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Chit Chat / Re: why do people who have no clue argue their point???

« on: February 26, 2009, 01:59:53 PM »

I went to a crab house in Maryland once. It was the traditional brown paper covered tables on the place and they dumped baskets of cooked crabs on the table.  All around were bits and pieces of crab flying through the air as a horde of hungry crab eaters pounded away with their little wooden hammers making an awful din.   I had crab cakes myself, but the person I was with took part in the crustacean carnage.

Now a lobster is very different.  A nice 1 1/2 to 2 lb lobster will reward your effort at dismantling it.  This winter live lobster was down to $8.99 a lb around here.   So one day I cooked two that were a bit over 2 lbs each and didn't even feel I was being extravagant.

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Chit Chat / Re: why do people who have no clue argue their point???

« on: February 25, 2009, 10:58:25 AM »

As Robert Heinlein said many years ago "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig".

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Pond Chat / Re: Snails..........

« on: May 28, 2008, 06:15:50 AM »

I have a large population of Japanese Black trapdoor snails in my 940 gal. garden pond, and I've never had a problem with them eating plants.  They go over the liner, pots, rocks and everything in the pond eating algae while the tadpoles go over them.  The only real problem is that when removing excess plants from the pond or scooping out muck from the bottom of the pond, I have to sift through the debris to find all the snails and put them back in the pond. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Need to ask some questions about a duck.......

« on: April 18, 2008, 10:35:10 AM »

If yopu go to this site you can find a wildlife rehabilitator in your area.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm