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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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To: NicknamedBob; Darksheare
Unknown. Fertility clinics say indefinitely.

As far as I know, the longest retention time that's resulted in fertility is about 20 years, and some guides say 50 years is the maximum. If a frozen spermatozoa is going to die, allegedly it does so within the first 48 hours after freezing.

Twenty percent of men have semen that cannot be frozen.

I've attended several bioethics seminars during my CLE training and the legal issues are fascinating.

1,821 posted on 08/09/2014 8:32:16 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Tax-chick

There was a cricket plague when the Pioneers first settled Salt Lake Valley and the crops were in serious danger of being destroyed. After prayer and fasting, a horde of seagulls came, ate their fills, flew to the lake, regurgitated the meals, and flew back for more, and thus the crops were saved for storage that winter.

Kind of a gross story, but mostly true.


1,822 posted on 08/09/2014 8:33:57 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: Monkey Face

Thank you! That story rings a bell, too.


1,823 posted on 08/09/2014 8:36:12 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

I saw that Star Trek episode...

two cats throwing nukes at each other

“His is orange on the right side, not the left!”


1,824 posted on 08/09/2014 9:39:52 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

LOL! (For real!)


1,825 posted on 08/09/2014 9:40:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

Now imagine thousands of “Meh Soldiers” all sired via preserved genetic material.


1,826 posted on 08/09/2014 11:08:14 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Tax-chick
I haven’t spotted any hornworms

Well, when you spot them, hope that they look like this (except for the ones that will become Dragonfood..)

And if you see anything that looks similar to this, point it towards your tomato plants. It'll find the hookworms for you... ;-)


1,827 posted on 08/09/2014 12:06:23 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Dragonbaby can eat the ones with the eggs, too.


1,828 posted on 08/09/2014 12:21:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick
"Dragonbaby can eat the ones with the eggs, too."

But that's why you don't want that to happen. The eggs are not hornworm eggs, they are wasp pupae. They will, if not eaten prematurely, grow up to be predators of hornworms.

1,829 posted on 08/09/2014 12:26:04 PM 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: NicknamedBob

I knew they were wasp something, but we don’t really love wasps, either. Anyway, I still don’t see any hornworms - just lots of beetles.


1,830 posted on 08/09/2014 12:30:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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Rain up to two inchs per Hour and Wind up to 90mph on the inbound.
Moose HQ has turned the fleet into the wind.
Some tropical storm residue that America no longer had a use for and threw out with the trash.
The Sky is growing dark and we have the calm bit in force now.

Time for a barbecue.


1,831 posted on 08/09/2014 12:37:04 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: Tax-chick
But... but.. but...

These wasps are your friends. Besides, they don't have stingers.

However, wasps that look like this can be downright nasty...


1,832 posted on 08/09/2014 12:44:00 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: moose07

Sounds like a fun time there. Batten down the hatches! Jettison the flotsam! Break out the rum!


1,833 posted on 08/09/2014 12:45:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: moose07

When tropical storms wind up over here, we unwind them and send them downwind where they wind up winding down around you guys.


1,834 posted on 08/09/2014 12:46:22 PM 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

We make friends with reptiles and arachnids, but less frequently with insects, unless they’re dead.


1,835 posted on 08/09/2014 12:46:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: moose07
Time for a barbecue.


1,836 posted on 08/09/2014 12:49:30 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Tax-chick

Rum.....Hmmmm....no,,,that tipple and i have a history.


1,837 posted on 08/09/2014 12:52:47 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

That was what had in mind. :)


1,838 posted on 08/09/2014 12:53:38 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: moose07

Break out the pink wine and Diet 7-up!


1,839 posted on 08/09/2014 12:53:52 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Very good,Bob. :)
Could they be wound down a bit more before being launched across the pond?
There will be trees down everywhere if this hits as they are predicting.


1,840 posted on 08/09/2014 12:57:43 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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