Ponderosa

So, your masters have been removing your spurs. That's several role-playing scenarios nixed for you, Lothario. What method did your lords use to emasculate?: 1. File down the tip of the spur with a dremmel or other grinding instrument. Since the spur continuously grows, like the toe nails, this procedure will have to be repeated as the spur tip grows out. 2. The spur can be removed when the rooster is still a chick. A veterinary uses electrocautery to hinder the growing cells of the spur. 3. Instead of cutting them, which is dangerous, you can take a pair of pliers, place them at the base of the spur near the leg, and twist until they come off. It removes the outer sheath of the spur leaving a much smaller spur underneath. I do this to my show roosters as it makes them look more “classy” to the judges’ eye. 4. The plier method will make them bleed, but I have never had one scream in pain yet and I’ve done thousands of roosters like this. Just put some water on the spur and dab some fresh household WHITE SUGAR on it. This will keep the spur clean while helping to clot the blood. The spur shell makes for unique jewelry/pendants too. 5. Wire cutters may also be used by snipping off the tip of the spur. Be careful not to snip off too much as this can cause profuse bleeding and a very unhappy rooster. Cutting too deep means that you’ve cut too far into the new soft spur that is found underneath the old cap. After snipping a metal file may be used to file the edges smooth. 6. This method is said to remove a spur permanently. This is done when the cockerel is 10-16 weeks old and the spur is 1/4 inch long. The spur is cut off close to the cockeral’s leg. After cutting the spur then rub potassium hydroxide into the wound to prevent profuse bleeding and also preventing the spur from regrowing again. 7. Another known method is using an electric calf dehorner and burning them off. This has been said that it is a permanent form of removal. With this method you must be extremely careful not to burn too much or too little. It’s said it doesn’t bother the rooster and he’s back to normal in a couple of days. 8. According to Stromberg’s Book of Poultry is the following: Place a hot baked potato on the spur and hold it there for a few minutes. Remove the baked potato, twist the spur and you will find it comes right off. There is no blood or mess. This technique really works well. 9. A Dremel Motor tool with a cut off wheel attachment may also be used. With this method one person holds the rooster’s leg and the other cutting the spur off just before the quik. There is the risk of cutting too close and profuse bleeding may result.

How then to account for the long periods of history in which these religions existed without explosive population growth? They called it "The Black Death".

And yet you showed up and then contributed less than Kevin E-rock...hmmmm interesting. Perhaps, E-rock perceives the waste in engaging the Josh Lewis of Spray in ten pages of intellectual lolly-gagging. Closing Gitmo is showing to be little more than expensive political window dressing. " The president has said some detainees will be tried in civilian courts, some in military commissions. Others, he said, will be held without trial because they are considered too dangerous to risk acquittal and the evidence against them cannot be used in court, either because of flaws in how it was obtained or secrets it would reveal." from USAToday sounds familiar.

Your delineated "a" is a functional solution to your "b". "Not exactly a surprise, there, at least to some of us."

You're such a downer, man. Agreed. Bug's post is a sad reminder of a heretofore unnamed geriatric pathology: loss of mental faculty.

get familiar with I-be-broken (ibuprofen).

Is that your organically-grown pet retriever you're talkin' about?

Hire a local to fix your computer and quit wasting time hanging on the "Help" lines, Gomer.

what the fuck dude ^ You should see the later depictions where the d00d's got only goats to eat - old ones, like Raindawg.

Call him Max. I do. I haven't actually met him yet, but we're on a first name basis. I'm sure once we meet we'll become good friends. But then, that friendship shall be cleaved when you find you're on opposites of the Great Bolt Divide. Sadly, I've seen it happen all too often.

What the fuck kinda circle-jerk have you nancy boys got goin' here? DOGGAMMIT!

Hugh, you prick. Don't talk about a guy's wife like that.

yes, you may attribute lust to much of your awkwardness.

dope post I was recently given more or less the entire collection... I've been trying to put them in order but every time I sit down to do so I get distracted by one of the articles I was thinking about starting a thread with photos of various articles... thoughts? That would be great. I've got many of the old rags, but since you're willing to do the work, I don't need to dig the dusty volumes out of their cardboard sarcophagi.

Perhaps you're not familiar with the modern vernacular, but when I wrote "dope post" in response to Nolse's posting of the Messner interview/article that means "thanks, great post", you anachronistic coprophag.

' Meanwhile , a black Cambridge police sergeant on the scene the day of Gates' arrest wrote a letter to Crowley, asking him to mention to Gates and Obama that he is now known as the "black sergeant" and to some others as an "uncle Tom." "I'm forced to ponder the notion that as a result of speaking the truth and coming to the defense of a friend and colleague, who just happens to be white, that I have somehow betrayed my heritage," Sgt. Leon Lashley wrote. "Please convey my concerns to the president that Mr. Gates' actions may have caused grave and potentially irreparable harm to the struggle for racial harmony in this country and perhaps throughout the world." Lashley wrote in the letter he would like Gates to reflect on the incident and ask himself what responsibility he bears, what he can do to heal the rift and what he can do to mitigate the damage done to the officers' reputations.' from CNN

dope post

It's a bummer when the rock-drill is bent.

looks like razor burn.

you've done that, previously.

eggcellent

Izzat Jennifer Connelly in the front?

Oh, that's such bullshit! Everybody knows Barry was born in Kenya. He was swingin' on the tit when he entered Hawaii. That birth certificate is too new to be 48-years-old.

Glad to see you're finally comin' 'round to some levity. Really..."too many"? If an issue like this is sufficient to splinter a friendship, it wasn't much of a friendship to begin with.