Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> Newsgroups: alt.polyamory Subject: Re: Busy, busy, busy Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:23:43 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <52cc9af7-0711-42ba-ac03-8db50fc3e299n@googlegroups.com> <39KdnVR7PbT98cz8nZ2dnUU7-KvNnZ2d@supernews.com> <5orf6i-gp7.ln1@anthive.com> Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="13223"; posting-host="+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.polyamory:32548 On 2021-11-23, songbird wrote: (re: WKRP in Cincinnati) > hahaha! since i remember that show (and had such a crush > on Bailey) i can see it all. :) that must have been a sight > to see. :) Many of us in the radio business remember WKRP fondly because we have all encountered characters like those in the show. The turkey drop incident ("Turkeys Away") was modeled on one that really happened, albeit not in Cincinnati. Oddly, there is actually a WKRQ in Cincinnati, just one letter of the alphabet removed from WKRP. There is also a WKRC. Neither has anything to do with the show. > we have a rather fiesty brown snake that is harmless but > can startle you if you don't notice it in time. Hmm, I wonder what species that is. What is called a "brown snake" here in the east is Storeria dekayi, a little snake not more than ten or fifteen inches long. I don't think I've ever encountered one, although I have seen its relative, S. occipitomaculata, the red bellied snake. > we do have the poisonous swamp rattler snakes here but they are > usually around the wetlands and we are not too close to those so it > takes some travel for them to get here. i think i've seen one in all > the years i've been here. The only rattlesnake here is the timber rattler, Crotalus horridus. It's endangered in Massachusetts and is only found in a couple of places; oddly, one of them is the Blue Hills Reservation, just outside Boston. There are also copperheads in the reservation; occasionally one finds its way into the neighboring Granite Links golf course. They too are classified as endangered in MA. Howie Carr, a local right-wing talk show host, ranted on the radio a few years ago against a proposal to preserve an island in the Quabban Reservoir in central Massachusetts as a rattlesnake habitat. He want on and on about endangering neighborhood children and the like, clearly unaware that there were rattlesnakes living much closer to civilization and no one had ever had a problem with them. The Quabban is greater Boston's principal water supply. When it was created in the 1930s, four towns were deliberately flooded. They were Enfield, Prescott, Dana, and Greenwich ("green-witch"). The towns were formally dissolved and their residents moved elsewhere. > i like snakes. i don't have any or keep them as pets, but > i do like them. with all the rock piles around there is > plenty of habitat for them. I have long been fascinated by snakes. How a limbless terrestrial predator could ever evolve, let alone flourish, boggles the mind. The Boidae -- boas and pythons -- have remnants of a pelvis and little spurs that are vestiges of hind legs. umar