"Zz Yzx" wrote:
> Reminds me of my early years workin' on a duck ranch. I tell ya',
> there's no sound more terrifying than the thunder of thousands of
> webbed feet during a duck stampede.....
---------------------------------
Other than the by products of the operation, there is nothing like a
flock of guard geese.
There are several examples here in SoCal including a truck yard.
They go from dead quiet to full ruckus in 0.9 nanoseconds.
BTW, you never want to get bitten by a goose.
If you do, you will remember it for a while.
SFWIW, cat vs. goose is no contest.
Kept my boat at a boat yard on a river a few years ago.
There was a boat yard cat who had a disposition much like a junk yard
dog.
One year a wild mama goose went to set along the river bank.
Soon a flock of goslings hatched, getting the cat's attention.
Cat made a few attempts to investigate, but was rebuffed by mama
goose.
Finally one day the cat got too close, and mama goose got a hold of
that cat.
To put in bluntly, that cat never recovered.
Lew
On Feb 22, 1:22=A0pm, "ChairMan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Innews:[email protected],
> Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
>
> > Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
> >http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
>
> shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
> just sayin
Ouch!
You are a bad man.
On Feb 25, 7:41=A0am, [email protected] (Robert Bonomi) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>
> ChairMan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Innews:[email protected],
> >Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
> >> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
> >>http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
>
> >shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
>
> You're gonna get the bill for that one. =A0Even if you were just winging =
it.
People just get into a flap over this. Geese are good runners. You can
see pictures of their feet all over the web.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:20:32 -0800 (PST), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
>http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
Reminds me of my early years workin' on a duck ranch. I tell ya',
there's no sound more terrifying than the thunder of thousands of
webbed feet during a duck stampede.....
On 2/22/11 9:20 AM, Robatoy wrote:
> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
I actually saw something similar on my street a couple years ago, not
quite as many, it was funny and cool at the same time.
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On 2/22/2011 11:02 AM, Zz Yzx wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:20:32 -0800 (PST), Robatoy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>>
>> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
That was funny. We had just as many geese in the apartment complex I
used to live in, but they were not as fast and they did not yield to
traffic! Fortunately, *most* cars yielded to them, and their goslings
in tow.
Bill
>
> Reminds me of my early years workin' on a duck ranch. I tell ya',
> there's no sound more terrifying than the thunder of thousands of
> webbed feet during a duck stampede.....
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
Notice how the biguns are evenly spaced throughout the flock. Looks like a
school outing. Lot of them around here. Geese, that is.
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wonder why you let them Practice on You?
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>ChairMan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>In news:[email protected],
>>Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
>>> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>>>
>>> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
>>
>>shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
>
>You're gonna get the bill for that one. Even if you were just winging it.
Since they're geese, not ducks, it's actually "stuff that honks you off."
In article <[email protected]>,
ChairMan <[email protected]> wrote:
>In news:[email protected],
>Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
>> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>>
>> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
>
>shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
You're gonna get the bill for that one. Even if you were just winging it.
In article <[email protected]>,
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Feb 25, 7:41 am, [email protected] (Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>
>> ChairMan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Innews:[email protected],
>> >Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
>> >> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>>
>> >>http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
>>
>> >shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
>>
>> You're gonna get the bill for that one. Even if you were just winging it.
>
>People just get into a flap over this. Geese are good runners. You can
>see pictures of their feet all over the web.
Q. Why do geese have flat feet?
A. To stamp out forest fires.
Q. Why do elephants have flat feet?
A. To stamp out burning geese.
In article <[email protected]>,
Lew Hodgett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Zz Yzx" wrote:
>> Reminds me of my early years workin' on a duck ranch. I tell ya',
>> there's no sound more terrifying than the thunder of thousands of
>> webbed feet during a duck stampede.....
>---------------------------------
>Other than the by products of the operation, there is nothing like a
>flock of guard geese.
Except for a flock of peafowl (peacocks / peahens).
>There are several examples here in SoCal including a truck yard.
>
>They go from dead quiet to full ruckus in 0.9 nanoseconds.
>
>BTW, you never want to get bitten by a goose.
Just getting banged by the wings is a substantial deterrent. DAMHIKT.
Geese are much more aggressive than peafowl, but peafowl are a more effective
early warning system. ONE peacock's 'scream' (they call it that for a reason)
is more than enough to freeze anybody in their tracks.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:20:32 -0800 (PST), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
>http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
What I noticed is that they're all trotting, except the little guy
~3rd from last.
He's GALOPING, bless his heart.
-Zz
In news:[email protected],
Robatoy <[email protected]> spewed forth:
> Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:
>
> http://www.wimp.com/mindingbusiness/
shouldn't it be " stuff that QUACKS you up"
just sayin
"Lobby Dosser" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> Notice how the biguns are evenly spaced throughout the flock. Looks like a
> school outing. Lot of them around here. Geese, that is.
You want to see geese as in Canada Geese? Take a trip down to Toronto
Island. Damned birds are protected and you can't go two feet without
stepping in Goose shit. If you do go and perhaps have a beer at the Toronto
Island Restaurant, make sure you're sitting under an overhang or a patio
table with an umbrella. Else you get inundated with pigeon droppings. Safe
to say, I don't visit the island anymore.
They have the right idea across the lake in the US. Canada geese are killed
and cooked up for the homeless.