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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.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alaska; doomage; elk; freepun; hoth; koalaoil; monkeyfacerules; moose; muskox; nome; penguinhumor; undeadthread
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1,741 posted on 08/08/2014 2:42:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

Lawyer kitteh has ended a sentence with a preposition. That is something up with which I shall not put.


1,742 posted on 08/08/2014 4:44:10 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Scoutmaster; Tax-chick
My brother always advocated using propositions instead, like, "upstairs?"
1,743 posted on 08/08/2014 4:51:38 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("There are too many acronyms in the world!" -----"We should find a way to make short cuts for them!")
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To: Scoutmaster; NicknamedBob

I think you’re expecting too much of a cat.


1,744 posted on 08/08/2014 4:55:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

And with that, off to the gym with my pack of byos and their Queen of Evil.


1,745 posted on 08/08/2014 5:12:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob
Truth be told, I don't expect much of my cats.

My dogs, however, use perfect grammar. You may expect much of dogs.

1,746 posted on 08/08/2014 5:23:55 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Scoutmaster; Tax-chick; Silentgypsy; Monkey Face

I still don’t allow my dogs to answer the phone for me.

They tend to use ruff language.


1,747 posted on 08/08/2014 5:34:04 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("There are too many acronyms in the world!" -----"We should find a way to make short cuts for them!")
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To: NoCmpromiz

What is that fruit? I remember seeing it in childhood, but I can’t for the life of me recall it’s name or it’s use.


1,748 posted on 08/08/2014 6:06:44 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Tax-chick

Would that be caterwauling?


1,749 posted on 08/08/2014 6:07:08 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; All

I watched Sherlock Holmes: The Shadow Games, last night, and it looks, for all intents and purposes, like three stories in a story.

It was as enjoyable as the first Sherlock Holmes. My favorite line in this one: I don’t like horses. They are dangerous at both ends and unpredictable in the middle.

I forgot which movie is next, and I’m too lazy to look up the queue.


1,750 posted on 08/08/2014 7:11:15 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Monkey Face

Sounds fun!

We’re back from the gym. Shower time!


1,751 posted on 08/08/2014 7:29:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick; Silentgypsy; Monkey Face
Nice joke.

I'd like to tell it to my dogs, but they're at cello practice right now. After that, they're off to feed the homeless at a local shelter.

Dogs. What can you say?

1,752 posted on 08/08/2014 8:08:04 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Scoutmaster

I don’t think it’s right to feed dog to the homeless. Rice and beans aren’t that expensive.


1,753 posted on 08/08/2014 8:08:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve been scanning photos that I have to return, and making copies of receipts for Busdaddy (his printer doesn’t copy) and I’ve already worked up a sweat. That means the humidity is up, which means there is a valid reason for my hips to be hurting.

The rest of the day will just have to go along as it goes along.

He’s going to take a CCW course on the 17th, and hopefully, by then, he will have a new handgun. I’ve wanted to take the CCW class and buy a handgun since the first break-in in 1994, but I’ve never had the money to do either. Now, it looks as if I will be buying a handgun from a local pawn shop. It’s what I can afford. I hope. If I don’t have to have a new computer.

And I’m hoping he makes good on his promise to pay for my CCW class...


1,754 posted on 08/08/2014 8:24:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Tax-chick

That is hilarious!
(I really needed it!)


1,755 posted on 08/08/2014 8:24:39 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Monkey Face

Happy to provide you with a quip when it’s needed!

The children are eating some noodles with butter - we’re all about good nutrition here - and then we will load up again, to drop this and that off here and there, and then go to the library, followed by Naptime.

Did I mention how little anxiety I’ve had this week? If the absent parties would all go to Philmont for a month or the Dominican Republic for a year, I’d be healthy, thin, and save a lot of money on wine.


1,756 posted on 08/08/2014 8:28:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; ...

Fredd update. He has been doing better each day. This morning on our mini-walk he chased chip monks and birds running at full throttle, looked like he was using the hurt leg .

He is still favoring the leg now off and on.


1,757 posted on 08/08/2014 9:11:43 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: ColdOne

LOL!


1,758 posted on 08/08/2014 9:18:31 AM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: ColdOne

” chased chip monks and birds running at full throttle,”

Helps if I put the text I was LOLing at in there, right?


1,759 posted on 08/08/2014 9:19:04 AM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

;)


1,760 posted on 08/08/2014 9:24:14 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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