h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hides in corner as someone who likes grey squirrels.
True they do occasionally eat young birds/eggs but not often. They certainly eat nuts, etc off trees, but I still kind of like them. I heard a strange noise last year and it was a squirrel hanging upside down by its toes from a gutter three floors up pinching and eating peanuts from a bird feeder, it carried on for at least ten minutes none stop without a care in the world.
I like it when they stand on their back legs on the lawn and look around with those "Tuffty Club" back legs. They make a clucking noise like a bird and sometimes sound like a Magpie, Crow or Parakeet, which can be a bit confusing.
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Squirrels are cheaky chapies and ready to run in and pinch any sort of food really, even a whole quatre of pizza. I think one got trapped in one of out plastic Wheelie Bin dustbins and chewed its way out by the look of the teeth marks.
I am reminded of a woman on a TV programme who reported a new type of squirrel with a furless tail she had been feeding in her local park, it turns out she had been feeding rats!

Squirrels are really clever at getting into birdfeeders... I remember a program on PBS that talked about building an obstacle course for squirrels - tightropes, hanging feeders, little swings... The squirrel navigated it all with ease.

I like squirrels. One of my neighbors hates them. He sets a live trap near his birdfeeder and then takes the trapped squirrels to the nearest city park and lets them loose. I guess I should be happy he's not killing them, but I wish he would leave them alone.

Funny thing about that Harry Potter spoiler link - the second time I clicked it it gave a very accurate description of the real ending to HP7, apart from the daleks.

Time again for the link to Scary Squirrel World
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/
I think I post that here every 614th day.

I saw a squirrel while out hiking last weekend. At first I thought (against all reason, since I'm well south of the Kaibab forest) that it was a Kaibab squirrel because of it's very big, bushy tail. But I think it's ears were not large and tufty enough to be a Kaibab. Also, while it's tail was grey, it's body had a reddish tinge to it. Is this a normal red squirrel? Either it was following me, or I saw about 5 (it was the kind of hike where seeing 5 wouldn't be too surprising). Anyone know what squirrels are native to the Coconino National Forest?

Irv, I think the tufted red squirrel is native (if I'm remembering the one lone tour thingy I took when I worked at the Canyon).

Just went to the new Whole Foods that opened near me, and have discovered why they call it "whole paycheck". Insanely expensive!

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This conversation is getting squirrelly. We're starting a new one not a moment too soon.

>Either it was following me, or I saw about 5
Hmmmm - is there a medical condition related to being followed by squirrels...?

Tough week this is - I have exactly tonight as the one where I'm not doing anything in the evening. Mon was dog training, Tue parents meeting at school, yesterday was scouting & tomorrow will be the annual party in the (whachamacallit?) after-school-hour-place for the 10-16+ years. At least that will feature music and !

*despite all odds tighten dowm the velcro straps on his shoes*

Her Grace Lady Amy the Paragon of Goosnargh on the Carpet (apparently related to, or a neighbor of, Santra) opens her cookie to read, 'Never taunt a mammoth with a fruit pastille.'

That reminds me--anyone seen WM lately?

Welcome to the neighborhood Amy - I didn't realise you'd relocated here

It's bill time here-need to pay electricity, and as we now have one, car tax. And we discovered this morning that housemate No. 3 didn't, despite saying he would, pay last months internet bill *sends rabid giant squirrel monster upstairs*

I'm hoping the sun comes out here so it's nice to do the gardening, which reminds me-must water veg plants.

<<"Creepy Fetish Elf" does bring to mind some unwanted images...>>

It gave a lot of the other players unwanted images too! No, no, I didn’t get naked or anything it was more a case of “hmm… bipedal, pulse… fair game”… especially the Beastkin as they’ve got claws! Spending an entire evening coming on to most of the player characters was bizarrely fun (and I have to admit, without getting into ‘too much info’ territory, that playing the character mostly required nothing more than turning certain aspects of my own personality up to eleven).

Squirrels!?! I saw my first ever Red (i.e ‘proper’) Squirrel while in Scotland!

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Just finished reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson (in Swedish) - and what a fascinating read that was! I wish my school books had been as interesting and entertaining...

Although I did feel a bit offended being genetically compared with bananas and grass!

Currently reading 'Short History...' (in English). It's a great book, though (as I discovered last week) not one to read when you've been awake for 48 hours. Even laymans terms get confusing when you're tired.

Just wondering whether any of the salonistas across the pond *were* offended by this:

http://www.katize.com/2007/08/29/bush-porn-picture/

Rather a good portrait, I thought.

I don't find it offensive in the least, in fact without the description I think it would be difficult to tell that there was anything unusual about it. And it seems to me to be a misfire - if it had been a collage made from images of the war dead or injured, that would have been terribly offensive -- and accurate.

d'E, I recently read a review of the film 'Marley and me' and I was wondering if you had seen it and, if so, if it was anything like your life with Zeppo and Gummo?

Clean cups! Clean cups!
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