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PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:19 pm    Post subject: more squirrel news for dhex Reply with quote

when squirrels attack

we should just make a sticky thread that's titled "squirrel related links for dhex".
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That reminds me of another story.

The squirrel is a wily and a vicious creature.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i lost a staring contest to a squirrel yesterday. in my defense i was drinking vodka, and i hate vodka.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i lost a staring contest to a squirrel yesterday. in my defense i was drinking vodka, and i hate vodka.


What was the squirrel drinking?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The other day, I came upon a squirrel drinking out of a leaky sprinkler head. I was about a foot way from it, as it was merrily sipping away. I wish I could have taken a picture of this, because I had never seen such behavior from the campus squirrels before. Usually they just run in circles on tree trunks trying to rape each other. Campus squirrels are all rapists, as far as I am concerned.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Business wrote:
The other day, I came upon a squirrel drinking out of a leaky sprinkler head. I was about a foot way from it, as it was merrily sipping away. I wish I could have taken a picture of this, because I had never seen such behavior from the campus squirrels before. Usually they just run in circles on tree trunks trying to rape each other. Campus squirrels are all rapists, as far as I am concerned.



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

During high school, we spent a lot of time on the UC Berkeley campus and had a running in-joke that the campus squirrels were actually robotic spies used by the administration to keep tabs on things, with a whole network of underground tubes so that the "squirrels" could report back to their masters.

Also, if you haven't seen the squirrels at Yosemite National Park, you haven't fully experienced squirrels:


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I mentioned there's an albino squirrel that lives somewhere near my house right? I see him in the backyard with relative frequency but I've never successfully captured him on film. Unfortunately with winter beginning it's going to be impossible! I hope he stays around.

There's also a squirrel with no tail around here. When he climbs trees he has to wrap his whole body around the branch or he'll fall off. This is both sad and comical.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man, Todd totally doesn't care that he's fat. Rock on Todd.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stotelheim wrote:
Man, Todd totally doesn't care that he's fat. Rock on Todd.



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are a lot of freaky black squirrels in cleveland. Rumor has it they were a by-product of some experiment at Kent State. They used to regularly commit suicide by jumping out of thet ree on my dad's front lawn and meeting the driveway.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I forget if I've only mentioned this to dhex, or passed this story along online previously, but back when I was a kid, I had this crazy neighbor who hated the squirrels that would dig up her flowers, so she managed to kill them (poison?), would cut off their tails, then put them at the end of a broom. And to deter any further attempts at garden ruination, she would shake her crazy shaman dead squirrel stick at them.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And oh, hey, dhex, the other day about a week ago, when it finally turned cold in the city, I was having lunch in the park, and I was pretty much the only person there since it was again wintry cold (I personally love the cold, and just wanted to be away from the office), and this fucking squirrel tried to steal my Doritots. He was pretty shameless, and normally I'd be ecstatic to be in such close contact, but I was pretty annoyed and tried to scare him away, but nothing worked for long. I'm assuming he had fucked up and didn't have anything stored for the winter.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fort: this was madison square park? that place is ridiculously squirreled up. they're used to being fed, to the point where they will stand up and act "cute" to get food. the wife and i have passed out some raw peanuts to the folks out there, in flagrant violation of nyc parks department regulations. (cooked peanuts will kill them, fyi)

showka: whoa! that's crazy.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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fort: this was madison square park?


Indeed it was.

Also, I didn't know cooked peanuts can kill squirrels, so when I first arrived in America, I tried to feed some, which I had saved from my plane ride from Korea, and my dad went totally ape-shit and started yelling and screaming, way overboard. Which got like every neighbor's attention. And yeah, he was being kinda excessive.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Killer squirrels (and namedropping Irem?)
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey dhex, my school has a Squirrel Appreciation Day every year because we have ridiculous numbers of squirrels on campus. I can totally get you a t-shirt if you want.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know who else is into squirrels?

Bernhard Goetz.

Evidence.
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WTF
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a marmot or a pika or something to me. Close enough though, I suppose.
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P.S. Not a squirrel.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lolz

I took Insert Credit's Brandon Sheffield black squirrel watching this weekend!

We didn't see to many, but it was fun!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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P.S. Not a squirrel.

That just made me giggle uncontrollably.
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Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3
"BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch."
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

so, okay.



i saw this squirrel munching on an ice cream cone. most of the cone was gone - only the tip was left. it was a squirrel-sized ice cream cone. this squirrel was just squatting there licking licking the ice cream from out of this tiny cone. i took out my camera to take a picture, and the squirrel turned and glared at me, then did a daring leap off of the wall and scampered away. this photo is all that remains.

whew!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Squirrel spies arrested in Iran

Also,

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At the bus stop on the corner of Finsbury Park and Manor House going into Green Lanes roam the cheekiest squirrels known to man. They climb onto people's shoulders. I nearly missed my bus just so I could play with the squirrels for longer.
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Mark Trail: scientifically the best comic ever.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Prepared to be depressed guys.

video 1 and video 2

Full story here.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



I took this picture at the Ripley's Believe it or Not in Branson, MO last week on my honeymoon. Thought it would fit in here.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

totally awesome.

i did a case study on branson last year. is it as insane as i was led to believe?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh yeah nearly forgot:

Quote:
The Mississippi Squirrel Revival

Well, when I was a kid I'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi
To visit my granny in her antebellum world
I'd run barefooted all day long climbin' trees free as a song
And one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel
Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoe box, punched a couple of holes in the top
And when Sunday came I snuck him into Church
I was sittin' way back in the very last pew showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk
Well, what happened next is hard to tell
Some thought it was heaven others thought it was hell
But the fact that something was among us was plain to see
As the choir sang "I Surrender All" the squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me", Yeow!

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!

Well, Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'
Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon
And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his Fruit-Of-The-Looms
He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out of his britches leg
Unobserved to the other side of the room
All the way down to the amen pew where sat Sister Bertha better-than-you
Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee
But you should've seen the look in her eyes
When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me"
As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
She began to cry and then to confess to sins that would make a sailor blush with shame
She told of gossip and church dissension but the thing that got the most attention
Was when she talked about her love life and then she started naming names

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!

Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved,
Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised and fifty volunteered
For missions in the Congo on the spot
Even without an invitation there were at least five hundred rededications
And we all got baptized whether we needed it or not
Now you've heard the bible story I guess
How he parted the waters for Moses to pass
Oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world
But the one I'll remember 'til my dyin' day
Is how he put that Church back on the narrow way
With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They was jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:
totally awesome.

i did a case study on branson last year. is it as insane as i was led to believe?

Insane as in tourist trap for retired republicans/veterans? If so, yes.

-Wes
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yup. awesome!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is both epic and heartbreaking.

I present: the tale of a squirrel who, in the distance, saw the perfect nut. A squirrel who would leap an incredible distance to grab hold of said nut... only to succeed and fall to its demise.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh the humanity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vinb3RRQvc
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From the Helsinki Pet Cemetary:

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oh my god.
hes so HAPPY
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