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[rockyi]

I do remember something posted here about a $37 cheeseburger. Wasn't that mentioned in the actual name of the thread?

In other news....Urban deer don't exactly "scurry" to get out of the damn street, do they? They just take their sweet time, doesn't matter how many vehicles are coming at them..

[Ex-Ithacan]

My life has certainly slowed down over the years. The most exciting thing I've done this week is buying a new toothbrush.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by rockyi

I do remember something posted here about a $37 cheeseburger. Wasn't that mentioned in the actual name of the thread?

In other news....Urban deer don't exactly "scurry" to get out of the damn street, do they? They just take their sweet time, doesn't matter how many vehicles are coming at them..

Don't really have deer this close in to downtown, but there are still plenty of fox, skunks, possum, things like that. The burbs have mountain lions and coyotes and freaking bears, even in Highlands Ranch.

I was walking to a friends house in the Sloan Lake neighborhood, and as I'm walking down the street, it's about 9 at night, I see what at first I couldn't tell was a small, fat dog, or, really, what. Then I noticed the striping. Freakin skunk, just turned the corner on the sidewalk and headed right towards me, standing about three quarters of the block away. I just stopped, after all, I liked the hoodie I was wearing. Then, following the first skunk, was another skunk, who just sauntered across the street, not taking the turn that the other skunk did. And what followed that? A freaking fox sniffing really close behind.

I took another route.

And then just the other night I was at my bar and a fox came out of the alley and tried twice to cross Colfax. And this was just a block from the Capitol building.

And then there was the family of skunks that lived in between my house and my next door neighbor. I sit on my porch to smoke cigarettes, and, it's enclosed with a little brick wall, and I have a chair set up in one corner. So I hear some rustling next to me, and just lean over the wall a bit to look down and see what it is, and sure enough, fuckin skunk, just about 3 feet from my face.

[rockyi]

There must be a skunk epidemic this year because they're EVERYWHERE around here. I tried walking the dog last Saturday night...... there's a BIG skunk in my path, I turn around and go the other direction....another skunk, mid-sized range....fuck it, turn around to go back home and see the first giant skunk with a smaller skunk following it. I threw a few rocks and a croquet ball at them, they didn't seem to notice or care.
Virginia has seen at least one every few days as she takes the dog for a walk in the early morning. Sally (the dog) want to play with them. That outcome wouldn't be pretty.

[Strange Meat]

My roommate has a chocolate lab. I like to let him out in the backyard when I see a squirrel on the grass. Always fun to watch that footrace.

[vid]

Originally Posted by rockyi

In other news....Urban deer don't exactly "scurry" to get out of the damn street, do they? They just take their sweet time, doesn't matter how many vehicles are coming at them..

They're too used to people. The deer in Thunder Bay approach cars waiting for food to be given to them because overfeeding has trained them to look for food this way.

Thunder Bay has skunks like Toronto has raccoons. They're everywhere and they're always getting into garbage and making a mess.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Strange Meat

My roommate has a chocolate lab. I like to let him out in the backyard when I see a squirrel on the grass. Always fun to watch that footrace.

I always let Sally chase Canadian Geese. Whenever we see a flock of them she'll look at me to get the "OK" and if there aren't any other people around who will get offended (like little old ladies) I just say "Go get em!" and she's off.
I hate those things, all they do is honk, shed feathers and shit...on EVERYTHING!

[vid]

Cities here used to do that but someone flipped out about animal abuse so now we let them shit all over the place and it's ruined everything.

We should call them America Geese because they're loud, obnoxious, and shit everywhere. (Joke.)

[rockyi]

We want to annex Thunder Bay since it sounds like it belongs here. (another joke)
No animal abuse here, though. Sally's fast but hasn't caught any wild life yet.

[vid]

Thunder Bay and Rock Island should seriously become sister cities.

[rockyi]

I think so too. We could take turns hosting the Annoying Street People Olympics

[touraccuracy]

around here:
-stanley park is full of skunks and therefore so is the west end (which borders the park)
-lots of coyotes in the suburbs, i see them probably once/week
-bears i see in the burbs maybe once/year. our garbage gets eaten maybe 3 times/year by bears.
-can't say i've ever seen a cougar/mountain lion but we used to get warnings in elementary school when there was one sighted nearby. same with pedophiles.

[mobyhead]

My wife got a ticket today for running a red light. She was following a semi turning left through an intersection. She couldn't see the light. Cop said she shouldn't have followed so close. $125 fine

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by touraccuracy

around here:
-stanley park is full of skunks and therefore so is the west end (which borders the park)
-lots of coyotes in the suburbs, i see them probably once/week
-bears i see in the burbs maybe once/year. our garbage gets eaten maybe 3 times/year by bears.
-can't say i've ever seen a cougar/mountain lion but we used to get warnings in elementary school when there was one sighted nearby. same with pedophiles.

The only thing we don't have around here is bears. Sources say the last bear killed in this area was way back in 1840.
Usually when I'm visiting my brother and his wife who live on the edge of the metro area, we sit in the backyard and the coyotes will almost always start that screaming/crying chorus sometime after dark.
In the last couple years there have been numerous cougar sightings, also.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by mobyhead

My wife got a ticket today for running a red light. She was following a semi turning left through an intersection. She couldn't see the light. Cop said she shouldn't have followed so close. $125 fine

That sucks.
I also once followed a big semi through a red light without seeing it. Luckily the cops didn't see me.

[Cleveland Brown]

CB's "Day of Debauchery" has come to a close. I left a bottle of Vodka on my desk at work and I smell like stripper.

[rockyi]

^So, when are you and princess pickle puss going to start picking out baby names?

[rockyi]

I just realized I just passed my 9 year mark here at SSP (Sept 23). I remember my first post was originally going to be my only post.....didn't work out that way.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by rockyi

^So, when are you and princess pickle puss going to start picking out baby names?

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Originally Posted by Rockyi

I just realized I just passed my 9 year mark here at SSP (Sept 23). I remember my first post was originally going to be my only post.....didn't work out that way.

I remember lurking for a few months, if not a year. I joined 20 days after you. The forum was a lot more wild back then, but I enjoyed the triviality of some of the epic debates. It seems like it was only yesterday that most city discussion threads broke down into "which city is better at X - Chicago or Toronto?"

[Strange Meat]

Guess I've been around here for a while, too, huh.

I think my oldest forum membership dates to 1999.