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All Creatures Great and Small


Did anyone digest these pathetic trophy hunters with too much money?
 
Trophy Hunter....put down your gun and show all your mates how big and tough you are!
- really ... sad The lion is obviously wounded bigtime.
wonder those blokes didn't shoot each other - they remind me of the one about the Irish firing squad ... that stand in a circle.

In keeping with the sentiments of Adam Lindsay Gordon:-
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=87800&highlight=slaughter#post87800

All as posted previously :-
Here's one about man's appetite for killing animals (Lex Talionis, A moral discourse)- and the challenge to man to give them a fair fight - like one bullet - a bit like the Deerhunter - but hunting a bear outside its cave.

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Gee I like those words man being courageous for once. IMHO, part 1 of the poem ends here ... but he continues ... albeit excerpts given below....with some fatalism, and contemplation of a sudden death such as this, ("sunderings " = as in "rent asunder"), and perhaps man "in his blindness" doesn't understand that death is "less bitter" than he imagines - (incidentally Adam Lindsay Gordon finally killed himself with a bullet in a wattle grove, after being duped into believeing he could claim his father's inheritance back in England - and ending up broke) :-

NOTES on ALGORDON 1833 - 1870

I can mimic the man as a writer, though I'm out of my class a a wit
though he'd give me black eyes as a fighter , though a far tougher student of "grit"
and his rhythms uplifting were lighter , and his syllables just seem to knit
and I find to upkeep with the blighter , that I need my infinitives split.

..
a giant of galloping rhymers, a legend of galloping steeds
forgive any awkward firstliners , and forgive him of any misdeeds
a champ of the prince and the peasant , a genius student of creeds
and Plato and Latin texts pleasant , - this planter of poetic seeds.

...
ahh to have half the skill of this master , or a fifth of his poetic brain
or to write as well slower or faster, or just have him around once again,
whilst most quotes like the breakers disperse, or they melt like sea froth in the rain
his bad and his worse and his worst , are beyond the best Ill attain.

 

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wysiwyg , another sad one :-
remember when he was accused of faking his emotions for animals
"what you see is what you get" with this bloke (as well)

ps unlike him, I think I love my wife more than I love this crocodile though lol
 
Adam Lindsay Gordon , Lex Talionis
THE DAY OF RETRIBUTION

one day it will be retribution time
under lex talionis rules
and the croc will kill for the thrill of a dime
and the lion will turn on the fools

and an eye for an eye , and a scalp for scalp
and a measly man's skin for a hide
and there won't be a god to pray to or help
..........
cos he's changed to the animal's side

Gordon's full poem (I've only quoted excerpts) is Fytte 5 (of 8) found here :-
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/ThePoemsofALAdamLindsayGordon/chap4.html
Here are a few extra verses - but it's worth reading the full poem (he tends to write in Starts and Fyttes )

PS apropo of nothing, but the second youtube on Steve Irwin is Josh Gruben singing "You Raise Me Up" , - I think he's touring Aus soon (?)
 
this one concerns a bear allegedly shot in Alaska - it is seriously disturbing - don't go there (page 5) if you don't like blood. (and if you do go there , dont say I didnt warn you )

(You'll come out of this post feeling like you've been at the Colleseum
Lions 1 Christians Nil as they say )

however as for California.... I took the family to Yosemite, and we camped in a campsite ( bungalows) - good spot, ice skating nearby etc - anyway the fellow at the office advised us to be careful of bears - brown bears apparently (we subsequently went out with torches calling "here bear ! here bear!) . thousands of tales etc etc .

I asked him how long he'd been there , he replied "bout 5 years"
I asked " ever seen one?" , he replied "nope"

Maybe stick with either of these messages (similar but end happier)
Lions-vs-Zoo-Keeper, Wellington NZ
Small boy falls into the zoo's gorilla enclosure
 

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lol - Bindi "I make people step over the ant trail" lol - you gotta listen to this one..
Terri :- "I'm happy just to be known as "Bindi's mother"
8 year old Bindi Irwin - "Good days and bad days"
obviously the yanks love her / them - in Bindi's case, perhaps just as they liked Winston Churchill maybe ? - 50% american ?
"They don't come better - they come from :nono: .. good stock !!" :bier:
 
there's a post I posted way back when
Although I was "right",
I have never underestimated a kid so much in all my life -
she's brilliant !
(and she sure as hell has gained more than she can ever lose)
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=70016&highlight=sadness#post70016

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnah1HcnTjs&mode=related&search= Terri and Bindi Irwin on The Late Show With David Letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZOUluzcXM&mode=related&search= Bindi Sue speaks at dad Steve Irwin's memorial service
 
Something that just popped up on my desktop...
 

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you taking the piss there kauri ? lol
PS what the hell's going on with FMG lol
CFE next? - ahh back to stuff I can learn about with "accuracy" lol
(plenty of time for trading threads later)
Spider Eating A Mouse
PS if you suffer from "thingo-phobia" maybe dont look at this one ... (ahh found it, Arachnephobia
 
Lol, here's a beauty (imo) - just for the nZedders
this Kiwi decides he wants to fly lol
pretty clever / humourous

Kiwi animation
 
This yesterday another little tike
Japan hails manta ray birth


 

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All creatures GREAT and SMALL, Or was it SMALL and GREAT
heh heh
 

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Walking on water! Well, walking on ice anyway. The ducks have trouble landing when it's frozen - basically just skid all over the place but there don't seem to be any injuries.

Photos taken 25th June at Browns River (about 15km from Hobart CBD).
 

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