NursingFawns: January 2006

Grizzly is a fake!

OK, I am said to say that the grizzly is just a fake. We have uncovered the truth here: Fake Grizzly.

Hogzilla

As soon as I published the images of the grizzly, someone sent me a picture of Hogzilla. This is supposed to be a 12 foot long, 1,000 pound feral pig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla. National Geographic exhumed the pig and determined it to actually have been 8 foot, 800 pounds which is still a dang big pig.

Worlds Largest Grizzly

The following pictures are of a guy who works for The US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded his 7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet

from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head. The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).

Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours. His last meal was an unlucky nature buff. The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately
found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body) it only wounded the bear and probably angered it. The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.

Think about this - If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's belly button when he stood upright, the bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.
The moral of the story, concealed carry won't help with a bear. If you can conceal it, it's not big enough.Gee that sounds familiar.

...thanks to Rollie for this story...

5 Rules for a Happy Life

1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh.

3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.

5. It's very, very important that these four women don't know each other

- compliments of Rollie

Trinity in the Snow

Trinity sure loves to play in the snow...
Bonnie and I shoveled the driveway for an hour or so and Trinity sat in the house and watched us through the door. She was a good girl so Bonnie played catch with her in the backyard afterwards. I think she could run all day and not get tired of playing catch and jumping around in the powder.

Links

Osama and Pals on Friendstr

The Oracle of Starbucks
(my personality type came up as: asshat)

Lowest Gas Prices in: Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota.

This will give you a headache for sure...

Who is Virtual Stan?

wow. Must be how they play basketball in France.

I could watch this all day long. Click the rectangle to change the music. Gotta love it with the Benny Hill music.

Celebrating the Monobrow.

Celebrate and pray pray to the web gods.

Create your own Quaker Man message here. Ha-ha!

...thats all for now. Should be enough to keep you busy for a few minutes...

The IVR Cheat Sheet™

Paul English who is the CTO and cofounder of the travel-search site Kayak.com and a former vice president at Intuit. He has compiled a list of the buttons you need to push when you enter various companies' voicemail systems to actually reach a human person. He has a list of several hundred companies and government agencies sorted by type of business. The company phone number and web address is also provided.

http://paulenglish.com/ivr/

(I think Virgin Mobile is the winner for most steps to reach a human)

Interesting Human Trivia

More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.

In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.

The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is saliva.

The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle. Henry Ford was the inventor of the assembly line, and Hitler used this knowledge of the assembly line to speed up production, and to create better and interchangeable products.

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

See more here...

Bucks of -- the Badger --

Thrill of bowhunting Wisconsin whitetails in post-war ghost town is atypical
By James Card
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

BARABOO, Wis. — The Badger Army Ammunition Plant has long been a legendary place for bowhunters in the know. Imagine a small, American suburb that has a few whitetail deer sneaking through the backyards; it's a common scene throughout the United States. Now imagine if the same suburb were abandoned — a ghost town, if you will — for a few decades. Weeds, prairie grasses, brush, thickets and saplings grow thick from neglect and deer would wander the overgrown streets of cracked concrete.

The deer slip in and out of shabby buildings with broken windows and others bed down on sun-warmed cement patios of dilapidated houses. That accurately describes Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo, Wis...

Read more here.

If you are going...
Archery hunting at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant is based on a lottery system. Traditionally, about 1,000 hunters apply for 900 permits. Applications can be found at the Badger Web site. If you are a successful applicant you will receive a permit to hunt for a three-day weekend. The hunts are scheduled throughout the fall hunting season. There is an "Earn-a-Buck" program in place, wherein hunters must harvest an antlerless deer before pursuing a buck at the Badger.

The hunting areas are divided into five zones so hunters are more spread out and have a more enjoyable hunt. Hunters are only allowed to hunt in their given zone. Hunters are provided with maps that detail their zones, routes in and out, restricted areas and assigned parking areas. All hunters must abide by state hunting regulations. Treestands are permitted must be removed after each hunt.

Badger Army Ammunition Plant is in a chronic wasting disease management zone; game personnel there work with state officials monitor the herd. To date no chronic wasting disease has been detected.

Blaupunkt Pimp my Ride

Numa Numa Everywhere

Numa Numa Everywhere
...or here

Time for some funny...

Matrix Ping Pong

NFL 2006 Regular Season Opponents Announced

Green Bay Opponents:
Home: Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, Arizona, St. Louis, New England, N.Y. Jets, New Orleans
Away: Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, Miami, Philadelphia

Chicago Opponents:
Home: Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota, San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, Miami, Tampa Bay
Away: Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota, Arizona, St. Louis, New England, N.Y. Jets, N.Y. Giants

Viqueens Opponents:
Home: Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Arizona, St. Louis, New England, N.Y. Jets, Carolina
Away: Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, Miami, Washington

NFL Divisional Playoffs

Well the weekend results are in:

Washington 10
Seattle 20

New England 13
Denver 27

Pittsburgh 21
Indianapolis 18

Carolina 29
Chicago 21

Some very exciting football, and a few upsets. Since Green Bay is out I don't really care who beats who... I would normally root for Chicago but it will be nice to not have to listen to all the yahoos here who have been trying to talk trash just because Chicago has one decent year. I know they have been waiting a long, long time to get a decent team on the field, so I cut them a little slack... but only enough to hang themselves with once Green Bay has all their players healthy next year and gets back to spanking their division rivals.

Volleyball Tourney Today

Tina had a volleyball tournament today. She won her 1st match in a tie-breaker and lost the next couple. I took a few pics and all came out pretty bad. I guess its hard to get the focus right when you are shooting through a volleyball net. Here is a pic that she hates, so I will post it and see if she notices...:

Badgers Finish 15th in Polls

MADISON, Wis. - The 2005 Wisconsin football team was ranked 15th in both the final USA Today Coaches and Associated Press polls released following the Bowl Championship Series title game between Texas and Southern California Wednesday night.

It marks the Badgers’ highest finish in those polls since 1999 when UW was fourth in both rankings.

Wisconsin, 10-3 overall after its 24-10 upset victory over then-No. 7 Auburn in the 2006 Capital One Bowl, finished in the top 25 of the coaches and A.P. polls for the sixth time under former head coach Barry Alvarez. Alvarez’s Badgers also ended up in the top 25 in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2004. Ironically, Auburn was 14th in both the coaches and A.P. final polls for this season.

UW also finished in the top 20 of the BCS rankings this season (the Badgers were 19th) for the third time under Alvarez.

Source: Wisconsin Athletic Communications
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