I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was good. Ours was interesting, the main topic of conversation being the European Red Stag that is terrorizing my sister's neighborhood. What's being called a "deer" in the papers is not only not from Florida, it's not even from the North American continent. The family on Nalle Road that claims they don't own the "deer" that broke down a neighbor's horse stall and killed Rowdy the miniature horse, do happen to own monkies, an ocelot, an ostrich, and many other exotic animals. All with no exotic animals license. The stag that's rampaging around, chasing people's dogs, weighs around 500 pounds.
One of my nephews has been hunting it, and although he thinks it'll be too tough to eat, he's willing to give it a try. He says a neighbor's little boar hog that came onto their property was absolutely delicious. Rowdy's owner is also hunting the stag.
Also right down Nalle Road as we came in, was a house with around 15 police cars. There'd been a home invasion with six men, who were probably illegal aliens, being shot. So much was the stag on everyone's minds, that my dad swore that it was probably mixed up in that too.
My dog Lilly did a little terrorizing of her own, scaring my tiny grand-nephew and his little puppy by running up to them and barking, and making both of them cry.
And how was everybody's Thanksgiving?
UPDATE
The Cheney X is still big blogging news, is it? A CNN service rep got fired for being snotty on the phone, ooh! Everytime I see a mention of this crap, I will post about Rowdy the miniature horse. It's my contribution of real steaming horseshit to go along with all the digital piles of it.
We've all had equipment screw up and we've all encountered a snotty rep. No big deal.
Had a great Thanksgiving, thank you. Not as exciting as yours, but good.
With regard to the neighbor's tasty boar, there used to be a guy up here who gave out free pork barbeque at festivals. A friend of mine asked him how he could afford to be so generous. The guy said, "You ever see those ads in the newspaper -- 'Free to Good home -- Vietnamese pot-bellied pig?' Well, I give 'em a good home for about 3 months."
Posted by: Salt Lick at November 26, 2005 02:01 PMI bet it was tender.
The little boar was about 40 pounds and perfect, so I am told. My youngest nephew loves to hunt more than anything.
I couldn't do it. I'm happy with what comes wrapped in plastic at the grocery store.
Language!
Posted by: Bill from INDC at November 26, 2005 05:53 PMI'll go wash my mouth out with turkey gravy.
Posted by: Donnah at November 26, 2005 06:19 PMThe foolery as to the CNX issue is found right there in that Insta...link...and his to the 'story' about "the beginning and end" of "the story."
This handful of so-touted megabloggers devote all their time and resources to writing about THEMSELVES and how THEY did whatever, in immense details as to appear as pretense of some 'live blogging' event (which I despise, at least, am immensely irritated by, as if the 'event' was only observable to the blogger involved, as if no one else could or was observing said event themselves...it's just immensely offensive as method, to my read). Anyway, these so-touted megabloggers devote all this time and space and so-called attention to their.steps.taken.and.words.written.in.each.boring.tedious.process...and not about the issue itself. THEY become the "event" and thus, the issues become (some) bloggers and not what's otherwise concerning anyone.
It's tedious to the point of absurdity and why I don't bother with most if not all these so-touted megabloggers: because if and when I want grandiosity and boombast, I listen to rocknroll and at least am entertained and can tap my feet along.
Anyway, the CNX story was interesting, yes, but not nearly as grandiose as the grandiose lot made their "involvement" out to be with the CNX issue itself. And, yes, I've (often) encountered the same sort of customer service jerks. I just can't record them, unfortunately, but one day, I'd love to find a website with nothing but recordings of bad customer service, just to shame the companies they represent. It's as if there's some benchmark for customer service employees that consists of answering 'yes' to the one question: do you revile and detest humanity?
Posted by: -S- at November 29, 2005 12:44 AMI know you were interested in the story, Suzie, but I thought it was a non-starter. That's just how I feel about it.
Posted by: Donnah at December 1, 2005 01:00 PM