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Ode to Pat
> Your 40's or the 1940's? <g> > >> Nice! Chris 99BBB |
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tortoise talk (was Route recommendations - Austin to Seattle) NMC
> Absolutely, but I thought that difference in terminology only existed in > British English and that American English used the word "turtle" for both > the land and water-borne varieties? Or is it just that people falsely use > "turtle" for everything? > I actually had no idea! I have to plead ignorance on that one. Thanks for the info. Chris 99BBB > |
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tortoise talk (was Route recommendations - Austin to Seattle)NMC
Scott Hughes wrote:
> So, as someone with no particular interest in turtles and a victim* of > American English, I had to look up the difference between the two.. > Here's a reasonable description: > http://www.tortoisetrust.org/care/faq.html#difference > > -Scott > > *victim: someone who blames their own ignorance on the most convenient > scape goat Another victim, ha! r.a.m.m. - the newsgroup about fast-moving cars and slow-moving animals.... :-) Pat |
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tortoise talk (was Route recommendations - Austin to Seattle)NMC
XS11E wrote:
> The gospel according to St. Encyclopedia Britannica: > > turtle > Any of more than 250 species (order Chelonia) of reptiles having a bony > shell overlaid with horny shields; found in most parts of the world. > > tortoise > Any of some 40 species (family Testudinidae) of slow-moving, > terrestrial, herbivorous turtles, found in the Old and New Worlds but > chiefly in Africa and Madagascar. > > So tortoises are turtles but turtles aren't always tortoises. > > I learned something, I didn't know tortoises are included in the term > "turtle". You taught me something too. Now I have to confuse my friends even further by explaining that yes she is a turtle and a tortoise, but still keep her out of any water above her head..... Man! Pat |
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Ode to Pat
Iva wrote:
> No, no, no, Pat, it's the 70's you're not supposed to be able to > remember! <g> > > Iva & Belle.) > '90B Classic Red.) > #3 winkin' Miata > (Seventies? What seventies?) No, I still have clear memories of early childhood from that decade. It was not until the 1980's that I was experimenting with recreational drugs, or doing full-scale research, depending on how you look at it. I did not, however, inhale, even once, so I am still good to go when I run for office. :-) Pat |
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Ode to Pat
Leon van Dommelen wrote:
> And for others of us, it is the '50s. > > And '60s. And 70s'. And '80s. And '90s. And '00s. > > And 30 seconds ago. > > Leon Absolutely, though I can't speak for the 50's, and I was only around for 26 days in the 1960's. Now what were you talking about? I already forgot. :-) Pat |
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tortoise talk (was Route recommendations - Austin to Seattle)NMC
Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> I actually had no idea! I have to plead ignorance on that one. Thanks for > the info. > > Chris > 99BBB Yet you are the only person here to have seen her except on video. Of course, we were talking about miatas instead of animals, something that should probably be done here as well. Nah! Check out this video of a tortoise defending his territory against cats. He hauls ass. I normally would not condone a making film like this, but neither creature could really hurt the other. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0gfCyeiyM pat |
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tortoise talk (was Route recommendations - Austin to Seattle) NMC
> Yet you are the only person here to have seen her except on video. Of
> course, we were talking about miatas instead of animals, something that > should probably be done here as well. > > Nah! Check out this video of a tortoise defending his territory against > cats. He hauls ass. > I normally would not condone a making film like this, but neither creature > could really hurt the other. > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0gfCyeiyM > > pat ROFL!!! That's one mean tortoise, I wouldn't want to get in a tangle with that one...... |
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Ode to Pat
In article >,
Lanny Chambers > wrote: > In article >, > "Iva" .> wrote: > > > No, no, no, Pat, it's the 70's you're not supposed to be able to > > remember! <g> > > Young whippersnapper. For some of us, it's the '60s. Like they say, "If you remember the 60s, you probably weren't there" -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info |
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