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2007-02-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Steve 2007-02-23 13:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is it a "nice beaver"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-23 13:31|| 2007-02-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 There is plenty of great beaver up here in Canada. Just saying.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-23 13:51|| 2007-02-23 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 and here i thought it was gonna be another Britney thread........my bad.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-02-23 14:02|| 2007-02-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

#4 They sure it was a big fat wharf rat? They get as big as beavers.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-02-23 14:12|| 2007-02-23 14:12|| Front Page Top

#5 he should move to KY

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-23 14:18|| 2007-02-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, please.

Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford spotted more than their share from the dugout at Yankee Stadium back in the 50's and 60's. It's all in my book.

Posted by Jim Bouton 2007-02-23 14:52|| 2007-02-23 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I remember down in Alabama, when a beaver dammed a firebreak creek, causing it to flood. These two city boy NCOs decided to go into the wood line and chase that little beaver away.

A few minutes later they came high stepping and screaming out of the forest, yelling that they were being chased by a bear.

Nope, but I don't blame them for the mistake. That was a BIG buck beaver. And he was pissed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-23 14:55|| 2007-02-23 14:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Dam those beavers!

Posted by Mike 2007-02-23 15:02|| 2007-02-23 15:02|| Front Page Top

#9 But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-02-23 15:13|| 2007-02-23 15:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Beavers got teeth?

Beavers gnawing a prominent place in anything sorta' gives me nightmares from my misspent youth back before I knew they were soft and nice...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-23 16:26|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-23 16:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Beaver expert

Its a great gig if you can get it.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-02-23 16:41|| 2007-02-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

#12 mmm, 200 year-old beaver, think I'll pass.

Next!

Posted by Angomong Flolusing5076 2007-02-23 16:46|| 2007-02-23 16:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Yup, we've got lots of beavers in Alabama, my home state, and Tennessee, my adopted state. I've certainly taken my share of beaver pelts over the years. We've even got what one mught call Eager Beavers. All kidding aside, I once saw one drown a coon dog in Alabama.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-02-23 17:01|| 2007-02-23 17:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse

so, I'm not the only one claiming to be a beaver expert in college.... and my name was sure as hell better that Dietland Hyphen-Hyphen

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-23 18:49|| 2007-02-23 18:49|| Front Page Top

#15 global warming.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-02-23 19:38|| 2007-02-23 19:38|| Front Page Top

#16 #9: But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws.

Yes he can, it's called three ess, shoot, shovel and shut(up).

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-23 20:02|| 2007-02-23 20:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh - I read the headline as "spotted beaver".

I avoid them.

I know we've been warned but. . . .

Doesn't anyone (com where are you?) have the cartoon of a woman holding said rodent in the kitchen sink shaving it and saying "I don't understand why he asked me to do this."

Posted by GORT 2007-02-23 20:08|| 2007-02-23 20:08|| Front Page Top

#18 I had it, but alas, it does not remain, sorry. It was perfect 50's-poking humor

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-23 20:42|| 2007-02-23 20:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Beavers shouldn't be named "Jose". "Dudley" or "Chip" or "Naughton" maybe. A Capybara can be named "Jose".

Frank Drebin must be just spinning.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-02-23 21:12|| 2007-02-23 21:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Can't be - I've seen couple of Beaver + Pairs in NYC in early 1990's. Maybe ala FUTURAMA, they're living in the ruins of old New York, i.e. the Sewers???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-23 21:31|| 2007-02-23 21:31|| Front Page Top

#21 MYWAY.com NEWS > RATS go wild inside NYC KFC-Taco Bell. A dozen of 'em, and not small rats either. D ***nged PARTY ANIMALS = PIGGIES THEYS WAS.

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