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  1. I heard some people want to call it Sedna. I'm not sure about that though.

    P.S: I remember watching Discovery or something like that about an ancient civilization that left behind this stone picture of our solar system. It showed us having 13 planets. It was actually pretty amazing it had the planets in the proper order and proper size too, it could have been a hoax though...

  2. I have to drive like 200kms before I reach a town over 10 000, and it's our capital (600 000 pop). I don't know why people more people live down here, nice weather, nice land, and more importantly, nice people. There is one town though that's been booming for a few years now and just recently got a Wal-Mart so I suppose thats a good sign (now it's just a 45 minute drive to get a game instead of 2 hours <_< )

  3. July 29, 2005: "It's definitely bigger than Pluto." So says Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology who announced today the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system.

    The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun.

    Full article here.

    I just read the saturday paper tonight so it's a few days old. ;)

  4. Gophers have cause massive damage on my farmland, and badgers have done the same also. On one part of my pasture, you literally cannot go 3 feet without having to step over a hole.

    Also, I'm wandering if gophers are omnivores and cannabalistic, I ask because after you shoot a gopher another one comes out and drags it back into a hole...

    P.S: I said miltia because my town (or village, or hamlet, whatever its called) has a population of 100 so now when we get together 5% of the population is considered armed :rofl: .

  5. So, I'm awoke this morning with a "Waaaaade, Waaaaaaaaade, WAAAAAAAADE". To which I reply, "WHAT!?". The answer, "Phooooooone". So I get up answer the phone expecting one of my buddies saying, "Wanna come over?", instead it's this, "Hey Wade, wanna go shoot ######?". For a second I'm caught off gaurd, "who the ###### is this?" I think to myself. Anyway I answer with a "yes" or something to that nature ;) .

    So I wait for the guys I now go shooting with (bro-in-law, and 2 bro-in-laws-in-the-near-future :D ) and to my surprise one BILITNF (try to crack that :thumbsup: ) had a cousin of his along with him. So I go up there with one of them and wait for the other guys to bring along their weaponry. We sit there picking the gophers off with our .22s (mines a Cooey Model 600, 32 years old and still shoots true). And when the others arrive, I learn that we could qualify as a militia. Check this, four .22 rifles, a .22 pistol (modeled after a .357), and two 12 gauges :devil: (one was a Remington 870, very, very, nice to say the least).

    Of course since we have a lil' redneck in all of us the first thing we do with this assortment of weaponry is watch as one of us unloads a shotgun in what I guess to be 3 seconds on an unlucky gopher. Well, I guess the gophers aren't used to that sort of harrasement because very few poked their heads out of the ground after that barrage. So then we all just sit there and trade around our weapons for a couple of shots. I got a crash course on how to fire a revolver, I was stumped for awhile wondering how to unload the shells so I could reload (someone forgot to mention how to do that to me :wall: ).

    After around half an hour we get tired of this one spot and move out 100 yards north in our trucks, stopping every once in awhile to shoot a stray gopher. I should also mention this, one of our less sober member of our group pointed it out to us that "there's two rabbits up there! Sweet, let's shoot them!". We then realize where he's talking about and quickly realize that no, those aren't rabbits, those are two cavles that are laying down :rolleyes: .

    After we get to the northern point of our "hunt" we just walk around shooting at whatever we see (not much, still scared from the 12 gauge barrage). And then I end up alone with one BILITNF and he points to me this gopher on the other side of this fence so I look and I see it there standing up like they do. I also see my other BILITNF driving up right behind it with his truck (this was on a hill so he couldn't see the gopher but must have wondered why we were pointing in his direction) so we laugh and I look to my left. So I say that I see one and point it out, and then we realize it's much bigger then a gopher, more like a...a...a badger! So he starts off running towards it (it was too far off for us to shoot at) and I start off after him. After a few dozen yards he stops, sets up on a post, and loses four or five shots off at it with his automatic .22. Of course every shot was a miss (maybe, maybe, one hit). I take this as a queue for me to take my shots at him so I run to another post, set my arms on it, pull back the hammer of the revolver, line my shot up, and nothing. I took a moment to look behind it, whats behind it by 250 or so metres? My brother-in-laws house, and more importantly ( ;) ) my house. Of course the chances that a stray bullet would have gotten anywhere near the houses was slim (I would have been shooting down, and the house was not only 250 metres away but also about 20 meters higher) I didn't want to take the risk so it got away. But the terror doesn't stop there for the badger. Remember how my other BILITNF was in his truck? Yeah, that's right, he chased the badger up a hill where he spun his tires and the badger ran to it's hole.

    Moral of the story: Never ever unload a barrage of buckshot on an unsuspecting gopher unless you want to walk and wait.

    P.S: Sorry for the long post, I just wanted a place to put this just in case I need to do a "What I did for the summer" thing at school. You know, because grade 10 is known for doing that. :P

  6. lol, I just tossed my Star Trek game (came with comp) out of it's paper case so I could use it for some CDs I have. :D But this sounds pretty good, I just ran out of space for my CD's in the carrying case I bought so this could come in handy.

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