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Thread: Could cheerful ferrets be persuaded to take up knitting?

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    The Wall Street wizards have all turned Harry Potter fanboi...
    Ferrets are making their own life-sized versions of Mouse Trap...
    Madonna, single again, has hired Alan Colmes' dietitian and makeup team and is looking fabulous...

    Mad Magazine foretold of this coming cataclysm. I just wish we'd taken it seriously.

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    I understand banning, but where do the moderators suspend posters? How high off the ground are they suspended?

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    Where? Nobody really knows, but some say it's at the Mile High Ferret Club: Ferret Health Fair. (apparently it really exists - note towards the end of the page, there's mention of Ferret Evacuation Kits. The mind boggles.)

    How high? Knee-high to a ferret.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike alexander View Post
    I understand banning, but where do the moderators suspend posters? How high off the ground are they suspended?
    It relates to the number of points they have received, the greater the number of points, they higher we hang them. The exact relationship is a secret, but our units of height are FL (ferret lengths). The international ferret length standard is a "golden" ferret named Marty (well, I think he's more of a copper color, but we are splitting hares) - he is kept in a special chamber in Copenhagen. I believe NIST has a secondary ferret standard named Burt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swift View Post
    It relates to the number of points they have received, the greater the number of points, they higher we hang them. The exact relationship is a secret, but our units of height are FL (ferret lengths). The international ferret length standard is a "golden" ferret named Marty (well, I think he's more of a copper color, but we are splitting hares) - he is kept in a special chamber in Copenhagen. I believe NIST has a secondary ferret standard named Burt.
    Hey, is that taking into account special relativity? Because if it's not, then you are giving only a partial answer and that's unfair and misleading and may lead to splitting ferret hairs. Or threads, even.
    So many bugs, so little time.

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    Careful. Ferrets, particularly the disco ones, are very touchy about people messing with their threads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ABR. View Post
    Hey, is that taking into account special relativity? Because if it's not, then you are giving only a partial answer and that's unfair and misleading and may lead to splitting ferret hairs. Or threads, even.
    I have a special relative who takes care of my accounting, my "uncle" Vince - is that good enough? Actually, it better be, or he and the boys will come by and split your threads.
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    I had an Uncle Aunt. His full name was Antoine, but we just called him Uncle Aunt to learn new obscenities.

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    What nutters have tried to hang ferrets?
    They will nibble through the rope while
    you try and find a neck.

    Vuvuselas are much more effective at
    making the critters scatter.

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    I once showed my vuvuselas to a group of ferrets and they immediately ran away. Immediately after that the police arrested me and made me close my overcoat.

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    Caracas is the capital of Vuvuselas.

    Oh, no wait, sorry, that's wrong. Vuvuselas was that volcano in ancient Rome.
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    I thought that a vuvusela was that funny thing that hangs from the back of the thoat...er, make that throat.
    So many bugs, so little time.

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    It's too late, you said thoat and that's what I carved.

    Oh, I always carve sculptures based on your posts. I guess it's time that the truth is known.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoons View Post
    It's too late, you said thoat and that's what I carved.

    Oh, I always carve sculptures based on your posts. I guess it's time that the truth is known.
    If you posts photos of those sculptures in the Share Your Art thread, and ABR. comments on them, and you create a sculpture based on his comments, and then he comments about your comments sculptures, and ... would the causality loop destroy the Universe? I hope so.
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    Ah, the ol' Bruce Lee house of mirrors trick eh? It'd shortly turn into Colbert's portrait painting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoons View Post
    Ah, the ol' Bruce Lee house of mirrors trick eh? It'd shortly turn into Colbert's portrait painting.
    I am Stephen Colbert. Oh, wait. Wrong thread. Surely there's a ferret to blame here.
    So many bugs, so little time.

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    No, I am Tony Curtis!

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    I suppose I had better come clean lest I
    am accused of misleading vast numbers of
    people. I do not know how it happened...
    well I suppose I do, not checking but
    we type off the top of our heads here
    do we not. Its our occupational hazard
    I guess. It is vuvuzela with a z and
    not an s.

    Oh the shame of it...

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    I've been out for awhile ferret hunting in my knitted loin cloth; have I missed much?

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    Quote Originally Posted by uncommonsense View Post
    I've been out for awhile ferret hunting in my knitted loin cloth; have I missed much?
    First, the Earth cooled.
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    Later, in the late devouring period....

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    ...there were croissants. By the end of the devouring period they were gone, but for a few crumbs.

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    I thought the saber-toothed ferret drove the croissants to extinction during the last ice-box age.
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    Oh, yes, that's right. I sit corrected. But then those were driven to extinction by thirsty Cavonauts in the days before ring-pulls on beer cans.

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    Alas, they didn't have "Black Swan" to slack their thirst. alas and alack.

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    Ah, the saber-toothed ferret (genus Smirkodon) -- I have a skull reproduction sitting on my desk. It's next to a reproduction of a Dire Wolf Blitzer skull.
    So many bugs, so little time.

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    I just trapped me a wild Alan Colmes on the weekend. Looking a bit gaunt, so I put out a saucer of milk and some polony. It hasn't come back yet...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ABR. View Post
    ... a Dire Wolf Blitzer skull.

    I suppose such a creature would report only dire news.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swift View Post

    I suppose such a creature would report only dire news.
    I think that would depend on the situation, don't you?
    So many bugs, so little time.

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    Verretwagen recommends rotating your dires every five thousand miles or two ice ages, whichever comes first.

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