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Squirrel is surprise star of holiday photo
The Telegraph ^ | 12 Aug 2009 | Our Foreign Staff

Posted on 08/13/2009 1:51:40 AM PDT by Daffynition

Melissa Brandts and her husband were surprised to find a squirrel posing with them in a photo taken on holiday.

The couple had set the timer on their camera while posing at a lakeside in a national park in Canada.

Just as they were about to be captured on camera the cheeky squirrel popped up in the foreground and stole the show.

The picture was taken at the side of the stunning Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada.

Mrs Brandts said: "We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot."

The picture was submitted to the website of America's National Geographic magazine.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alberta; banff; banffnationalpark; canada; classicfreepthread; freeperart; iloveyou; lakeminnewanka; napl; nationalgeographic; photoshopfreep; squirrel
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ZOT squirrel?


361 posted on 08/15/2009 10:34:01 AM PDT by McGruff (We have the right to debate and disagree with any administration - Hillary Clinton)
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To: MotleyGirl70; Cagey
HAHAHA! I didn't realize that was a can of Krylon in his paws until I saw the smudge around his mouth! HAHAHA! Brilliant!

Cheers!


362 posted on 08/15/2009 1:55:10 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: rfp1234

I love that picture - I wonder if any of our guys in Iraq or Afghanistan have seen it?


363 posted on 08/15/2009 3:25:54 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: andy58-in-nh; Allegra

ping


364 posted on 08/15/2009 3:28:47 PM PDT by rfp1234
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Swimsuit dryer-no squirrels!
365 posted on 08/15/2009 3:50:37 PM PDT by TXBlair (The future Mrs. Lazamataz. The wedding's back on!)
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To: Daffynition

Lol, I see you’re still at it!
Loved the ping, never be afraid to ping me!


366 posted on 08/15/2009 7:43:07 PM PDT by potlatch ( There is no education in the third kick of a mule.)
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To: Daffynition; reagan_fanatic; a real Sheila; 50mm; Lizavetta; Roscoe Karns; edzo4; Netizen; ...
squirrelworld
367 posted on 08/16/2009 10:50:23 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman
HAHAHA! All the best meme elements put to good use in one photo! HAHAHA!


368 posted on 08/16/2009 10:54:00 AM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
I was thinking of putting in MR. T but went with Elvis.(Elvis is everywhere).
369 posted on 08/16/2009 11:05:57 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman
Good choice ..........so many memes ...... so little time!

To be ........or not............


370 posted on 08/16/2009 12:26:22 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: BluesDuke; Nateman

BD .... you need to do an Elvis on your show!


371 posted on 08/16/2009 12:29:06 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
BD .... you need to do an Elvis on your show!
In Vegas? Where you can't swing a cat by the tail without smacking at least two Elvis impersonators on the first turn?
372 posted on 08/16/2009 3:19:08 PM PDT by BluesDuke (If you see a fork in the road . . . the greasy spoon is only a hundred feet away.)
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To: Daffynition; All
That darned squirrel's getting in on EVERYBODY'S act ... Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206658/That-darned-squirrels-getting-EVERYBODYS-act-.html#ixzz0OP9R3vG5
373 posted on 08/16/2009 7:49:48 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

374 posted on 08/16/2009 8:13:19 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: BluesDuke

LOL .... well it is novel to us “easties” ...OK I’ll have to rethink this.

Howz ‘bout Jack Handey-isms ... at least I understand them, ya know.

I went to listen to you on Wednesday ... You didn’t tell me you were on Mondays! I’m going to listen tomorrow! Promise!


375 posted on 08/16/2009 8:18:43 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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squirrelufo
376 posted on 08/16/2009 11:00:23 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman

You are certified nuts....which is why you belong on FR. You’re a treasure. :):):):):)


377 posted on 08/16/2009 11:22:51 PM PDT by Lizavetta (In Communism everything is free. But there isn't any of it.)
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To: Daffynition
Actually . . . I did tell you I was on Monday nights. ;) I realise you may be a latent Boomtown Rat, but there are some of us who think Monday night's pretty good.

On my station, our nighttime lineup starts with a pretty damn good doo-wop show that doesn't play just the usual overfamiliarities. That's a two-hour show. Then I'm on for my hour, and I'm followed by a strictly old-time radio program, When Radio Was. It's a good show but it plays too many of the usual familiar cliche shows you always think of when you hear the Golden. Age. Of. Radio. nostalgia crap.

I don't play that way when I arrive at each week's old-time radio segment on my show. (I know you know this but this is for any FREEPers who might be curious to hear me and might be awake at that hour, depending on their time zones, since I'm Pacific time.) All I drop in an old-time radio show or two (I can use two if I have a pair of fifteen-minute programs that are broadcast-worthy sound quality--you'd be amazed and dismayed how many old-time radio shows survive in horrible condition because of the old abused transcription discs---but one if my best one's a half-hour show, such as what I'm going to play this week), on the date they actually aired back in the year (the other OTR shows don't even pay attention to that facet and never play a show on its actual original air date), and except for backselling cast and writing credits if the broadcast itself didn't and I have the information (which I do for most of my collection), I stay out of the way and let a listener hear it not as clanking nostalgia but as living, breathing art.

I have this week's show all written, by the way. I have only to choose the songs for my two music segments (two songs each, two segments a show), edit my script, and gather up and burn my chosen sound effects.

378 posted on 08/17/2009 1:11:38 AM PDT by BluesDuke (It's her prerogative, my honour, and nobody else's business . . .)
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To: BluesDuke

“But ....but .... somehow I assumed you were on five days a week,” ... said in my best blond.

Monday night at 9PM PDT it is ...can you give us all a link, again, to The Kallmanac, please.

I don’t know what the equivalent of “break-a-leg” is for a talented radio personality going on stage live, but you know we all wish you the very best!


379 posted on 08/17/2009 2:27:53 AM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Nateman; Godzilla

Nateman ...that is WONDERFUL! BRILLIANT! [rousing applause!!!] Even to the detail of the shadowy reflections on the water.

Not sure but Godzilla may have some copyright issues with you.

You’ve added so much enjoyment to this thread. Thank you!


380 posted on 08/17/2009 2:33:53 AM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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