Should he by some miracle ever get past the permanent restraining order, he will see how much can be regarded as "threats" and how much as "reality."littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:How continual threats of squishment and dismemberment translate into loyalty is beyond me . . . but you guys are weird . . . Ody says so . . .littlebeast13 wrote:
Shirley Ugest!
Matias had to be #1, or I'd have been run off the Bored......
And me and ES put a premium on loyalty.... and you've been at my mercy for a decade now....
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ES knows they are just empty threats. In fact, I think he sees it more as flirting than anything.....
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-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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SportsFan68 wrote:Should he by some miracle ever get past the permanent restraining order, he will see how much can be regarded as "threats" and how much as "reality."littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:
How continual threats of squishment and dismemberment translate into loyalty is beyond me . . . but you guys are weird . . . Ody says so . . .
ES knows they are just empty threats. In fact, I think he sees it more as flirting than anything.....
lb13
I need to get out there so you can give me my holiday scritches before I have to take this mistletoe back to the place I rented it from.....
Squirrels are the architects of forests, the planters of trees, nature's own acrobats and show a zest for life that can inspire us. Every day should be National Squirrel Appreciation Day!
--squirrelmama (10/3/07)
Many of these (squirrel) migrations were probably caused by food shortages as well as habitat overcrowding. We solved that for them. We not only reduced their habitat, we reduced the whole species by about 90%. The least we can do now is share a little birdseed with them.
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--squirrelmama (10/3/07)
Many of these (squirrel) migrations were probably caused by food shortages as well as habitat overcrowding. We solved that for them. We not only reduced their habitat, we reduced the whole species by about 90%. The least we can do now is share a little birdseed with them.
--Richard E. Mallery
2008 Squirrel of the Year Award winner
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Take it back. Now. nownownownnow!!!!!!!!!!!11111Evil Squirrel wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:Should he by some miracle ever get past the permanent restraining order, he will see how much can be regarded as "threats" and how much as "reality."littlebeast13 wrote:
ES knows they are just empty threats. In fact, I think he sees it more as flirting than anything.....
lb13
I need to get out there so you can give me my holiday scritches before I have to take this mistletoe back to the place I rented it from.....
You look ridiculous.
Good grief.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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SportsFan68 wrote:Take it back. Now. nownownownnow!!!!!!!!!!!11111Evil Squirrel wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:
Should he by some miracle ever get past the permanent restraining order, he will see how much can be regarded as "threats" and how much as "reality."
I need to get out there so you can give me my holiday scritches before I have to take this mistletoe back to the place I rented it from.....
You look ridiculous.
Good grief.
He looks scritchably cute, and you know it!
Go ahead, make a resolution to be kinder to rodents......
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You're dreamin again.littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:Take it back. Now. nownownownnow!!!!!!!!!!!11111Evil Squirrel wrote:
I need to get out there so you can give me my holiday scritches before I have to take this mistletoe back to the place I rented it from.....
You look ridiculous.
Good grief.
He looks scritchably cute, and you know it!
Go ahead, make a resolution to be kinder to rodents......
lb13
In fact, you're delusional.
I knew it would come to this . . .
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Don't worry, ES has been getting ready to hibernate:SportsFan68 wrote:You're dreamin again.littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:
Take it back. Now. nownownownnow!!!!!!!!!!!11111
You look ridiculous.
Good grief.
He looks scritchably cute, and you know it!
Go ahead, make a resolution to be kinder to rodents......
lb13
In fact, you're delusional.
I knew it would come to this . . .
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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SportsFan68
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I keep hoping . . .Bob Juch wrote:. . .
Don't worry, ES has been getting ready to hibernate:
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Sorry, Sprots. I love the #1 avatar! It is just so squishably cute! The wraparound is perfect. It's just precious.
However, I will leave it to you whether it's scritch-worthy.
However, I will leave it to you whether it's scritch-worthy.
Well, then
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The little tag underneath the avatar says it all: NO SCRITCHES!Beebs52 wrote:Sorry, Sprots. I love the #1 avatar! It is just so squishably cute! The wraparound is perfect. It's just precious.
However, I will leave it to you whether it's scritch-worthy.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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You know you love it. You KNOW you love it...SportsFan68 wrote:The little tag underneath the avatar says it all: NO SCRITCHES!Beebs52 wrote:Sorry, Sprots. I love the #1 avatar! It is just so squishably cute! The wraparound is perfect. It's just precious.
However, I will leave it to you whether it's scritch-worthy.
hee hee hee
Well, then
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Bob Juch wrote:Don't worry, ES has been getting ready to hibernate:SportsFan68 wrote:You're dreamin again.littlebeast13 wrote:
He looks scritchably cute, and you know it!
Go ahead, make a resolution to be kinder to rodents......
lb13
In fact, you're delusional.
I knew it would come to this . . .
I don't think we need any more nuts on this bored.
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Not that I want to re-live the avatar rankings, but I can't resist telling y'all about something United Blood Services does. If you donate at least three times during a year, you're guaranteed a prize. First, everyone is entered into a drawing for a Harley. which I did not win. Then there are some "lesser" prizes, like bicycles, I-pods, that type thing, which I also did not win. Everybody else, including me, gets a calendar with her/his name in the coolest designs! I'm gonna scan one in and use it as an avatar. Maybe all six of 'em.littlebeast13 wrote:#5: "Hiya Plasma Partner!"
Debuted: 9/8/09
Tennis Guy posted an article about a man who reached the 40 gallon mark for blood donation. Sprots made the mistake of saying she was working on her 16th gallon donated. That just opened up the door for ES to come up with this little avatar, one which not only got the usual reaction from Sprots, but had the doubly wonderful effect of actually being called out by several people on the Bored as really cute. And the key was in something I added merely as an afterthought..... the wave. It always amazes me what things people notice, both good and bad, in my drawings that I really didn't give much thought to... and this may be my favorite one of those little unexpected details. Fanny provided the line that became this avatar's title, and it was even used for the edition title of the rankings that week....
lb13
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Thanks, Sprots. Blood donors are very much appreciated.SportsFan68 wrote:Not that I want to re-live the avatar rankings, but I can't resist telling y'all about something United Blood Services does. If you donate at least three times during a year, you're guaranteed a prize. First, everyone is entered into a drawing for a Harley. which I did not win. Then there are some "lesser" prizes, like bicycles, I-pods, that type thing, which I also did not win. Everybody else, including me, gets a calendar with her/his name in the coolest designs! I'm gonna scan one in and use it as an avatar. Maybe all six of 'em.littlebeast13 wrote:#5: "Hiya Plasma Partner!"
Debuted: 9/8/09
Tennis Guy posted an article about a man who reached the 40 gallon mark for blood donation. Sprots made the mistake of saying she was working on her 16th gallon donated. That just opened up the door for ES to come up with this little avatar, one which not only got the usual reaction from Sprots, but had the doubly wonderful effect of actually being called out by several people on the Bored as really cute. And the key was in something I added merely as an afterthought..... the wave. It always amazes me what things people notice, both good and bad, in my drawings that I really didn't give much thought to... and this may be my favorite one of those little unexpected details. Fanny provided the line that became this avatar's title, and it was even used for the edition title of the rankings that week....
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kay
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I could have sworn there were more months in the calendar? Or is this a Mayan earlybirdThen there are some "lesser" prizes, like bicycles, I-pods, that type thing, which I also did not win. Everybody else, including me, gets a calendar with her/his name in the coolest designs! I'm gonna scan one in and use it as an avatar. Maybe all six of 'em.
special?
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hee hee hee. Aw c'mon, those Matias ones are adorable! The kid's so darn cute - he's simply being honored by such devotion from the young squirrel.SportsFan68 wrote:Sprots was NOT "practically ecstatic." She almost levitated at this misrepresentation of Matias's relationship with mangy rodents.littlebeast13 wrote:#1: "Matias Loves ES!"
Debuted: 11/1/09
So you've been following the countdown for 2 weeks now and wondered why the hell there were no Matias avatars in it yet. Well, I probably could have easily had all five Matias avatars I did in the Top 10, but in fairness to everything else, I merely chose the best one, and the one I think the Bored liked the best, and this was definitely the one. The fourth of my five Matias avatars, and one of two whose ideas were PM'ed to me by ES's fans. This one came courtesy of Holly (that's Second Chance for those of you who don't pay attention!), who thought Sprots' new avatar of Matias looking all happy in the snow was just begging for a picture of ES in his arms getting ready to plant a big ol' kiss on him. ES was even kind enough to keep him warm by wrapping his bushy tail around Matias. It sure seems to have made Matias happy, and Sprots was practically ecstatic!
Congrats ES and Matias for getting the number one slot! You two may now ride off into the sunset together......
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lb13
I admit that I did forget the BB reaction to the Matias avatars, and it also escaped me that he didn't get earlier in the Top 13. There actually was no doubt in my mind that Hooly would get the top spot.
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I wish! I've already started telling my Toastmasters friends that I'm giving my final speech on Dec. 21, 2012, because there won't be a Dec. 22.ulysses5019 wrote:I could have sworn there were more months in the calendar? Or is this a Mayan earlybird special?Then there are some "lesser" prizes, like bicycles, I-pods, that type thing, which I also did not win. Everybody else, including me, gets a calendar with her/his name in the coolest designs! I'm gonna scan one in and use it as an avatar. Maybe all six of 'em.
But it's totally prosaic. They put two months under every picture.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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secondchance wrote: hee hee hee. Aw c'mon, those Matias ones are adorable! The kid's so darn cute - he's simply being honored by such devotion from the young squirrel.
Matias IS adorable. ES, not so much . . .
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Have you ever been within scritchable distance of ES?SportsFan68 wrote:secondchance wrote: hee hee hee. Aw c'mon, those Matias ones are adorable! The kid's so darn cute - he's simply being honored by such devotion from the young squirrel.
Matias IS adorable. ES, not so much . . .
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SportsFan68
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Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .ulysses5019 wrote:Have you ever been within scritchable distance of ES?SportsFan68 wrote:secondchance wrote: hee hee hee. Aw c'mon, those Matias ones are adorable! The kid's so darn cute - he's simply being honored by such devotion from the young squirrel.
Matias IS adorable. ES, not so much . . .
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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SportsFan68 wrote:Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .ulysses5019 wrote:Have you ever been within scritchable distance of ES?SportsFan68 wrote:
Matias IS adorable. ES, not so much . . .
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
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littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .ulysses5019 wrote:
Have you ever been within scritchable distance of ES?
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
lb13
Awww, that would so cute with ES whispering sweet nothings in your ear.
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SportsFan68
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No, he can't help.littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .ulysses5019 wrote:
Have you ever been within scritchable distance of ES?
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
lb13
No, he can't perch on my shoulder.
No, he can't enter the State of Colorado.
Good grief.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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ES will never be close enough to me to whisper, or even speak to me.ulysses5019 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:
Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
lb13
Awww, that would so cute with ES whispering sweet nothings in your ear.
Good grief.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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SportsFan68 wrote:ES will never be close enough to me to whisper, or even speak to me.ulysses5019 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
lb13
Awww, that would so cute with ES whispering sweet nothings in your ear.
Good grief.
If you keep repeating that, one of these times you may actually begin to believe it......
You can't fight the inevitable Sprots..... you and ES were made for each other....
lb13
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SportsFan68 wrote:No, he can't help.littlebeast13 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:
Nope. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be . . .
ES will help you with one of those Toastmasters speeches. He can perch on your shoulder.....
lb13
No, he can't perch on my shoulder.
No, he can't enter the State of Colorado.
Good grief.
Can he call you?
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