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[ShawnPhase]

i just want to say that these are hilarious. all very good stories. i'll think good and hard before i post anything, the bar has been set, hehehe...

[Hooray For Everything]

bobby, YOU tell us!!!

[ShawnPhase]

shit, thats insane...in the baltimore zoo, they let peacocks just roam around free, it's completely strange. i dont know how they dont keel over but they just roam around, its insane..

[Mary]

I have been a lot of places where the peacocks walk around freely. They seem to me to behave a lot like chickens. But, having said that:

1. We saw a peacock in London who had decided to hang out in the kangaroo enclosure and was perhaps in love with one of the kangaroos as he just kept following and chasing it around all over the place. It made that part of the zoo extra-entertaining.

2. On an island in Lake Constanz in Germany we saw a peacock who was walking around casually and a bunch of German people were hollering at him to spread his tail. He ignored them. I saw the peahen approaching and said, kinda out-loud-but-to-myself, "Here comes the lady." One of the German women yelled, "Ja, ja, hier commt der lay-dee," or something like that, never learned to read or write that language but it sure sounds a lot like English sometimes. And sure enough when the peacock saw the peahen Schwing! out went the tail.

[ShawnPhase]

peacocks are awesome. i wonder what kind of liscense it would take or enclosure you'd need to keep one as a pet. i bet theyd peck eyeballs easily.

[Hooray For Everything]

speaking of peacocks....my parents divorced in 1974....mom lives in Florida, dad in Arizona....both have Peacocks that visit their property each day...

go figure.

[raubhimself]

Mary is right, peacocks are a lot like chickens, I know some people that used to have some on their farm, not sure if they still do though.

[mig50]

Mary is right, peacocks are a lot like chickens

taste like 'em too.

[Mary]

Except they scream more than chickens, I've heard. As an everyday thing, not just when something's wrong. Flannery O'Connor (a fun, dark author) had them on her property and I guess it was just hellish and some critics think it had a lot to do with her personality, or vice versa.

[donald]

When I was a kid we had chickens and goats and the like and our next door neighbor which was about 1/2 a mile away had a bunch of peacocks. They make ALOT of noise, kind of like roosters do early in the morning, peacocks do the samething except louder.

I wouldn't say it was irritating, I just got used to it but they would get into our yard everyonce in awhile and try to eat the chicken feed.

[Danosaur]

Here is a funny yet sad story that my friend emailed me...

So shortly after Julie moved into our house (September) Lauryn was talking about how she had forgotten to pay her ticket. This ticket was for speeding. Julie asked what the ticket was for and I said, "Lauryn killed a guy". Let's think about this. Lauryn killed a guy and she has to pay a ticket. Uh-huh. So Julie kind of believed us kind of thought we were teasing her. We let it drop. Then one night Lauryn said something about in front of our boy roommate, Jeff, and he jumped in with, "oh, yeah, don't you have to go to court for that soon?" Julie asked what happened and Lauryn gave her this story of how she was over at a friends house and she got stoned and drove home and on the way she hit this guy with her car and he died and now she was waiting for trial. I came home from work the next day and Julie said to me, "Lauryn told me the story of how she killed that guy last night." I hadn't heard it yet so I said, "really, what did she tell you?" HELLO. But no, Julie repeats what Lauryn had said. About three weeks later, we mention it in front of my brother and he says, "oh yeah, I remember seeing that on the news, didn't that happen at Dysart and Camelback?" See, this is the kid of story it is. With no prompting on our part people realize how absurd it is and jump in with another piece.

So we let it drop for awhile. Well, last Sunday after church Lauryn, Katy, Jeremy and I are at lunch (at Chipotle - yum!) and we get the bright idea to take it a step further. So we get Jeremy to call our house (us knowing that Julie would be home) and say that he was Officer Harris and he was looking for Lauryn. If she came home could Julie please keep her there and then call him on his cell phone. Julie immediately called me on my cell phone asking what to do. And I said, when Lauryn gets there just to tell her what was going on and leave it at that. So we left lunch and I got home about 5 minutes before Lauryn and then Julie and I told Lauryn what was going on. Lauryn was basically saying, this doesn't make sense, it's not time for my court date yet, etc. So Lauryn went to get ready for work and I called Jeremy to tell him how Julie was reacting. I came out of my room immediately after hanging up with Jeremy and Julie says "that guy just called again, I think it's a joke". Well, since it wasn't Jeremy because I had been talking to him, we freaked out a bit because who had called? She said the guy said, "we ran a check on Lauryn but didn't find anything, we're coming over."

So Lauryn and I were freaking out because apparently Julie told her mom who then called the actual police. So it had to be the actual police that were coming to the house. So Lauryn hurried up and left to go to work. Two minutes after she left, she called me and said "I'm getting pulled over" and hung up. So I figure she'll tell them the story and it'll all be okay. I gathered my dog and leftovers from Thanksgiving to take to my parents house and open the garage door to find Lauryn in the driveway surrounded by 5 Maricopa County Sheriff's officers and 3 squad cars in front of the house. So they take all our ID's and followed Lauryn into her room while she got the Registration for her previous car, sepreated us all and got the story from each of us. Then Lauryn and I ended up back in the garage with the officers and the one looked at me and asked if it was my friend that had made the call. So I said yes. And he started yelling at me about how wrong it was to impersonate an officer and that my assisting in that was a misdemeanor and that he could arrest me right then. In fact, he was just gonna go ahead and do that and he had one of the other officers put me in the back of a squad car. So I'm trying not to cry and I look out the window and they cuffed Lauryn and put her in the back of another squad car. So I started crying because until they cuffed her I really thought they were just teaching us a lesson. So they let us sit for about 10 minutes and then they took Lauryn out and uncuffed her. So then I knew they were just teaching us a lesson. Then the cop who had yelled at me came over and opened my door and said, "do you think it's funny anymore?" so I said, "not so much". Then he started laughing and was going on about how he really did think it was funny and that it was very clever the way we had gone about it but how the other cops that were there didn't think it was so funny and they didn't want to come back to our house because we beat up Julie for being an idiot.

So Lauryn and I left the house. Julie was in the shower which irritated us because why would you get in the shower when your roommates were possiblily getting arrested. So she hid from us the rest of Sunday and she was in her room when I came home from work on Monday so I asked her if she was going to come out or if she was going to hide from us for the rest of her life. She came out and I asked her if she thought we should talk about what had happened to which she replied "there's nothing to talk about." I said, "really? Not even the fact that Lauryn and I were in squad cars and Lauryn got cuffed?" She said, "oh, I didn't know that happened." So I said, "maybe if you had bothered or cared enough to find out what was going on in the garage instead of getting in the shower you would have known." We're not mad at her other than the not bothering to find out what was going with us and the cops. We're pissed at her mother for interfering in her 20 year old daughter's life. But now, instead of things going back to normal Julie's secretly trying move out (our walls aren't very thick and Jeff caught her on roommates.com).

---all I have to comment on my friendsa email to me was... that this was a sad sad idea of a practical joke...wouldn't it have been easier to just put a bucket over a door filled with water.

[marty]

I colored my boner with a black
magic marker, it really really freakin burned,
then I spent 15 minutes trying to scrub it
off with my own tooth brush.

never try this.

[Hooray For Everything]

why?

[donald]

why?

are you asking why he did it, or why never to try it?