - Oct 09, 2007 8:11:27 pm PDT #5904 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
And all it took was the cruel manipulation of tigers and pigs for several generations
...from a place that was quite possibly a "one stop tiger chop shop".
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2007 8:17:17 pm PDT #5905 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From a site that is perhaps the largest site devoted to "animal vs. different animal" fights: [link]
This one's funny: Dog vs. Toilet. Toilet flushes, dog goes nuts, dog opens toilet lid, dog attacks water....
eta:
Crocodile vs. Gazelle. The gazelle pretty much gets swallowed whole.
Vortex - Oct 09, 2007 8:17:23 pm PDT #5906 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
First time I saw that, my question was "where did they get the tiger skin? did they butcher those poor dead cubs for the piggies?"
-t - Oct 09, 2007 8:22:45 pm PDT #5907 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just heard something about tiger farming, said farmers trying to get farmed tiger parts/products made legal for sale, I think? Though it was probably from a podcast from a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, one side says legal farm-raised tiger pelts/penises/whatever will drive out the black market, and the other says that having legally available tiger bits will just make it harder to crack down on the illegal and there will still be a market for the wild even if (or possibly because) it is more expensive.