On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:58:21PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 06:27 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
> >News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding
> regular
> >drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare
>
> >Bengal tiger.
>
> 1. The grunt found out that cats have no alpha cats
Or rather that he just wasn't it.
> 2. Nothing like boozing it up in a Moslem (ex)nation. At *least* the
> grunt
> wasn't *stoned* on cannabis or something evil like that.
>
Of course, if he'd been smoking hashish instead of drinking, he'd never even
considered walking into that tiger's den.
> At 10:04 PM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> > We have three or four distinct groups of cats living here that we
> feed. Two
> >in the house, two in the garage/greenhouse who once lived in the house
> but could
> >not resolve the dominance issue between one male in the house and one
> alpha
> >female now in the greenhouse. Then there are the more or less permanent
> two
> >females that live on and under the front porch, who also have serious
> unresolved
> >issues with the Mama Fritz of the greenhouse (who does get outside
> during the
> >day). Dominance also goes down the line, watching the 3 young offspring
> of one
> >of the porch ladies makes that pretty clear, one of those bosses the
> other two,
> <snip>
>
> Do you use PROMIS for Felines or the latest Orion Scientific codes to
> manage
> these relationships? Just curious; Ellison is on the phone trying to
> sell Oracle ID
> for cats.
>
I am just their lowly servant. They call me Katmandoo.
> .....
> If the chinese muslim priestgrunt was spying for Usama, maybe Wen-Ho was
> selling
> bahklava recipes to Saddam?
Sounds like all he had was his pastoring notes -- like where, in the maze
of tiger cages, the individuals he worked with lived, and who, in the gulag
heirarchy, he needed to talk to about them. Although ya' never know with them
inscrutable muslims, and him being an inscrutable oriental besides.
--
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com
