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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: Tax-chick

maybe not the deer...


621 posted on 07/16/2014 6:31:27 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham; Tax-chick
maybe not the deer...

But... what difference at that point does it make... ;-)

622 posted on 07/16/2014 6:35:52 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Tax-chick
"But you’ll never be irascible like an adorable old Southern lady, Bob."

It's a different physics. They depend on charm, while I put my stock in strangeness.

623 posted on 07/16/2014 6:39:11 PM 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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To: Mrs. Don-o

Oh, Miss Kitten doesn’t need a cane, since she’s lost 40 pounds at Weight Watchers. She’s as spry as can be. She has all the people from the county senior citizens program over to her house for Thanksgiving, in shifts. We were all in awe of how much she was cooking. “But I made that sweet potato dish that was only 6 points, and I ate that with some turkey!”

One of the members this week was talking about how it was hard for her to get to the meeting because of her mother-in-law, and Miss Kitten said, “You just tell her, from 9:00 to 10:30, you are BUSY, and if she’s not DYIN’, she can just wait!”


624 posted on 07/16/2014 6:43:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

A Saloon has a protruding Boot.
Hatchbacks can be either 3 or 5 door, as long as the boot doesn’t protude to far beyond the rear window.
Ask for a hatchback saloon and the Ambulance will be called.

“Don’t have a different name for a hatchback”
Give me five minutes normal service will be resumed. :)

It was discovered after the EU rule on tyre tread depth came into force that most of our old tyres where being sent to Brasil for a second life.
Those that don’t reappear as plant containers in public areas.
A depth of 1.6 mm leaves many thousands of miles on the tyre.
As long as the canvas isn’t showing they are Brasil legal.
Oh yes ,we have to pay the £1.50 per tyre for “Disposal”.

It is that Colour.
There was a choice of Red, Blue ,or Blandsville. :D


625 posted on 07/16/2014 6:48:02 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

I like the color too.


626 posted on 07/16/2014 6:50:25 PM 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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To: moose07

Blue is a good color for a car ... but it’s hard to get a 15-passenger van in anything but white. I should run mine through the car wash. It’s looking cruddy.


627 posted on 07/16/2014 6:50:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick

Wasn’t to sure of it to start with ,but it grows on you.
MPVs are probably best in White in a Hot climate ,such as yours.
Black would turn it into a Nevada Cooker.


628 posted on 07/16/2014 6:54:59 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

From my auto-insurance-company experience, white and yellow are your most visible colors, and keep your headlights on. The eye passes over black, you’re more likely to be hit, even in daylight.

Blue is on the low end of eye-shock, so the brighter the better.


629 posted on 07/16/2014 6:56:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: Tax-chick; moose07

I’ve been almost hit in my black truck a couple of times recently. But I’m not blaming their eyes.

I’m blaming a lack of brain function.


630 posted on 07/16/2014 7:16:21 PM 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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To: moose07
Blandsville..

I was there once. It's about the size of the town I grew up in.

Oh wait. That's Blandinsville

Never mind.

631 posted on 07/16/2014 7:18:31 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: moose07
And in other news, I see there's a dead parrot in London...
632 posted on 07/16/2014 8:04:55 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Strange place to find a Norwegian Blue.
I was stood just there before Christmas, listening to a street busker.
Didn’t think his music was that bad.....
Potters field is about the size of six 18 wheelers end to end.
Nice on a sunny day in summer, mid December it was a bit on the cold side.
There is a lovely Chinese restaurant about fifty yards behind the photographer. Great at lunch time for a snack.


633 posted on 07/16/2014 8:36:54 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07
Well, with a 50' dead parrot there, there is room for only 5 18 wheelers now...

Remarkable bird, beautiful plumage though... ;-)

634 posted on 07/16/2014 9:37:59 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

That’s just weird.


635 posted on 07/17/2014 2:27:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: Tax-chick; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Anoreth; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; ...

636 posted on 07/17/2014 2:30:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: moose07; Tax-chick
"Strange place to find a Norwegian Blue.
I was stood just there before Christmas, listening to a street busker.
Didn’t think his music was that bad.....
Potters field is about the size of six 18 wheelers end to end.

Nice on a sunny day in summer,
mid December it was a bit on the cold side.
There is a lovely Chinese restaurant about fifty yards
behind the photographer.

Great at lunch time for a snack."

Not a bad poem by today's standards, Moosie.

You should enter it in a contest.

637 posted on 07/17/2014 4:50:08 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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To: Tax-chick; moose07; NicknamedBob; NoCmpromiz; All

It’s morning. And I’ve been up and on the go since 0300. I have no clue why. I did discover that Busdaddy is more apprehensive about taking the wrong lane at the airport than I am! Getting out is a breeze. Getting in, not so much.

Cab drivers are insane and think nothing of cutting you off, pulling in front of you and taking the spot you were aiming for. GAH!

At least when I go to pick him up, I won’t have to run the gauntlet. Passenger pick-up is in the parking garages.


638 posted on 07/17/2014 5:15:06 AM PDT by Monkey Face (When I told you I was normal, I may have exaggerated slightly.)
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To: NicknamedBob; moose07

Lost verses of “Werewolves of London”?


639 posted on 07/17/2014 6:06:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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To: Monkey Face

I’ve taken Vlad, Frank, and the Montoya girl to VBS. Next I’ll get my music things together and go to Asuncion’s to plan. I’ll take the car and get Bill a tank of gas, too, not that he deserves it.


640 posted on 07/17/2014 6:07:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sometimes I like to drink all by myself.)
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