Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Back in my day

9 comments:

Bryan said...

"It was uphill, both ways, and the wolves were as big as horses."

hipparchia said...

i'd never the wolves part of it before. learn something new every day.

Bryan said...

The wolves were killed off before most of the kids were born, and they are learning the truth about wolves, so it's not very scary these days.

You do remember the Republican "puppy" ad?

hipparchia said...

i sorta kinda remember that maybe there was a republican puppy ad, but if so, i missed it.

i'm thrilled with the efforts to bring back the wolves, though i admit that's easy for me to say, since i don't live in wolf country.

Bryan said...

The "puppy ad" was supposed to the the "scary" result of voting for John Kerry, and the wolf pack that was displayed was playing in the snow, jumping and pretend fighting like any group of puppies.

Unless things are really bad, wolves will definitely avoid people. They have wolves in Alaska, but moose are the danger.

Steve Bates said...

"... but moose are the danger." - BryanExcept during the Reagan administration. Then, Meese was the danger.

Steve Bates said...

(Sigh. I keep forgetting about Blogger's bug that shows up when one graf ends with an HTML tag...)

hipparchia said...

steve,

gmta! i thought of meese too.

as for the html bug, that seems to be recent. i suppose they'll get around to fixing it eventually. or not.

hipparchia said...

bryan,

i knew it distantly rang a bell. iirc, i was working two jobs at the time, trying to make ends meet. not much time for political anything, other than knowing for sure i wasn't going to vote for the republican.

i'm not especially worried about wolves vs people, i was thinking about livestock owners as one example, though there are solutions that don't involve killing the wolves.