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bluetree wrote:
> Is it cruel to go to a pond in mating season and to catch a male toad and to
> wear it as a watch, because they clutch everything when they are in heat?
> Things we did in our youth, nowadays kids don't even know how a toad looks like,
> because they've never met one in their shooting games!!
> Freaking topic led me to that freaking question. Freaky, hm?
> Yeah, the good old times!
>
> bluetree
>
Freaking toads.
I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow
legs, and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released
it, probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool
to see it change form over the weeks.
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bluetree wrote:
> Not the fact to have *seen* a toad. The more important one is to have *felt* one
> around your wrist!! It's really a bound to nature. :-)
> You have to have worn one to be a *cool* boy. Or are you afraid of feeling that
> glibbery warts? Do it, soon we'll have mating season again!
> What did you do (do you do)?
My God. Are you advocating that we all allow a toad to hump our wrists?
My life is complete without *that* experience, thanks.
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Warp wrote:
> I haven't seen a giraffe live. That fact doesn't diminish my quality of
> life in any way. Why should I care if I haven't seen one?
But it does. This is why we take our young children to a zoo; To see a
live giraffe, stuffed in an enclosure much to small for it to live a
fulfilled and comfortable life, being fed a diet that is somewhat, but
not entirely incompatible with its digestive tract. If you don't see a
live giraffe as a small child, you'll grow up to be like Andrew, or
worse ...
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> If you don't see a
> live giraffe as a small child, you'll grow up to be like Andrew, or
> worse ...
...which is all the more amusing given that I *did* see several live
gairaffe as a small child.
And while we're on the subject, I can think of plenty of other people
that it would be far worse to turn into. :-P
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> And while we're on the subject, I can think of plenty of other people
> that it would be far worse to turn into. :-P
Oh, So can I, but we don't mention them :)
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> I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow legs,
> and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released it,
> probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool to see
> it change form over the weeks.
We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond. I'd watch them
grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish. At the end we
maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs. One year we tried to take
out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right
because none survived.
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scott wrote:
> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond. I'd watch them
> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.
I once nudged a fly into a spider's web and watched it get eaten.
Actually, that was somewhat disturbing... I was only about 11 at the time.
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow
> legs, and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released
> it, probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool
> to see it change form over the weeks.
I had also some, but only to feed *my* dragonfly nymph. Later I released it in a
pond to catch small fishes.
bluetree
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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> My God. Are you advocating that we all allow a toad to hump our wrists?
> My life is complete without *that* experience, thanks.
No, I was just asking, what stuff did you do, when you were a smaller one. There
*must* some similar experience. Come on, enlighten me! :-)
bluetree
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> > looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow legs,
> > and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released it,
> > probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool to see
> > it change form over the weeks.
>
> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond. I'd watch them
> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish. At the end we
> maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs. One year we tried to take
> out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right
> because none survived.
What did you feed them?
They are half cannibalic. I saw them eat their dead brothers (or sisters).
But normally they are eating aglgea. Ah, better to have some green slime outside
your window. :-)
bluetree
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