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Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving
Message-ID <o8Ms67.E89@kithrup.com> (permalink)
Date 2016-06-11 23:34 +0000
References <nj75t0$v5q$1@dont-email.me> <XnsA6237515FA027taustingmail@69.16.179.42> <ds1d01FonroU1@mid.individual.net> <XnsA624961774392taustingmail@69.16.179.43>
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In article <XnsA624961774392taustingmail@69.16.179.43>,
Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> wrote in
>news:ds1d01FonroU1@mid.individual.net: 
>
>> On 11/06/2016 2:30 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>>> Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> wrote in
>>> news:drusepF93pmU3@mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> On 8/06/2016 12:53 PM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>>>>> Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:XnsA620E35212467melchizedek@216.166.97.131:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> in news:XnsA6209C8F83F9Etaustingmail@69.16.179.43:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:nj7b9e$e9u$3@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>>>> <899ecee4-5c3a-4d81-9825-d1e2469fc6cd@googlegroups.com>,
>>>>>>>>  Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 3:05:07 PM UTC-4, Lynn
>>>>>>>>> McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 170 days to Thanksgiving
>>>>>>>>>>     http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2016/06/07
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe he's the progenitor of the wild turkey flocks
>>>>>>>>> around here that wander across the roads without any
>>>>>>>>> regard for traffic. It isn't legal to hunt them with a
>>>>>>>>> Jeep bumper, but one is sometimes tempted....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kevin R
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A Jeep bumper is way too much gun for the game. My little
>>>>>>>> brother and I used to take 'em with a length of fishing
>>>>>>>> line and a two ounce sinker(1). In a nutshell, turkeys are
>>>>>>>> *STOOOOOOOOOPID*. Not just dumb as a box of rocks, but
>>>>>>>> *REALLY*, truly, INCREDIBLY stupid! Put a fencepost across
>>>>>>>> a chessboard from a turkey, and the fencepost will win 19
>>>>>>>> times out of 20! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note: while this is entirely true of domesticated turkeys,
>>>>>>> who are every bit as stupid as chickens, cows, or
>>>>>>> hillbillies whose family tree consists entirely of parallel
>>>>>>> lines, while turkeys are quite intelligent, and usually
>>>>>>> mean as fuck. It's like they know how tasty they are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indeed. Every year I encounter wild turkeys in the road.
>>>>>> They will usually get out of the way, but not always.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even smart animals make mistakes, and they didn't exactly
>>>>> evolve to live in a world with thousands of pounds of steel
>>>>> and plastic hurtling down the road.
>>>>
>>>> Nor did cyclists. Evolution will show the way.
>>>
>>> Even teh most fanatacial bicuclists are capable of learning.
>>> When the Critical Massholes blocked Slick Willie Brown's
>>> motorcade (which was mayor of San Francisco), and Slick Willie
>>> announced that, for the next Critical Mass event, police would
>>> be issued trunchons, the CM events were suddenly not well
>>> attended. 
>>>
>> 
>> A witnessed evolutionary jump.
>> 
>Evolution occues when there is negative survival pressure applied,
>and there's few more negative survival pressures than pissing off
>Willie Brown. 

Except I don't think he holds any public office at the moment,
does he?  (There were term-limits laws put in, essentially, to
keep him from holding one office or another for the rest of his
life.)  He writes a column for the Sunday Chronicle, sometimes
worth reading.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 14:05 -0500
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 13:19 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 15:29 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 13:36 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:23 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:20 -0500
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:53 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:02 +0800
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-11 10:57 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:45 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:34 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:05 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 22:17 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-08 05:43 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 07:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-08 14:12 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 13:18 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 13:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:01 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 00:21 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:04 +0800
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:31 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 06:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 17:10 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:15 -0600
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:24 -0400
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:28 +0000
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 06:48 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:52 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 07:16 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 08:20 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:57 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:27 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:54 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:56 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:17 -0600
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:20 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-07 22:32 +0000
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:49 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 02:55 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:25 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:54 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-08 17:26 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 15:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:48 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 00:08 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:31 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 02:48 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:22 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 10:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:24 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 20:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 04:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 06:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:19 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 13:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:39 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 04:33 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-13 14:17 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:01 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-14 00:22 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 02:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 14:17 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 14:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 00:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 06:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 08:50 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 16:58 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-13 17:22 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 04:54 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-13 22:40 -0600
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-14 03:35 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 06:07 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-14 06:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:38 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving leif.roar@dimnakorr.com - 2016-06-14 10:07 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 16:30 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Jesper Lauridsen <rorschak@sorrystofanet.dk> - 2016-07-07 00:16 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:37 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:25 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 23:13 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-15 02:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 03:37 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 13:53 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-15 14:06 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 22:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-10 03:36 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-10 14:28 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 19:09 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:14 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 18:28 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:35 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 14:16 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:34 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 21:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2016-06-09 18:00 +1200
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 23:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:25 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-06-08 23:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:12 +0800
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:52 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 12:05 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:00 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:22 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:50 -0400
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 19:21 -0500
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 04:14 -0600
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-09 03:29 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 08:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:29 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-06-11 06:11 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 11:49 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 12:42 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 18:10 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 09:01 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-09 18:56 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:27 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-09 07:04 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:23 +0000
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-06-07 20:14 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 20:37 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 21:16 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:55 -0700

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