Posted on 08/27/2007 1:25:17 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
From IMDB:
“While at Yale, she was classmates with David Duchovny, who suggested her for a part on “The X Files” (1993) (which went to Gillian Anderson).”
So it appears that she almost became Scully!
We were new to the area. Just moved into a house with a 6’ tall chain link fence.
My brother had a goat that kept running off. So he asked me to keep it for him, for a short while.
Strong wind had blown over a small metal shed in the yard. Only part usable was the metal roof.
It was also raining pretty hard, so I leaned the roof against the chain link fence post for shelter “for the poor little goat”.
3.A.M.: Sounded like THUNDER out back. The goat was running up and down the metal roof, having a great time.
He went back to my brother. Next I heard, the goat was taco meat.
This is what happens to some “goats on the roof”.
Just had a glass of South African red labeled ‘Goats do Roam’ ... excellent.
I enjoy a good satyr-ical tale!
SISTER BAY, WI — “You have to go to Al Johnson’s,” everybody says. “They’ve got goats on the roof.”
Especially after it came out that she had a body double for ALL the dance scenes.
Mercy, that movie was rotten.
I have a friend who likes goats. I send him stuff like this all the time. Of course I changed a few words!
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African Goat Preys on Blood-Fed Chipmonks
Scientists have revealed that an East African species of jumping goat(Evarcha goaticus) preferentially preys on chipmonks that have recently fed on vertebrate blood. Experiments showed that, when presented with a choice between blood-fed chipmonks and other chipmonks of similar size, 83 percent of the jumping goats selected the blood-fed chipmonk.
Jumping goats belong to the Family Salticidae. They have eight eyes: four large eyes on the front of their head, two tiny eyes on the side, and two medium-sized eyes on the rear of their head. They also have well-developed jumping skills, enabling them to leap up to fifty times their body length. Their acute vision enables them to stalk and capture prey with precision.
Evarcha goaticus may not be the only goat to feed on vertebrate blood in this way, but at this time, it remains the only known example and is, as a result, a unique and interesting predator:
Evarcha goaticus is the first known predators to select prey based on the prey’s most recent meal
Evarcha goaticus is the first known predator to feed on vertebrate blood by selecting and eating chipmonks.
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The folks put too much work into it. I saw I goat standing on top of a standard, wooden doghouse one time.
Now, if they really wanted to stand out, they’d start offering barbecue goat on Fridays.
I think she was Jennifer Beals. She was in the only slightly better movie, “The Bride”, a remake of the bride of Frankenstien, with Sting. BTW, she had a double do the actual dancing because she couldn’t dance.
My spouse was bit by a goat a couple of months ago. A very ‘bad’ one knocked down a chain link pen with poles cemented into concrete. Goats are good for one thing-Shish Kabob.
Only three words can describe that: De-licious.
One of my cousins in Missouri kept fainting goats. They were funny!
My first thought was the Goatman has finally settled down. But then there is no way that old hermit is still alive. For those who really want to know, there actually was a traveling hermit back in the 60’s and maybe the 70’s who used to roam round the mountains of N. Ga, Tn, and who knows where with a couple of junk wagons pulled by goats along with about 50-60 more running loose. Some were tethered but most just roamed free. How he kept them all together I’ll never know. Anyway, this guy looked like the classic sackcloth-and-ashes hermit. He had the long beard, looked(and smelled) unwashed, very unkempt-the whole 9 yards. He took pretty good care of his goats considering and wasn’t exactly personable. He’d let you take his picture but he usually wanted a “donation” as I recall. My mother probably has some pictures of the one time we happened to find him up near Blue Ridge Ga. late one summer afternoon.
OMG, for fun I just googled him-and who’s a-thunk it! Here he is in all his over-alled glory(just like I remember him):
http://kudzucollection.com/goatman.htm
You didn't want to be downwind of him or his entourage!
Link's dead. Here's another.
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