Posted on 05/04/2013 8:22:54 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — The American Gerbil Society’s annual pageant brought dozens of rodents scurrying to New England this weekend for a chance to win ‘‘top gerbil.’’
The Bedford competition called for agility demonstrations in which the gerbils must overcome obstacles and race to the end of a course. Breeders of the small animals vie for coveted ribbons based on body type and agility.
‘‘A male gerbil should be a good, strong, hefty-looking gerbil,’’ said Libby Hanna, president of the American Gerbil Society. ‘‘If you are going to think of it in human terms, you might think of a football player — somebody who’s big, thick neck, nice, strong-looking male gerbil.’’
An ideal female gerbil will have a more streamlined appearance that even humans covet, she said.
‘‘So she would be strong and athletic-looking — not really scrawny, but slim,’’ said Hanna, who serves as a judge in the show. ‘‘I usually use a figure skater as my mental image or gymnasts — so obviously a gymnast is not necessarily a big, big woman, but she’s gonna be strong, muscular and athletic.’’
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Finally,
Something important.
When my nephew was a little kid, he was baby sitting a couple of them for his buddy while they were on vacation.
My sister dropped by the house one day and saw them in a cage and asked my nephew what they were. My nephew thought she asked who's they were and he said Roshi Shanna's......LOL!
By New England standards Bedford is pretty far from Provincetown, both geographically and culturally. Bedford, not to be confused with New Bedford, lies about 20 miles west of Boston and is the home of Hanscom AFB, headquarters for AF electronics command and, not coincidentally, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, and the former home of Raytheon Missile Systems (now in Tuscon). Hanscom has been cut back a bit, but the town still has something of military presence, and base housing extends beyond the boundary of the airfield. Bedford is a pretty button down suburban community.
Provincetown, on the very tip of Cape Cod, is a touristy old town, home to artsy types and Portuguese fishermen and tourist bars. Back in the day, around 1980, P-town bars, were about evenly split between gay and straight, and there was never any doubt about which was which. The gays were pretty much out of the closet and in your face, but they and the Guizzies lived in harmony with each other and the tourists. If you can take a live and let live attitude, P-town is interesting and worth a visit. BTW, it is invariably referred to as “P-town” by locals.
The bandwidth thief! Some girl at Harvard had this posted on her computer during the early days of the internet, back in aught and 98 or so, it ate up about 3/4’s of the bandwidth of the Harvard U. servers.
I came for the Richard Gere photo, wasn’t disappointed.
Yah, they (computers) were pretty basic back then. I remember back in the sixties, I went to work for FedGov in BIA, and had to be fingerprinted. The only federal place to have it done was the Coast Guard, and they had the entire second floor, most of if to house their HUGE computer. The floor was up on risers to clear all the cables snaking around, and it was about 45 degrees in the room. My little putt-putt pc has more power that that thing had.
When I applied to the NSA, the local police took my fingerprints.
The phrase “war crime” pops to mind.
Thanks for the picture of lemmiwinks.
That was one wicked episode.
need new key board....
shouldn’t be checking my FR account while drinking coffee
I’m honored.
i wouldnt use a microwave on a gerbil i like mine deep fried
kinky
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