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A mousse once bit my sister.
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Frater I*I wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:27 pm When your strategy to stay in power is to keep people from voting because they disagree with your platform....

You're not a Republican anymore....you're a Fascist. :mad:
These are the descendants of those who required poll taxes and/or tests to be able to vote before the voting rights act. Just continuing business as usual.
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Estiveo wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:15 pm A mousse once bit my sister.
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?

(By the way, ask me sometime how I ended up being a major in medieval literature instead of something that would train me for a real job...)
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Dave from down under wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:13 pm Too much Mouse can be a problem

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/ ... /100200380
Wait, I thought all the little enigmals in Oz died in the fires. :confuzzled: :?:
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The drought then fires were rough on a lot, especially the predators with slower reproductive rates.

The rains come, the plants grow, the rodents reproduce faster than they can be predated.

A bit later this year predator numbers will pick up, just as the rodent population start to crash from starvation...

Boom Bust..

In a few years the inland water bird population will get massive.. than the droughts will come and there will be lots of dead birds..

It won’t be so extreme east of the Dividing range or in SW Western Australia or most of Tassie, but virtually everywhere else will go through the extremes.
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Foggy wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:59 am
Dave from down under wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:13 pm Too much Mouse can be a problem

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/ ... /100200380
Wait, I thought all the little enigmals in Oz died in the fires. :confuzzled: :?:
A few years ago during the last big mouse plague in central Oz, SWMBO and I were on a camping trip in the center. We drove north from Melbourne to Darwin. We were absolutely scrupulous about keeping the tent zipped and shaking out the sleeping bags. We flew to Dili Timor Leste for a week, then home. Our friends brought our gear back with them on the train. Never-the-less, SWMBO brought a little critter home with her in said gear. That little bugger was a survivor. She shook the sleeping bag out when we got home and out he popped asking for a feed. Impossible to catch, we at least had him trapped in the spare room. It took him a week to stick his head in the trap and trigger it.

I am pretty sure he adopted us a this big campground that had a pub attached. The entertainer at the pub that night (a guy called Tex Perkins - no not THAT one) remarked that he wasn't bothered about the mice running all over his
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Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
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Volkonski wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:24 pm
For Paxton, it's another day, another investigation. I'm sure he's just as worried about this as he is all the others.
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Kate520 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:16 pm Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
she who must be obeyed

(my wife has a shirt of it, :lol: )
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covfefe wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:46 pm
Kate520 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:16 pm Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
she who must be obeyed

(my wife has a shirt of it, :lol: )
I thought it originally came from the H. Rider Haggard novel. Wikipedia confirms...
The phrase She Who Must Be Obeyed originally derives from the lead character of Henry Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
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much ado wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:49 pm I thought it originally came from the H. Rider Haggard novel. Wikipedia confirms...
The phrase She Who Must Be Obeyed originally derives from the lead character of Henry Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
I think the phrase SWMBO was popularized in this US (at least for the Baby Boomers and subsequent generations) through PBS's importation of the BBC series Rumpole of the Bailey.
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It was for my husband. :thumbsup:
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jcolvin2 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:36 pm I think the phrase SWMBO was popularized in this US (at least for the Baby Boomers and subsequent generations) through PBS's importation of the BBC series Rumpole of the Bailey.
Right.
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much ado wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:17 pm
jcolvin2 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:36 pm I think the phrase SWMBO was popularized in this US (at least for the Baby Boomers and subsequent generations) through PBS's importation of the BBC series Rumpole of the Bailey.
Right.
I know it from the books about Rumpole of the Bailey. I didn’t realize the books were based on the tv show instead of the tv show being based on the books. :P
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You’d think I’d know that one. :batting:

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Kate520 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:16 pm Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
SHE Who Must Be Obeyed

Edit. I see you have been answered by many.

So I'll just add that conversely I am HWMCTB. Lets see ya work that one out.
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jemcanada2 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:22 pm I know it from the books about Rumpole of the Bailey. I didn’t realize the books were based on the tv show instead of the tv show being based on the books. :P
John Mortimer wrote both the TV show and the books. His other fiction was also quite good. Paradise Postponed and Titmus Regained were both fine novels.
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keith wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:37 pm
Kate520 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:16 pm Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
SHE Who Must Be Obeyed

Edit. I see you have been answered by many.

So I'll just add that conversely I am HWMCTB. Lets see ya work that one out.


I think I know that one, but it was directed at Kate, so I'll wait to see. ;)
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Estiveo wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:21 pm We're all each other's Elk at the Fogbow.
:dance: We all has Elks! :dance:
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Estiveo wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:44 pm
RVInit wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:40 pm So, it's illegal in Texas for registered voters to...vote?
Well, only if they're Democrats. Or Black. Or anyone else not loyal to the Great Orange Gasbag & His Elk.

Seriously, RV, what are ya, new?
:lol: yeah, I get it.
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much ado wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:49 pm
covfefe wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:46 pm
Kate520 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:16 pm Keith I’m usually pretty good at acronyms but SWMBO stumps me. Who is this person?
she who must be obeyed

(my wife has a shirt of it, :lol: )
I thought it originally came from the H. Rider Haggard novel. Wikipedia confirms...
The phrase She Who Must Be Obeyed originally derives from the lead character of Henry Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
Glad someone else is an H Rider Haggard fan. But i'm still feeling very, very old. *SHE*
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Keith: Catch The Breeze?
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Kate520 wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:00 pm
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