Swedish flamingoes massacred in frenzied anteater attack

The Local (Sweden) ^ | April 5, 2011

[ConservativeStatement]

A flock of ten flamingoes have met a brutal end at a zoo in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden after a curious anteater broke into their compound and clawed them to death, leaving a further five birds nursing injuries.

[Darksheare]

Uh oh.
Catnip flavored dog?

[Monkey Face]

Maybe Ash is just ridin’ the high....

[HKMk23]

Trying to get the cat to come over and play??

“Cat play with catnip. Dog eat catnip, dog smell like catnip, cat play with dog, maybe. We find out. AaAaCK!! Dis betta be wurf it.”

[Tax-chick]

Cold and rainy, all the mammals are snivelling. Ash will be happy when I open the crock pot with the beef in it.

[SunkenCiv]

There’s a whole community within the greater FR community that should probably have its own restaurants and little grocery stores and stuff.

[NicknamedBob]

"Uh oh. Catnip flavored dog?"

To tell the truth, I was worried about where you might go with "a face mask that breathes".

I'm glad no one said anything.

.

Oops.

[Darksheare]

The symbiant was angry.
The micro claws gripped his face tightly to convey the displeasure.
Most symbiotes of this variety were rather pleasant.
He’d lucked out.
He’d been saddled with the most curmudgeonly symbote they had.
The rumor was that they had been genetically modified from terrestrial cats.
How ridiculous!
His face mask wriggled, threatening to scramble around his head like an enraged squirrel and thus make him a spectacle among the residents of Zorfra 7.

[Monkey Face]

Are you here because you’ve missed me so much? Or, (better yet) because you recognize the UT as a True Historical Artifact?

*heheheh*

We can use restaurants and grocery stores in the Flying Castle.

[Darksheare]

One sometimes needs to take a break from the history threads once in awhile.
Hey Civ, welcome!
Feel free to add humor and let your hair down.

[Darksheare]

One sometimes needs to take a break from the history threads once in awhile.
Hey Civ, welcome!
Feel free to add humor and let your hair down.

[Monkey Face]

Ask my great-niece about that...her Other Auntie sent me some Sci-Fi books and at the bottom of the box was a frog mask, since I collect amphibian things.

My Other Sister and her daughter and grandaughter came to visit. When I answered the door in said mask, the Munchkin bolted to her mom screaming, “SCARE ME! SCARE ME!”

Although it was not my intent to scare anyone, I realized that face masks are not to be worn in mixed (generation) company. (My bad.)

[NicknamedBob]

"There’s a whole community within the greater FR community that should probably have its own restaurants and little grocery stores and stuff."

Evidently you have missed the entire discussion and development of the Flying Castle and its perambulating environs.

Our associated Habitats took off from the South Pacific on December 27th, 2005, heading initially for Mars.

[fanfan]

Wait, is Civ trying to say ....

What have you guys been feeding me here in the castle? Fake food?

[fanfan]

Phew. For a minute there....

[sionnsar]

Spring is real here, now. Warm day, shirtsleeve weather. The rhodies are beginning to come out.

[sionnsar]

"Jump start" -- I could have used one of those this morning. Awake at 4-something this morning, then again at 6:00 sharp. Not an especially productive day, but I got through most of my emails and knocked a few small items off my to-do list.

Including a slightly painful phone call with the president of the American equivalent to my European committee, trying to restore peace between the two. (It might have been better if I hadn't been jetlagged.) The upside is that the stage is now set for renewed cooperation between the two in our next mutual teleconference. The downside is that it could result in a brutally short trip to India next month -- fly in, spend one day there, and fly back. But under the circumstances maybe a request to book business class might be granted by my boss' boss' boss.

[sionnsar]

Gel eye mask: you stick it in the fridge for for an hour, then put it on your eyes when they are tired and/or swollen.
The one in the kit is also silk, so it breathes.
BA gave us silk sleep masks, terry tube socks, and a small toothbrush with a tiny little tube of toothpaste. I liked it.

Thanks for the explanation!

I don't remember BA silk eye masks. But the first time I flew with them I was pretty new to travel and didn't keep anything of the kit (I do remember the socks, toothbrush and toothpaste though). The second (and last so far), I would have kept the mask but I seem to recall it was plastic and thus worthless to me.

[sionnsar]

No rest for the responsible. If you wanted frequent rests, you should have become a musician.

Exception: bagpipes. There are no rests in bagpipe music. Only grace notes.

[sionnsar]

What have you guys been feeding me here in the castle? Fake food?

I had a favourite my last evening in Paris: faux-filet
Cheapsteak but good.

[sionnsar]

Where’d everyone go?