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Post number 19502

paladin — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0800

Wild goose chase - "British wildlife experts are mourning the loss of Kerry the goose after tracking him by satellite all the way from Ireland to an Eskimo's kitchen in Arctic Canada." No, seriously.

By: Witty

Witty — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:34:57 -0800

This is my recommendation for a goose.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:36:29 -0800

It's no wonder Kerry got shot. How high could he possibly fly with a three thousand pound tracking device on his back?

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:53:16 -0800

That one sounds yummy Witty, but I think I'd prefer this one. We have geese in our pond right now...I keep explaining to them that geese don't belong in Texas in the summer...but thus far, they're pretending they don't speak English. :) One of the geese has taken over a flock of ducklings...which is really kinda funny...this big ol Mother Goose and her armada of ugly ducklings. I hope the pictures turn out as funny as the real life situation. On the plus side, that's the only flock of ducks that hasn't lost a member to one of the rival male ducks. Seems the big ducks are all pretty afraid of the geese.

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:00:24 -0800

<homer>Stupid Canadian Eskimo people</homer>

By: quin

quin — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:17:47 -0800

Bah, geese are just stupid loser duck wannabes. Ducks rock. Nevertheless, a 4,500 mile migration is pretty damn impressive no matter what the species.

By: small_ruminant

small_ruminant — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:29:45 -0800

Someone told me geese mate for life. I've been afraid to eat goose because I always imagine its lonesome mate pining away. They'd be easy pickings, though. We have a bunch of Canadian geese that form enormous, noisy Vs and migrate with much ceremony a whole quarter mile away to the race track. And then back again. I think of roast goose daily.

By: KathyK

KathyK — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:19:23 -0800

We prefer to be called Inuit which means 'the people' in our language of Inuktitut rather than Eskimo, which translates from Algonquin as 'raw meat eaters'. Unfortunately, the term Eskimo is more familiar with non-Inuit and gets tossed around as such. I wonder if Austin, Hugh and Major Ruttledge will make it back. Also if any of the geese that fly over my parents house every year has one of those tracking devices. It reminds me of the migration of monarch butterflies, travelling up to three thousand miles from Mexico to Canada.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:18:43 -0800

As the man in The Times said this morning "Stand up the man who sold a freezer to an Eskimo".

By: kliuless

kliuless — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:40:19 -0800

it's like finding your lojacked car in the chop shop, sad... but kinda cool how accurate tracking devices are, like i wonder if in the future it'd be possible to stick a critter cam next to the homing beacon. "WE ARE KALAALLIT - GREENLANDERS ARCTIC RAPPERS FUNK OF THE NORTH" - from the song "WE'RE BACK / UTEQQIPPUGUT"... Nuuk Posse

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:26:42 -0800

KathyK, if it makes you feel any better, here's one guy who knows that we should be using "Inuit" and no "Eskimo". Thank God for quality education in Montreal :)!