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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: RSL on March 29, 2016, 03:23:44 pm
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Frequent Visitor Along the River
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Frequent Visitor Along the River
Hum, I wouldn't swim in that river!
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No sweat, Jeff. They only bother you if they're hungry.
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So always ask "Are you hungry?" before you jump in. ;)
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So always ask "Are you hungry?" before you jump in. ;)
Yup. Of course, if they're really hungry, they might say "no", just to get a meal. They're not renowned for their honesty, sadly.
Jeremy
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Several years ago my wife and I went for a boat ride near Sanibel island in southern Florida. The ride was a primer on local fauna and flora. The guide pointed out that in his incredibly stupid natural state a gator thinks people are predators, so they steer away from them. But if somebody feeds a gator the gator then decides people are prey. That leads to the saying: "A fed gator is a dead gator." Once the gator has been fed he's on his way out. Here at Hawthorne we used to have a gator -- about the length of a fair sized rowboat -- who'd sun on the shore across from the marina. Eventually somebody fed him, so we had to put him down. It was sad, but that's the way of gators.
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But if somebody feeds a gator the gator then decides people are prey.
Mark Twain's About Magnanimous-Incident Literature (https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/about-magnanimous-incident-literature) comes to mind...
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Then again, there must be a hand of man in every Russ' picture:
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Then again, there must be a hand of man in every Russ' picture:
+100!
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That's a crock.
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That's a crock.
Touché!