Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
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zoobyshoe said:
You need to italicize the word special.
I like to leave things open for interpretation.
 
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Moonbear said:
One inflatable sheep coming up!
http://www.muttonbone.com/

I love the graphic on the bottom of the page that says, "Let those sheep get some sleep." :smile:
Do I even want to know why you just happen to have that link on hand?

Huckleberry said:
No, it's just that I've been away from home for a while. I'm back now and the posts per day will pick back up to their ordinary level. Isn't that special?

Got that virus gone. Thank goodness.
Welcome back. Did you wash your hands before returning?

Math Is Hard said:
Is that why the tortoise took off?
That would depend upon just what the owner's hormonal activities entailed.

Evo said:
They run like the wind, just ask Danger.
Only the red-eared ones.
 
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cronxeh said:
what do you expect

Its Spring. Everyone is tending to their hormonal activities

I wish! :rolleyes: It's been two warm days this weekend. It rained a little while this morning, but the rest of the weekend has been sunny, so I've been getting the tons of outdoor projects done that have needed doing for a long time now, but haven't been done because it keeps raining. Haven't seen hide nor hair of kittens all weekend, so I think their mom must have moved them. Good, since I also discovered there's a robin's nest up in the tree next to the deck, and I'd rather be certain the baby robins are not going to turn into kitten food. Though, those robins have one tough mother...I felt a bit bad for the squirrel that was trying to climb the tree and was quite badly harrassed (but that's what alerted me to look up to see if there is a nest there). Well, I planted flowers today, so there are now plenty of earthworms stirred up again for the robins. :smile: They were busy tending the babies today, so didn't want to play catch...ast time I was gardening for a while, a robin hung out not even 10 ft from me while I tossed it earthworms I was digging up. :biggrin:

Hey, the smilies are rearranged again! :bugeye: How does that keep happening?
 
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Moonbear said:
Hey, the smilies are rearranged again! :bugeye: How does that keep happening?
Yeah, who keeps doing that? IT'S REALLY IRRITATING!

Mother cats usually move their kittens several times. Now, the two kittens will grow up and next year all three will be back pregnant and have six kittens each. That happened to me a couple of years ago. They knew I was a source of food and water, so all three showed up ready to have their kittens. :frown: Overnight, 21 cats! I only found homes for three and had to take the rest to the shelter where I know they were put to sleep. :cry:
 
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Evo said:
Mother cats usually move their kittens several times. Now, the two kittens will grow up and next year all three will be back pregnant and have six kittens each. That happened to me a couple of years ago. They knew I was a source of food and water, so all three showed up ready to have their kittens. :frown: Overnight, 21 cats! I only found homes for three and had to take the rest to the shelter where I know they were put to sleep. :cry:

Yeah, she probably got nervous about me sticking my head under the deck trying to get a look at the kitties. I've been planning to get some chicken wire or something to close up under the deck to keep the critters out. There's some wood lattice already up, but some of it isn't really attached anymore and the rest has enough space under it to make it useless.
 
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sleepless day 3
 
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Took these pics on a trip through the woods this weekend. The blooming trees reminded me of fireworks, or floraworks in this case. The other has potential to be my next avatar. :approve: (sorry Evo)
 
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Neat snake. It looks like you just told it a funny joke.

I don't think the ladies will be spending that much time looking at the snake though.
 
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DocToxyn said:
Took these pics on a trip through the woods this weekend. The blooming trees reminded me of fireworks, or floraworks in this case. The other has potential to be my next avatar. :approve: (sorry Evo)

Aww, that's a cute snake...I prefer them as babies with a mouth still smaller than your finger. And that one looks like it's trying so hard to act vicious. :biggrin:

But, sorry, we're still biased toward turtle watching. :-p
 
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I've heard that baby snakes of venemous species are more likely to give fatal bites because they inject all their venom. Are they more dangerous or was this just something my mother told me to keep me away from snakes?
 
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Huckleberry said:
I've heard that baby snakes of venemous species are more likely to give fatal bites because they inject all their venom. Are they more dangerous or was this just something my mother told me to keep me away from snakes?
Everyone around here from Joe on the street to the newscasters say the same thing: baby rattlesnakes give the worst bites. The older ones control how much venom they inject depending on the purpose of the bite. The babies inject all they have anytime they bite. Is this true? Only your herpetologist knows for sure.
 
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DocToxyn said:
The other has potential to be my next avatar.
I think your frog is one of the best avatars around, and would miss it.

The snake in the picture looks to me like a common garter snake. I wouldn't think it an appropriately toxyc critter for DocToxyn.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
I think your frog is one of the best avatars around, and would miss it.

The snake in the picture looks to me like a common garter snake. I wouldn't think it an appropriately toxyc critter for DocToxyn.

Don't worry, as soon as I told him the snake is cute, that should have killed any desire to use it as an avatar. He's been getting frustrated that I call all his avatars cute in his quest for an appropriately "toxyc" looking one. :biggrin:

Oh, franzbear, honey, your Auntie Evo needs some help cutting down a tree branch. Why don't you stand under the branch so you can catch it and the saw she drops when it cuts through so it doesn't knock her off her ladder? Now run along.
 
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Moonbear said:
Don't worry, as soon as I told him the snake is cute, that should have killed any desire to use it as an avatar. He's been getting frustrated that I call all his avatars cute in his quest for an appropriately "toxyc" looking one. :biggrin:

Oh, franzbear, honey, your Auntie Evo needs some help cutting down a tree branch. Why don't you stand under the branch so you can catch it and the saw she drops when it cuts through so it doesn't knock her off her ladder? Now run along.

Dangit!, I knew...I knew I shouldn't have mentioned anything about avatars with Moonbear around... :smile: . Back to the drawing board.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
I think your frog is one of the best avatars around, and would miss it.

The snake in the picture looks to me like a common garter snake. I wouldn't think it an appropriately toxyc critter for DocToxyn.

Thanks, although one of the Dendrobates species would be a suitably more toxic species than the rather tame Agalychnis callidryas.

Yes that is indeed a common garter, Thamnophis sirtalis, pretty easy to find around here, in fact I caught two yesterday. Both individuals were rather upset and in addition to the gaping and striking, they both flattened out their bodies to attempt to appear larger, however, neither exuded the stinky musk that many others of their species do.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Everyone around here from Joe on the street to the newscasters say the same thing: baby rattlesnakes give the worst bites. The older ones control how much venom they inject depending on the purpose of the bite. The babies inject all they have anytime they bite. Is this true? Only your herpetologist knows for sure.

I don't have any experience with venemous species, but I too have heard this rumor. My opinion leans more towards the opposite, so even if the baby delivers all its toxin, an adult can still deliver quite a bit more venom volume wise, if it chooses to, and thus is inherently more toxic. That said, it all really comes down to the toxicologist's creed "The dose makes the poison", if a baby or an adult delivers enough to kill you, that's all it takes. It always strikes me as funny when you hear someone say "It has enough venom to kill 20 men"...I don't care about those other 19 guys, how much does it take to kill just me! :bugeye:

Take a look at http://www.llu.edu/llumc/emergency/venom-er/strike.html from an expert in snake/human health issues if you don't buy my opinion, look right below his picture about 3/4 down the page.
 
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DocToxyn said:
That said, it all really comes down to the toxicologist's creed "The dose makes the poison", if a baby or an adult delivers enough to kill you, that's all it takes.
Quite true. I suppose the rumor about baby rattlesnakes serves a good function though, which is to point out that they're potentially deadly to anyone who might think,"It can't hurt me. It's just a baby."

That link was pretty interesting. In Westerns you see people getting bit "accidently" by stepping too close to them. In fact, it seems, people really only get bit when they're actively molesting snakes.
 
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Ut oh, I think Franzbear was helping Doc in the garden again.
 
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Oh if only Moonbear was here, she could suck the venom out.



I know she could because I've heard from the cancer clinic that she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, whatever that means.
 
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:rolleyes: Moonbear's not around is she? :rolleyes:

:-pI better hide now. :rolleyes: :-p
 
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Artman said:
:rolleyes: Moonbear's not around is she? :rolleyes:

:-pI better hide now. :rolleyes: :-p


Yeah, you're a dead man, good luck...
 
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brewnog said:
Yeah, you're a dead man, good luck...
It was fun while it lasted. :rolleyes: Gotta run now.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Quite true. I suppose the rumor about baby rattlesnakes serves a good function though, which is to point out that they're potentially deadly to anyone who might think,"It can't hurt me. It's just a baby."

That link was pretty interesting. In Westerns you see people getting bit "accidently" by stepping too close to them. In fact, it seems, people really only get bit when they're actively molesting snakes.
I'm not so sure that only molested snakes bite. Sometimes rattle snakes strike without rattling at all. I've seen a rattlesnake that was under a truck. Granted, my uncle did try to shoo it away with a shovel, but the snake kept coming at him and not going away from him. It may be rare that snakes bite people, but people do get bit when they are not actively molesting snakes. I guess what the snake considers molesting could be someone walking on it by accident.
 
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Oh and should Moonbear come by, just tell her I'm not here.




:rolleyes:...Tell her I'm out polishing the chrome on my trailer hitch. :biggrin:
 
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Artman said:
:rolleyes:...Tell her I'm out polishing the chrome on my trailer hitch. :biggrin:
There's just no end to the euphemisms that you can come up with for that, is there? :-p
 
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DocToxyn said:
Dangit!, I knew...I knew I shouldn't have mentioned anything about avatars with Moonbear around... :smile: . Back to the drawing board.
Maybe a photo of a snake eating a frog would sufficiently gross her out.
 
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Danger said:
There's just no end to the euphemisms that you can come up with for that, is there? :-p
What? I don't want it to get rusty. :-p


:rolleyes: Moonbear isn't here, right?

Gotta run.
 
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Artman said:
Oh if only Moonbear was here, she could suck the venom out.



I know she could because I've heard from the cancer clinic that she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, whatever that means.
I'd be careful, you know she still has that electro ejaculator and she's not afraid to use it!
 
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Evo said:
I'd be careful, you know she still has that electro ejaculator and she's not afraid to use it!
EEK!​
:eek:


Run Away!:eek: :eek:
 
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Don't worry Artman. It is startling at first, but after your pain threshold increases the sensation is quite enjoyable.