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| Wave Goodbye To The Walrus ...; No Sea Ice, No Walruses | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 24 2007, 06:13 AM (965 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | Dec 24 2007, 06:13 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/24...s.ap/index.html |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Larry | Dec 24 2007, 08:28 AM Post #2 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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First they told us the polar bears were in danger. Then we found out that not only are they *not* in danger, there's 5 times as many of them now as there were a hundred years ago and their numbers are increasing. Now they find a group of walruses who can't find the rest of the herd, so we'll be hearing about that until someone points out where the rest of the walruses are.... Maybe they're in Kansas. I hear it's cold as heck there.... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 24 2007, 08:36 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: |
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| Axtremus | Dec 24 2007, 08:38 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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And if you can't find evidence suggesting that the vanishing walruses are not dead but simply not properly accounted for, it just means that you haven't tried hard enough -- so Google harder! |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 24 2007, 08:50 AM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I'll keep my comments brief about this: "goo goo g'joob" |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 24 2007, 08:51 AM Post #6 |
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MAMIL
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Maybe take a look at the Walrus hunting industry web-sites. I'm sure they'll be able to set our minds at rest. As far as polar bears go - Polar bear website
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| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Larry | Dec 24 2007, 09:03 AM Post #7 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Apparently you didn't read that article a week or so ago that pointed out that in 1900 there were only about 5,000 of them.... |
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| Larry | Dec 24 2007, 09:08 AM Post #8 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Interesting. It seems that this is a normal cycle that has happened before...... Arctic Warming from 1918-1939 And it also seems that what's going on is a pissed of group of enviro-whackos are yelling the sky is falling once again because they didn't get what they wanted. In other words - more politics. |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Dec 24 2007, 09:09 AM Post #9 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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You are so not the walrus. |
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| Frank_W | Dec 24 2007, 09:25 AM Post #10 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Somehow, "I am the penguin," leaves a little to be desired...
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 24 2007, 09:34 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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I am the dodo |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| George K | Dec 24 2007, 09:37 AM Post #12 |
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Finally
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No, you are the D'Oh, D'Oh. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 24 2007, 09:49 AM Post #13 |
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I learned something new today...a group of walruses (walri?) are known as herds or pods. Also...I thought this was as appropriate a thread as ever to show these pictures: THE ORIGINALS: ![]() THE RESULTS: ![]() ![]()
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| The 89th Key | Dec 24 2007, 09:53 AM Post #14 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dozens more here: http://hamsterinthewheel.com/fatalfury/wal...ry070927-143838 |
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| Frank_W | Dec 24 2007, 09:56 AM Post #15 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | Dec 24 2007, 09:56 AM Post #16 |
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Finally
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Welp, this thread went into the crapper pretty fast, I'd say. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Frank_W | Dec 24 2007, 10:03 AM Post #17 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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You might even say that it kicked the bucket....
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Phlebas | Dec 24 2007, 10:06 AM Post #18 |
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Bull-Carp
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I agree. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Mark | Dec 24 2007, 10:52 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Isaac! ![]() <- Bye Walrus!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| QuirtEvans | Dec 24 2007, 01:17 PM Post #20 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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What's that smell? I know I've smelled it somewhere before. Oh yeah, it's a huge pile of bullcrap! |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 24 2007, 01:52 PM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This is what sounds like bullcrap to me. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Dec 24 2007, 02:08 PM Post #22 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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What's bullcrap? Their measurements? Surely instrument measurements are what they are. Unless you have some reason to believe that they are not reporting them honestly. So, what's bullcrap? The extrapolation of what is happening now, over the next 23 years? |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 24 2007, 02:31 PM Post #23 |
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MAMIL
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I'll know that the fact of man-made global warming is finally accepted by the nay-sayers on the day when our conservative brethren start blaming it on liberalism, or possibly lesbian feminists. Trust me on this, that day will come. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| JBryan | Dec 24 2007, 02:39 PM Post #24 |
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I am the grey one
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We have actually been able to observe the polar ice cap by satellite for all of less than 30 years and now we can extrapolate out to the next 23? Color me skeptical. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Dec 24 2007, 03:37 PM Post #25 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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NostraD'Ohmus has spoken. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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