Re: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
Nonsense! Wolverines are just bigger than badgers. Wolverines are simply bad-tempered, while badgers are bad-tempered and cunning (and, being closer to the ground, more cthonic). Of course, there is the honey badger kills for sport, just like people do. Sorry to disappoint you but Badgers don't exist. Do you know anyone who's actually seen a badger? I reckon all those wildlife programs just use cgi for badgers, that's why they're black and white as the original images were generated on a zx80 in assembler. Meryl, I always think of you as having been bitten by a radioactive badger, and now scurrying the streets of Gotham looking for snacks. Maybe adamantine claws don't suit you? Sol. (hoping someone gets what I've just said comicwise, techwise, clockwise etc.)
Re: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
S'funny you should mention trickster-heroes because here in Cheshire we have the famous Cheshire Clams. We celebrate every July 5th with a big parade of floats made to look like Clams and the Cheshire Clam Queen and King are crowned with a fetching headpeice of clams, barnacles and whelks. Thousands of people line the route with clams on sticks and sometimes clams are thrown at the feet of the parading Queens and Kings who crunch all the way to the Town hall where they are presented with more clam oriented regalia. the smell is something else! The clam ofcourse is a powerful hallucinogenic especially if inhaled through a turbot. --- allen bukoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, MIchigan is the Wolverine state. More on Wolverines at http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/. More on Badgers at http://www.badgers.org.uk/links/. I think we can all agree that Wolverines are a lot more interesting and exotic than badgers. Indian mythology describes the wolverine as a trickster-hero, and a link to the spirit world. Perhaps unrelated, or perhaps not, is the historical fact that Michigan (the trickster Wolverine) in a deal with Ohio (the Buckeye State whose official animal is the White-Tailed Deer) took the upper part of Wisconsin (the Upper Peninsula) away from Wisconsin in exchange for giving Toledo to Ohio. If you badger someone in Wisconsin about this, they usually just shrug their shoulders. Should Fluxlist have an official trickster-hero? i like iin the Badger State--Wisconsin, usa-- I thought it was Michigan??? On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:26:38 -0500, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote: Esteemed Ones: with all the tlak of badgers-- i like iin the Badger State--Wisconsin, usa-- the mascot/image of the sports teams (formidable ones i may add-- including 3 Rose Bowl wins in last ten years and several Big Ten Championships in american college football)--are called The Badgers- -and the mascot is Bucky Badger--for his buckteeth--ferocious forward strolling on two legs badger--! once wrote to ask badger girl if she was from Wisconsin--but isn't-- i grew up in Vermont, the Catamount being our mascot--a wild cat that is supposedly extinct yet occaisionally still claimed to be sighted-- i live in Milwaukee --the mascot/symbol of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a black panther--and Marquette, in a very controversial decision, changed from being the Warriors, which offended American Indian groups, to the Golden Eagles-- the State Motto is: forward have always liked that one--in which of the four directions moving forward?--towards where?-- well, as the song says, On Wisconsin--!follwoing our Badger leader-- From: Roger Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:47:04 +0100 Badgergirl asks - And you, Roger Dodger? Are you well? I am indeed, thank you. I was visiting an infant school in Shoeburyness today and saw a road sign which said Beware of Badgers. Well, actually it was a red triangle which simply said Badgers. I would have stopped to photograph it but I was in a stream of medium to slow moving traffic at the time. That's twice I've thought of you in the last week. Weird, eh? -Roger -Original Message- From: Roger Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 24, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? Hey Badger Girl With all the hoo ha going on I was only thinking this morning - haven't heard from badger girl for a while And here you are Hi! How's it going? XXX Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of badgergirl Sent: 24 May 2004 18:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? No, no! That goes down stairs Alone or in pairs. BG -Original Message- From: jonah hex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 23, 2004 8:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? I thought Fluxus was a slinky...or, um... Get 200+ ad-free, high-fidelity stations and LIVE Major League Baseball Gameday Audio! Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
Re: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
In a message dated 5/26/04 10:01:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should Fluxlist have an official trickster-hero? the raccoon?
Re: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
Nonsense! Wolverines are just bigger than badgers. Wolverines are simply bad-tempered, while badgers are bad-tempered and cunning (and, being closer to the ground, more cthonic). Of course, there is the honey badger kills for sport, just like people do. Badger also pops up as a trickster figure from time to time, though not nearly as often as coyote. Of course, the American south has Brer Rabbit (rabbit appears as a trickster figure in both African and Amer Indian cultures). And, although I'm somewhat arachniphobic, Anansi is one of my favorite trickster figures. Wolverines more interesting? The very idea! Feh. BG I think we can all agree that Wolverines are a lot more interesting and exotic than badgers.
Re: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
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RE: FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
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FLUXLIST: Wolverines and badgers. Holy Toledo, Batman!
No, MIchigan is the Wolverine state. More on Wolverines at http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/. More on Badgers at http://www.badgers.org.uk/links/. I think we can all agree that Wolverines are a lot more interesting and exotic than badgers. Indian mythology describes the wolverine as a trickster-hero, and a link to the spirit world. Perhaps unrelated, or perhaps not, is the historical fact that Michigan (the trickster Wolverine) in a deal with Ohio (the Buckeye State whose official animal is the White-Tailed Deer) took the upper part of Wisconsin (the Upper Peninsula) away from Wisconsin in exchange for giving Toledo to Ohio. If you badger someone in Wisconsin about this, they usually just shrug their shoulders. Should Fluxlist have an official trickster-hero? i like iin the Badger State--Wisconsin, usa-- I thought it was Michigan??? On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:26:38 -0500, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote: Esteemed Ones: with all the tlak of badgers-- i like iin the Badger State--Wisconsin, usa-- the mascot/image of the sports teams (formidable ones i may add-- including 3 Rose Bowl wins in last ten years and several Big Ten Championships in american college football)--are called The Badgers- -and the mascot is Bucky Badger--for his buckteeth--ferocious forward strolling on two legs badger--! once wrote to ask badger girl if she was from Wisconsin--but isn't-- i grew up in Vermont, the Catamount being our mascot--a wild cat that is supposedly extinct yet occaisionally still claimed to be sighted-- i live in Milwaukee --the mascot/symbol of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a black panther--and Marquette, in a very controversial decision, changed from being the Warriors, which offended American Indian groups, to the Golden Eagles-- the State Motto is: forward have always liked that one--in which of the four directions moving forward?--towards where?-- well, as the song says, On Wisconsin--!follwoing our Badger leader-- From: Roger Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:47:04 +0100 Badgergirl asks - And you, Roger Dodger? Are you well? I am indeed, thank you. I was visiting an infant school in Shoeburyness today and saw a road sign which said Beware of Badgers. Well, actually it was a red triangle which simply said Badgers. I would have stopped to photograph it but I was in a stream of medium to slow moving traffic at the time. That's twice I've thought of you in the last week. Weird, eh? -Roger -Original Message- From: Roger Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 24, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? Hey Badger Girl With all the hoo ha going on I was only thinking this morning - haven't heard from badger girl for a while And here you are Hi! How's it going? XXX Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of badgergirl Sent: 24 May 2004 18:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? No, no! That goes down stairs Alone or in pairs. BG -Original Message- From: jonah hex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 23, 2004 8:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what is Fluxus? I thought Fluxus was a slinky...or, um... Get 200+ ad-free, high-fidelity stations and LIVE Major League Baseball Gameday Audio!
