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Title: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Lou on 05-Aug-10, 05:40:59 PM
I just like saying the name of this beast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRV961d0TP4

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: dale on 05-Aug-10, 09:57:46 PM
I just like saying the name of this beast. Lou

I like pretty much everything about him!  great video, lou!!

One tough customer.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Donna on 05-Aug-10, 10:02:04 PM
Should be "Hinge" head. That was cool Lou.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 05-Aug-10, 10:41:36 PM
Quite an impressive fish!  He'd feel right at home on the Sci-Fi network.   :happy:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Annette on 06-Aug-10, 01:20:00 AM
A very interesting video.  :wow:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: anneintoronto on 06-Aug-10, 01:47:13 AM
What a great fish!  I love the last quarter with the territorial display and attack!  That fish could deliver quite a hickey!   :hysterical:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 06-Aug-10, 07:45:20 AM
Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: valhalla on 06-Aug-10, 07:48:05 AM
Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 06-Aug-10, 07:59:38 AM
Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!

Just wondering what the attitude there is re mink. I see them at times down at a wonderful riverside garden, just below us in the village. They are NOT welcome, I can tell you. I am convinced that they are the reason that some birds like Irish Dippers do not bring their fledges along further. I am not sure about the capture status, tho - something I should really look into! And then there are the Grey Squirrels... Our poor little native Reds don't have a chance.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: KapiVT on 06-Aug-10, 08:00:22 AM
That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!
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I wouldn't recognize one at any time of year!
Kapi in VT


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 06-Aug-10, 09:02:50 AM
I have to admit that Brian was the one to ID the mink.  I wouldn't have had a clue.  Although I did get a picture minus the head, due to the mink's head and fish were under a log.   :laugh:

Brian told me that they are currently protected.  I really don't know that much about them.  I'll have to do some research.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 06-Aug-10, 09:04:55 AM
That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!

Yeah, the man fishing from the bridge was very envious!


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 06-Aug-10, 11:17:10 AM
I have to admit that Brian was the one to ID the mink.  I wouldn't have had a clue.  Although I did get a picture minus the head, due to the mink's head and fish were under a log.   :laugh:

Brian told me that they are currently protected.  I really don't know that much about them.  I'll have to do some research.

I will be v. interested to hear re minks being protected. They are obviously "native" to some part of the world... but what with the poor critters being kept for the fur trade, who knows where they belong. When they get into rivers etc. which are not their true homes, they simply create havoc. Let that be a lesson to us...


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Patti from Kentucky on 06-Aug-10, 08:49:08 PM
I will be v. interested to hear re minks being protected. They are obviously "native" to some part of the world... but what with the poor critters being kept for the fur trade, who knows where they belong. When they get into rivers etc. which are not their true homes, they simply create havoc. Let that be a lesson to us...

The American mink is native to North America (I don't know about South America), but I think there is also a European mink.  There are lots of members of the same family (mustelid, I think) native to North America: short-tailed weasels - a.k.a ermine, long-tailed weasels, fishers, pine martens, badgers, otters, wolverines, black-footed ferret etc...I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.  They're rare enough that I always get excited to see any members of that family, though it is hard to warm up to a voracious carnivore that you know is preying on the other cute critters we like to watch.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Lou on 06-Aug-10, 09:41:03 PM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Carol P. on 06-Aug-10, 10:36:15 PM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou

My, my, my.  You're being very sarcastic.    :crazy:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: MAK on 06-Aug-10, 11:40:33 PM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou

My, my, my.  You're being very sarcastic.    :crazy:

He's been watching that video too much! :silly:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: dale on 07-Aug-10, 03:01:12 AM
So, Lou..'dja hear the one about the sarcastic fringehead and the mink?
A sarcastic fringehead and a mink go into a bar. Mink says to the huge, tattooed male bartender, "Hey, Lucille ...


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 07-Aug-10, 05:03:29 AM


The American mink is native to North America (I don't know about South America), but I think there is also a European mink.  There are lots of members of the same family (mustelid, I think) native to North America: short-tailed weasels - a.k.a ermine, long-tailed weasels, fishers, pine martens, badgers, otters, wolverines, black-footed ferret etc...I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.  They're rare enough that I always get excited to see any members of that family, though it is hard to warm up to a voracious carnivore that you know is preying on the other cute critters we like to watch.
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Thanks for that, Patti. I did not know that re the mink being a North American native. I guess this is the whole question of introduced species, isn't it? Ireland's mustelids include badgers too - they get a bad rap as the possible cause of bovine TB. Our rarest is probably the pine marten... and yes, the excitement of seeing my one-and-only one a while back was sensational! Badgers sometimes go wandering down the lane beside us... and stoats have also been seen to frolic there too. They love the stone walls... (and the bunnies, for different reasons...). Not worried re the fact that one creature is the prey and another the predator. But the poor old "Irish" mink, I fear, is the wrong critter in the wrong place.


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 07-Aug-10, 05:05:55 AM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou

OH, noooooo, Lou! Looks like I just "infringed" on your topic!!! Ooops! :paperbag:

Slainte!

Bobbie


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Donna on 07-Aug-10, 05:24:26 AM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou

OH, noooooo, Lou! Looks like I just "infringed" on your topic!!! Ooops! :paperbag:

Slainte!

Bobbie

Yeah well Bobbie, you better "HEAD" on out of here before Lou wakes up!
 :dogrun: :nap:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 07-Aug-10, 07:02:59 AM
Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou

OH, noooooo, Lou! Looks like I just "infringed" on your topic!!! Ooops! :paperbag:

Slainte!

Bobbie

Yeah well Bobbie, you better "HEAD" on out of here before Lou wakes up!
 :dogrun: :nap:


 :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Lou on 07-Aug-10, 02:58:12 PM
My, my, my.  You're being very sarcastic.    :crazy:

Aha! The guilty one speaks first. Carol the Topic-Stealer. Yep, I got you now. Now, get outta here and go create a mink topic.

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Lou on 07-Aug-10, 03:05:06 PM
So, Lou..'dja hear the one about the sarcastic fringehead and the mink?
A sarcastic fringehead and a mink go into a bar. Mink says to the huge, tattooed male bartender, "Hey, Lucille ...

I did hear that one Dale. And I think that the joke is certainly within the boundaries of this topic. (Unlike another certain mink post from another certain person which ONLY speaks to the mink.)

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Lou on 07-Aug-10, 03:12:52 PM

OH, noooooo, Lou! Looks like I just "infringed" on your topic!!! Ooops! :paperbag:

Slainte!

Bobbie

Don't worry Bobbie. According to the rules of topic etiquette, section 18.4, subsection C, it's only the FIRST person who creates the tangent that is at fault. Sort of like the first person in a convoy making a wrong turn; everybody behind him (or HER in this case) just naturally follows.

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead...turned into Mink discussion
Post by: Patti from Kentucky on 07-Aug-10, 05:29:54 PM

OH, noooooo, Lou! Looks like I just "infringed" on your topic!!! Ooops! :paperbag:

Slainte!

Bobbie

Don't worry Bobbie. According to the rules of topic etiquette, section 18.4, subsection C, it's only the FIRST person who creates the tangent that is at fault. Sort of like the first person in a convoy making a wrong turn; everybody behind him (or HER in this case) just naturally follows.

Lou

And when I contributed, I at least modified the topic somewhat so that anyone following it might not be misled into thinking that we were still talking about a fish.

Patti


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: dale on 07-Aug-10, 06:18:10 PM
And when I contributed, I at least modified the topic somewhat so that anyone following it might not be misled into thinking that we were still talking about a fish. Patti

SOME of us are in fact still talking about a fish. Nonstop.
So this fish goes into a bar, plops himself down on a barstool.
Bartender says, "what can I get you?" No...wait...
Bartender says, "Hey! No fish allowed in this bar!"  No...


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 07-Aug-10, 07:45:53 PM
Sorry.  Leaving.   :oops:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 10-Aug-10, 12:27:39 PM
—Synonyms
2. biting, cutting, mordant, bitter, derisive, ironic, sardonic.

and why is the Fringehead considered to be sarcastic?  What does a fish have to do to be called sarcastic? I guess they do bite.  But what caused them to be bitter?  Did they lose a loved one and now they're just plain bitter?  I don't think they cut their food, since they don't have any hands to hold a knive.  Although they do have big mouths.  Maybe the other fish make fun of them and that's why they are bitter and sarcastic.  Hmmmm.  Things to think about.   :silly: 


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: MAK on 10-Aug-10, 01:05:54 PM
Carol when do you see your therapist again! :lol:  :laugh: :2funny: :rofl: :hysterical:


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Lou on 10-Aug-10, 10:20:00 PM
—Synonyms
2. biting, cutting, mordant, bitter, derisive, ironic, sardonic.

and why is the Fringehead considered to be sarcastic?  What does a fish have to do to be called sarcastic? I guess they do bite.  But what caused them to be bitter?  Did they lose a loved one and now they're just plain bitter?  I don't think they cut their food, since they don't have any hands to hold a knive.  Although they do have big mouths.  Maybe the other fish make fun of them and that's why they are bitter and sarcastic.  Hmmmm.  Things to think about.   :silly: 

You're right Carol. Maybe they have every right to be sarcastic. Poor loveless, no-knived, big-mouthed, picked-on fringeheads. 

Hey wait a minute. I think I'm a sarcastic fringehead.

Lou


Title: Re: Sarcastic Fringehead!
Post by: Carol P. on 10-Aug-10, 10:48:31 PM
—Synonyms
2. biting, cutting, mordant, bitter, derisive, ironic, sardonic.

and why is the Fringehead considered to be sarcastic?  What does a fish have to do to be called sarcastic? I guess they do bite.  But what caused them to be bitter?  Did they lose a loved one and now they're just plain bitter?  I don't think they cut their food, since they don't have any hands to hold a knive.  Although they do have big mouths.  Maybe the other fish make fun of them and that's why they are bitter and sarcastic.  Hmmmm.  Things to think about.   :silly: 

You're right Carol. Maybe they have every right to be sarcastic. Poor loveless, no-knived, big-mouthed, picked-on fringeheads. 

Hey wait a minute. I think I'm a sarcastic fringehead.

Lou

Hey!  That's not true!  We love you!   :heart:  ;)