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[Interference]

* wonders if anyone has seen Boe jest *

[springs]

Yes, it was an excellent joke; he said a deer with no ideas was called no idea.

Oh, how I laughed.

[Ursa major]

Regarding the ownership of that joke, I expect there was a great deal of buck** passing.


But if you tell it with a lot of hart....

Though not at a stag do....





** Only a buck, because it doesn't involve a lot of doe....

[Interference]

The buck stops wherever it's shot

[Ursa major]

The lea deer departed (in)?

[springs]

Stop worrying inter so long as u didn't kill it or eat it
Now the pastry for linda m's pies; those little ickle pastry pigs - cruel

[Ursa major]

I've never eaten the meat from deer. (Is it because it's too deer or because of it's religious overtones? I don't know.)



By the way: if the meat's marbled, is it called veinison?

[springs]

Um I have a butcher brother so we pretty much eat everything (inter is nodding in horror now) so we had venison en croute on boxing day and very nice it was, too. But yes very deer not recession proof or bullet proof for that matter

[Ursa major]

The closest I've been to venison was a deer looking into my parent's kitchen through the window. It was quite a surprise to look up from the sink to see its face.

The house isn't situated in the countryside, but there are enough more-or-less interconnected small areas of wooded land in the vicinity to explain how the animal might have travelled miles to get there. I can imagine it trying to avoid human contact, but finding itself driven farther and farther away from the places it knew.

[springs]

Ther's one species; the munjac or something -can't google while on chrons strictly one site access- which is very tame and in semi rural areas. Over here we are still so rural there's loads of space for them so rarelt seen. At my allotment we get tons of pheasants. But even though I'm technically urbanish for ni - stop sniggering inter - for england this is a village and belfast is a largish town at best so I'm 5 mins from country and 5 mins from sea (and about 1oo miles from civilisation) so lots of badgers deer etc round here

[Timba]

I am pretty much just outside a major city but our suburbs have large yards and as Ursa mentioned many a wooded area allowng for a bit of travel but the truth of the matter is the local white tail deer seem to thrive everywhere. It is not that unusual for sharpshooters to be hired to thin deer herds in urban areas as they become a menace on the roads, not to mention all of them considering gardens (flower and vegetable) to be there personal feeding stations. In the past year I have watched 4 deer play follow the leader through my yard on their way to other places, had wild turkeys strutting their stuff and more Canadian geese than I or anyone else really care for, got to be careful where you step when the flock occupies your yard for a day or two.

As for eating venison, my days in the military put me off killing anything but I have cousins who hunt each year and we occasionally get a little sausage when they have had a successful hunting season, yum yum. For the most part though the supermarket makes acquiring food so easy, just spend a small fortune and eat food from all over the world. Life is pretty amazing when compared to what our forefathers dealt with.

[paranoid marvin]

How do you hunt a sausage?

[Timba]

Carefully and you must be ready to squeeze the stuffing out of it.

[paranoid marvin]

So not with a four-pronged attack then?

[Timba]

Not at all, I recommend the 10 digit double envelopment pincer maneuver, it can get sloppy but is your best option for getting a grasp on the situation.