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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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To: Daffynition
“But ....but .... somehow I assumed you were on five days a week,” ... said in my best blond.
Then that'll be you starring in Illegally Blonde, I assume . . . . . . he ducks . . . he runs . . .
Monday night at 9PM PDT it is ...can you give us all a link, again, to The Kallmanac, please.
You can listen live here.
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!
If said talented radio personality is going on stage live, "break a leg" is appropriate. If it's merely me going live in the studio, however, which is what I do every Monday night, I guess the appropriate salutation is, "Break a butt cheek," since I do my show in a sitting position and my humor is somewhat low-keyed. (Go ahead, call me a sit-down comedian if you must.)

I don't know if I'd consent to do the show on stage in front of an audience. For one thing, I'm not really a joke machine, and live audiences these days aren't exactly renowned for patience when they expect to hear comedy and begin shuddering or sweating or throwing projectile objects because they haven't gotten a machine-gun-fast barrage of jokes.

For another thing, I was very impressed with the truth therein when I read Goodman Ace quoted as saying, "A lot of times, on the air, I noticed comics in a sketch do a joke that destroys the character because it gets a big laugh." I'd rather have consistent humour than a pocketful of belly laughs, though if I do get a big belly laugh or three I'm not going to reject it entirely. (I've already rejected my big belly, however; I spent most of 2007 and 2008 losing a hundred pounds.)

By the way, if you'd like to hear some of what I've done already, here you go. If you can stand it.

3 August 2009: Las Vegas Drive-Thru Weddings; Rachael Laser's Fifteen-Minute Meals. (Complete show; includes The CBS Radio Workshop: Subways Are For Sleeping, from 3 August 1956.)

10 August 2009: More Las Vegas Drive-Thru Weddings; American Proverbs. (Complete show; includes Lorenzo Jones: Lorenzo is Accused of Robbery [NBC, 10 August 1945); and, Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network: Answering Service [Three guesses, 10 August 1959.)

27 July 2009: Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show, Revisited. (Segment from that evening's program; it's an update I did of a classic Fred Allen/Tallulah Bankhead radio sketch, adapting its basics to today's obnoxious couples morning shows, radio or television, and rewriting it a bit to make it a little more Las Vegas-contiguous.)


381 posted on 08/17/2009 2:58:09 AM PDT by BluesDuke (It's her prerogative, my honour, and nobody else's business . . .)
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To: BluesDuke
Thanks for putting the links together BD! I hope everyone listens!


382 posted on 08/17/2009 3:13:06 AM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

Would not want to get Godzilla mad. Not all of us have a force field protecting themselves don’t you know.


383 posted on 08/17/2009 4:53:59 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman
LOL, very nice! OK, here's one back atcha...


384 posted on 08/17/2009 6:19:13 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: Nateman; Cagey; Larry Lucido; earlJam; Constitution Day
Nateman, your PS are hilarious. You're very good at PSing.

No thread is complete without an Office Space reference.

I just had to post this for the fun of it.


385 posted on 08/17/2009 10:22:48 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: mplsconservative
For real? The people in the photo are your neighbors?

Very small world indeed!

Politics aside (even if you don't know their political affiliation) you should tell them about this thread so they can see all funnies on here.

386 posted on 08/17/2009 10:36:15 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: reagan_fanatic
You know... you have wayyyyy too much time on your hands.

(LOL - the only thing I would have changed is the leprechaun hat - Scotty is Scottish - try a tartan cap!)

387 posted on 08/17/2009 10:40:20 AM 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

Heh heh - thanks. Good point there on Scotty - I flubbed that one!


388 posted on 08/17/2009 10:53:37 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: MotleyGirl70; Daffynition
No more "Case of the Mondays" for Milton.


389 posted on 08/17/2009 10:59:12 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: reagan_fanatic

No problem - just put a bottle of Saurian brandy in his hand and you’ll be good to go.


390 posted on 08/17/2009 11:02:31 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: southern rock
ROTFLMAO! The difference being which ones drive the IROC ?
391 posted on 08/17/2009 11:02:34 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: southern rock; Cagey
Guido Beach

Hilarious yet disturbing at the same time.

I love the punk with the popped-collar. The 80s called, they want their fad back.

Those Jersey girls sure are brimming with class. ...and that heavy Jersey accent on that one foul-mouthed girl at the end, ICK!

Bouncer Guido: "I want to breed a kid my size."

392 posted on 08/17/2009 11:10:33 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: Cagey

Lol. Where’s his Swingline!


393 posted on 08/17/2009 11:25:31 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: reagan_fanatic

To seek out new lives in the Squirrellyverse. To boldly go where no Rodent has gone before!


394 posted on 08/17/2009 12:12:09 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: MotleyGirl70; Nateman; 50mm; Lizavetta; Daffynition

395 posted on 08/17/2009 12:48:23 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Roscoe Karns

Must be working for Obamacare.


396 posted on 08/17/2009 1:03:40 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Cagey; MotleyGirl70

397 posted on 08/17/2009 1:20:58 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Roscoe Karns; Cagey; MotleyGirl70; Nateman; 50mm; Lizavetta

398 posted on 08/17/2009 1:23:13 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

"Yo, Petey!"

399 posted on 08/17/2009 1:55:28 PM PDT by Cagey
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To: Nateman

re: 376
you nut!
ROFLOL!!!


400 posted on 08/17/2009 3:04:16 PM PDT by MeekMom (http://www.bible.ca/indexsalvation.htm)
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