The suburbs here have deer like DC has rats.
I think of deer as rats with long legs. I've had them eat most of a vegetable garden in one night.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Ginger - Feb 05, 2009 6:31:49 pm PST #5259 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Cashmere - Feb 05, 2009 6:35:21 pm PST #5260 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
A friend of mine worked as a landscape project manager for the Doris Duke estate. One of the stipulations in her will was that no animals ever be harmed on her property. The deer had pretty much stripped everything--like locusts. My friend called them the Damned Duke Deer.
amych - Feb 05, 2009 6:38:25 pm PST #5261 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In one week, I had four friends who totaled their cars on deer.
Cashmere - Feb 05, 2009 6:51:20 pm PST #5262 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
In one week, I had four friends who totaled their cars on deer.
In three years, my one mom totaled four deer with two cars.
Lee - Feb 05, 2009 7:17:04 pm PST #5263 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
PP is just not good.
Bones was very weird tonight.
My firm is being odd. The partners are cutting back on their profit sharing, while the associates got some bonuses this year, but not as much as usual, but they are not getting any raises, while the staff was told they would be getting raises (maybe).
shrift - Feb 05, 2009 7:21:32 pm PST #5264 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think that I spent a few hours today living an "It's Pat!" SNL sketch.
Burrell - Feb 05, 2009 7:43:19 pm PST #5265 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh dear. Somehow until I read this convo here it hadn't occurred to me I might not get my piddly little raise this year. Sigh. It ain't much, but I'd still like to have it.
Oh, and a thought about why give someone $150,000 plus $150,000 bonus instead of just paying him $300,000. Wouldn't that save the company a good chunk in payroll taxes?
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2009 8:03:50 pm PST #5266 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Grey's Anatomy: Cristina and Hunt are so HOT. Although that scene where they're walking towards each other cried out for a truck to hit someone-- I didn't expect it to turn out that kind of well. Though I'm sure it will all go wrong soon enough.
Pix - Feb 05, 2009 8:23:36 pm PST #5267 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
We found out we're getting a 2% raise and layoffs. I was braced for no raise, so I'm glad for the 2%. It's not enough, but it's better than nothing. I'm sad about the layoffs, though.
Typo Boy - Feb 05, 2009 8:35:26 pm PST #5268 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh, and a thought about why give someone $150,000 plus $150,000 bonus.
Many reasons to pay a high percent in bonuses:
1)Bonuses go down as well as up. You can reduce the size of bonus because times are bad, or because the payee did a bad job.
2)You can eliminate bonuses altogether in a really bad time.
While the financial strain is the same the, the ego blow is not as much. That is why unions like wages and managers prefer as much compensation as possible in bonuses: more control, and more employee tolerance for cuts.