That Daily Juel: May 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Last Week's Adventures

          So last week I was at Lake Valentine searching for disks and some pesky geese were on the course. Naturally I shooed them away since one geese become comfortable around humans, it's all over: geese will become comfortable with us and push us around like it's their turf. They would start pooping everywhere and it would be nasty.
          So anyway, I charged the geese making low noises intending to scare them off so I could search in peace. One particularly angry bird ran away but then he tried to charge me. He was all pissed at me and flaring his tongue. To make a show for the four or five people watching...and to make a story for myself... I told the goose "COME AT ME BRO!!!" And to my surprise, he came at me just like I said.
          Those things can have a lot of spunk. I shooed him into the water and got him away from me but that only made things worse. When I went into the water much of my body "disappeared" making myself look less formidable. This crazy bird though he could take me so I had to but him in his place.
          I was trying to look around the cross marker in the lake because that was where my RD lost his disk. I made it out to the cross but with an angry goose on me. I scared him off but when I would turn my back, he would start honking and lunging at me. I would take one step forward but then take two steps back to chase off the goose. It was very obnoxious.
          I eventually grabbed a plank of wood that I saw on the shore. I used this slap the water to startle it. This worked at first but it became used to it so its effectiveness wore off. Then I figured I could use it as a bludgeon if it came close enough. It never gave me the change.
         It eventually flew off an let me cool off in the water. I then realized why I was so pissy; its mate had like seven or eight goslings with it. It was just protecting them. This made ne glad that I didn't hit it because I was in the strike-to-kill mode.
                                    MORAL OF THE STORY:
                                                don't mess with geese unless it's hunting season

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Beware The Disney

That Awkward Moment When People Bring Up Your Past Flaws

The Washington Post is out today with a deeply reported piece on Mitt Romney that paints him as a privileged bully who picked on classmates he suspected of being gay. A particularly horrific story is that of classmate John Lauber, a new kid at the exclusive Cranbrook prep school whose long, bleach-blonde hair offended Romney’s conservative sensibilities.

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

Confronted about the incident this morning on a radio talk show, Romney tried in vain to save face.

I’m not gonna be too concerned about their piece. I played a lot of pranks in high school, and they described some that, uh, well, you just say to yourself that, uh, back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that, obviously I apologize. But overall, high school was a long time ago, and I’m glad I’ve got some good friends from those years.

Pressed further, he responded:

I don’t, I don’t remember that incident. And I certainly don’t believe that I, or, I can’t speak for other people, of course, but thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from my mind back in the 1960s. That was not the case.