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Harriet, the world's oldest tortoise, dies aged 176
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| 06/23/06
Posted on 06/23/2006 7:01:25 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: N. Theknow
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:18:48 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: frogjerk
SHE WAS KILLED BY MANBEARPIG! WE MUST ALL DO OUR PART TO STOP MANBEARPIG! DAMN YOU MANBEARPIG!
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:22:00 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: presidio9
I heard that Harriet smoked a pack a day of Pall Malls until she was well into her 90s, and began and ended each day with a pint of Jim Beam.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:24:34 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: atomicpossum
OK, that was pretty funny.
Wasn't so much at first, but now it's grown on me and I can't stop snickering.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:25:09 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: presidio9
To: Gefreiter
I heard that Harriet smoked a pack a day of Pall Malls until she was well into her 90s, and began and ended each day with a pint of Jim Beam. Yeah, but all that walking she did was great exercise. She never ran anywhere in her life.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:26:31 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: PatrickHenry
A 176-year-old giant tortoise believed to have been studied by famed English naturalist Charles Darwin, has died in Australia after a short illness. Will the Grand Master of DarwinCentral™ ("the Conspiracy that Cares") be issuing a statement of consolation later today?
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:27:19 AM PDT
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: presidio9
RIP
To: presidio9
Musta been it. Walking- unhurriedly- and subsisting on leaves.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:31:52 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: longshadow
Will the Grand Master of DarwinCentral™ ("the Conspiracy that Cares") be issuing a statement of consolation later today? I'll take it up with him. But he usually avoids such appeals to emotionalism.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:36:24 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: presidio9
I hope the shell is preserved and displayed. Don't see this kind of thing very often.
To: atomicpossum
Be careful. You may have to apologize for that.
To: presidio9
Sad to read that.
Really like turtles and torts.
Crossed paths with several of them the last couple weeks.
An eastern box turtle, a blanding's and a midland painted.
Gotta like the velocity challenged.
It's very calming to hang out with a turtle.
Peaceful.
To: tortoise
To: presidio9
Aussie & Harriet
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:04:43 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Half Nelson)
Gamera is sad.
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posted on
06/23/2006 6:10:03 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: bwteim
The "youth" appears to be Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi. Harriet had resided at Irwin's zoo.
To: JohnBovenmyer
Didn't know that. Did know via googling that Irwin had custody. Amazing age for a living creature, isn't it?
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:54:49 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
To: RandallFlagg
thanks for posting that great pic of gamera.
imagine what would have happened to evolutionary theory if Darwin had found gamera on the island, instead of a tortoise.!
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:18:12 AM PDT
by
drhogan
(!)
To: drhogan
Have you seen all of the Gamera series?
In the first one, he was made by a nuke blast in the arctic.
In the remake, he was engineered by an ancient civilization to defend against Gyaos.
The latest movie was released in Japan (Called, "Gamera: The Little Braves") this year.
If you haven't yet, go watch the third of the new series, "Revenge of Iris." It is the best in storyline, FX, camerawork and all sorts of other things not seen in these kind of movies before. Excellent movie.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:24:29 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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