No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


cliomusing - Apr 11, 2013 4:41:49 pm PDT #18307 of 30001
"Come on, put your back into it. A Watcher scoffs at gravity."

Well, hi you. :)

The biggest animal I've seen in the wild is a humpback whale. If any of you have seen a blue whale, I yield my claim to the biggest creature yet. For land critters, it was the deer I saw in Muir Woods, easily one of my favorite places on earth.


tommyrot - Apr 11, 2013 4:43:02 pm PDT #18308 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

We would often get deer on our high school campus, but that was a small town surrounded by farms and woods.

eta to fix spelling of "deer." Guess who's tired?


Jesse - Apr 11, 2013 4:44:05 pm PDT #18309 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

There are turkeys in my neighborhood right now -- I saw a couple by the river, but apparently the other day one was just walking down the street by the fancy tea place.


Connie Neil - Apr 11, 2013 4:47:20 pm PDT #18310 of 30001
brillig

I often see deer at work during the winter. We're right up against the mountains, and the deer like to wander our campus and nibble the bushes and hopefully avoid the cars. When I work the real late/real early hours on the weekends, I keep close watch out, because they'll sometimes be standing in the parking lot acting like, well, deer in headlights.


sarameg - Apr 11, 2013 4:47:39 pm PDT #18311 of 30001

Welcome to the board, clio! No one has been accused of ax-murdering!

I lived in the mountains. I've had raccoons stick their fingers through holes in my bedroom screen, fingers licked clean by the raccoons, skunks under the house, bears, elk, mountain lions wandering through the yard... Cattle too! In town in NM, mainly coyotes and fox.

Here in B'more, I've seen a bear out in the 'burbs and foxes trotting down my street.


sarameg - Apr 11, 2013 4:48:42 pm PDT #18312 of 30001

The deer on the JPL campus crack me up. They're all ' yeah, rocket science, whatever, scrub oak! NOM.'


aurelia - Apr 11, 2013 4:51:17 pm PDT #18313 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I saw a wolf trotting across the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. I even made eye contact briefly. That was a large, impressive, and highly out of place animal.


Jesse - Apr 11, 2013 4:53:09 pm PDT #18314 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I blame suburbia. (And initially I had capslock on by accident, but maybe I'm not quite that emphatic about it.)


Amy - Apr 11, 2013 5:03:26 pm PDT #18315 of 30001
Because books.

No one has been accused of ax-murdering!

You know, yet.

Seeing bears in Yellowstone was an eye-opener, especially since they weren't behind a fence or a plexiglass wall. Stephen got to see a moose, too, and he was surprised at just how huge and intimidating it was.


Liese S. - Apr 11, 2013 5:05:35 pm PDT #18316 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

No one has been accused of ax-murdering!

Well, not convicted anyway.

And aurelia, sheesh, that is big drama!

Y'all know we have lots of elk in our yard. They eat my baby trees. Ooh, and I think we have baby coyotes again.

I dunno, Jesse, you might have some subconscious rage going on there. SUBURBIA!