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Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy
Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

Posted on 07/03/2014 11:39:53 AM PDT by skeptoid

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alaska; doomage; elk; freepun; hoth; koalaoil; monkeyfacerules; moose; muskox; nome; penguinhumor; undeadthread
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To: Darksheare

I'm waiting too long. So I wrote this song.
My stomach is growling, don't ignore my meowing,
I just wanted you to know... there is no food in my bowl...

141 posted on 07/06/2014 4:50:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: NoCmpromiz; moose07; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; LibreOuMort; Darksheare; All
Well...The gate is gated, and done very well, I might add!

Also, since my son-in-law is a mechanic he checked the truck and says it is the fuel pump, and he checked the price...$150. He can put it in if I can get it, hopefully before August 1st as that is the day they leave for almost two weeks.

So, again, I won't be taking it to the shop tomorrow. That's a relief, but I still miss my truck and will have to walk to UPS to mail something for my niece tomorrow, anyway. It will be hot, as they don't open until 0800, but I can stop at Walmart and get a water or an iced coffee.

So...good news and some anticipatory news.

But I'm feeling better about it all...at least I'm not at the mercy of stranglers.

142 posted on 07/06/2014 4:59:43 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: GeronL

LOL!

Good job, Geron!


143 posted on 07/06/2014 5:00:45 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: GeronL

That would be Sneakers and Socks.


144 posted on 07/06/2014 5:00:46 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Monkey Face

Unngh, fuel pump.


145 posted on 07/06/2014 5:15:15 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Ohyes. It’s in the gas tank.


146 posted on 07/06/2014 5:24:04 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: Monkey Face

Even better, they are fun to get to and work on.


147 posted on 07/06/2014 5:41:49 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

My son-in-law said he has had a dozen of them in the last few months. He has no problem with working on anything. He is a problem solver and that’s what he does.

My botch is that my daughter was “angry” with me for a good many years, and her husband could have saved me several thousand dollars. Still, I’m glad he is helping, now!

“Don’t look a gift horse in the eyeball.”


148 posted on 07/06/2014 6:03:17 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: Monkey Face

“Don’t look a gift horse in the eyeball.”

It was then that they figured out they were in a live, loaded teleFRAG.


149 posted on 07/06/2014 6:13:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Of course...


150 posted on 07/06/2014 6:15:56 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: Monkey Face

“Is there anything involving you that doesn’t involve deadly traps, bizarre occurrences, or people trying to kill you?” Hopper sounded mystified by the sheer odds of such being the case.
“It was just one date! I thought it ended well!” Soames protested.
Obviously not, his aforementioned date was dressed as a -Hopper guessed- “slinky anime villain with corset fetish undertones.”
And she was tarting it up behind the blast glass as she did her villain monologue.
“Is she even aware the microphone is turned off?” Soames drooped at the shoulders.
“You going to tell her?” Hopper gestured at the glass as full on crazy paraded behind it.
“Uh...what? I was too busy staring at..”
Hopper had to admit, despite the crippling psychosis, the lady was attractive in that outfit.
*click fweeeeeeeet* “Will you two stop staring at my”
Well, she did discover the microphone was off.


151 posted on 07/06/2014 6:28:29 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare
You are quite welcome, and here is a photo of muskox in a defensive circle around their young and old to provide an all around defence against predators on the high arctic tundra near Baring Bay, Nunavut, during Operation NUNALIVUT 2012. They protect their own very effectively with those sharp, massive horns.
152 posted on 07/06/2014 6:30:45 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: skeptoid

Looks terrifying enough.
And I can hear star wars fans going “this is unrealistic, there aren’t any bantha on Hoth!”


153 posted on 07/06/2014 6:38:31 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare; skeptoid

Wookies too where considered fictional, until not so long ago.
So Banthas on Hoth is not totally impossible. ....:)


154 posted on 07/07/2014 2:02:23 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

155 posted on 07/07/2014 2:30:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Tax-chick

Morning TC,
Cute kittie...the new feline overlord.
Just about to lead an expedition to *wallmert*.


156 posted on 07/07/2014 4:13:15 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

Afternoon, Moose. I think most of my people have fallen back into bed.


157 posted on 07/07/2014 4:14:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Tax-chick

“Rise and shine, Sun is burning your eyes out!.”..as the curtains are flung open with great fanfare.

syl :)


158 posted on 07/07/2014 4:19:08 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

It’s foggy today.


159 posted on 07/07/2014 4:24:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Tax-chick; moose07
"It’s foggy today."

Hey, Moosie! Need any coal in Newcastle?

160 posted on 07/07/2014 5:19:10 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
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