Post Race!

[homer13j]

"These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile."

-Ayrton Senna (21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994)

[Shaggy Hiker]

Let me resurrect this thread to announce: I have returned!

(if anybody would like a toenail, I am losing seven of them, though two have already fallen off)

[dclamp]

Welcome back,

How was the expedition?

[homer13j]

Let me resurrect this thread to announce: I have returned!

(if anybody would like a toenail, I am losing seven of them, though two have already fallen off)

Ew. What did you do? Reenact the Bataan Death March?

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Let me resurrect this thread to announce: I have returned!

Welcome back, how was the hike?

(if anybody would like a toenail, I am losing seven of them, though two have already fallen off)

That's very careless of you, you may need to go to a very different kind of site to find toenail aficionados that want your dead toenails.

[dday9]

Glad to see that you're back. I clapped like a little girl when I saw you responded to a thread in the VB.Net forums.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The hike was pretty awesome. I never wanted to hike southern California because it just didn't sound appealing. Hiking in the desert is not high on my list of things to do. However, a friend at work said she was going to do it and invited me to join in. Since I had company, I figured I might as well. As it turns out, the desert of southern CA is a whole lot nicer than the desert of southern ID. For one thing, you have vegetation tall enough to provide some shade. Crossing southern Idaho, I was desperate for shade to get out of the unrelenting sun, but there was plenty of shade to be had in southern California. Interestingly, we barely needed the shade, too, because it got cold whenever we descended to low elevations and warmed up whenever we ascended. The three lowest points on the trail happened to coincide with weather shifts that dramatically cooled the weather, while we were at high elevation for the warm periods in between. For example, when I got down to the I-10 crossing, which was as flat and exposed as it looked on Google Earth, it was cold and windy enough that it was quite comfortable (somewhere in the upper 60s for temperature). People who went through there a week later had temperatures over 100 degrees.

There was lots of life, too, though almost entirely of the reptilian kind. I saw only one rattlesnake, and a few other types of snakes that I have not identified, yet (I have pictures, though, so I'll be able to track them down), but there were thousands of lizards of various species scurrying around. We did see coyotes, turkeys, a bobcat, and a variety of other animals, though mostly we saw a bunch of smelly hikers. At deep creek hotsprings, there were lots of tacos and sausage, too. And I guess I'll leave that there.

[dday9]

Turkeys are tough game to hunt, I'm surprised that y'all saw some.

[Niya]

Turkeys are tough game to hunt, I'm surprised that y'all saw some.

How about coyote ? I bet they taste real nice.

[Niya]

I wanna eat me some bobcat too.....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Turkeys are tough to hunt. They're pretty smart birds...most of the time. Oddly, they aren't all that difficult to see. Perhaps they just know when they have to be careful and when they don't. The ones we saw were on the edge of a public campground in a state park. They wouldn't get any legal hunting pressure there, so they might have been much less wary.

[dday9]

We have turkeys out on the property that I hunt on and while I've personally never seen them, I have heard them. But then again I've never purposely gone to hunt turkey. Personally I like hunting squirrel and duck.

[homer13j]

Where I'm from Wild Turkey only comes in a bottle.

[Niya]

We have turkeys out on the property that I hunt on and while I've personally never seen them, I have heard them. But then again I've never purposely gone to hunt turkey. Personally I like hunting squirrel and duck.

Squirrels ? Those tiny rats can actually full a human's stomach ?

[Niya]

Know what I wanna eat b4 I die ?..........................Human....

[Niya]

Bet humans taste real good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Squirrels ? Those tiny rats can actually full a human's stomach ?

It takes a few.

[Niya]

A coyote can fill a couple humans. Why should I want squirrels ?

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Bet humans taste real good.

Probably only the vegetarian ones, or have you not noticed that 99% of the meat we eat is from animals that have a vegetarian diet, and its that way for a reason - taste !

Maybe that what we can use all the Vegetarians and Vegans for, when we finally run out of animals to eat.

[dday9]

Squirrels are good eating. If you eat them by themselves then it could take 2 - 3 to get full, sometimes we make a squirrel dumpling but the majority of the time I'll throw them in a gumbo.

[dday9]

If they're in a gumbo then 3 - 4 of them can fill up the meat portion of the gumbo.

[Niya]

Probably only the vegetarian ones, or have you not noticed that 99% of the meat we eat is from animals that have a vegetarian diet, and its that way for a reason - taste !

Maybe that what we can use all the Vegetarians and Vegans for, when we finally run out of animals to eat.

I read somewhere that humans taste like pork.

[Niya]

Squirrels are good eating. If you eat them by themselves then it could take 2 - 3 to get full, sometimes we make a squirrel dumpling but the majority of the time I'll throw them in a gumbo.

2 to 3 ? Seems like it would take 10. Squirrels are so small!

[Niya]

Here's a description of what a human being tastes like.

In 2007, psychotic German cannibal Armin Meiwes -- who's serving a life sentence for killing and eating a man -- likened his elaborate meal to pork, Spiegel Online reported at the time. In his first TV interview, Meiwes said his dish consisted of human steak in a green pepper sauce with croquettes and Brussels sprouts.

"I sauteed the steak of Bernd, with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg. I had it with Princess croquettes, Brussels sprouts and a green pepper sauce," he said. "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good."

There are plenty of accounts from serial killers and Polynesian cannibals comparing human to pork, but not everybody agrees, according to The Smithsonian. In the 1920s, journalist William Seabrook traveled to West Africa for the ultimate taste test. In his book, "Jungle Ways," he says human cuts taste like veal:

[Niya]

Here are some other quotes of man-eaters.

[Niya]

Makes me wanna eat people more and more.

[dday9]

Cannibalism sounds pretty crazy to me, but who am I to judge if somebody else wants to try it... As long as I'm not the one on the menu!

[Niya]

....As long as I'm not the one on the menu!

How would you feel if someone told you that they've always wondered what you taste like ?

[dday9]

Well my wife use to say that but....

[Niya]

Uh huh.......

[dday9]

It was my attempt at a dirty joke

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, you got the dirty part down pretty well.

[homer13j]

How would you feel if someone told you that they've always wondered what you taste like ?

[Niya]

It was my attempt at a dirty joke

lol I know. It was obvious.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The post race is a crawl.

[homer13j]

The post race is a crawl.

We're still getting used to the new aero kits.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I just use the basics: Aero plain. I find that it lends wings to my endeavors.

[Gruff]

I prefer the one with built in anti-virus checking. Aero foil.
or the one with the minty fresh scent. Aero sol.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I also like the one that gets gussied up ahead of time: Bow and Aero, which tends to hit the target.

Still, it's good that Homer has seen the Aero of his days.

[Gruff]

The Aero la version is nice visually as well.