Great stories, recalled by a nuke missile commander. Tossing rocks at aliens, didn't work in 250 BC, doesn't work now, like.. duh. The UFO thread How did they disarm the missile before it struck ? They zapped it with a particle beam, like, a laser, but better, 100K years in advance better, it's technical. The Federation Starship Enterprise hovers 200' above Bethlehem, Kirk, Spock and Doc disguise themselves as shepherds, speak to the locals with their universal translators, a kind of Yiddish dialect, shared a meal of barbecued lamb kebabs on a rice pilaf. Doc suggests adding mild garden peppers and onions to the recipe. Trim the fat ! ' Very Sleek ! ' Kirk began to question Abe about the nukes, Spock then reminds him of the time displacement. ' Specimen ' not ' Space Man '
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You were holding a baloon, and in your other hand, a plate with a mouse on it.
It was a large balloon, and a VERY small mouse.
Funny that you should mention a mouse... as two days ago, I had an adventure with a different kind of rodent, but a rodent nevertheless. Somehow, a large shrew got into my house. The cat wasn't much help, even though she's an excellent mouse and rat killer in my yard. The shrew wouldn't move fast enough to trigger the cat's hunting reflexes. The damn shrew would amble around, with the cat watching it, but her killer instinct just wouldn't kick in.
To make a long story short... after spending the night somewhere in my place, the shrew eventually crawled into a large computer tower of mine (that had the side panel removed) which was sitting nearby my usual PC that I use online. I first heard it, then saw it moving about inside the tower. It was crawling in and around the hard drives and installed cards. I quickly grabbed and reinstalled the side panel of the computer tower, and then carried the whole shebang outside. I took the side panel off, and then spent several minutes trying to coax the damn thing out of the tower. I eventually got it to grab onto a stick, and I then proceeded to let it go in the garden. I'd never seen a shrew in real life before. It was like a giant mouse (not like a rat), but with a longer, pointier snout. It was actually kind of cute. Anyway, I'm glad that it's out of the house. I don't need another "pet".
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Funny that you should mention a mouse... as two days ago, I had an adventure with a different kind of rodent, but a rodent nevertheless. Somehow, a large shrew got into my house.
For those who have never seen one before (I had to look it up):
... my daughter would have forced us to keep it as a pet if we found it in the house. We already have two feral cats that are now pets, because she insisted. One is a black cat that was a month old kitten, and the other was a 1 year old tortoise shell female that won't even come near us, but lets my daughter pet her on occasion.
While what you pictured is definitely a shrew, the one I caught had more of a "normal" looking nose, although still long and pointed. More like this...
Size-wise, its body (minus tail) was about four or five inches long, and rather meaty. Great snack for an owl.
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I had an adventure with a different kind of rodent, but a rodent nevertheless. Somehow, a large shrew got into my house.
I stand corrected. Shrews apparently, are not rodents. Interesting info Here.
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Opening scene, October,1950, a UFO zapped the gyros, disabling the guidance system of the V2, a nuclear warhead, the rocket aimed directly at Pyongyang from Okinawa. Harry Truman was informed of the test failure, expressing his disappointment, ' Salvage the nuke, get another rocket beneath it, fast ! ' General MacArthur was told, ' Another dud ! ' ' Get me the nukes I need ! I'm gonna hit Peking if Mao refuses to retreat to the Yalu River ! ' So, what that means is that the Aliens intend to intervene, disabling MIRV ICBMs in flight, making useless missile subs, silos in the midwest, the Kamchatka Peninsula. All good, right ? ' Freaking Aliens, wrecking our weapon systems ! '
Miss Sweden 1956, really ugly dogs with fake hair & fangs, Deputy Roscoe P Coltrane, and Deputy Festus Hagan all in this definitive 1959 shrew documentary.
