From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #5 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 7 2002 Volume 11 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: speaking of dogs ["Russ Reynolds" ] ack...poor guy! [Eb ] Re: ack...poor guy! ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: birds [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Dragon, Chills, Birds ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: speaking of dogs > On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 12:19 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > >>> Ken Olson, I bet. We know Barbara couldn't make it. >> >> actually, i think his name is theodore > > Oops, yes it's Ted. > >> besides, we all know it was linda tripp behind the wheel.. > > Grover Norquist probably held a raffle to decide which lucky Clinton > hater got to do in poor Buddy. You guys are all barking up the wrong tree. Buddy was rubbed out because he knew too much. - -Vince Foster ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:34:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: ack...poor guy! NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Doctors have amputated country singer Waylon Jennings' left foot because of an infection related to diabetes, his spokeswoman said. The surgery was done Dec. 19 in Phoenix, Nikki Mitchell said Friday. She declined to discuss details. Jennings, 64, postponed two Arizona concerts in early November after undergoing surgery to improve circulation in one of his legs. He suffers from peripheral vascular disease that has made it difficult for him to walk in recent years. Jennings has had dozens of hits, including ``Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys'' with Willie Nelson. He is expected to return to live performing in the spring. [I've never understood why diabetes often leads to leg/foot amputation. Eb] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 00:51:28 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: ack...poor guy! On 5 Jan 2002, at 22:34, Eb wrote: > [I've never understood why diabetes often leads to leg/foot > amputation. Eb] Diabetics sometimes have poor circulation, which means foot injuries can lead to gangrene. - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:14:33 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: birds >Hey, they have dunnocks in New Zealand? Neat. I saw one in England one >time - the NZ ones must be imports. In England, I also saw wagtails, >magpies, a kestrel, moorhens, snow geese, barnacle geese, a sheldrake, >jackdaws, black-headed gulls, and an English robin, which looks nothing like >an American robin. yup. And NZ robins are diffeent again (they're solid black!). About 1/3 of our birds are British imports, the rest are native or Aussie imports. The most unusual birds I've seen locally have been a rosella (uncommon) and a spoonbill (rare). Sigh. I miss kestrels... and barn owls, and puffins, and British robins, and tits (no smart comments, please). But if I moved from NZ I'd miss fantails and bellbirds and grey herons and kereru* just as much. (* similar in looks to wood pigeons but a little bigger, and they make an amazing sound when flying and are spectacular when swooping for food). James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 08:30:42 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Dragon, Chills, Birds grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > corvids are indeed a peculiar bunch (sadly a bunch that is almost totally > absent from NZ). But if you want weird, try parrots. The kea and friends are rather neatly covered in Dougals Adams & Mark Carwardine's book "Last Chance To See", ISBN: 0330320025. But it mainly covers the wonderful kakapo, the out-evolved flightless parrot that still thinks it can fly when in a panic. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #5 ******************************