misc. preterites.

[David Morris]

The sloth orphanage TV gig said sloth moms & pops were fried on power lines
often.  They were working on ways to keep the sloths away...

On Sunday, March 17, 2013, Joe Allonby wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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