Duck In Noose...Care To Read?

http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html ^ | 10-23-02 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do what- ever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived.

Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, "I eat ducks sometimes." Said the Rabbit, "Well, I eat ducks too." The Otter challenged him to try it; so they went up along the river until they saw several ducks in the water and managed to get near without being seen. The Rabbit told the Otter to go first. The Otter never hesitated, but dived from the bank and swam under water until he reached the ducks, when he pulled one down without being noticed by the others, and came back in the same way.

While the Otter had been under the water the Rabbit had peeled some bark from a sapling and made himself a noose. "Now," he said, "Just watch me;" and he dived in and swam a little way under the water until he was nearly choking and had to come up to the top to breathe. He went under again and came up again a little nearer to the ducks. He took another breath and dived under, and this time he came up among the ducks and threw the noose over the head of one and caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose.

It flew on and on until at last the Rabbit could not hold on any longer, but had to let go and drop. As it happened, he fell into a tall, hollow sycamore stump without any hole at the bottom to get out from and there he stayed until he was so hungry that he had to eat his own fur, as the rabbit does ever since when he is starving. After several days, when he was very weak with hunger, he heard children playing outside around the trees. He began to sing:

Cut a door and look at me; I'm the prettiest thing you ever did see.

The children ran home and told their father, who came and began to cut a hole in the tree. As he chopped away the Rabbit inside kept singing, "Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I"m so pretty." They made the hole larger, and then the Rabbit told them to stand back so that they could take a good look as he came out. They stood away back, and the Rabbit watched his chance and jumped out and got away.

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[VaBthang4]

"How many times do you see U-Haul's picking up tree stumps guarded by FBI and ATF?"

About as many time as you see a sniper creeping around the dc metropolitan area and taking shots at folks.

[HitmanLV]

That was my first reaction. I agree.

[motexva]

I got on Reuters news and found the Moose quote you seem to be referring to . . . I agree this is very interesting, but I do not think that this story or web site pertains to it.

Here is one theory - the sniper knows this phrase from just hearing various people use it, and people use it because of this folk tale. There are several native american phrases and names that have made their way into colloquial english.

But what is the significance of him wanting the cops to repeat it? To me, the most significant thing about it is that the police HAVE NOT caught the sniper like a duck in a noose. Is the person contacting them trying to tell them that they have caught the sniper, or perhaps ONE of the snipers?

Also, it seems at least possible that this is a code phrase. What does it initiate? THEORY - According to my coworker, about 45 minutes ago our company's internet connection slowed down drastically. (I am not a techie, so don't ask me to explain what he's talking about, and he's pretty busy right now.) He believes this slowdown is external to our network.

I am currently typing this on my laptop, using my own personal dialup access . . . and access is SLOOOOOOOW. Slower than it's ever been. Is anyone else experiencing problems? Could this slowdown somehow be related to the codeword? Is the Internet attack of the previous days somehow connected to Islamic terror?

[VaBthang4]

That isnt obvious to me. I dont know what the intel folks have made of it.

Nobody here does.

[My Favorite Headache]

I like that but then again I don't like it.

[The Grammarian]

Amen.

[TheLion]

"How many times do you see Uhauls picking up tree stumps"....About as many times as I see a beltway sniper.

[VaBthang4]

If there is a slowdown I would venture a guess that it is more related to all of the usage at this hour more than anything else.

With that said....I am experiencing no problems.

[blondee123]

Sorry, shouldn't have assumed "everyone", but the fact that Chief Moose said it was very important to the sniper that he read the quote exactly, sure makes you wonder!

[VaBthang4]

Haha

[My Favorite Headache]

Only time will tell. All is nuts in Russia yet all of the cable networks are acting like it is not even happening.

[VaBthang4]

Yeah it does make me wonder....and you might have missed it but I had responded alot earlier to one of your posts with my initial thoughts after hearing him say it.

We will see, I guess.

[blondee123]

Mine isn't slow, but i've had constant intrusion hits since I logged onto FR tonite. Someone mentioned this the other nite in another post, that they get many intrusion attempts when they are on FR.

[landerwy]

"Release the nuke in DC skip town." But leaves five letters unused AUGHA..... an anagram.

Release huge nuke in DC skip town. atah

[snickeroon]

Top of the hour ABC radio news says there has been an explosion heard inside the theatre in Russia. Nothing about how large or small..... This is a really strange night.

Also, there are a number of anagrams for the leftover letters. Two that were interesting: " a cia hugo" and "a hug ciao"...... either would use all the letters in the sentence.

[TheLion]

My access is as fas as ever. I use windows 2000 pro and it kicks me off the net a lot, while I am here. Know anything about these things?

[My Favorite Headache]

What is strange is the Moscow story dwarfs this one. Yet not even FR or cable news seems to give a real damn.

[motexva]

I've heard others here speculate that the intrusions are hackers from DU . . .

Coworkers says everything is back to normal so probably my theory is all wet.

[hopefulpilgrim]

"Noose rhymes with Moose....this is getting silly."

.... And "duck" rhymes with "Chuck" (as in Chuck Moose). Coincidence?

[Dasaji]

OK, if we are back onto the Tarot discussion, I have some thoughts...especially if press is hinting at additional cards being dropped.

Yesterday's bus driver correlates with the VII card of the Major Arcana: The Chariot. In the Universal Rider Deck (the most known tarot deck) the Chariot pictures a man in a chariot (the bus). Numerologically speaking, yesterdays's date 10/22/02 = the number 7, same as the card.

NOW, there is another card that has me worried...it is XIX The Sun. Pictured on it is a small child riding a white horse. Numerologically speaking, the number 19 = 1+9=10 = 1+ 0 = 1

Friday, 10/25/02 - 1 + 2 + 5 + 2 = 10 = 1+0 = 1

The Sun card, with the small child, is freaking me out. I called my sister in Richmond to look in the yellow pages to see if there are any day cares that have the word "Sun" (as in Sunny Days Day Care). There are. There is a correlation, especially with the children not being safe.

Talk about going off the deep end...(and NO, no one needs to step in and REMIND me this is off the deep end, I already KNOW)

Dasaji
(rejected by the Psychic Readers Network - lol)