Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:14:26 PM

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No fireworks for me this weekend, but we've already had furworks.

Rabbit went running through the bushes and a dog took off after it.

Called her off, and the rabbit got away.

Our other dog let a rabbit run right by him. Rabbit probably could have stopped long enough to say "Eh, what's up, Dog?" and gotten away.

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:14:51 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:16:50 PM

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In #2 lucius septimius said: By leftard logic, the South is occupied territory and should be returned at once to the original owners.

The North or to the Indians Native Americans?

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:22:07 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:

How about the French?  

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:23:51 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

I remember the time (one of many times) our German Shepherds got a rabbit in the back yard.  Mom was at her sewing machine looking out the window.  One dog came from each side, met in the middle and tore that sucker in half.

Mom's scream thereafter is part of eternal family lore.

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:28:10 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 4:

Reminds me of how most Americans no longer know that Nova Scotia was originally colonized by the French, but the perfidious Brits sent them to Louisiana to make room for the Scotsmen they moved to make room for more sheep in Scotland.

Do they even teach the poem Evangeline? 
This is the Forest Primeval
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks...

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:29:25 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 5:

German Shepherds? Was it a jooish wabbit?///////

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:29:58 PM

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lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:36:37 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 7:

Given that it was in Chicagoland, pretty good chance it was Polish.  The signage at the hospital mom was at is in English and Polish.

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:37:41 PM

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In #9 lucius septimius said: pretty good chance it was Polish

What's the Polish version of hassenpfeffer?

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:37:47 PM

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lucius septimius 7/3/2020 5:38:46 PM

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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: What's the Polish version of hassenpfeffer?

Wlyzcywczjgicszwljuicky

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:40:26 PM

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In #12 lucius septimius said: In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: What's the Polish version of hassenpfeffer?

Wlyzcywczjgicszwljuicky

Sounds right./

doppelganglander 7/3/2020 5:40:33 PM

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Enjoying a beer on the patio, contemplating what a dreadful mistake it was to give women the vote.

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:43:52 PM

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In #8 lucius septimius said: Song I didn't like when it came out but which I've come to appreciate over time.

This is closer to my life

doppelganglander 7/3/2020 5:46:24 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

I almost invoked St. Pancake on Twitter the other day until I realized no one would get it. Those were the days.

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 5:53:03 PM

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In #16 doppelganglander said: Those were the days.

Jukebox
Once upon a time there was a blogsite....

doppelganglander 7/3/2020 6:15:44 PM

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lucius septimius 7/3/2020 6:28:58 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 18:

At least our Indo-European ancestors showed up in Europe with horses and swords.

doppelganglander 7/3/2020 6:43:01 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 19:

It certainly gave them an advantage, and why not? I'm sure we've discussed why I loathe "Guns, Germs, and Steel." It was assigned to my youngest in HS, and I had read it previously, so I tried to get her to read it critically. I'm not sure I made an impact on that one. It's no one's fault that North America didn't have rideable megafauna, or that Papua New Guinea is bereft of iron. Greeks invented geometry and the Inuit didn't. So what? 

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 7:01:55 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 20:
What about that great African magic that .. did nothing for them?

lucius septimius 7/3/2020 7:19:36 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 7:36:06 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

A toast!

revobob 7/3/2020 7:58:20 PM

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In #18 doppelganglander said: While the way the US treated the Indians was utterly vile and wrong, the fact remains that Europeans brought superior technology and conquered the original occupants. That has been the way of the world since time immemorial.

I've read a number of books dealing with pre-Columbian Native cultures and their interaction with the Europeans during the early days of America. While many of the things that were done by Europeans were definitely despicable, the natives themselves understood a lot of that behavior because they had been practicing their own versions of slavery, conquest through violence, torture, and tribal genocide by rape and 'marriage'. Given that things like the smallpox epidemic were largely accidental*, few things that Europeans did were as harsh as what the various tribes did to each other.

 *I know that the blankets blamed for the smallpox had been previously used by smallpox victims. Since the disease was not as lethal to the Euros I sincerely doubt that (at least early on) anyone planned it as a form of bio-warfare to be as deadly as it turned out to be. It may have become a 'happy accident', but that is very different from a planned campaign of murder by microorganism.

revobob 7/3/2020 8:11:18 PM

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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: Do they even teach the poem Evangeline? 

Thanks for awakening a memory best left undisturbed! I had to memorize this and another Longfellow poem, 'The Skeleton In Armor' for a junior high English class. Something I always found humorous about the expulsion was the transition from far northern Acadian fishermen in the cold woods and snows of Nova Scotia to the Cajuns of swampy Looziana. It is also curious to me that very little Scots influence is noticeable in Cajun music- especially the lack of pipes. Perhaps there are just too many other contributing ethnicities for the Scots contribution to survive. And, I suppose kilts are not optimum for wading in 'gator waters....

revobob 7/3/2020 8:12:28 PM

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In #14 doppelganglander said: what a dreadful mistake it was to give women the vote.

Amen sister!

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 8:21:02 PM

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Reply to revobob in 25:
Evangeline wasn't a bad memory for me, as my mother quoted it.

It was just one more thing to learm

doppelganglander 7/3/2020 8:24:49 PM

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Reply to revobob in 24:

Hey, stranger! The smallpox blankets are a pet peeve of mine. My 4th-grade reading book included the story of Edward Jenner and it stuck with me. They didn't understand the germ theory of disease.

Kosh's Shadow 7/3/2020 8:28:39 PM

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