Posted on 04/05/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by Swordmaker
LOL!!!
I got to see -- first hand -- why that is so:
One evening at dusk on my F-I-L's ranch near Glen Rose, TX, I was walking up a draw, headed for a huge culvert that the cattle use for crossing under the highway.
Just before I reached the road, I spooked an armadilo, and he ran up onto the road -- just about at my eye level. He saw one of those big, tall, "jacked up" off-road 4WD pickups coming, and the critter froze right in the middle of the road.
The driver reacted quickly enough to straddle him -- with at least a foot of clearance. Unfortunately, when the noisy truck passed over him, the armadillo reacted -- as armadillos always do when startled -- and jumped straight up!
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Dead armadillo in the middle of the road...
I'm shocked... you mean that armor didn't protect him?
Nope -- they're surprisingly fast and agile -- and, when chased, usually make it to safety under the shed or down a hole. And, I would expect their armor does protect them somewhat against smaller predators -- like coyotes. But they just go "crunch!" when my granddaughter's lumbering 120-pound Lab-Husky occasionally manages to catch up with one...
Probably got the spelling wrong, but, it was a line from the Keith Laumer stories about Jame(or James) Retief of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrian.
For the sensitive poster above.
As as for Apple products, I plan on staying far away from them as I can. I have enough doorstops in my house for right now, thank you. I didn’t realize this was an exclusive Apple thread. It’s title suggests that it’s a thread about Tablet computers. Or perhaps you missed the inference there. Take a chill pill dude. They are just computers, not, real life.
I don’t think anyone here is ignorant to the fact that I am an Apple user (fan). But I hardly consider a Consumer Reports review as a compliment... considering this is the same organization that has put the “fix” in against some products (like the Suzuki Samurai which they deflated tires then forced rollovers to push an agenda).
This being said - after CR chose to pan the iPhone 4, despite it getting the highest marks in testing, all because of supposed issues (antennagate) that were actually non-issues)... I just don’t understand their wishy-washy reviewing.
Even my parents, who for years were loyal subscribers - and who used their annual buying guide as their shopping “bible”... have dumped Consumer Reports. After buying appliances and other consumer goods that were much celebrated in the pages of Consumer Reports - that turned out to be real turds... their faith in CR was shaken enough to dump it.
And a big one for me -— Consumer Reports once claimed that generic brands of “macaroni and cheese” taste “just as good” as Kraft brand... Hello - who’s taste buds were they using? I have tried many other “brands” and found all are absolutely nasty - none even remotely taste like cheese at all. When you look at the ingredient list, it is obvious.
so - while it is encouraging that CR decided to give the iPad 2 “top honors”... I take it with a grain of salt (and I would absolutely LOVE to have an iPad 2!).
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