Chupacabra

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"Florida Fish and Wildlide biologists say it is a rare breed of dog called a Peruvian Inca Orchid"

---versus---

"It ain't got no feet like a dog"


Hmmmmm, who to believe......
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">just a hairless racoon.... </div></div>
size looks right, but what about the claws? i'd like to see more claw for a coon, they look worn like a dog's
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Florida Fish and Wildlide biologists say it is a rare breed of dog called a Peruvian Inca Orchid"

---versus---

"It ain't got no feet like a dog"


Hmmmmm, who to believe...... </div></div>

Who to believe Wildlife biologists with textbook training or S L Fussell who is about 60 and has been in the woods and swamp almost every day of his life.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">All the crazy critters end up here eventually. Why the hell not a Chupacabra?</div></div>

Yep, theres even reputed to be the strange and ornery species "Queequegus Floridius" down that way. Ive never heard of one being captured alive, however.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You're probably right. Everybody knows text books ain't good fer nuttin.</div></div>

Thats not exactly true...If you rip the pages out, and rool them between your hands for a minute or so, they make good toilet paper in a pinch (no pun intended). Need to watch out for ink poisoning though.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You're probably right. Everybody knows text books ain't good fer nuttin. </div></div>

I never said text books aren't good for anything it's the word traning you missed 2-3 years of class room versus 50 years in the swamp.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: egghead</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You're probably right. Everybody knows text books ain't good fer nuttin. </div></div>

I never said text books aren't good for anything it's the word traning you missed 2-3 years of class room versus 50 years in the swamp <span style="color: #FF0000">without ever seeing anything like it</span>. </div></div>

Fixed it.

Point is, if a determination is to be made on a critter never seen before by people who have spent decades in the swamp, I'll lean toward someone trained in wildlife identification over a wild guess. Can't say how it is in Florida but the vast majority of our DNR Officers spent their lives in the woods up here prior to their current positions. You won't find many city slickers stomping through the woods with that uniform on. I'd be willing to be it's the same down there.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Spazz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Good grief, a canine DNA test is like 75 bucks. It'll tell them not only that it's a dog, but what breed or breeds it is. </div></div>

Yeahbut that would mess up their chupacabra story.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: egghead</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You're probably right. Everybody knows text books ain't good fer nuttin. </div></div>

I never said text books aren't good for anything it's the word traning you missed 2-3 years of class room versus 50 years in the swamp.</div></div>

I take it you prefer to patronize your local witchdoctor rather than a university hospital? After all, those residents only have 4-5 years of book lurnin and the witchdoctor has been cutting for stones since the late 40's...
 
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Oh yeah, and these things are all over Cozumel. Took a pic of this one at a horse farm back in '02...

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There were others that were a bit more disturbing looking with the blotchy white skin and all, but at the time that wasn't the look I was going for.
 
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no shit....one of them was found here north of DFW on a golf course during the last freeze in January....all figured it froze to death....and the local TV talking head interviewed the Harvard trained biologist as to what it was.....she did not know, sooo they sent it off to some university and found out that it was in fact a rare example of a hairless raccoon.......and then they fed it to the homeless
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sjohnny</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We have chupacabras all over the place down here and that's not one. What the hell? Just cause Texas has chupacabras now everyone wants one. </div></div>

I never said you didn't have Chupacabra up there in Texas and if you do that don't mean we can't have them down here in Florida.
we have white tail deer / wild hogs Hell we even armadillos down here just like you have up there in Texas
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ratbert</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: egghead</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You're probably right. Everybody knows text books ain't good fer nuttin. </div></div>

I never said text books aren't good for anything it's the word traning you missed 2-3 years of class room versus 50 years in the swamp.</div></div>

I take it you prefer to patronize your local witchdoctor rather than a university hospital? After all, those residents only have 4-5 years of book lurnin and the witchdoctor has been cutting for stones since the late 40's...

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Actually, against my better judgement, I probably would go to the university hospital, but, you do realize that at this moment some of the world's leading research scientists are in the jungles of South America, Africa and around the world, as they have been for many years, meeting with and obtaining knowledge for the medical field from witchdoctors and primitive natives in these jungles. A big portion of our modern day medicine comes from herbal medicines and potions that the primitive peoples of the world have been using for hundreds of years. In other words, modern day medicine is based on a woodsman.
 
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There are just a very very few "old-time remedies" still in use by modern evidence-based medicine, such as digitalis and aspirin. Most others have failed to show any medical efficacy if/when exposed to double-blind testing. The fact that people can get a grant to do something has little or no bearing on the probability of a successful outcome. For every "top research scientist" living out their Sean Connery fantasy in the rain forest there are 500 "book learned" bio-chemists working in US labs. I'm sure the reason for that has more to do with where drug companies expect to see results and less with the difficulty in obtaining Brazilian visas.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe it's a Come-Mierda...</div></div> .

They are all come-meirdaderos Part of being canis.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe it's a Come-Mierda...</div></div> .

They are all come-meirdaderos Part of being canis. </div></div>

what does come-meirdaderos mean? I know meirda in PR is slang for shit.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rero360</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe it's a Come-Mierda...</div></div> .

They are all come-meirdaderos Part of being canis. </div></div>

what does come-meirdaderos mean? I know meirda in PR is slang for shit.</div></div>

Come: From the verb comer, "To eat". Third person, you eat shit, or shit eaters. I added another twist in mieradaderos, which is like adding queros to vaca (cow), and and coming up with those who handle cows, or simplified, cowboys. It would probrably have been more corect to say comederos meirda... eaters of shit, or those who eat shit. Shaggy, being a student or the Spanish, would you care to chime in on this important subject?
 
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Yo hablo la idioma Espanol de "el boracho"

It would be more correct to refer in the plural as "comedores mierda". While shit is amply plentiful, the objects we would be discussing would be the consumers, or eaters, of mierda...Thus as Vaqueros are cowboys, comedores are eaters! See? Es muy facil!

Mrs. QQ, an actual Cubana, and not born, (nor ever lived), in Havana (imagine the odds?) laughs at my pathetic High School, College and practical Spanish. She Christend my brand of Spanish as "Boracho"! Perhaps she does so to keep the head of El QQ from getting too grande. Who can say?

AAAAAAAAAny-friggin- way, Come Mierda is a pretty useful expression for day to day usage
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By the way Goldie (or if you prefer, Orotico), Mike speaks amazing Spanish as well. I saw him cussing up a storm in the shout box last week using words and phrases I never imagined! Good times.
 
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Ah, I see, I had a feeling thats what it meant but wanted to be sure. The only spanish I really remember is one phrase: mis cajones es muy mujado. Not sure on the spelling. I learned that one while being up in the turrett during MOB at Ft. Dix in a rain storm.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rero360</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ah, I see, I had a feeling thats what it meant but wanted to be sure. The only spanish I really remember is one phrase: mis cajones es muy mujado. Not sure on the spelling. I learned that one while being up in the turrett during MOB at Ft. Dix in a rain storm. </div></div>

<span style="color: #990000">"Mis </span>(really it should be <span style="color: #990000"><span style="text-decoration: underline">los</span></span> as Spanish doesn't typically use possessives for body parts, i.e., "Chupa <span style="text-decoration: underline">la</span> pinga" rather than "Chupa <span style="text-decoration: underline">Mi</span> Pinga". And why it's "la pinga" rather than "El pinga" is a bit mysterious given we're talking about a wang for God's sake. Yes I know it ends with a and thus is feminine in gender, but that's for another thread...) <span style="color: #990000">cojones <span style="text-decoration: underline">Son</span> muy mojado" </span>

"Es", the third person singular, would suggest you have less than two. Unlikely given your stay at the home of the ultimate weapon...unless one got blown off!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RainbowSandals</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I dont see that little sucker pulling down a cow or even a goat. I used to have a cool t-shirt that had a chupacabra on. I got it from Tijuana when I was like 12. </div></div>

As I lay pondering the events of the day..IT CAME TO ME...god, in his infinite wisdom put thehe Chupacabra here for a very special purpose....TO EAT THE ZOMBIES. After all a zombie is really nothing but a big piece of dead shit. Thats why you dont see many Chupa around...not many zombies, so not much food. But soon, as the waves of zombies begin arriving by the boat load there will be more food, which will equal larger more frequent litters and thus more Chupacabra. This cycle will continue until a stasis is reached, a natural, green, ecological balance of nature....enough Chupa to keep the zombies at bay, but not enough to wipe out the species, their food supply,and thus themselves.