Comments on: Stuff http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:34:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3820 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:13:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3820 <blockquote> møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti… </blockquote> Um, no - it's the front leg kicks you would want to look out for, as in many plant eaters. (Well, technically in birds and some marsupials it is the back legs, up front.) They can disable or even kill you, if you are unlucky. It isn't so fun to take cover behind pine shrubs on account of a horny elk that wants you off his chosen breeding ground - which for an inexperienced elk could be right over a community running tracks. (True story; but the local hunters took care of it, before it hurt anyone. Revenge was mine! ;-) 'Nuther time, I was out cutting trees, so that time I could fend off a nervous elk mother with my chain saw while her calf passed a work area. Did you know you can actually hear the hackles move on agitated elks?

møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…

Um, no – it’s the front leg kicks you would want to look out for, as in many plant eaters. (Well, technically in birds and some marsupials it is the back legs, up front.) They can disable or even kill you, if you are unlucky.

It isn’t so fun to take cover behind pine shrubs on account of a horny elk that wants you off his chosen breeding ground – which for an inexperienced elk could be right over a community running tracks. (True story; but the local hunters took care of it, before it hurt anyone. Revenge was mine! ;-)

‘Nuther time, I was out cutting trees, so that time I could fend off a nervous elk mother with my chain saw while her calf passed a work area. Did you know you can actually hear the hackles move on agitated elks?

]]> By: OntarioGal http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3819 OntarioGal Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:24:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3819 Hey Phil - Along with your toque, don't forget your parka and mukluks. After all you will be in the "Great White North" (although maybe not white for long! :-0 As far as high tech communications goes - when all else fails, we just use smoke signals. (any Americans who are really dumb enough to fall for this deserve everything they get... I'm sure present company is excepted...) Hey Phil -

Along with your toque, don’t forget your parka and mukluks. After all you will be in the “Great White North” (although maybe not white for long! :-0

As far as high tech communications goes – when all else fails, we just use smoke signals.

(any Americans who are really dumb enough to fall for this deserve everything they get… I’m sure present company is excepted…)

]]> By: aiabx http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3818 aiabx Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:10:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3818 You can come and see the National Igloo. You can ask Mike Huckabee about it. You can come and see the National Igloo. You can ask Mike Huckabee about it.

]]> By: Charles http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3817 Charles Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:41:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3817 Go <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=56842628" rel="nofollow">here</a> and listen to Radio Free Vestibule's "I Don't Want To Go To Toronto." You'll be glad you did. ps.: neither does the Stanley Cup. It rest in the HHOF only to taunt Maple Leaf fans. Go here and listen to Radio Free Vestibule’s “I Don’t Want To Go To Toronto.” You’ll be glad you did.

ps.: neither does the Stanley Cup. It rest in the HHOF only to taunt Maple Leaf fans.

]]> By: Leigh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3816 Leigh Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:30:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3816 Hi Dwight, You wouldn't want to take away all of Rick Mercer's material now would you. Maybe we should send BA a DVD of "Talking to Americans". Hi Dwight, You wouldn’t want to take away all of Rick Mercer’s material now would you. Maybe we should send BA a DVD of “Talking to Americans”.

]]> By: Dwight http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3815 Dwight Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:28:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3815 I know you were kidding with your comments BUT as a Canadian and knowing how ignorant and uneducated the vast majority of Americans are in regard to Canada, even those who live within 100 miles of the border, I have to ask you not to encourage such mistaken impressions of Canada. I know you were kidding with your comments BUT as a Canadian and knowing how ignorant and uneducated the vast majority of Americans are in regard to Canada, even those who live within 100 miles of the border, I have to ask you not to encourage such mistaken impressions of Canada.

]]> By: Jewel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3814 Jewel Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:45:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/27/stuff/#comment-3814 Hmmmm.... Maybe The Skeptologists got picked up. That would rock! Whatever the news, you can bet we're all going to continue to speculate until we hear what it is. :) Hmmmm…. Maybe The Skeptologists got picked up. That would rock! Whatever the news, you can bet we’re all going to continue to speculate until we hear what it is. :)

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