misc. preterites.

[Joe Allonby]

Awe. Link not coming through. I'll have to go to my home computer to dig up
my sloth photos. I was about five feet away from one when he (she? it?)
walked across a telephone line past me. Took a while.


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2654489167087&set=a.2654290162112.148168.1401567588&type=3&theater
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Browsing a Smithsonian mag, I see a profile of an animal scientist
> billed as
> > Champion of the Underdog.
> >
> > Features her love of sloths.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Mar 16, 2013, at 4:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've seen a TV show of sloth orphans. They are very cuddly, cute, slow,
> and
> > ALWAYS with an invisible shit-eating grin.
> >
> >
> http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/too-cute/videos/too-cute-baby-sloths.htm
> >
> > On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, you can all laugh at me and feel your deserved superiority because
> >> you have all probably seen a sloth crawl across a 6-8 feet long
> horizontal
> >> tree
> >> branch but I did not until today.
> >>
> >> It is amazing, he says so articulately. if truth is movement captured in
> >> film's 24 frames per
> >> Second, then the upside-down sloth must be moving at 2-4 frames per sec,
> >> Long arms in the slowest long arc motion you might ever see in real
> life.
> >>
> >> I was transfixed and, of course, not ever really knowing by experience
> >> How slowly a sloth moved, I did not think through the evolutionary
> reason.
> >>
> >> To keep themselves " invisible" to predators!
> >>
> >> Slothrop. Not just another funny name.
> >>
> >> The webbed meanings of so many of TRP's key metaphors, such as this one,
> >> keep astonishing.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
>
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