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| Started by | Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> |
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| First post | 2016-06-07 14:05 -0500 |
| Last post | 2016-06-07 21:55 -0700 |
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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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| From | Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 12:14 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <drut5sF93pmU6@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #441536 |
On 9/06/2016 9:23 AM, Kevrob wrote: > On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >> Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy >>> <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >>>> They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >>>> maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >>>> because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >>>> the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >>>> on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >>>> at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' >>> >>> Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. >>> >> Rabbit is very dry meat. When we raised them (forty years ago) >> I'd either drape strips of bacon over them as they roasted, >> and/or stuff them with sausage meat; or I'd cut them up and put >> them in a stew or in a pie with mushrooms and cheese and onions. >> In that case I'd continue seething the bones in the juice after >> the meat was stripped off, and the filling for the resulting pie >> would gel when cold. I'd take them to tourneys, back in the old >> days (A.S. single-digits) and you could cut a chunk out and carry >> it around in your hand. >> >> > > Would it have been out-of-period to serve them a la Gamgee, > with lovely taters? Middle-Earth may have had praties, > but SCA is all pre-Raleigh, no? Perhaps turnips would be > able to stand in for the spuds. Parsnips were what was eaten before potatoes were imported. Turnip is fine, especially mashed in with potatoes, but not really a substitute for fine eating. -- Robert B. born England a long time ago; Western Australia since 1972
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| From | Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 07:00 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <4bb2b941-35d4-4f59-a857-510a247b3e25@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441531 |
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > >On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > ><taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. > >>They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or > >>maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, > >>because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for > >>the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height > >>on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around > >>at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' > > > >Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. > > > Rabbit is very dry meat. When we raised them (forty years ago) > I'd either drape strips of bacon over them as they roasted, > and/or stuff them with sausage meat; or I'd cut them up and put > them in a stew or in a pie with mushrooms and cheese and onions. > In that case I'd continue seething the bones in the juice after > the meat was stripped off, and the filling for the resulting pie > would gel when cold. I'd take them to tourneys, back in the old > days (A.S. single-digits) and you could cut a chunk out and carry > it around in your hand. Rabbit meat is so fat-free that eating only rabbit can make you quite sick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation pt
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 16:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <o8IIvt.ELz@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #441585 |
In article <4bb2b941-35d4-4f59-a857-510a247b3e25@googlegroups.com>, Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article ><va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >> Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >> >On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy >> ><taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >>Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >> >>They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >> >>maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >> >>because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >> >>the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >> >>on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >> >>at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' >> > >> >Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. >> > >> Rabbit is very dry meat. When we raised them (forty years ago) >> I'd either drape strips of bacon over them as they roasted, >> and/or stuff them with sausage meat; or I'd cut them up and put >> them in a stew or in a pie with mushrooms and cheese and onions. >> In that case I'd continue seething the bones in the juice after >> the meat was stripped off, and the filling for the resulting pie >> would gel when cold. I'd take them to tourneys, back in the old >> days (A.S. single-digits) and you could cut a chunk out and carry >> it around in your hand. > >Rabbit meat is so fat-free that eating only rabbit can make you quite sick: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation Yup, I know about that. You have to eat something *with* the rabbit (lembas if you can get it), or in a pinch eat the rabbit's stomach contents too. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 18:28 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <njagnm$ikt$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #441520 |
In article <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. > >They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or > >maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, > >because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for > >the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height > >on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around > >at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' > > Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach rabbit - AT ALL. And since I know I'm gonna hear "What's Vita-Bunny?"... Back around 1975 or so, my parents bit on one of those back-of-the-magazine ads - In this case, the spiel boiled down to "how to reaise rabbits in your back yard for fun and profit". After sending in the requisite cash, they got back a handful of pamphlets (which, in hindsight, they probably could have gotten for free - assuming they had known where to look) with designs for rabbit hutches, care and feeding of meat rabbits, info on various breeds of rabbit, "so your rabbit is pregnant..." birthing guides, and on and on and on - you get the idea, I'm sure. After some twiddling with this, fiddling with that, and tweaking the other, dad put up a couple dozen rabbit boxes, and put in an order through the local co-op for enough young rabbits to fill 'em, officially putting us in the rabbit-ranching business. Now for the money to start rolling in... Things went about as well as can be expected - bags of rabbit-chow came in, bunnies went out the door - some ready-to-cook, some "on the hoof". We ate rabbit a couple-three times a week - not bad, but it was never destined to be my preferred grub. Some money came in from the project, but only rarely enough to cover the cost of feeding the critters, never mind the grunt-work involved in cleaning up after them, treating various rabbit "plagues" that came along without warning, time and materials for building new boxes for the expanding population, and of course the butchering and cleaning process. Finally the day came when dad ran the figures, mom ran 'em again and came up with basically the same result, and the decision was made: We're getting out of the bunny-biz. By the time things were finished, more than a thousand rabbits (From a starting batch of about 3 dozen) were killed, skinned, cleaned, wrapped and frozen. We ate more rabbit, more often. Rabbit stewed, rabbit baked, rabbit fried (It don't taste like chicken, no matter what you try to do!) rabbit soup, hassenpfeffer, rabbit-on-a-stick, rabbit until hell freezes over and fergawdsake let that day come soon 'cause were all sick and tired to death of rabbit and there's still at least 750 of the damned things in the chest freezer AUUUUGGGGGHH!!!!! Just about this time, the local supermarket came out with "Vita-burger", some sort of vitamin-fortified hamburger-like product that enjoyed a brief popularity. As you may have noted, I *DIDN'T* say it was hamburger - it was "hamburger-like" - in approximately the same way that "cheez-wiz" is a "cheese-like" product. I never did know for sure, but I *VERY* strongly suspect that there was a large percentage of what would nowdays be labeled "textured soy protein" in its heritage. It wasn't great, but it wasn't totally inedible, it made reasonably decent burgers and meatloaf, and it was actually pretty cheap. Then dad came up with a bright idea for how to get through the umpty-hundred rabbits in the freezer. (At that time, we were in a financial situation that made the idea of dumping food, however unpalatable, an absolute non-starter. We were gonna eat those damned rabbits even if we choked to death in the process, and that's that, and if you don't like it, you can go to bed without supper, young man!) We're gonna thaw out some of those bunnies, bone 'em out, and put 'em through the sausage grinder. We'll eat bunny-burgers! So, we ground up a buttload of rabbits. Now instead of having a freezer with something like 750 frozen rabbits in it, we had a freezer with about 200 rabbits, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 pounds of ground rabbit in it. And about 10 pounds in a tupperware bowl in the fridge. Time to do up the first batch of "bunny-burgers". It was right about then we discovered a truth about rabbit that we'd all known all along, but never actually thought about too much (mental self-defense, perhaps?) - Rabbit is *VERY* lean. And found out the hard way that unless served essentially raw (which none of us could stomach after one trial) the resulting burgers were so horribly, chokingly dry they were all but inedible, regardless of what you tried to top 'em with. When I say "dry", I mean that the Sahara desert could take lessons on aridity from 'em. That's OK, sez mom - We can grind and mix in some of the fattier parts from the porker we just slaughtered. No good... It moistened the meat enough that it was at least possible to eat it without instantly dying of dehydration, but the flavor went from "Oh, gawd... rabbit again?" to "Oh gawd, this tastes so horrible I think I'm gonna puke!" - Rabbit and pork don't go well together. Take the word of someone who's had the misfortune to experience it! And learn from the mistake! For the first time in my memory, dinner was actually scraped unceremoniously into the garbage, and we went to the (at the time) brand new Pizza Hut that had opened in town a few weeks previously. OK, Lard/pork is out. Mayhap it'll be better if we mix it with beef? So that's what got tried... Dad dragged home a trial couple pounds of hamburger, ran it through the grinder 50/50 with some of the already ground rabbit, and it wasn't particularly bad! Not great, but a helluva lot better than the all-but-inedible pork/lard experiment. It was at least sorta like fit to eat, anyway. Meanwhile, the "Vita-burger" craze had pretty well run its course, and the local market that sold it had it on sale at a ridiculously low price. So dad gave 'em a call, and placed an order for a hundred pounds of the stuff. The store was thrilled - They could get rid of the last of their stock, actually make a few cents of profit on it, and be done with it. Hooray!! It's a win for everbody. Or so it seemed at the time... A hundred pounds or so of ground rabbit came out of the freezer, was thawed, and got stuffed into the grinder. The Vita-Burger got stuffed in on top. The crank was cranked, the output end spit the newly ground meat-like substance into freezer bags, the bags were duly closed, labeled and deposited in the freezer, and the last bag (about 3 pounds worth) went into the fridge for tomorrow night's dinner. Tomorrow came around, and the bag of "Vita-bunny", as Dad christened it, came out of the fridge and was "patty-ized". Some of the patties were cooked, various family members doctored up the buns the patties were destined to rest on in their preferred ways, and "The Great Vita-Buny Experiment" commenced. For a very short time - perhaps a minute, there was no sound beyond that of the family biting into their burgers. Looks were exchanged while we chewed, and nearly in unison, we all took another bite. It was about 15 seconds later that we spewed that bite in disgust - and nearly in unison... Dad looked at mom. Mom looked at dad. We kids looked back and forth amongst each other, Dad nodded, mom did too, and the magic words "We're all going to Pizza Hut again" were uttered. It was unanimous - "Vita-bunny" wasn't fit for human consumption. The next day, Dad gave in to the inevitable - The freezer was emptied - whole rabbits, rabbit parts, vita-bunny - it ALL went in the back of the truck, and was driven to the local dog pound. The inmates were thrilled with the whole rabbits and rabbit parts. And absolutely refused to touch the Vita-Bunny! So there you have the story of "The Vita-Bunny incident". -- Brought to you by the letter Q and the number .357 Security provided by Horace S. & Dan W.
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| From | Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 18:57 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <4331db5e-cd0d-4671-8f94-ba1ba4b1ecba@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 9:28:25 PM UTC-4, Don Bruder wrote: > In article > <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > > <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. > > >They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or > > >maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, > > >because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for > > >the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height > > >on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around > > >at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' > > > > Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. > > Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach > rabbit - AT ALL. > > > > > And since I know I'm gonna hear "What's Vita-Bunny?"... > > > Back around 1975 or so, my parents bit on one of those > back-of-the-magazine ads - In this case, the spiel boiled down to "how > to reaise rabbits in your back yard for fun and profit". After sending > in the requisite cash, they got back a handful of pamphlets (which, in > hindsight, they probably could have gotten for free - assuming they had > known where to look) with designs for rabbit hutches, care and feeding > of meat rabbits, info on various breeds of rabbit, "so your rabbit is > pregnant..." birthing guides, and on and on and on - you get the idea, > I'm sure. > > After some twiddling with this, fiddling with that, and tweaking the > other, dad put up a couple dozen rabbit boxes, and put in an order > through the local co-op for enough young rabbits to fill 'em, officially > putting us in the rabbit-ranching business. Now for the money to start > rolling in... > > Things went about as well as can be expected - bags of rabbit-chow came > in, bunnies went out the door - some ready-to-cook, some "on the hoof". > We ate rabbit a couple-three times a week - not bad, but it was never > destined to be my preferred grub. Some money came in from the project, > but only rarely enough to cover the cost of feeding the critters, never > mind the grunt-work involved in cleaning up after them, treating various > rabbit "plagues" that came along without warning, time and materials for > building new boxes for the expanding population, and of course the > butchering and cleaning process. > > Finally the day came when dad ran the figures, mom ran 'em again and > came up with basically the same result, and the decision was made: We're > getting out of the bunny-biz. By the time things were finished, more > than a thousand rabbits (From a starting batch of about 3 dozen) were > killed, skinned, cleaned, wrapped and frozen. We ate more rabbit, more > often. Rabbit stewed, rabbit baked, rabbit fried (It don't taste like > chicken, no matter what you try to do!) rabbit soup, hassenpfeffer, > rabbit-on-a-stick, rabbit until hell freezes over and fergawdsake let > that day come soon 'cause were all sick and tired to death of rabbit and > there's still at least 750 of the damned things in the chest freezer > AUUUUGGGGGHH!!!!! > > Just about this time, the local supermarket came out with "Vita-burger", > some sort of vitamin-fortified hamburger-like product that enjoyed a > brief popularity. As you may have noted, I *DIDN'T* say it was hamburger > - it was "hamburger-like" - in approximately the same way that > "cheez-wiz" is a "cheese-like" product. I never did know for sure, but I > *VERY* strongly suspect that there was a large percentage of what would > nowdays be labeled "textured soy protein" in its heritage. It wasn't > great, but it wasn't totally inedible, it made reasonably decent burgers > and meatloaf, and it was actually pretty cheap. > > Then dad came up with a bright idea for how to get through the > umpty-hundred rabbits in the freezer. (At that time, we were in a > financial situation that made the idea of dumping food, however > unpalatable, an absolute non-starter. We were gonna eat those damned > rabbits even if we choked to death in the process, and that's that, and > if you don't like it, you can go to bed without supper, young man!) > > We're gonna thaw out some of those bunnies, bone 'em out, and put 'em > through the sausage grinder. We'll eat bunny-burgers! So, we ground up a > buttload of rabbits. Now instead of having a freezer with something like > 750 frozen rabbits in it, we had a freezer with about 200 rabbits, and > somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 pounds of ground rabbit in it. And > about 10 pounds in a tupperware bowl in the fridge. Time to do up the > first batch of "bunny-burgers". > > It was right about then we discovered a truth about rabbit that we'd all > known all along, but never actually thought about too much (mental > self-defense, perhaps?) - Rabbit is *VERY* lean. And found out the hard > way that unless served essentially raw (which none of us could stomach > after one trial) the resulting burgers were so horribly, chokingly dry > they were all but inedible, regardless of what you tried to top 'em > with. When I say "dry", I mean that the Sahara desert could take lessons > on aridity from 'em. That's OK, sez mom - We can grind and mix in some > of the fattier parts from the porker we just slaughtered. No good... It > moistened the meat enough that it was at least possible to eat it > without instantly dying of dehydration, but the flavor went from "Oh, > gawd... rabbit again?" to "Oh gawd, this tastes so horrible I think I'm > gonna puke!" - Rabbit and pork don't go well together. Take the word of > someone who's had the misfortune to experience it! And learn from the > mistake! For the first time in my memory, dinner was actually scraped > unceremoniously into the garbage, and we went to the (at the time) brand > new Pizza Hut that had opened in town a few weeks previously. > > OK, Lard/pork is out. Mayhap it'll be better if we mix it with beef? So > that's what got tried... Dad dragged home a trial couple pounds of > hamburger, ran it through the grinder 50/50 with some of the already > ground rabbit, and it wasn't particularly bad! Not great, but a helluva > lot better than the all-but-inedible pork/lard experiment. It was at > least sorta like fit to eat, anyway. > > Meanwhile, the "Vita-burger" craze had pretty well run its course, and > the local market that sold it had it on sale at a ridiculously low > price. So dad gave 'em a call, and placed an order for a hundred pounds > of the stuff. The store was thrilled - They could get rid of the last of > their stock, actually make a few cents of profit on it, and be done with > it. Hooray!! It's a win for everbody. Or so it seemed at the time... > > A hundred pounds or so of ground rabbit came out of the freezer, was > thawed, and got stuffed into the grinder. The Vita-Burger got stuffed in > on top. The crank was cranked, the output end spit the newly ground > meat-like substance into freezer bags, the bags were duly closed, > labeled and deposited in the freezer, and the last bag (about 3 pounds > worth) went into the fridge for tomorrow night's dinner. > > Tomorrow came around, and the bag of "Vita-bunny", as Dad christened it, > came out of the fridge and was "patty-ized". Some of the patties were > cooked, various family members doctored up the buns the patties were > destined to rest on in their preferred ways, and "The Great Vita-Buny > Experiment" commenced. For a very short time - perhaps a minute, there > was no sound beyond that of the family biting into their burgers. Looks > were exchanged while we chewed, and nearly in unison, we all took > another bite. It was about 15 seconds later that we spewed that bite in > disgust - and nearly in unison... > > Dad looked at mom. Mom looked at dad. We kids looked back and forth > amongst each other, Dad nodded, mom did too, and the magic words "We're > all going to Pizza Hut again" were uttered. It was unanimous - > "Vita-bunny" wasn't fit for human consumption. > > The next day, Dad gave in to the inevitable - The freezer was emptied - > whole rabbits, rabbit parts, vita-bunny - it ALL went in the back of the > truck, and was driven to the local dog pound. The inmates were thrilled > with the whole rabbits and rabbit parts. And absolutely refused to touch > the Vita-Bunny! > > So there you have the story of "The Vita-Bunny incident". > > Brilliant! 5 stars with two lop ears up and fuzzy tail cluster! Kevin R
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 03:35 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <o8HJAu.K6r@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
In article <njagnm$ikt$1@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote: >In article ><va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy >> <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >> >They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >> >maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >> >because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >> >the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >> >on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >> >at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' >> >> Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. > >Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach >rabbit - AT ALL. [edited out of compassion for the poster] Yeah, even I would've had trouble using up that many rabbits, one or two pies at a time. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 14:16 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <drv4akFajsqU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #441547 |
On 9/06/2016 11:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <njagnm$ikt$1@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote: >> In article >> <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >> Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy >>> <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >>>> They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >>>> maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >>>> because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >>>> the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >>>> on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >>>> at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' >>> >>> Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. >> >> Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach >> rabbit - AT ALL. > > [edited out of compassion for the poster] > > Yeah, even I would've had trouble using up that many rabbits, one > or two pies at a time. > Likewise, but I also don't keep beef cattle or chickens in my back garden. I don't know how it would work out financially, but I bet I'd never want to eat whatever meat again. -- Robert B. born England a long time ago; Western Australia since 1972
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| From | Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 02:31 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <bjnklb1jo9pc9coq89fsebvb7svvqoou6e@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #441659 |
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:16:52 +0800, Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> wrote: >On 9/06/2016 11:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> >> Yeah, even I would've had trouble using up that many rabbits, one >> or two pies at a time. > >Likewise, but I also don't keep beef cattle or chickens in my back >garden. I don't know how it would work out financially, but I bet I'd >never want to eat whatever meat again. Oh, I dunno. I raised beef cattle for a couple of years back in the 1980s, and it made me MORE willing to eat beef -- any moral reservations I'd had vanished once I got to know the stupid critters. -- My webpage is at http://www.watt-evans.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 11:32 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA623756319B78taustingmail@69.16.179.42> |
| In reply to | #441660 |
Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote in
news:bjnklb1jo9pc9coq89fsebvb7svvqoou6e@reader80.eternal-september.
org:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:16:52 +0800, Robert Bannister
> <robban@clubtelco.com> wrote:
>
>>On 9/06/2016 11:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, even I would've had trouble using up that many rabbits,
>>> one or two pies at a time.
>>
>>Likewise, but I also don't keep beef cattle or chickens in my
>>back garden. I don't know how it would work out financially, but
>>I bet I'd never want to eat whatever meat again.
>
> Oh, I dunno. I raised beef cattle for a couple of years back in
> the 1980s, and it made me MORE willing to eat beef -- any moral
> reservations I'd had vanished once I got to know the stupid
> critters.
>
Cows are too stupid to foam at the mouth when they get rabies. (Which
is why, in any given year, the animal most likely to give humans
rabies is cows.)
--
Terry Austin
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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| From | "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 21:34 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <29a2f314-1d70-4c5e-b13c-faed8c617973@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 6:28:25 PM UTC-7, Don Bruder wrote: (snip all of the awfulness) > Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach > rabbit - AT ALL. > > And since I know I'm gonna hear "What's Vita-Bunny?"... There's a question I was gonna, and am glad I didn't, ask. > Just about this time, the local supermarket came out with "Vita-burger", > some sort of vitamin-fortified hamburger-like product that enjoyed a > brief popularity. As you may have noted, I *DIDN'T* say it was hamburger > - it was "hamburger-like" - in approximately the same way that > "cheez-wiz" is a "cheese-like" product. I never did know for sure, but I > *VERY* strongly suspect that there was a large percentage of what would > nowdays be labeled "textured soy protein" in its heritage. It wasn't > great, but it wasn't totally inedible, it made reasonably decent burgers > and meatloaf, and it was actually pretty cheap. I vaguely remembered that and Googled it: http://www.trademarkia.com/vitaburger-73082188.html Your guess as to its ancestry was close: "The description provided to the USPTO for VITA-BURGER is TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN IN DRY GRANULAR FORM FOR USE AS A MEAT SUBSTITUTE." I shall be forever grateful that my parents weren't as enterprisingly frugal as yours were. Mark L. Fergerson
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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 21:52 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <njaslq$4of$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On 6/8/2016 6:28 PM, Don Bruder wrote: <snipped for space and out of respect for your younger self's stomach> > > So there you have the story of "The Vita-Bunny incident". > Hee hee hee. That was entertaining, thank you for the story. -- Running the rec.arts.TV Channels Watched Survey for Summer 2016
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| From | Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 18:00 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <njb0m4$fr5$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On 09/06/16 13:28, Don Bruder wrote: > In article > <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy >> <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >>> They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >>> maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >>> because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >>> the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >>> on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >>> at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' >> >> Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. > > Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach > rabbit - AT ALL. snip I suspect that wild rabbit is leaner and tastier than farmed rabbit which I have never tasted. Wild rabbit meat lightly fried is delicious. Thank you for a fascinating story. How old were you and your siblings at the time?
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 23:32 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <f6f79c12-bdf9-42d6-9701-e4f3e5ca9e92@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:28:25 UTC+1, Don Bruder wrote: > So there you have the story of "The Vita-Bunny incident". Interesting...... I think I misremembered that vitamins are involved in <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation> - no, it's fat apparently: has this come up before?
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 16:25 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <o8IIy5.EtF@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #441557 |
In article <f6f79c12-bdf9-42d6-9701-e4f3e5ca9e92@googlegroups.com>, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote: >On Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:28:25 UTC+1, Don Bruder wrote: >> So there you have the story of "The Vita-Bunny incident". > >Interesting...... >I think I misremembered that vitamins are involved >in <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation> >- no, it's fat apparently: has this come up before? I don't know if it's come up before on USENET while I've been reading it, but I read about it in discussions of the Atkins diet, which *wanted* you to go into ketosis. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 23:51 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <bdfabd01-de8e-4ee1-8905-c061164aa02d@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 11:28:25 AM UTC+10, Don Bruder wrote: <snip the Vita-Bunny incident> > Rabbit and pork don't go well together. Take the word of > someone who's had the misfortune to experience it! Yes they do! As Dorothy posted up-thread, rabbit wrapped with streaky bacon and roasted is a fairly common way of cooking it to keep it moist. I also do a rabbit stuffed with pork mince and prunes that's good too. I love rabbit but my wife and daughters refuse to eat it because bunnies are cute. So on the rare occasions they're away I'll cook up a rabbit feast for myself. My other favourite is rabbit stewed with artichokes and chorizo. ObSF: Watership Down. -Moriarty
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| From | Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-09 07:08 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <667889ba-98dd-4a92-be1f-13f96ae16f26@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441538 |
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 9:28:25 PM UTC-4, Don Bruder wrote: > In article > <va3hlb9k7af7p0ro7gus73mqdikalct2t1@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > > <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. > > >They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or > > >maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, > > >because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for > > >the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height > > >on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around > > >at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' > > > > Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. > > Ever since the "Vita-Bunny" incident, I haven't been able to stomach > rabbit - AT ALL. > [Story deleted] Excellent tale! pt
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| From | Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 12:12 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <drut0nF93pmU5@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #441520 |
On 9/06/2016 5:26 AM, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:22 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Rabbits have the same response to sudden bright light at night. >> They'll freeze in the middle of the road when a car approaches. Or >> maybe it was an adrenaline rush to have a car zoom over them, >> because they were always right in the middle. It wa a pity - for >> the rabbits - that the A-frame on my car was at about knee height >> on a rabbit. Had a friend who used to threaten to follow me around >> at night just to pick up the road kill. Rabbits is good eatin' > > Matter of taste; I don't like 'em much. I really miss rabbit. Since all the scientifically developed diseases have been thrown at them, it's just about impossible to get wild rabbit, and domesticated rabbit costs a stupid price if you can even find it. -- Robert B. born England a long time ago; Western Australia since 1972
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| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 09:52 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA621647B1DE5Dtaustingmail@69.16.179.43> |
| In reply to | #441449 |
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote in
news:af6fe855-e975-4923-ab64-1ea14f10d6c9@googlegroups.com:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:20:37 UTC+1, Gutless Umbrella
> Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote in
>> news:899ecee4-5c3a-4d81-9825-d1e2469fc6cd@googlegroups.com:
>>
>> > 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....
>> >
>> I recall driving to interstate 29 in Iowa once, on a county
>> highway, and seeing - several - signg informing the locals that
>> it was illegal to hunt waterfowl from a moving vehicle.
>> Apparently, it's prefectly legal to hunt other forms of
>> wildlife while driving your four wheel drive at 90 mph, but to
>> shoot ducks, you have to come to a complete stop.
>>
>> I love redneck hillbillies. From afar.
>
> When these crazy laws actually exist, they may be
> really less specific than stated.
>
> Google reports the phrase "waterfowl from a moving vehicle"
> (other than in this conversation) only in
> <http://www.arkansashunting.net/archive/index.php/t-68525.html>
> which I skim-read, noting the terms "automobiles, ATVs,
> and personal watercraft" and "extremely dangerous"
> (besides to the birds, presumably) - perhaps because
> you are more likely to be shooting at them close to
> ground level, and liable to hit anything and anyone else
> on the ground in your line of fire.
That still doesn't explain why it's only waterfowl.
> Although bullets
> shot up into the air also land somewhere, if they
> don't land in an airborne duck.
>
Only dangerous if you're shooting at a low angle. At a higher
angle, it'll be traveling at terminal velocity before it comes
down, and Mythbusters did that one.
--
Terry Austin
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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| From | Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 12:05 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <d4e2e397-1896-4628-8d7d-8ecf9680802e@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #441485 |
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 12:52:42 PM UTC-4, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote: > Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote in > news:af6fe855-e975-4923-ab64-1ea14f10d6c9@googlegroups.com: [...] > That still doesn't explain why it's only waterfowl. Two reasons. 1. Shooting a rifle at a target on or in front of a lake can be very dangerous, as the bullet can riccochet off the water at lethal speed and random direction. 2. Shooting a water fowl on the ground is considered Very Bad Form, sportswise. The term 'like shooting a sitting duck' has its origin here. > > Although bullets > > shot up into the air also land somewhere, if they > > don't land in an airborne duck. > > > Only dangerous if you're shooting at a low angle. At a higher > angle, it'll be traveling at terminal velocity before it comes > down, and Mythbusters did that one. No one but an ill-equipped idiot is going to shoot bullets at a waterfowl (yes, I know there are some of those out there). You use a shotgun. The range of birdshot is only about 300 years, and at the end of that range they're just falling pellets. pt
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| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-08 14:00 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA6218E77654BFtaustingmail@69.16.179.42> |
| In reply to | #441499 |
Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d4e2e397-1896-4628-8d7d-8ecf9680802e@googlegroups.com:
> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 12:52:42 PM UTC-4, Gutless
> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote in
>> news:af6fe855-e975-4923-ab64-1ea14f10d6c9@googlegroups.com:
> [...]
>> That still doesn't explain why it's only waterfowl.
>
> Two reasons.
> 1. Shooting a rifle at a target on or in front of a lake can be
> very dangerous, as the bullet can riccochet off the water at
> lethal speed and random direction.
Shooting a rifle at a target on or in front of the ground can
produce much the same effect, especially if there are rocks lying
ab out.
>
> 2. Shooting a water fowl on the ground is considered Very Bad
> Form, sportswise. The term 'like shooting a sitting duck' has
> its origin here.
I doubt that sportsmanship has anything to do with it. In that part
of rural Ameirca, shooting at a sitting duck or at fish in a barrel
is not considered a bad thing.
>
>> > Although bullets
>> > shot up into the air also land somewhere, if they
>> > don't land in an airborne duck.
>> >
>> Only dangerous if you're shooting at a low angle. At a higher
>> angle, it'll be traveling at terminal velocity before it comes
>> down, and Mythbusters did that one.
>
> No one but an ill-equipped idiot is going to shoot bullets at a
> waterfowl (yes, I know there are some of those out there). You
> use a shotgun. The range of birdshot is only about 300 years,
> and at the end of that range they're just falling pellets.
Which only further begs the question of what the purpose of the
abovementioned law it.
--
Terry Austin
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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