OT: Stuff that cracks me up, part 23

[Robatoy]

Some stuff just hits me funny... this is one of them:

[FrozenNorth]

quite as many, it was funny and cool at the same time.

[Zz Yzx]

there's no sound more terrifying than the thunder of thousands of webbed feet during a duck stampede.....

[Bill]

used to live in, but they were not as fast and they did not yield to traffic! Fortunately, *most* cars yielded to them, and their goslings in tow.

Bill

[Lew Hodgett]

--------------------------------- Other than the by products of the operation, there is nothing like a flock of guard geese.

There are several examples here in SoCal including a truck yard.

They go from dead quiet to full ruckus in 0.9 nanoseconds.

BTW, you never want to get bitten by a goose.

If you do, you will remember it for a while.

SFWIW, cat vs. goose is no contest.

Kept my boat at a boat yard on a river a few years ago.

There was a boat yard cat who had a disposition much like a junk yard dog.

One year a wild mama goose went to set along the river bank.

Soon a flock of goslings hatched, getting the cat's attention.

Cat made a few attempts to investigate, but was rebuffed by mama goose.

Finally one day the cat got too close, and mama goose got a hold of that cat.

To put in bluntly, that cat never recovered.

Lew

[ChairMan]

In news: [e-mail], Robatoy spewed forth:

just sayin

[Robatoy]

Ouch!

You are a bad man.

[Lobby Dosser]

school outing. Lot of them around here. Geese, that is.

[Zz Yzx]

~3rd from last.

He's GALOPING, bless his heart.

-Zz

[RosemontCrest]

"I just flew in from Toronto and boy, are my arms tired."

[Upscale]

You want to see geese as in Canada Geese? Take a trip down to Toronto Island. Damned birds are protected and you can't go two feet without stepping in Goose shit. If you do go and perhaps have a beer at the Toronto Island Restaurant, make sure you're sitting under an overhang or a patio table with an umbrella. Else you get inundated with pigeon droppings. Safe to say, I don't visit the island anymore.

They have the right idea across the lake in the US. Canada geese are killed and cooked up for the homeless.

[Robert Bonomi]

You're gonna get the bill for that one. Even if you were just winging it.

[Doug Miller]

Since they're geese, not ducks, it's actually "stuff that honks you off."

[Robatoy]

People just get into a flap over this. Geese are good runners. You can see pictures of their feet all over the web.

[Robert Bonomi]

Except for a flock of peafowl (peacocks / peahens).

Just getting banged by the wings is a substantial deterrent. DAMHIKT.

Geese are much more aggressive than peafowl, but peafowl are a more effective early warning system. ONE peacock's 'scream' (they call it that for a reason) is more than enough to freeze anybody in their tracks.

[Robert Bonomi]

Q. Why do geese have flat feet? A. To stamp out forest fires.

Q. Why do elephants have flat feet? A. To stamp out burning geese.