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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 12:16 pm |
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Denver Zoo Seeks Names For New Penguin
Penguin Naming Challenge: Share Your Suggestion With CBS4
DENVER -- Usually when a baby arrives at the Denver Zoo someone at the zoo gets the privilege of naming the animal. This time around the zoo has decided to do things a little differently.
A young male African penguin hatched at the zoo on Oct. 18, and zoo officials have asked Denver media outlets, including CBS4, to ask for viewer's ideas for a name. The penguin's parents are named Big Head Todd and Ruth.
Share your suggestion with CBS4 in a special feedback form (http://reg.cbs4denver.com/registrations/reg_123118) and soon we'll ask you to vote on some of the best suggestions. We'll then submit our top vote-getting name to the zoo for their consideration.
What about Cracker Jax???  ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 12:22 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote:
FatPappy wrote: Pappy was able to sneak a little bacon in on my diet this mornin'. It's the first bacon I've had since the last time I had bacon. Hee hee!
I guess I join Mike's ranks now (where bacon's concerned)
Had one of them cholesterol screenings run at work where it's free, came back with all the numbers wrong. I still think I got somebody elses.
Went to the Doctor, he said "here's your new diet, and by the way if you dropped 20 lbs, lots of your troubles would go away" Heck, I worked a lifetime to put on them 20#, they're part of me, they're with me everywhere I go, and now I'm supposed to part with them?????
Guess what ain't on the diet??????? so now on the grand-daughter weekends, I'm going to have to cook bacon, smell bacon, handle bacon...........and watch my angel EAT IT ALL !!!!
There oughtta be a law against it!!!! If I can't eat it, it don't come in my house.
Maybe if I cheat when nobody's home to see it????????
Steve-o! At the risk of sounding like your good doctor buddy..... You'd be doing that granddaughter a big favor by not feeding it to her either... Why encourage her to develop a habit you know is bad for her and will affect her health later??? Maybe y'all could find some healthier alternative together!!! Food for thought..... ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 12:56 pm |
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macca wrote:
Steve-o! At the risk of sounding like your good doctor buddy..... You'd be doing that granddaughter a big favor by not feeding it to her either... Why encourage her to develop a habit you know is bad for her and will affect her health later??? Maybe y'all could find some healthier alternative together!!! Food for thought.....
Pappy's havin' oatmeal, orange juice, an' mebbe some toast with fruit jelly fer breakfast before I'm awake enough to resist.
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 02:54 pm |
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| Shore is windy today. Pappy's hat blowed off a minute ago an' my hair (singular) got free in the breeze an' 'bout whipped me into unconsciousness a-thrashun' around up yonder. I need to borry Mammy's chainsaw an' prune the thang back a little, 'specially since we got ice a-comin' tomorry. On the plus side, all them little black an' blue bruises on my scalp is gonna make it look like I got hair (plural) from a distance. Hee hee!
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 03:28 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: macca wrote:
Steve-o! At the risk of sounding like your good doctor buddy..... You'd be doing that granddaughter a big favor by not feeding it to her either... Why encourage her to develop a habit you know is bad for her and will affect her health later??? Maybe y'all could find some healthier alternative together!!! Food for thought.....
Pappy's havin' oatmeal, orange juice, an' mebbe some toast with fruit jelly fer breakfast before I'm awake enough to resist.
Guess I didn't tell the whole story.
She doesn't get bacon at home, so its a treat when she comes to Papaw's house. Guess we'll find a different treat, she loves Fruity Pebbles too fortunately.
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 04:14 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote:
FatPappy wrote:Pappy's havin' oatmeal, orange juice, an' mebbe some toast with fruit jelly fer breakfast before I'm awake enough to resist.
Guess I didn't tell the whole story.
She doesn't get bacon at home, so its a treat when she comes to Papaw's house. Guess we'll find a different treat, she loves Fruity Pebbles too fortunately.
That's OK, Steve. I may not have told the whole story either...
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 04:27 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: That's OK, Steve. I may not have told the whole story either...
I would never have suspected.........don't worry, I won't tell a soul
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Posted: Jan 20th, 2007 05:01 pm |
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| I sent out a mass PM earlier today, all be sure to check your PM's please
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 01:30 am |
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| Shore is quiet...mebbe a little too quiet...
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 02:09 am |
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I was gonna do that Jerry Clower yell for ya Pappy, so you'd know I was still around, but I couldn't quite remember how it went........
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 03:22 am |
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We just returned from the Ronnie Milsap / George Strait concert a the Coliseum.
Both put on a great concert, the place was completely full.
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 08:58 am |
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Steve Adkins wrote: We just returned from the Ronnie Milsap / George Strait concert a the Coliseum.
Both put on a great concert, the place was completely full.
Steve, about the same time as the earliest concertgoers were trying to get INTO the coliseum and coliseum parking lot, a friend and I were trying to get OUT of the same, with the first of two large truck and trailer loads of trees which I purchased from the NCAN trade show, which starting breaking down their exhibits at 3 PM. We left with the first load around 6 PM and brought that load back to Stokesdale where we parked it in my yard, and then turned around and went right back for the 2nd load pickup. It took us almost an hour just to get from the I-40 exit at High Point Road back to the coliseum around 7:30. It was bumper to bumper traffic and as you said, the place must have been full based on a full parking lot.
There was a pick-up truck load of young cowboys and cowgals who rode along beside us up High Point Road who seemed to be having a lot of fun and raising a great deal of cane in the back of this rather large pick-up truck (no doubt a 'hemi'). When they kept screaming George Strait, George Strait, I feigned innocence and hollered to ask them if George Strait wasn't the former drummer for the Bare Naked Ladies or the name of some well known reggae group. That looked at me as if I were from some alien planet when I said that, but that got a hoot out of them and more yells and cheers (no doubt somewhat alcohol induced on their part).
It sure seemed like everyone was having fun and on their way to a grand night of wonderful country music. Wish I could have been there but there was just too much work to do with getting all these trees home from the nursery show. After three days of looking at and talking up trees and plants with nurserymen from all over North Carolina and several others states, I am about "tree'd" out for a while and face several days of digging, planting and staking in the next few days as the weather allows.
I was able to pick up for pennies on the dollar prices a rather large and nice stock of some wonderful and in many cases wonderfully large specimen trees, about half of which will be decorated in the years ahead and used as Christmas trees, and the other half as 'street' trees. The largest tree which we brought back was a huge 20 foot very full leyland cypress which will be a 'centerpiece tree' when I can figure out where in heck to plant it. It was the largest tree they had featured in the coliseum last week and it took a small crane to load that monster on our truck. The reason we were able to buy it for almost nothing, was that no one else wanted to fool with having to move it and transport it out of the coliseum.
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 11:48 am |
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I was gonna do that Jerry Clower yell for ya Pappy, so you'd know I was still around, but I couldn't quite remember how it went........
That's HAW!, Crackah.
I wisht I'd seen you out thar, Crackah. Pappy's trackin' skills start fadin' after dark.
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 12:05 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Pappy's trackin' skills start fadin' after dark.
Unless, of course, Pappy is tracking bacon.....
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Posted: Jan 21st, 2007 12:16 pm |
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Well, Steve, I wouldn't have pegged you fer a George Strait fan. But then most folks wouldn't peg me fer a trained cage fighter, so there ya go. Glad you enjoyed it.
Mr Jim, cain't nobody accuse you o' goin' about thangs in a half-hearted way. Yee haw!
What's the weather gonna do? Pappy seent about five different forecasts for this one area. I coulda got that many readin's off my five right toes. I shoulda been a weather man. "Today's weather, if we have any, will hit the ground, unless it misses, from somewhere way up yonder in the the sasquatchosphere, while daylight will only be occurrin' durin' the daytime hours except in the root cellar or on TV." There, that's prob'ly as accurate a forecast as any I heered lately.
Reckon I'll mosey in the kitchen an' rustle up some healthy food. Mmm, mmm...good ol' stick-to-yer-ribs cholesterol-fightin' oatmeal with cinnamon from da islands, mon! Yee haw! Give that ol' cholesterol one up side the haid, oatmeal, an' tell 'em Pappy sent ya!
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