[QUOTE=ewmayer;352649]True story (not sure if I've told this one hereabouts previously, apologies if it's a repeat): I knew a fellow in Alaska once who used to take his pet porcupine to a local bar, sit it on a barstool and stand it beers.[/QUOTE]Not heard that one.

When I was in Oxford a woman used to bring her rat into the pub I frequented at the time. Very charming animal which would run around the bar, eating peanuts and drinking beer from a (freshly cleaned) ash tray.

Back in the early '90s, I pet a mountain lion in a parking lot in Truckee, California (not 100% sure about location). It was on a leash and some guy there has a printed licence of some sort and a page of information. I don't remember the details very well. He wasn't in a bar so the story lacks punch but it was unusual all the same.

In 1995, I was photographed holding a crocodile in a zoo in China. It was merely one of the many things visitors could pay a little money to do but I was nervous all the same. I was crouching and prepared to jump aside if necessary (as if that would help much). I would have liked to open a dialog about risks and liabilities but no one nearby was speaking English and I didn't take a Chinese class till later (not that that one class would have helped much anyway).

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Denali is not shrinking, but National Geographic still uses the colonial name for the most prominent feature of Denali National Park.

[url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130913-mckinley-alaska-height-record-denali-usgs/[/url]

How provincial of Nat Geo!

No idea if someone suggested this, but Buddhist monks might sometimes go hmmmmmmmmm when they're meditating. ;)

There was a woman that violently attacked a parakeet(sp?). When the police arrived, she told them the bird wouldn't stop making fun of her spending habits.

Hint:Parakeets are limited in the sounds they make.

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There was a woman that violently attacked a parakeet(sp?). When the police arrived, she told them the bird wouldn't stop making fun of her spending habits.

Hint:Parakeets are limited in the sounds they make.[/QUOTE]

When you say "Parakeet", is that the bird that we in the UK call a Budgie (i.e. a Budgerigar, as shown in my avatar)?

That stupid woman should be banned from keeping animals for life.

[QUOTE=jasong;353409]No idea if someone suggested this, but Buddhist monks might sometimes go hmmmmmmmmm when they're meditating. ;)[/QUOTE]

My guess is that they usually go [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum"]Om[/URL] which is the religious word/mantra they chant. (maybe some very old munks go hmmmmmmmmm if they have forgotten what they should actually chant :smile:)

[QUOTE=BudgieJane;353424]When you say "Parakeet", is that the bird that we in the UK call a Budgie (i.e. a Budgerigar, as shown in my avatar)?

That stupid woman should be banned from keeping animals for life.[/QUOTE]
You don't have any smileys going on, so I'll explain the joke, just in case you didn't get it. The parakeet was going cheep, cheep, cheep and only existed in the sense that Schrodingers cat existed.

D'oh!

Almost 200 launches and their destinations detailed in one image.


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Let's get off this rock!