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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The size of a white-tail
Message-ID: <282@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 23:44:34 EST
Article-I.D.: vax2.282
Posted: Mon Jan 21 23:44:34 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 05:10:43 EST
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Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
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In article <3301@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>>All right, I give you a little leeway for exaggeration, but pull out
>>your HP-41 and calculate the amount of pointing accuracy needed to
>>hit a (nominally) six feet long and six high deer at a range of a half-mile...
>Mercy me!  That's *S*O*M*E* whitetail.  Why ours around here only make it to
>about 4x4 feet, at the best.   Now, then, if you're talking about
>some OTHER kind of deer, then maybe...   Still, there ARE a few more
>than ONE kind of deer.

Yes, the six-foot variety of deer is the distant cousin of the Gargantua
Deer, which sprang up about 3 years ago around Three Mile Island.  The
Gargantua bucks are about 20 feet high, and are characterized by hanging
sixpacks of Miller from trees, where they wait for "Nimrods" (see
net.sf-lovers for further details) to approach.  When several of these
hunters appear, the Gargantuas jump out of the bushes and throw old '59
(sometimes '58) Studebakers on them.  They can be indentified by their
distinctive call of "Over here, B'wana!"

Oh, dear.  I guess I'm having one of my fits.

	  "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!"


					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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