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#136468 12/31/04 06:34 PM
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The bipod was hopping?

No, Wordwind, the bipod was not hopping, the biped was hopping, at least I'm hoping my biped was hopping.
[sigh} I give up. I was hoping to give a slick presentation that would dazzle, but no, you Awaders have the patience of a he-goat in rut.
So today I'll throw together some facts and figures and conjectures and post a report tonight.

And I'll even find a place for your "pods".



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I'm fully dazzled.

How much is "...the patience of a he-goat in rut."? And for why/what would the he-goat wait?


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Oops. Sorry about the misspelling. But was the biped hopping? Or could have all the rightside peds have disappeared in a landslide--some kind of breakway of the land? Or perhaps it was some kind of primeval hopscotch? Or maybe another animal bit off the right leg of the biped and the poor thing was hopping off to its last rites. Or maybe its young had the right leg in its mouth, playing pull-away and the biped was trying to get away, hopping, of course, in the game. Or it could have been riding a scooter with its right foot up on the foothold with the left leg pushing along to propel it. Or maybe it had a right stump from a previous injury. Cats do that all the time and get around pretty well on three; an old biped lizard might be able to make it around on one.


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I'm fully dazzled.

How much is "...the patience of a he-goat in rut."? And for why/what is he waiting?


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Ah Musick wishes to know how much patience has a he-goat-in-rut got.
Go young Musick and get a bottle of rum...turn it up and drink it down...look at the empty bottle - what you see is the patience of a he-goat-in-rut. ()

And as for you Wordwind...the reason that you were a wallflower twenty years ago when you were teenybopper in High School was that you were always smarter than your suiters.
Poor form.

In your post you lucked upon a possible flaw in the interpertation of bipedalism to explain my fossil.

It is a wonder that you ever got a date!


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ah, milo, are you so removed from the world to not realize how those of us in the world crave good stories?

i love Dickens, and marvel at his readers who waited week by week for each installment.. i can easily understand how his stories increases circulation.. how readers might very well buy a paper for the story--rather than risk not finding a free copy at the end of day or next day-- imagine missing an installment

POINT IS. no, we have no patience! WE want it now.. IS IT TIME YET?
how much longer do we have to wait.. Please..



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Should know us by now, Milo - when we kneed a story and we're on the right track we'll never leggo :]


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Well now, of troy, does of troy want a good story or a jumbled-up bad story to read? A true puzzle can't be toyed with.
A true story must be carefully reconstructed and should not be compiled when one is dru...drinking.

So far I have four URL's for interested readers to reference as well as an attachment to post somewhere (maybe on etaoin's site if possible) of the early photographs of the prints.

Right now I am working on a schematic that is key to the intricacies of the puzzle and I am sleepy because I have been drinking a large amount of my not-so-hot homemade kudzu blossom wine.
I grow tired but I persist.


Now I must sleep. But because I have promises to keep I will get up early and finish my story before I am off to the woods with Andy.

See you then.

Leggo, Maverick, look!

Here is a background link and a preview of my prints to come. Print #2 is the size and type of the six prints I found.

http://www.westga.edu/~bpsweb/New_Items/trackways.html

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damn cool, Milo! Eudi man!

what's the attachment?



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This amphibian Cincosaurus cobbi looks a bit pigeon-toed in print #2.

Well, I hope you took Chaser or something and that today you'll have time to continue Part 2 of the story.


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