Every day, summer and winter, two old men played no-holds-barred chess in the plaza in front of the cathedral. One day a particulary hard fought game brought out the worst in both men, almost coming to blows. Since the game had not finished by sundown, they carefuly tucked it under the fountain, and headed to their homes.
They arose early the following morning to find a local child scattering their precious chess pieces with glee. The two men cried, hugging each other.
Moral of the story: we need each other, even when we think we don’t.
A mongoose may appear to hate the serpent, but he doesn’t. He actually needs the serpent. Ironic, eh?
Or one could choose to spare the child the agony of broccoli, as well as the ill health of future clogged arteries by simply feeding the kid some broccoli flavored ice cream.
Oh man, get some fresh, small sprouts. Steam them until they are still bright green and just tender and serve them with some real butter or extra virgin olive oil…
If they are canned or frozen, and cooked until they are olive drab, the sucketh indeed
On Guam, the snakes cause an average of four power outages a week by coiling on power lines. The brown tree snake has also caused the extinction of nine of Guam’s 12 native forest birds. The species has wreaked havoc on flora, fauna, farms and electric lines in Guam, where the snakes arrived via shipping cargo in the 1950s, probably from its native Indonesia.
Now, the mildly venomous brown tree snake, which can reach a length of eight feet, has landed in Hawaii and been captured at least six times since the mid 1980s, all linked to cargo or vehicles from Guam. The snake crawls up in the wheel welds of airplanes parked at the ariport.
The problem with broccoli and also brussel sprouts
in the USA is that we boil em to mush. Sauteed or
steamed a la Brewer, they’re delicious. Undercooked
is better than the opposite.
Mongeeses need Serpents… the way a Troll needs a bridge.
Thats why I have one of they fancy British made high carbon shovels, with a custom sharpened edge, and my Scottish Fold eare’ded cat named Auzrial.. So I can chase, root out, dispatch and dispose of all 3 said creature beasties and maybe some Smurfs as well.
People cook everthing to mush, jim. Generally, the less you cook something, the better. Especially vegetables.
I’ve always wanted a pet snake, but I’m too immature to feed them mice. The egg eating snakes and insect/fish eating snakes are significantly harder to keep…
A nice big pork sandwich and a side of chicken wings.
Eck!! If I was one to eat animals, I’d eat them raw.
The human body isn’t meant to eat all this cooked, processed, additive-full stuff. People who live in countries where we constantly eat refined flour and cooked animals die way too young. You don’t see chimps going around cooking their food for a reason.
Snakes - Ireland is too cold to have the kind of epidemic that Guam has had.
Are you allowed to have captive constrictors and everything in Ireland? If they got loose there’s no chance they’d procreate…
Yeah, they haven’t got the hang of fire quite yet. They are tool-using creatures, you know. Once they figure it out, it’s only a matter of time. No more prey sashimi.
