OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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EDIT: As for your name i can understand the problems there with people not believing you. I get it with my birthday, I was born on September 11th so many people won't accept that it is and give me a good lecture on making fun of a terrible day or i get shifty eyed looks, quite weird as there must be thousands of people born on that day...

I've never quite gotten that sort of response myself...

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Really? i find that quite strange considering you live in the country it happened in. Then again i live in the north of england and it really is a closed minded area, anything to judge you by or grab the soap box if you know what i mean....Kind of Like Politicians .

We now return you to CW's intended scheduling of this thread before it is hijacked

[ May 30, 2004, 20:17: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[tesco samoa]

this looks like fun

Is that your real name?

No. My real name is Simon

Have any Hobbies

Yes, Reading, Gardening, Gaming , Writing.

If you play Se4 how long have you played?

Too long according to my wife

Do you like your toliet paper over the top of the roll or under the bottom?

both

What is your favorite breakfast food?

peanut butter sandwitch ( all natuaral organic peanut butter on flax bread or sour dough ) and a glass of oj

If you could make one wish what would it be?

To win the stanley cup as the captain of the leafs.

Yes, or No?

the middle one

Married?

yes

Where do you live(you don't have to be specific)?
Canada

Childern?

no

Pets?

1 cat

What is the meaning of life?

to answer the old man from scene 42 correctly

What is you specialist subject?

history

[Combat Wombat]

Everyone just keep asking questions I guess.

[tesco samoa]

Hey Gandalf Parker wildlife management sounds interesting and very enjoyable. What do you do with that .

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Hey Gandalf Parker wildlife management sounds interesting and very enjoyable. What do you do with that .

In the military they were great at finding out that you had a hobby, then "volunteering" you to help them out. It had its pros and cons. Nice to get some training and support in what was a hobby but rotten to turn a hobby into work.

Just about the time that my computer-hobby-turned-job was getting to me they offered to turn my animal-handling into work. There was a rabies scare and I was drafted to take care of a feral cat problem. In standard military fashion they widened it to I got called an anything that was alive and the security police didnt want

I had a 95% live-capture/relocate rate which is pretty good considering some of it. Had some interesting pets for awhile. A "wolf" which turned out to be an over-energetic dog became one of the best pets Ive ever had. a 6-foot wingspan vulture we had for a short time. a 6 foot "rattlesnake" I got called on which turned out to be a bull snake but it was neat so we kept it for a few years. A "tarantula" was a fun story. About the size of my hand. The SecPol that called me said "I stomped it, it got up, I called you". Made a great pet also. There was the time I got called to "get the possum out of the skunk house" (the people had a pet skunk and a possum took over the skunks dog-house in the yard.

Of course there were also real rattlesnakes, and "giant rats" (usually oppossums), a bull, skunks, bats, an eagle, an escaped cockatoo, some pitbull calls, mmm thats all I can think of for now. The worst of all were the cats-gone-wild though. I lost 2 partners that were laid up for weeks from trying to handle them.

I also got to do Environmental Impact Reports, Endangered Species Surveys, and became the only "Park Ranger" on the 10 acre park we had with a 2acre pond.

Lots of fun and it was a nice switch from the computer room. After awhile they developed a big "computer problem" (trying to migrate projects from the huge mainframes to PCs) and I got flip-flopped back.

I havent done much with it since I got out of the military except back to training my own pets and impressing people. Ive debated applying to the city to manage their park/pond (their fishing could really stand to be improved). I especially think of it everytime I notice what this computer life is doing to my waistline.

Did you know that Internet is fattening?

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Did you know that Internet is fattening?

LOL! Never thought about it, but yea, I can see your point. And all the people think about fat when they should reduce Internet...

[Puke]

Animal handling. I saw some photos - from the Congo, I think - of these guys walking Hyenas.

They looked like the local equivilant of gang bangers, as they all had this "Im tougher than you" kind of look, and red rags tied around their biceps. I dont know if they fought the Hyenas like cocks or dogs, or if they just walked them for exercise, but they had them on some heavy chains - and *most* of them were muzzled.

A Hyena is no small animal, either. Giant muscle bound things that were more than waist heigh at its shoulder - and thats waist high on a big African that looked to be at least a head taller than me. And Im a good six feet.

Some other guy in the background of one of the photos had an ape (not a monkey, an ape that looked to be about 3-500 lbs) on a chain. None of the pedestrians seemed to pay any notice to any of it.

Inner city Africa has some whacky stuff. Anyone have first hand accounts?