texascavers Digest 29 May 2012 23:16:53 -0000 Issue 1559
Topics (messages 20054 through 20064):
UT Grotto Meeting - Wed May 30th
20054 by: Gary Franklin
Rats!
20055 by: BMorgan994.aol.com
20057 by: Ted Samsel
20058 by: Mark Minton
CM cave trip reminder
20056 by: Jill Orr
TSA Members List
20059 by: Denise P
new Association for Mexican Cave Studies books
20060 by: Mixon Bill
on-line registration for NSS ending
20061 by: Mixon Bill
purchasing new AMCS books
20062 by: Mixon Bill
Where have these folks been for the last five years?
20063 by: Louise Power
Paging Ted Lee
20064 by: Denise P
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Howdy Caver,
You are cordially invited to attend the next UT Grotto meeting -
Wednesday May 16th from 7:45PM- 9:00PM
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall (156 West 24th Street,
Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Ben Hutchins will present Exploration and Mapping of CM Cave
(a.k.a. See My Shovel Cave)
This ongoing project includes both vertical and wet caving along with scuba
tank hauls to continue pushing the bounds of the cave passage near
Comal/Kendall Co TX. Come out for the fun and fellowship with Austin Texas
Cavers.
For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see
www.utgrotto.org
Officer contact, trip reports, event calendar, and new caver training links
to beginner trips or vertical rope training are available.
Before the meeting, take advantage of Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for
happy hour specials. This area is the best place to park and meet folks
walking over to the meeting. Then after the official meeting, we continue
with the decades long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall
tales of caving at Posse East. www.posse-east.com
The UT Grotto Program calendar is wide open and needs you, the caver with
photos and a story to share about your adventures, scientific research, or
something else really cool. Contact me.
Sincerely,
Gary Franklin
UT Grotto Vice Chair & Program Organizer
512-585-6057
[email protected]
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I have eaten wild rats in Laos and they were quite good. Lab rats are a
different story. Some years ago I held a rat BBQ here at Weazelworld. My
neighbor was the largest rat farmer in the world, but he wouldn't sell any to
me
when he found out we were going to eat them, a liability issue I suppose.
That meant I had to go to Hogtown Herps, a decidedly down market place. We
got jumbos and large pinkies, almost fuzzies. The jumbos were barbecued in
the traditional manner and tasted terrible. The pinkies were rolled on the
grill, they looked and tasted exactly like fat little weenies. The problem
was that I had failed to gut them. So it came to pass that someone was
passing around a tray of pinkies fresh off the grill. I had learned that the
head and thorax were good; whereas the abdomen was not, so I bit down on the
forward section and a jet of hot rat shit squirted out and hit a passing
woman directly in the eye. She was not pleased.
And I agree, snakes have dry stringy white meat that tastes nothing like
chicken. In China I was once served a bowl of three snake with cat meat
soup. The cat meat predominated which saved the soup.
Sleaze
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Nutria ain't bad.
Ted
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I have eaten wild rats in Laos and they were quite good. Lab rats are a
> different story. Some years ago I held a rat BBQ here at Weazelworld. My
> neighbor was the largest rat farmer in the world, but he wouldn't sell any
> to me when he found out we were going to eat them, a liability issue I
> suppose. That meant I had to go to Hogtown Herps, a decidedly down market
> place. We got jumbos and large pinkies, almost fuzzies. The jumbos were
> barbecued in the traditional manner and tasted terrible. The pinkies were
> rolled on the grill, they looked and tasted exactly like fat little
> weenies. The problem was that I had failed to gut them. So it came to pass
> that someone was passing around a tray of pinkies fresh off the grill. I
> had learned that the head and thorax were good; whereas the abdomen was
> not, so I bit down on the forward section and a jet of hot rat shit
> squirted out and hit a passing woman directly in the eye. She was not
> pleased.
>
> And I agree, snakes have dry stringy white meat that tastes nothing like
> chicken. In China I was once served a bowl of three snake with cat meat
> soup. The cat meat predominated which saved the soup.
>
> Sleaze
>
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I haven't been there, but I believe that cavers who used to
go to Yochib in Chiapas said that you could buy roasted rat on a
stick in the market. I don't know if any of them tried it. Maybe
Bill Steele could comment.
Mark
At 10:44 AM 5/28/2012, [email protected] wrote:
I have eaten wild rats in Laos and they were quite good. Lab rats
are a different story. Some years ago I held a rat BBQ here at
Weazelworld. My neighbor was the largest rat farmer in the world,
but he wouldn't sell any to me when he found out we were going to
eat them, a liability issue I suppose. That meant I had to go to
Hogtown Herps, a decidedly down market place. We got jumbos and
large pinkies, almost fuzzies. The jumbos were barbecued in the
traditional manner and tasted terrible. The pinkies were rolled on
the grill, they looked and tasted exactly like fat little weenies.
The problem was that I had failed to gut them. So it came to pass
that someone was passing around a tray of pinkies fresh off the
grill. I had learned that the head and thorax were good; whereas the
abdomen was not, so I bit down on the forward section and a jet of
hot rat shit squirted out and hit a passing woman directly in the
eye. She was not pleased.
And I agree, snakes have dry stringy white meat that tastes nothing
like chicken. In China I was once served a bowl of three snake with
cat meat soup. The cat meat predominated which saved the soup.
Sleaze
Please reply to [email protected]
Permanent email address is [email protected]
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This is the biggest caver outing between TSA and TCR! All grottos are
invited.
Hopefully my grotto contacts have spread the word about the C My Shovel trip
weekend of June 9. I'll post complete details tonight. Please coordinate
your rsvp with your grotto trip contact, who will contact me. Primitive
camping is available Friday and Saturday nights.
CM is located near Honey Creek Cave and is both water and vertical. (must be
vertically competent - there is no tractor here) You must have your own gear
and wet suit. No fins or boogie boards are needed, only sturdy cave boots.
There is very little swimming and the trip should last about 2.5 hours, not
including in and out. There is ridge walking and I've been told lots of
little caves for those who don't want to go in CM.
If we get around 40 cavers there will be BBQ provided Saturday night in
which we will pass the hat for payment.
Thanks and see you there!
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713 805 6214
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We will be publishing the TSA members list soon. We plan to email it out to
active members. Please email me off list at this email address or
[email protected] if you are a member and do not want your info
published. We should soon be adding not having your info published as an option
when you renew or join.
Thanks,
Denise Prendergast
TSA Secretary
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The softbound version of the new AMCS Activities Newsletter 35 for
2012 is scheduled to be delivered to me tomorrow. Assuming that
happens, it will be available for sale at the UT Grotto meeting
tomorrow night for $15. It is 120 pages, with color photos and maps
throughout. The hardbound version, which will be $25, will be
available later, probably not until the grotto meeting on June 20.
Also to be delivered the same day is AMCS Bulletin 22, Return to the
Forgotten World / Regreso al Mundo Olvidado, by Carlos Lazcano, a
report on the cave dwellings in part of Chihuahua, bilingual English/
Spanish, with maps and color photos, 120 pages softbound. Its price is
$10. Bring money.
These things have not yet been added to amcs-pubs.org. Once they are,
you'll be notified, with info about mail orders, etc. Or of course
they'll be for sale at the AMCS sales tables at NSS convention or this
fall's TCR. -- Bill Mixon, AMCS editor
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The final date for on-line preregistration for the NSS convention is
June 4, for some reason. If you haven't registered by then, you'll
have to wait and register on-site. http://nss2012.com/register/. --
Mixon
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I have been reminded that I could also sell copies of the new AMCS
books at Strickland's pond party on June 16. I'll have some there, but
you'll have to track me down. I won't be setting up a table and
sitting at it all the time; it's a party, after all. -- Mixon
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rested, the Devil created religion.
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Tedd Lee - Please contact me off list.
Thanks,
Denise Prendergast
TSA Secretary
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