Posts from Stumpy in thread „Fan Geography“

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Howdy everyone, I'm in the home of Big and little Poison, 35.53* N, 97.16*w, I'm east of the indian Meridian, Indian Territory.

Wish it still was Indian Territory and all those jerks in the legislature weren't in OKC - I might move back then.

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Myself, I'm from a little town just outside Tulsa, I.T.

Right on with the I.T., TBone.

Hey, how 'bout those new commemorative stamps. I bought 14 sheets of 'em.

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Originally posted by Moonshine_Sally@Oct 16 2005, 02:15 PM
I live in the very small country of Belgium,10 minutes away from Holland,a 2 hours drive from France or Germany.And England is-if I use the shuttle-under 3 hours away.Being a small country we do manage to have 3 languages.Can anyone guess what my native language is???

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I'll hazard a guess and say your native language is English. The reason I say that is because you use English like a native. However, there's another one of our members from mainland Europe who is also very fluent in English and I know for a fact that English is not their native language.

I'd give almost anything to be able to afford to visit St. Petersburg's Hermitage. I've seen many articles about it and it must be a fascinating museum.

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Originally posted by kilo 6@Aug 10 2005, 02:13 AM
Stumpy I take it the bull snake is non venomous , wasn't it a water moccasin that bit one of the cattle drive boys in " The Cowboys"?

Yes, bullsnakes are non-poisonous, kilo, though they can grow to a pretty good size. I've seen some that were 5 or 6 feet long and 2 to 3 inches in diameter.
Poisonous or not, they can give you a pretty good scare when you're a small boy about 8 or 9 years old and grab one unexpectedly.

I can't remember that particular scene in "The Cowboys". It seems to me there were scenes in "Lonesome Dove" where the cattle drovers were crossing a river and were bitten by water moccasins.

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Originally posted by smokey@Aug 9 2005, 10:55 AM
stumpy

he picked a fine pet there i myself dont have a liking for them as i grew up where there were more venomous ones than anything else as children there was a plague of them and when we played out in the yard we used to watch each others backs. we went to school one day and came home to 3 sides of a trailer filled with dead ones ( we lived on a pineapple farm) and these where only the ones caught near the house.

does he still keep them as pets

hooroo smokey

ps the snakes were redbellied blacks, eastern browns, green bellied blacks, and one other but i cant remember what one it was but it was long and skinny, it was mainly the blacks that we had near the house as the shed was near by and they were after the rats and mice which were in plague as well

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I have a phobia about snakes, Smokey. Don't like 'em at all, even though I grew up in the country and we had all kinds of snakes, both venomous and non-venomous. I remember watching my grandpa, back in the forties, pick water moccasins (a venomous snake) up by the tail and snap their heads off like he was cracking a bullwhip. I wouldn't try that for a thousand dollars.

I used to gather eggs for my grandma from her hens. Several times I've stuck my hands into the hen's nest and there'd be a big bullsnake there. Makes me shiver just thinkin' about it, even though this happened about 60 years ago.

I know Australia has a lot of very venomous snakes (spiders too). Since my wife doesn't like spiders and I don't like snakes, we'd have a heck of a time living there.

No, my son finally got rid of that python, thank goodness. He used to come visit us and bring the snake. I'd stick them both in one of our back bedrooms and make sure the doors were closed when we went to bed. He was visiting one time while my wife was doing our laundry. Helga said while she was sorting the clothes for washing, she felt like something was watching her. She looked around and here was that big old snake eyeing her. (She's not as afraid of snakes as I am - still, to discover the snake watching her was an unsettling experience, she said.)

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Originally posted by smokey@Aug 8 2005, 09:44 AM
chester the best defence for stopping your car from getting stolen or house broken into is to have a pet carpet snake, knew a fella when i live in outback north QLD who had a carpet snake in his car all of us who lived in and around the little town new he had it in his car but some city slickers came into town and saw his car sitting there unlocked and thought that they would help themselves to it well when they started it up the snake climbed up the back of the drivers seat and rested its head on this numnuts shoulder he froze on the spot while we all looked on watching and the local copper came over and nabbed them for trying to get the car what a squeal

That sounds similar to my youngest son's choice of pets. He used to have a pet python about 12 feet long. Said he was at a shopping mall one day with the snake in his pickup truck. He went into the mall to do some shopping. When he came out there was a big crowd around his truck. The snake had wrapped itself around the steering wheel. But he said he never worried about anybody stealing his truck with that snake in it.

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Originally posted by kilo 6@Aug 8 2005, 04:24 AM
Hello All
Is there a way to review a list of members by Geography ( location ) If not no complaints I like the the many features this board has, just wondering how many Canadians how many from my Province , City? Kilo

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I know there's at least one more from BC. Believe In Harm's Way is from there.

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Originally posted by Jay J. Foraker@Aug 4 2005, 12:17 PM
Yep, when I was younger, the heat didn't seem to bother me like it does now. There must be something about aging making us vulnerable to the heat. Back in the days of the pioneers, the average life expectancy was much lower than it is today, so maybe the general youthfulness of those hardy people got them through this heat.
I noticed that little front that came down last week did drop some temps by about, what, five or ten degrees for a day or so to North Texas, depending on where in Texas it affected. However, when it stalled right about on top of San Antonio, it just kicked up some scattered showers with very little temperature change. And now it is gone, so, too, are the lower? temps and rain.

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Doesn't this just make you drool, Jay? :lol:

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Originally posted by Jay J. Foraker@Aug 4 2005, 09:25 AM
I don't know how those pioneers managed to get though those summers, but I guess they did

I don't know either, Jay. Like I said, I was born and raised in this heat but when I was a kid, it didn't seem to bother me like it does now. Shoot, we never had air conditioning back in the forties and early fifties and I'm sure we had some real scorchers then too but I sure don't recall being as miserable from the heat as I have been the past several years.

I used to scoff at those claims of global warming but damned if I'm not about ready to sign on to the theory. I know (or at least have a strong suspicion) that the summers have been getting much hotter than they were 50 or 60 years ago. And I can't remember when we've had what you could call a real winter.

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Originally posted by chester7777+Aug 4 2005, 08:27 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chester7777 @ Aug 4 2005, 08:27 AM)</div>

Believe me, Sue, it's enough to depress you. I was born and raised in this part of the country and I've never become accustomed to the heat. To my way of thinking, if you live in cooler climates, you can always put on more clothes but if you live in places like Texas, there are only so many you can take off. From mid-June until about the end of September, I stay mostly indoors under the air conditioning.

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Is your sweetie a native Texan? Is that what keeps you there?

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No, wife wife was born in Berlin, Germany. I married her in 1960 during my first tour of duty in Germany. She's lived in the States though longer than she lived in Germany. She first came over in 1962 and has more or less lived continuously in the States since then, except for our foreign tours in the service.

I should have added that what keeps us here are family ties (my brothers and sister-my folks are dead) and the fact that we don't have the money it would take to move elsewhere.

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Originally posted by kilo 6@Aug 2 2005, 02:04 AM
Hello All I live in British Columbia 400 feet from the Fraser river and about a mile upriver from where she flows into the Pacific. I have heard that the duke liked to fish North of here. so long Kilo 6

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kilo 6,
You live in a place where I've always wanted to live. I've never been to BC but from the pictures I've seen, it must be one of the most scenically beautiful spots in North America. And to this Texas who hates heat, much more climatically endurable.

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Originally posted by Hondo Duke Lane@Oct 24 2003, 04:48 PM
I am from Alabama, more like the greater Montgomery area (Prattville).

My highschool girlfriend (for whom I still carry a torch, even after 50 years) lives in Montgomery.

I was born in Texas, mostly raised in southern Oklahoma until I turned 17 and became old enough to join the military. I then spent the next 25 years seeing various parts of the world. Currently live in north Texas.