nlanza
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That kind of thing is super-impressive when it’s done well.
My wife dances tribal style, and it’s pretty awesome to see what some of the people giving workshops can do.
(She also asks whether the festival was Rakkasah West or a different one.)
I assume so. It was lithe and sleek, for a moose, and it had no antlers. Didn’t get a look at its… er… equipment, so I can’t say whether it’s a bull or a cow, but it certainly didn’t have the bulk of an adult. Those things get massive.
Rimbo
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request for video to be posted to the YouTube thread
You should check out my local public access channel, if you’re ever in town. They only air, like, five things: Loony evangelicals; crazy Satanists; bored stoners; 9/11 Truthers; and amateur belly dancers. Oh, and the Veterans for Peace.
Got a phone interview with Sony tomorrow. (Operations Support)
Hurrah!
Editer
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When they Google you, make sure they know you’re not the Jon R that threatened the POTUS. :)
Yeah… thanks other Jon for ruining it for the rest of us.
I googled myself, and I don’t show up. :( Jon Danger on the other hand…
Caryn, moose are humongous. People who have never seen a moose think they are the size of a deer. That is very untrue. Think of the largest horse you have ever seen. Add one foot of height and length, and then double its weight. That’s a moose.
If I may illustrate through pictures, this is a baby deer:
This is a baby moose:
This is an adult moose:
Any questions?
Editer
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I have one… Mooses are invisible?
This is happens when I forget to use CTRL+F5 to preview my post. Thanks, Denny.
So nice of the baby deer to check that guy’s engine. Something wrong with the air conditioning maybe?
— Alan
Rimbo
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my sister was bitten by a møøse…
That took too long, you guys are slipping up.
A young deer once totaled our car and I’ve seen adult moose in Sweden and Norway - lets just say, that there’s a very good reason they fence in their highways (when I was a kid, I asked my dad if those silly Swedes where afraid we’d nick all their stupid trees since they fenced them in)
Editer
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When I lived in Vermont, we’d hear of at least one moose-collision death on the interstate every year.
The local Saab dealer had a video showing how Saab had moose-tested the Saab 9-3. The hood and windshield were angled so that a moose would roll over the top of the car. They even had a video with a collision with a simulated moose that they’d run in the showroom.
I was driving a Miata at the time, so my moose strategy was “aim between the legs and duck.”
Sarkus
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I don’t think people realize just how many large animals like that end up being hit by cars every year. When I lived in Montana spring was always interesting because when the snow melted in the ditches on the side of the interstate highways, you’d see an unbelievable number of deer remains that had been dumped there in the course of the previous winter.
Reed
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Those aren’t examples of a baby deer and moose, but yeah… an adult moose is huge.
Indeed. I grew up in MN and avoiding deer was a constant problem during certain times of the year, especially driving early in the morning or at dusk. Personally, I had close calls with probably a dozen+ over a few years, hit one, and had one run into the side of my car.
Juste
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Living in Norway aka Moose Central I’ve had a few close calls while driving. Moose are almost impossible to spot when crossing the road as they like to do so at twilight or dusk. You don’t see them until they are in the road and they tend to freeze in the headlights instead of just running across the road. Big fuckers as well so if you hit them you are in serious trouble.
There was a story last year (?) about a guy in Sweden that hit a moose, it went onto his bonnet and its stomach burst while going through the windshield of the car. He died from drowning…
Mrenda
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Today I used knowledge extrapolated from the discussion here on QT3 about piracy for my international marketing lecture. Last week I referred to Cliffski and Positech Games for my digital marketing class.
One exam left, and then I’m finished University.
Cheers Queue To Three.
:D
See also elk in and around the Rockies. A former cow-orker of mine, famous before this event for his bad luck, was driving home through Utah this past fall in a compact car and ‘clipped’ a mature elk while going full speed down the highway. Airbag deployment probably saved him. The car was totaled. He was found walking around in a daze by the next passerby who phoned the tow truck who drove him to town where he visited an ER. Everyone told him he was lucky to be alive. When he saw his car he understood why. (Sorry, no pics.)
Moose are kind of like whales. No one ever realizes how big they are until there’s one right beside your car/boat and then you realize how fucking HUGE they are.
