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Flick
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by Flick » July 12th, 2007, 11:14 pm
It's not often a BBC news story makes me genuinely laugh out loud ... but here's one;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 295138.stm
My favourite quote from the whole article is
"UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
You really couldn't make it up.
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Jem
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by Jem » July 12th, 2007, 11:44 pm
"It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey"
-Housewife Suad Hassan
That was
my favourite quote.
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Alan C.
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by Alan C. » July 13th, 2007, 12:10 am
That's not even a badger! It's an Otter!!!
I can't show you one because the image tags are not working
Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers.
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Staf
- Posts: 95
- Joined: July 13th, 2007, 9:47 am
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by Staf » July 13th, 2007, 10:10 am
They work for me.
Badger
Monkey
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IanLowe
- Banned
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- Joined: July 15th, 2007, 9:55 am
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by IanLowe » July 17th, 2007, 12:06 pm
[edit - post removed]
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jaywhat
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by jaywhat » May 11th, 2010, 9:40 am
Man eating badger might be true; depends how hungry he was.
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Paolo
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by Paolo » May 11th, 2010, 10:14 am
I remember
answering a question on Ask A Biologistabout this back in 2007, where I linked to that same article (which I am sure triggered the question in the first place).
I wouldn't fancy messing with a honey badger, but man-eating is going way too far!
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jaywhat
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by jaywhat » May 11th, 2010, 11:57 am
I did not have the hyphen in man eating!
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Paolo
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by Paolo » May 11th, 2010, 2:04 pm
jaywhat wrote:I did not have the hyphen in man eating!
I'm sure it's happened (probably Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall), although I wouldn't fancy it myself...
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getreal
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by getreal » May 11th, 2010, 4:35 pm
I thought this thread would be about starving troops reduced to eating badgers.
I'm disappointed (but pleased for the badgers)!
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.
