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Duck In Noose...Care To Read?
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html ^ | 10-23-02 | my favorite headache

Posted on 10/23/2002 9:27:13 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do what- ever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived.

Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, "I eat ducks sometimes." Said the Rabbit, "Well, I eat ducks too." The Otter challenged him to try it; so they went up along the river until they saw several ducks in the water and managed to get near without being seen. The Rabbit told the Otter to go first. The Otter never hesitated, but dived from the bank and swam under water until he reached the ducks, when he pulled one down without being noticed by the others, and came back in the same way.

While the Otter had been under the water the Rabbit had peeled some bark from a sapling and made himself a noose. "Now," he said, "Just watch me;" and he dived in and swam a little way under the water until he was nearly choking and had to come up to the top to breathe. He went under again and came up again a little nearer to the ducks. He took another breath and dived under, and this time he came up among the ducks and threw the noose over the head of one and caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose.

It flew on and on until at last the Rabbit could not hold on any longer, but had to let go and drop. As it happened, he fell into a tall, hollow sycamore stump without any hole at the bottom to get out from and there he stayed until he was so hungry that he had to eat his own fur, as the rabbit does ever since when he is starving. After several days, when he was very weak with hunger, he heard children playing outside around the trees. He began to sing:

Cut a door and look at me; I'm the prettiest thing you ever did see.

The children ran home and told their father, who came and began to cut a hole in the tree. As he chopped away the Rabbit inside kept singing, "Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I"m so pretty." They made the hole larger, and then the Rabbit told them to stand back so that they could take a good look as he came out. They stood away back, and the Rabbit watched his chance and jumped out and got away.

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To: My Favorite Headache
Probably cause we have our own "hell" going on here. But, it could be all related. Wonder if the FBI checks this site to see what all these wonderful minds here are thinking!
121 posted on 10/23/2002 11:21:19 PM PDT by blondee123
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To: snickeroon
LOL

I am not sure this anagram thing is going to work. Check out some of the other possibilties:

Weakened genitalia hocus-pocus thinker.

OK enriched pathetic nauseous weakling.

The whacking sneakier odious petulance.

Accepted genitalia skunk in whorehouse.
122 posted on 10/23/2002 11:21:26 PM PDT by Marak
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To: My Favorite Headache
I'm sure that Moose had no choice but to saythe DuckNoose quote. I believe the sniper tol him if he didn't maybe he would fill those 20 body bags. We are in deep doo doo folks.
123 posted on 10/23/2002 11:22:19 PM PDT by conservativejunkie
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To: Dasaji
Could someone please post some pictures from the Rider tarot deck of the sun, death, tower and wheel of fortune cards?
124 posted on 10/23/2002 11:24:18 PM PDT by snickeroon
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To: conservativejunkie
I'm sure that Moose had no choice but to saythe DuckNoose quote. I believe the sniper tol him if he didn't maybe he would fill those 20 body bags. We are in deep doo doo folks.

WE sure are! For the biggest, richest, strongest country in the world, we've been brought to our knees by a lone sniper! Deep doo doo, indeed!

125 posted on 10/23/2002 11:25:01 PM PDT by blondee123
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To: conservativejunkie
I agree.

We don't know what other messages this person has given to Moose. Possibly like "I know where you live and your children are not safe anywhere, anytime".

He/they have moose by the short hairs, somehow.

126 posted on 10/23/2002 11:26:03 PM PDT by Texas Tea
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To: Dasaji
Woah...chills
127 posted on 10/23/2002 11:26:03 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: Dasaji
I would imagine the FBI, CIA et al, are thinking every angle as you are, so you're not off the deep end. They aren't dealing with a rational person, so you have to think outside the box!
128 posted on 10/23/2002 11:26:30 PM PDT by blondee123
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To: snickeroon

129 posted on 10/23/2002 11:29:08 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: snickeroon
a gaucho
130 posted on 10/23/2002 11:29:23 PM PDT by MGMorris
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To: tonyinv
All Saints day November 1st
131 posted on 10/23/2002 11:29:43 PM PDT by conservativejunkie
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To: snickeroon
Ok I got over 5000 anagrams for "We caught the sniper like a duck in a noose"

If you really think there is something to be found in here, we need to narrow it down a bit. Closest I can come with the 'nuke' scenario is:

Nuke cheating delirious cheapskate now.
132 posted on 10/23/2002 11:36:33 PM PDT by Marak
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To: My Favorite Headache
Check this out, someone just posted this: CNN breaking news is reporting "significant police activity around Fredricktown MD" Gary Tuckman(?) reporting... Something is apparently going on...possibly sniper related...any FReepers nearby?
133 posted on 10/23/2002 11:37:58 PM PDT by blondee123
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To: MGMorris
Okay. How's this for strange. Perfect: a gaucho with one letter left over I. Or, "A gaucho, I." Yup, that's stretching it.... but look at yet another coincidence....given the constant "hispanic" connection:




gau·cho   Pronunciation Key  (gouch)
n. pl. gau·chos
1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.
2. gauchos Calf-length pants with flared legs.



[American Spanish, probably from Quechua wáhcha, poor person, orphan, vagabond.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

gaucho
\Gau"cho\ (gou"ch[-o]), n., pl. Gauchos (-ch[-o]z) [Sp.] One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle
134 posted on 10/23/2002 11:41:44 PM PDT by snickeroon
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To: snickeroon
Interesting to say the least...I can't believe I am watching CNN...FOX whimped out.
136 posted on 10/23/2002 11:49:39 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
I went looking for more references, and this one to Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev has the words duck and noose in it:

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"The story tells of how young Peter ventures into a meadow (which his grandfather has made off-limits to him) and together with his animal friends (a bird, a cat and a duck) catches a wolf. He hands [the] captured wolf over to some hunters, and then all the characters of the story come together in the finale, where the wolf is taken to the zoo in a triumphant procession..."

"By now, Peter had made a noose with his rope, and very carefully he lowered it down. He slipped the noose over the wolf’s tail, and pulled it tight.

:The wolf, realising that he had been caught, leapt about furiously, trying to tear himself free.

"But Peter had tied the end of the rope to the tree. And each leap of the wolf only drew the noose tighter and tighter around his tail...

Above them all flew the little bird, chirping merrily, ‘See how clever we are, Peter and I. See what we have caught!’

"And if you listened very, very carefully, you could hear the duck, still quacking inside the wolf. For the wolf had been in such a hurry that he had swallowed her alive."

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We're the wolf, I suppose, and islam is the duck which we are taking in whole, into our country.

137 posted on 10/23/2002 11:59:31 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: My Favorite Headache
Got that right! Btw...this has been a great thread. Caused us do do some thinking!
138 posted on 10/24/2002 12:04:18 AM PDT by TheLion
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To: My Favorite Headache
MSNBC talking about it right now.
139 posted on 10/24/2002 12:05:53 AM PDT by blondee123
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To: tonyinv
How could have the snipers/terrorists known the kid was 13? Is this operation so sophisicated that they chose specific victims and did research on them in advance?

If you get the answer to that one, maybe there's an answer for Mrs. Franklin the FBI agent. Right after Mark Furhman spoke on Fox that a LE hadn't been killed, she was the next victim the next day. One minute it seems random then methodically planned.

140 posted on 10/24/2002 12:05:57 AM PDT by swheats
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