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Originally posted by Radar Rider
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The hippies that cry about trees or frogs dying off are simply ignorant of our planet's history.
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And that's not all that they are ignorant of. When I was but a wee lad and a graduate student at the University of Maine pursing a Wildlife Management Master's we had to run crap details for the faculty and the local extension service. One such task was running a waterfowl check station during hunting season to sex, age, and identify the various birds that were being taken. Now this is not a fun thing and requires, among other things, flipping a duck over on its back, facing its anus up, placing your thumbs along either side of it to open it so that you can determine the sex and age. Of course if you killed the critter outright and it was laying in the bottom of your boat for a couple of hours a lot of pressure builds up in the intestines so when you break the seal, so to speak, you want to make sure that you are tilting that orifice away from you. So here I am, knee deep in crap and feathers after checking thru a couple of hundred birds and some beaded, pony tailed, uncleansed, Steven Segal wannabe comes up to me claiming that the woodduck I was about to crank open was the last passenger pigeon (which had been extinct since 1900 BTW) and just how could I be any part of this senseless slaughter. I was in a fowl (no pun intended) mood anyway so I invited this clown to witness the fact this could not be a passenger pigeon because everyone knows the difference between a pigeon's butt and a duck's ass as I would show him-but he would have to get real close. He did and my marksmenship was superb. Dispite the fact that he obviously was allergic to soap and water he was even more allergic to duck crap. The rest of the day actually was rather pleasant.
Jack Moroney