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A case of Mordor most foul.
I had thought of uninhobbited, but it's the dragons who were making the place uninhobbitable.
Who's a Frodo, Virginia Wolfe?
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A friend of mine went to Komodo and visited a bit of forest where Komodo Dragons can be seen. He says that there were big cages dotted around all along the path, for the visitors to run to and lock themselves in should the Komodos become aggressive (or hungry!). 
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A friend of mine went to Komodo and visited a bit of forest where Komodo Dragons can be seen. He says that there were big cages dotted around all along the path, for the visitors to run to and lock themselves in should the Komodos become aggressive (or hungry!).
and all those visitors who can't outrun a lizard doing 20 mph can dream safety 
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I grew up hearing that Komodo's were not poisonous, but that their mouths were infested with abnormally high amounts of especially nasty bacteria. Supposedly when they bit something, it would take 2 to 4 days for the thing to die. The "dragon" would stalk its dying prey until it finally expired.
However, the recently finished a DNA analysis of the Komodo's (and other lizards, to include iguanas) and determined that the Komodo is actually more closely related genetically to a particular kind of poisonous snake than it is to other lizards. So they looked again - to discover they actually DO secret poison. They also determined that iguana's were related to a kind of poisonous snake. This cleared up a minor mystery. It was supposedly well known among those who like exotic pets that iguana bites were often a lot nastier than one might expect from the size of the creature inflicting the damage. It was assumed that they, too, just had germy saliva.
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It was supposedly well known among those who like exotic pets that iguana bites were often a lot nastier than one might expect from the size of the creature inflicting the damage.
I once blessed an iguana named Iggy on Saint Francis' Day. When his owners brought him forward, I reached out with reluctance and was assured by them that he was a vegetarian!
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My hamster's a vegetarian, but seeing him yawn when he comes out of his little house of a morning would nevertheless make you think twice about messing with him before he's ready. (He's never bit me, but my kids' hamsters bit them - once enough to draw blood.)
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My long dog is a vegetarian. He'll pass up meat for a stalk of asparagus or brocoli any day. My yard has become a desert, what with him having eaten all the bushes and flowers. He even ate the raspberry bushes, which is surprising because the stems are full of hard spines.
The tall dog just eats veggies because the long one does. You can see he doesn't really like them, but darn if he'll let the long one have anything without him getting some.
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Your long dog told me to tell you that you dropped an s and typed desert by mistake.
Last edited by TEd Remington; 04/06/06 08:13 PM.
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for anyone experiencing a knee-jerk urge to hypercorrect TEd:
yard :: dessert <> long dog :: vegetarian
-ron obvious
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No danger of beheading here, that one passed right over.
And never came back.
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