Please do not feed the animals

[corydoras]

The governor of Yamoussoukro, Augustin Thiam - an urbane intellectual, related to Houphouet-Boigny, summed up the shock many Ivorians felt: "Perhaps there is a message behind this," he said. "We need perhaps to consult the spirits".

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19576296

[Andrew]

I thought it was another topic about Brits abroad with a title like that Cory

[corydoras]

I thought it was another topic about Brits abroad with a title like that Cory

Consulting different spirits mate

[Ken L]

It never ceases to amaze me that people can be stupid enough to think that a crocodile, or a venomous snake or (in the case of Siegfried & Roy) tigers are somehow their "friends" or (as with Erich Ritter and the Bull Shark) allow themselves to become complacent around them.

 

I suspect you can already guess my disdain for consulting with spirits - and this from a supposedly educated man....

[Now there's a right un.]

It never ceases to amaze me that people can be stupid enough to think that a crocodile, or a venomous snake or (in the case of Siegfried & Roy) tigers are somehow their "friends" or (as with Erich Ritter and the Bull Shark) allow themselves to become complacent around them.

 

I suspect you can already guess my disdain for consulting with spirits - and this from a supposedly educated man....

 

 

 

It was his belief that the Crocodile had mythic status and in the end the only person to suffer was himself.

He didn't even cry out before being killed, perhaps he was ready to die and went out knowing that his friends would at least get a good meal out of him.

We know Crocodiles are dangerous but not everyone shares our viewpoint....they often find out the hard way.

[Phone]

All,

 

I agree with Now there's. I even know some guys that think fish can learn and are smart. Imagine that - Silly gooses. (is gooses a word?)

 

Cory

 

Are you sure they aren't called Ivorese, Ivorish or maybe Ivori. Where the 'elll did you come up with Ivorians?

 

Phone

[Ken L]

He didn't even cry out before being killed, perhaps he was ready to die and went out knowing that his friends would at least get a good meal out of him.

 

Or maybe his neck was broken by the croc or his head underwater on the way out or his chest so compressed by the bite that he couldn't make a sound or maybe the shreiks of those watching drowned out any sounds comming from the man in the lake.

Oh hell, it makes a good story - this way legends are born.

 

is gooses a word?

I believe Websters added it to the lexicon after a submission from South Park's Big Gay Al.

I think the correct usage is "Thilly Gooses" though.....

 

I'll get my coat.

Edited September 14, 2012 by Ken L

[corydoras]

All,

 

I agree with Now there's. I even know some guys that think fish can learn and are smart. Imagine that - Silly gooses. (is gooses a word?)

 

Cory

 

Are you sure they aren't called Ivorese, Ivorish or maybe Ivori. Where the 'elll did you come up with Ivorians?

 

Phone

They are not my words Phone, I just cut 'n' pasted a snippet from the article I linked to