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Ridgewalker
member since 04/30/2008
I'm a guy from United States
About me: The Great Northwest
User Votes: 3256 Helpful / 1622 Funny / 719 Agree / 48 Disagree
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7 hours ago

You're gonna sink your teeth into this one, 'git...

10 hours ago

Thank you and same to you, meshuganah. Good flick. Thanks for the recommendation.

13 hours ago

Great line from the movie:

",,,that's where you got it wrong. People play baseball. No one "plays" boxing."

yesterday

Review Icon Ridgewalker reviewed Fish in Pets:
If there is a more delightful, intelligent and, even, compassionate fish than a Red Capped Oranda, I haven't found one. But, they are high maintenance and extreme polluters. We lost our last pair, Laurel and Hardy, while transporting them in the RV, which stirred up too much gunk and this did them in. Our search for some new fish led us to a smaller fish that would be easier to take care of and ended up with an elegant pair of Neon Gouramis. They have a pair of functional feelers that they use like arms. Cool fish.

Right off the bat, one established itself as the dominant fish and kept the other fish confined to a small portion of the tank. When they fed, he was free to roam while the bully was busy eating, but when dinner was over, it was forced back to its side of the tank. Anyone who has ever read "On Aggression" by Konrad Lorenz understands that there is no such thing as a "bad" or "good" fish, in human terms...there's just variations of aggressiveness.

Well, over time, the bully grew larger than the less aggressive Gourami. One day, we noticed that little guy wasn't looking right; its tail fin was clamped shut, one eye was larger than the other and there were some new patches on his head. So, after some research, we set up a hospital tank next to the aquarium, moved him into it and determined that he had parasites. We started the routine with Epsom Salt, which did nothing. We moved on to antibiotics. Nada. We also realized that the other Gourami was just fine, as was the Pleco (algae eater). The little guy was still eating and moving around and whatever he had wasn't affecting the other fish, so we put him back into the aquarium while we searched for other answers, which we found the next day.

When we walked into the house, it was impossible to miss: The Big Guy was committing a murderous assault on the Little Guy. His feelers were bitten off, most of his tail fin was gone and the Big Guy was targeting his gills. I never even considered that a Gourami had Piranha genes. It actually was frightening and brutal. Back in the second tank, it took four days for the Little Guy to shut down, completely. He received a proper burial.

We decided to go out to look for a replacement, with some reservations, but ended up buying a Pink Kissing Gourami. He was slightly larger than the Big Guy and equally beautiful. The murderer immediately attacked the new guy. But New Guy didn't back down. The are called "kissing" Gouramis because they can open their mouths very wide, in what looks like a kiss. Well, the murderer found himself staring right down the pipes of the new and slightly bigger fish and slammed on the brakes. But, he's aggressive and didn't relent. Kissing Gouramis, as it turns out, have a reputation of being extremely ornery, so after separating them several times with a glass partition, which didn't abate the aggression (they both rammed the glass trying to get at each other), we removed the glass and let them have at it, hoping that they would realize that they were both in a lose/lose situation. Seems that the new guy just wants to be left alone, but the tension was high. The murderer orchestrated a series of attacks...each of which was met by a physically superior fish and when the Kisser had enough, he wailed on the killer, slamming him against the glass and onto the gravel. Ever stick your finger into a tank and touched a fish? The torque is incredible. For the killer, it was credible enough and he hasn't attacked since. Tension is still high and they are both keeping a sharp edge, but the fighting seems to have stopped.

Please don't call Child Protective Services on us, okay?

The Killer:

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yesterday

Comment Icon Ridgewalker commented on a review of Grizzly in Horror:
If I'm not mistaken, the opening licks were right from "The Exorcist".

Oy vey...they couldn't even shadow the ketchup claw marks.

Use the propellers! Use the propellers!

Just saved 8 bucks. Thanks.

yesterday

Congratulations to your boys. Maybe when they grab the brass ring, we could arrange a final match-up between the Wildcats and the Hyacks.

yesterday

That's got to be the stoopidist "Disagree" in the history of this site.

yesterday

Yah, Division I College Football ain't the NFL and Division II is perceived to Division I as community theater might be compared to Broadway...but some community theaters offer some damn good entertainment. In fact, I'm more attracted to theater than football, but when something of excellence is offered...I'm in. So, in that light, let me do a little bragging for the home team...Central Washington University.

Ever since I moved here, the Wildcats have had winning seasons and have been ranked from time-to-time. This year they finished the regular season as the only ranked and unbeaten Division II team in the nation. They took their conference. They took their Region (9 of the teams in the Super Regional 4 finished in the Top 25 Media Poll) and they're entering the NCAA Division II Quarter Finals as the Number 1 ranked Division II team in the nation.

Listing be damned. 5 Stars 'cause they fuckin' deserve it. Will keep you posted.

http://www.d2football.com/top25poll/11/

UPDATE: Today, #1 Ranked Central Washington (12-0) dominated #12 ranked Tarleton State (Tx), 27-6. The Wildcat defense allowed 2 field goals, zero rushing 1st downs and shut 'em out in the second half (Total yardage: CWU 409/Tarleton State 178). Total domination. Next week: #2 ranked Northwest Missouri (11-1).
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yesterday

Being somewhat of an expert on Festivus, allow me to clear up some of the misconceptions about this most solemn of holidays. First, it is not an alternative name for Christmas. It is a holiday that stands on its own merits. Here are the three fundamental elements of Festivus:

1. The symbol for Festivus is a steel pole which represents absolutely nothing, leaving this symbol open to hours of endless debate and, hopefully, fighting..

2. There must be a challenge and a display of strength, hopefully resulting in a a nephew pulverizing an uncle, or something like that. However, arm wrestling a acceptable.

3. This is the day to come clean...not about all of the sins you have committed over the past year, but about how you really feel about other family members, which generally results in #2.

Festivus isn't for everybody. Festivus is for the Rest of US.

2 days ago

The thing you young 'uns need to know about music and First Blowjobs is that it's kinda like a hatching duckling; it will bond to the first thing it sees. I'll tell yah...I coulda done a lot worse than Billy Joel...

For instance, I'm pretty sure that Steven Wright got his while Freebird was playing. In fact, he was on his way to a promising career as mountain-climbing, deep sea-diving, fortune-hunting mercenary when it happened. Here he is 3 weeks later. A terrible shame.

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