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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: polesden Date: 21 Nov 99 - 02:29 PM I have been known as ferret for many years because it rhymes with my surname (Merrett) but mainly because if a crowd of us are in an area we have not visited before I am the one who can 'ferret out' where all the good pubs,eateries etc. are. Many times rural pubs have been 'invaded' by a group of us and entertained with our folk singing and playing quite often behind locked doors until the early hours of the next morning! |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: wildlone Date: 20 Nov 99 - 05:37 PM to anon Go forth and multiply |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Date: 20 Nov 99 - 05:23 PM There are a lot of us that agree with gargolyle. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: wildlone Date: 20 Nov 99 - 05:22 PM I am cat. favourites Rhinos, Otters, Bitten by cats, dogs and humans.The human bite was the worse, I dream I am an Eagle flying over the Lakota land. One day kat I will explain that fully. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Little Neophyte Date: 20 Nov 99 - 05:04 PM Art, Gargoyle is referring to me starting this thread. He is suggesting I should first run my ideas by Rick, 'My Mentor', before starting what Gargoyle considers to be a meaningless topic and waisting valuable Thread space. Banjo Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Pelrad Date: 20 Nov 99 - 04:58 PM I am a jenday conure in all but voice. What animal or bird has always fascinated you? Birds, owls, cats of any size, bears, whales, octopuses. When you visit the zoo, which animal do you wish to see the most or first? Primates, especially gibbons and orangs. Then elephants, bears, and birds.
What animals do you see most frequently when you are out in nature? Not fair; I live in a place where the majority of wildlife has been mercilessly wiped out. The only black bear to wander across state lines in 30 years was shot on sight by the Dept of Environmental Mgt. Mostly I see housecats and rabbits and crows. Hundreds of crows everywhere I go.
Of all the animals in the world, which are you most interested in now? Human toddlers; fascinating and frightening at the same time, especially when they are your own. Other than that, birds and whales.
What animal most frightens you? Groupers. They terrify me. As do any humongous fish in the sea that can accidentally swallow an entire human being because they are so freaking huge. Oh, and lizards; too fast and wiggly (not including baby iguanas).
Have you ever been bitten or attacked by an animal? Only dogs, back when I was young and stupid enough to interpret hostility as overtures of friendship.
Do you have dreams with animals in them or are there animal dreams you have never forgotten? The only animal I dream about is my little Jekyll-bird, my heart and soul, whom I had to give away while I was pregnant (my jenday conure who hates children with a passion bordering on murderous rage). At least once a week I dream that I find her somewhere, abused and neglected and dying. :-( |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Art Thieme Date: 20 Nov 99 - 11:00 AM gargoyle, I don't get the reference... Art |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: roopoo Date: 20 Nov 99 - 02:24 AM I'd guess it was a headless chicken because I'm often running around like one! Seriously, I'd have to say I was like my dog: hairy and unkempt, not in the first flush of youth, and a bit on the neurotic side. She's got one up on me: I have never yet gone for the postman. Nor have I relieved myself in public. mouldy |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: ddw Date: 18 Nov 99 - 12:33 AM Rats! No, I mean drat. I meant to post in the one to Art that a woman I worked with once described me as a golden retriever in pit bull clothing. My wife said she tho't it was pretty apt. dav id |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: ddw Date: 18 Nov 99 - 12:30 AM Hey Art — better not tell any Illini (Sp?) friends about the Wolverine thing until football season is over. david |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: _gargoyle Date: 17 Nov 99 - 11:27 PM Given the nature the past week's MC dialogues...
Perhaps, you should consider clearing your postings...., especially "new threads".... with your mentor. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Art Thieme Date: 17 Nov 99 - 10:58 PM The folks near Fulton, New York, on the Erie Canal, started having yearly outings to eat and play music and record sightings of the lock moss nesters---what the creature was doing and if it made sounds of any kind or not. That happened after a folk fan heard me tell the story on the JJulia Belle Swain steamboat one summer---around 1987 I think. They just adopted the idea of the creature and had it living in their canal (at least where there was still water in it). I was really honored. For a few years they sent me the lists of sightings. I got a great version of an Erie Canal ballad called "THE BULLHEAD BOAT" from Lyman King of Fulton, N.Y. Had a ball singing it. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Micca Date: 17 Nov 99 - 06:08 PM Hey Art with that combination you would need a bloody long lake for the take off!not to mention the eucalptus ponnging poo from a height:-)*BG* |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Bert Date: 17 Nov 99 - 05:04 PM Art, I can just imagine you as that creature, swimming slowly up the river, half submerged, playing the guitar and feasting on Moss Nesters. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Art Thieme Date: 17 Nov 99 - 04:51 PM a cross between a koala bear, a 3-toed tree sloth, a wolverine, a loon and a stud bull!! Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: sophocleese Date: 17 Nov 99 - 04:30 PM True, I think the ostrich was smiling. I woke up happy. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: flattop Date: 17 Nov 99 - 04:23 PM It may have been scary for Charlton Heston. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: sophocleese Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:46 PM At times in my life I have been fascinated by owls, seahorses and dragons. I was born in a year of the dragon, but western horoscopes give me a centaur. We always had cats and I loved them all. I most often see mosquitoes when I am out in nature, but there are also frequent sightings of ground hogs, squirrels, raccoons, birds, and deer. I watch the squirrels a lot now, they've chewed through our compost container. The family of big cats terrifies me when I think too much about how easily they can kill. I saw The Ghost and the Darkness recently and couldn't sleep afterwards; its about two man-eating lions. I cried this summer at the circus watching the tigers, I hated to see them doing silly tricks, I wouldn't ever train any of our cats to do that. Also connected to the circus; I spent 45 minutes watching, enthralled, as three elephants washed and played in our local lake. The health department then closed the beach down for the rest of the day due to elephant droppings. I have been bitten by a dog, cats and attacked by a chimpanzee. When I was at the tender age of two my father had to run and remove me from my outdoor playpen in Jasper Park before that fascinating bear wandering by in search of our lunch came too close. I have had nightmares about wolves, bears and ducks (yes it was a really strange and creepy dream). I also dreamt once about Charlton Heston and an ostrich but that one wasn't scary. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Susan A-R Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:23 PM Polar bear |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Micca Date: 16 Nov 99 - 06:13 PM Yo, Bron love the red kites and almost all birds of prey.Mid Wales must be hairy at this time of year. If you have pictures I am interested. I will exchange reasonable defination pics of racoons. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Llanfair Date: 16 Nov 99 - 06:05 PM Sometimes I'd like to be a red kite, rare and beautiful. Sometimes a dolphin, or a seal. I loathe zoos and circuses. Everything in the wrong place. I keep poultry, as well as cats and dogs, and my geese swear at everyone except me. We have long conversations when I'm weeding the vegetable patch. Sometimes I'd like to be a wild goose, or one of mine, because the solstice holds no fears for them. And they are spoilt rotten. Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Jeri Date: 16 Nov 99 - 05:41 PM I was once had horses and was a complete horse nut. I used to try to imagine what it felt like to be one. To have stifle joints instead of knees and fetlocks instead of ankles and wrists. I wondered how it felt to run. I never thought I'd make a very good horse, though. Sometimes I feel like a cat and want the independence of a cat. And I'd love to lie around all day and have someone feed me. Other times I think I'm like an otter. I could live in the water if my skin didn't get all pruny. Plus, I already have that "shellfish in my paws, floating on my back" thing down. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Penny S. Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:03 PM Anyway, who says I'm analytical - we're falling into the sibling thing here - the whimsical one, the analytical one etc..... ? I am what I am when I am. Catch me with a bunch of analysts, and I'm something else again... Are you all the same with every group of people? I'm going away now...... Penny |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Little Neophyte Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:53 PM Can I call you Jonathan Livingston Catspaw? Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Penny S. Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:50 PM And there's someone else with what the language unit attached to our school refers to as literalism and regards as a problem. Penny |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:14 PM How does one know if an animal has ever tried to describe one? |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 99 - 03:11 PM "I wish I was a mole in the ground." ....Not really, but I wanted to make sure we had some musical touch in the crappola threads. Truth? I would pick a gull. Yeah, I know, they're dirty little beggars and eat a lot of garbage, but..........Gulls know more about flying than other birds and they have an intimate understanding and feel for the mysteries of the wind. Sometime in my life I'd like to have that same form of communion with ANYTHING. I've been sailing over forty years and I'm still in awe of the gull's ability...and in my lack of it.......in everything. Maybe one day I'll feel that way about something; that total mastery and thoughtless ease, but I doubt it. So if there's anything to reincarnation, I'm requesting to be a Franklin Gull. I eat a lot of trash in this life too, so that part's not a problem. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Micca Date: 16 Nov 99 - 02:07 PM Penny no offense I hope, (switching to "mike the bike" cf other thread, mode) shouldnt your last line of post 1 above read "Pedants rule, that is to say they show certain distinctive elements of leadership and a desire to describe precisely and definitively a situation, OK, certainly,definitely, that is correct. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Little Neophyte Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:58 PM Penny, how about we choose a better nickname.......... 'Penny for your thoughts' You are very much welcome We all have a different way of processing information. Our differences make us unique and offer essential contributions. Analytical, methodical, abstract or whimsical are different paths to express our knowledge. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Penny S. Date: 16 Nov 99 - 12:06 PM You can't tell when I'm not being entirely serious? My best friend is clearly a cat, demands food with soulful looks, all places - especially with food, are alike to him. I have never quite been sure of any creature that quite spoke to me, and I haven't gone looking for one in case I didn't like what I found. Best match so far, Alex the parrot. I don't know if you have ever seen this redoubtable bird. He is the project of a woman who is researching whether parrots use language, or merely parrot. There was a BBC program in which she used plastic shapes of various primary colours to show that he gave the correct answer when askd for the shape or the colour (to ensure he was associating the correct ideas, thus language, rather than parroting). he did very well at this, so she moved to something harder, a corn-cob, asking the colour.
Alex: want corn Alex: I go away now (shuffling down to the other end of his perch) I go away now. And that, my friend and I agreed, was the sign of a very intelligent bird. Apparently he is getting worse, very insistent on his own way. And rude when he doesn't get it. I reckon that colour vision, especially of ripe fruit and veg., is important to parrots, and he thought it was another colour he hadn't been told the name of, instead of the yellow (plastic) the researcher thought it was. Penny (alliterative nicknames not welcomed) |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Flipsusan Date: 16 Nov 99 - 11:30 AM I love foxes; having said that I'm vegetarian, but no matter. And I can understand my cat. But I think if I was an animal I'd be a fox because I've got the right colour hair and sometimes dream I am one. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Bert Date: 16 Nov 99 - 09:38 AM Ah Penny, you've missed a lot in life if you've never had an animal talk to you. I remember this one time I was helping a friend move. He had this old gander that everyone was scared of. So I said I'd take care of him. I just went up and grabbed him round the neck and put him in a cage. He cussed at me something rotten. When I moved away he settled down and just watched everyone as they passed by. Except that everytime I went near him, he cussed up a storm. There was NO doubt exactly what he meant. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:26 AM Oooh, hippos, that's nice, I've always had a soft spot for hippos, even after seeing how they mark their territory.... they're the ones I'd go to see first at the zoo, if I ever went to the zoo that is. Haven't been for so long alone, only with my daughter so we tend to make for the children's corner where she can terrorise the little darlings to her hearts content. She broke a guinea pig once. Her favorite (and mine I suppose) are the ferrets. Grandfather used to keep them (yes, in his trousers) and I think she is attracted to the way they move like a silk ribbon in the wind. Better go, she's about to dress the cat as Barbie.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Roger the skiffler Date: 16 Nov 99 - 04:00 AM My wife collects hippos (wooden, glass, ceramic etc) so the house is full of them. Me, I'm probably a sloth! |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Bugsy Date: 15 Nov 99 - 08:26 PM My mongral dog describes me best. Every morning I say - "G'day Dog. How do I look?" He says "RUFF!!!" Cheers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Pete Peterson Date: 15 Nov 99 - 08:02 PM Like WyoWoman I consider myself an otter-- an aquatic playful animal-- gives me something to live up to even if I am not always there. . . and like Micca I hold advanced degrees in chemistry and find no contradiction. John W. Campbell Jr. always believed that when magic was finally understood, the laws would be as "reasonable" as the laws of science, it's just that we don't know them yet. There is a reason why I am drawn to the otter, years before I ever saw one in real life. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Micca Date: 15 Nov 99 - 07:17 PM Penny, Yeah I know all this anthropomorphic stuff is very un-scientific, and you don't find people selecting Daphnia or Pulex irritans as their totem animal. However as a professional scientist with a degree in Chemistry I am also in possession of a fully functional imagination and I do not find any conflict. I apply the principles of one to the other and v/v and they both enhance and illuminate and the treatment for schizophrenia is proceeding a pace.BTW Have you noticed if you talk to God its praying if He/she replys it mental illness!! |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Little Neophyte Date: 15 Nov 99 - 06:02 PM I relate to the lioness, being a Leo and all. I can appreciate the lion's traits. When I'm not listening to what I need to hear, a fox comes around to guide me. Usually, fox is telling me temperance is in order. I fall hopelessly in love with puppy dogs Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: bbc Date: 15 Nov 99 - 05:34 PM Dear anon, There is no requirement to add the "BS" prefix. Some of us may not consider this discussion bs. On the other hand, most folks of normal intelligence would probably be able to guess from the subject line whether they would be interested in reading it or not, so get off it. Water Buffalo--something in the mouth & chin. bbc |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Penny S. Date: 15 Nov 99 - 05:29 PM I've never met an animal yet that had the linguistic ability to describe anyone. A pernickety pedant |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Micca Date: 15 Nov 99 - 05:12 PM My animals depending on the mood are Bear, Owl, Racoon( I saw them in the wild in Canada this year, well I say in the wild ,,they were in a garden in downtown Toronto, but "wild, they were furious" until we gave them bisuits).And for the real spirit the Great Northern Diver, I sent a .Wav file to a mate . who inadvertantly played it loud in his office at 8.30 in the morning and scared the brown stuff out of all his colleagues.But all of them represent different aspects of my character The Squeak claims I look like a badger, but thats the effect of a grey beard and hair and glasses. But I know people involved with Shamanic ceremonies and beliefs and they talk a lot about identifying your "totem animal" and getting inside his skin and being guided by it, they also say you do not have to blieve in pagan things just be open to the influences.I understand a similar set of beliefs are common in native cultures both in North America and Australia. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Metchosin Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:13 PM Fortunato, I have a poem I'd like to send you, shall I send it to your personal page? It might take a few moments or more I have to type all those little br thingies. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: sophocleese Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:09 PM I guess I liked it so much I double clicked. Oops! Sorry. Problem with the mouse perhaps.. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:08 PM Hey we might even be able to have a Celtic music concert. Let's see if the Dublin SPCA (dspca.tinet.ie) has cats that can read music and fart it in Gaelic. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: sophocleese Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:07 PM A Nony Mouse I like it!! I think the way several cultures have solved the problem of using animal gas for an air supply is simply to blow through them, like bag pipes or possum whistles. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: sophocleese Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:07 PM A Nony Mouse I like it!! I think the way several cultures have solved the problem of using animal gas for an air supply is simply to blow through them, like bag pipes or possum whistles. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Fortunato Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:07 PM Metchosin Remember that great call/howl of theirs when on a scent? Musicality! regards Fortunato |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Metchosin Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:03 PM |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: kendall Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:03 PM Elephant. big, strong, capable of destroying anything in sight. Minds its own business, never picks a fight, but quite able to finish one. Sociable, gentle, family oriented, protective of females and young ones. They fear no other animal except man. The elephant is Gods most noble creature. |
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Subject: RE: What animal best describes you? From: Bert Date: 15 Nov 99 - 04:02 PM LMAO 'Mouse |
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