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dyan

Posted : 9/26/2006 8:45:27 PM

I honestly thought that asthefurflies and MOP were the same!

sooner

Posted : 9/26/2006 8:46:12 PM

They were.

ron2

Posted : 9/27/2006 6:14:20 AM

Take the strongest reply you've ever posted in a debate (most likely in response to me) and increase it in intensity with an overload of contempt. A person who's posts could make your most exasperated replies seem like pillow talk.

chewbecca

Posted : 9/27/2006 1:03:20 PM

ORIGINAL: Edie

I had suspicions, too. But I've been sitting this one out, watching asthefurflies. Oops ... did I say that out loud?

Can someone please fill me in on the secret? What or who is asthefurflies ?

hahahahaha. Here I am thinking that I got it, I understand the joke. and here you are asking an appropriate question because I thought ron was simply stating a figure of speech (instead of "as the sh*t hits the fan" it was "as the fur flies". But he was stating an actual screen name. D'oh. This is what intensely studying for TWO DAYS STRAIGHT DOES TO MY BRAIN.

chewbecca

Posted : 9/27/2006 1:07:46 PM

ORIGINAL: ron2

[linkhttp://www.healthyplanetrx.com/articles.asp?id=116]http://www.healthyplanetrx.com/articles.asp?id=116[/link]

To quote Shakespeare, "Much ado about nothing."

And I have to read this god awful book for my English class this semester.
God help me. I dislike Shakespeare. I don't mind if reading evokes thought, but I shouldn't have to think about what the individual words mean or the phrasing of the words.
UGH. Give me Hesse, dostoevsky (or one of the numerous spellings), Voltaire, or Mann, but dear GOD, take away Shakespeare.

brookcove

Posted : 9/27/2006 1:10:18 PM

I thought ron was simply stating a figure of speech

Don't worry, oh my namesake. I thought the same thing and I have not been stressing my brain much lately. I was sort of vaguely thinking, gee, this is actually a pretty laidback and civil thread - not the least bit like a soap opera (As the Fur Flies). . . .As you said, duh.

I look at those posts and just ignore them, even if I sort of agree with the general gist. The threads read so much better that way.

brookcove

Posted : 9/27/2006 1:16:41 PM

It's so funny that all but one of the authors you mention require translation to be read in English. And Mann will need translation in another generation or so, at the rate we are going. [8|] Shakespeare will definitely require translation by then. But I adore S. I like Tolstoy but I only like a couple of Dostoevsky's books. I'm wading through Karamozov right now and *yawn* - but I'm very concrete (hence my love of Tolstoy).

chewbecca

Posted : 9/27/2006 1:37:17 PM

Oh, heh, Thomas Mann was who I was referring to and he's actually German and not easy to translate because he's some weird kind of German that hasn't been typically spoken in a LONG time. I don't know what it's called. Anyway, I haven't read any Tolstoy yet. We own a bit of his stuff, but I haven't cracked open a book (other than my school text books) in a while. We have a Tolstoy novel that's been calling me, "I Cannot Be Silent". Everytime I walk past the bookcase that it's in, I swear it's like, "Pssst...you know...READ ME."
But I simply lack time. I'm currently reading, "The Crucible" for my English class and reading plays suck. I read this in highschool. I thought most people did.

brookcove

Posted : 9/27/2006 3:26:40 PM

Oops, I don't know who I was thinking of - Thomas Paine probably. [sm=blush.gif] It's a dream of mine to read Tolstoy in Russian - I've read several translations of War and Peace and I get the sense that there's a lot that simply can't be translated.

This is the weirdest direction for a thread titled "Kibbles N Bits". . .

Except for a few exceptions, I don't like reading plays.

Is this work for general requirements or are you working on a literature or language degree? Forgive me if you've mentioned it before and I've missed it. It's rare I have a lot of time to read here.

chewbecca

Posted : 9/27/2006 3:45:42 PM

ORIGINAL: brookcove

Oops, I don't know who I was thinking of - Thomas Paine probably. [sm=blush.gif] It's a dream of mine to read Tolstoy in Russian - I've read several translations of War and Peace and I get the sense that there's a lot that simply can't be translated.

This is the weirdest direction for a thread titled "Kibbles N Bits". . .

Except for a few exceptions, I don't like reading plays.

Is this work for general requirements or are you working on a literature or language degree? Forgive me if you've mentioned it before and I've missed it. It's rare I have a lot of time to read here.

The class is an English II requirement course. I read Hesse and Mann on my own and of NO influence by that English class. Some of the crappy short stories she's made us read, I don't think they have options for foreign (or non-American) authors in that class. Nor the depth of read for that class. To read the authors I've mentioned, I'll have to take a World Lit class, which I plan on doing some time as one of my humanities requirements er...or whatever that class would fall under.

But, yeah, kibbles N bits, um, sucks.[

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ron2

Posted : 9/27/2006 6:00:06 PM

, take away Shakespeare.

ouch...

chewbecca

Posted : 9/27/2006 6:49:43 PM

ORIGINAL: ron2

, take away Shakespeare.

ouch...

Sorry.

kennel_keeper

Posted : 9/27/2006 8:06:56 PM

I know this is TOTALLY off topic but.....

The hillbilly people that owned him....

This type of language really has no place (imo) on a public forum. This is the second time I've seen this term used in just a few days and it pretty offensive to me. No more so than if it were any other term used to "label" another person, race, group of people, etc.

I really don't want to sound rude, so if I offended someone, I'm sorry.

racuda

Posted : 9/27/2006 10:39:30 PM

ORIGINAL: brookcove

I just read the ingredients for that new Kibbles n Bits off their web site.

INGREDIENTS: corn, soybean meal, ground wheat flour, beef and bone meal, animal fat (bha used as preservative), corn syrup, wheat middlings, animal digest (source of roasted chicken flavor), water sufficient for processing, propylene glycol, salt, hydrochloric acid, wheat gluten, caramel color, sodium tripolyphosphate, potassium chloride, vegetable blend (peas, carrots and green beans), sorbic acid (used as a preservative), titanium dioxide, sodium bisulfate, sodium carbonate, minerals (ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), vitamins (vitamin e supplement, vitamin a supplement, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin d3 supplement, folic acid, biotin, vitamin b12 supplement), choline chloride, calcium sulfate, red 40, yellow 5, BHA (used as a preservative), blue 1, dl methionine, yellow 6.

Euthanized pets aside, those two ingredients are kind of, troubling. Of what value is eating hydrochloric acid day after day? Creepy.

At my local Walmart they handed out samples of this. When I saw that the first three ingredients were grains, and the corn syrup (why?) Also the generic "animal fat". I gave the sample pack to someone who feeds Old Roy.

racuda

Posted : 9/27/2006 10:50:21 PM

ORIGINAL: sooner

ORIGINAL: dyan

Lore has spread in the marketplace that road kill and euthanized pets are used in pet foods. I have never seen the proof for this outrageous claim and after twenty years surveying ingredient suppliers I have never found a supplier of such.

A few years ago, the FDA found pentobarbital in dog foodhttp://www.fda.gov/cvm/FOI/dfchart.htm I haven't seen any more recent information information on this though.

It was that Timberwolf Organics distributor that continiously harped on this. My Organics Pets or whatever was her name. She constanstantly mentioned the road kill and euthanized pets that supposodly was part of animial digest. I could never verify this and concluded that she was full of you know what.