I finally got Linux

[mudshark]

"Contacts" in this instance meaning that the road is an easy stroll from the doorstep?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Oh, it's a little more complex than that. You see, Lewis doesn't have a native badger population. They all got eaten by the mink.

[mudshark]

Which are not native, I'm thinking, but which are quite aggressive. That does complicate matters.

Edit:

Unless you happen to possess the correct adapter, is that it?

[PointyHairedJedi]

I've never yet had the opportunity to plug a mink into a mains socket, so I honestly wouldn't know. They aren't entirely bad news - they keep down the rabbit population through most of the island - but they're extremely bad for the birds, both wild and domesticated.

[mudshark]

I recall a news item from a few years back: the inhabitants of a mink farm -- don't recall how many, exactly, but more than a couple hundred of them -- escaped into the wild, and the locals were... a bit distressed* for a few days until most of them could be rounded up.


Edit: The incident of which I was thinking was in southern England, iirc, but here's an item about a more recent (and larger) incident in Germany.





* passing hexahedral units of masonry

[PointyHairedJedi]

They are extraordinarily vicious little sods, at least in the wild. I know if I were out driving (assuming I could drive) and saw one in the road, I'd probably aim for it.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I feel the same way about chickens, roosters especially. Evil, bloody-minded little buggers, they are.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

They are extraordinarily vicious little sods, at least in the wild.

Yeah. Hence the business with bricks.

I know if I were out driving (assuming I could drive)...

You could, you know.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by mudshark

* passing hexahedral units of masonry

Originally Posted by Bernard Woolley

The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.

...You wouldn't happen to work for a civil service, would you?

[catalina_marina]

Driving fun? Hm, not that I know of. Handy, sure, and I don't dislike it, but fun?

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

...You wouldn't happen to work for a civil service, would you?

Good heavens, is he related to Rummy? It's as if it came from the same mind that brought us:

Originally Posted by Donald Rumsfeld

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.