HI ROger,

On Sun 2036-Dec-28 04:58, Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) wrote to Richard Webb:

RW>RN> How does it react to banana skins?
RN>  
RW> Lost me on that one.

RN> I haven't lost my touch then.   Many animals will shy away from
RN> banana skins. I haven't tried it on the dogs here, but the cats
RN> definitely don't like the odor.
Yah had heard that come to think of it.  NEver tried that
one with him, but not something I normally carried in my
newspaper bags.  I did carry a pepper spray, and blunt
object to use as club or other defense, holdover from my
days delivering papers inner city where the main industry
was let's make a crack deal.
SPeaking of which, used to take Buddy, my
DOberman/sherpherd/dane mix with me on those routes back in
those days occasionally.

RW> NOpe, Siam was what is now Thailand.  SIngapore is basically a city
RW> nation state.  THat's where they cane miscreants. WHip 'em with a piece
RW> of bamboo cane.  rEmember about a decade ago, the American boy was doing
RW> vandalism and sentenced to so many lashes with the cane and folks
RW> raised heck?
RN>  
RN> That's what made me think it was Thailand.  Caning is done there,
RN> too.  
Yep, quite a few of those countries iirc.

RW> I thought so.  DIdn't want to hurt his dog, but wasn't going to be
RW> menaced while going about my nightly rounds either.

RN> Did you think of trying a squirt bottle filled with 50% water and
RN> 50% vinegar?  
I've heard that works, might try that with this pitweiler
out here.  NOte he keeps his distance when I'm out with
Schotze though he'd like to come closer.  SHE does her
business and I get her right back in, then he comes close to the house and
drives her crazy .  Another week and this
too shall pass.

RW> Had he even been boundary trained enough to stay on his owners' property
RW> and defend it I wouldn't have had a problem. After all, they didn't take
RW> the paper.

RN> The dog thought you were close enough. 
Yah I know, and sometimes he'd be ranging a block away from
home, or more.  FOr awhile after our first encounter he
avoided me, (this was the encounter where I turned on him,
gave chase, pepper spray and whacking was effective for a
few weeks) but then he got brave that morning.  WRong move
on his part.

FUnny thing is, his lady owner was a customer of the company for which my
lady sold accident insurance.  WHEn wife tried
to catch her at work (a restaurant across town) and was told where she
lived she went by there.  Lady recognized my wife
from running with me occasionally on SUndays, asked what my
problem was with the dog.  My lady explained to her
"customer" that I  wasn't going to endanger myself for a
lousy dime a newspaper, and I liked dogs.  I also had little respect for
irresponsible dog owners she explained.
Iirc the company lost a customer because my wife would be
her insurance agent .

RW> Yep, still remember the Christmas day snow back in '03 iirc in NEw
RW> ORleans.  IT's at least enough of a rarity down there I"ll put up with
RW> it, but every winter since Katrina and my move to the MEmphis area I've
RW> experienced at least one good snow and one good icing every winter, and
RW> I don't care for it. AT least this winter I shouldn't have the frozen
RW> pipes and rebuild plumbing problem I had in that mobile home .

RN> Let's see, I was in Mandeville at that time and I think we got some
RN> sleet and maybe a light snow, but all I really recall is the sleet.
Yah that's just as dangerous for drivers down there .

RW>RN> ... Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them...
RW>   stolen!!!

RN> D'Bridge uses a random generator for its taglines and I'm usually
RN> surprised at the appropriateness of many of them.  I'm still trying
RN> to figure out if it looks for a keyword somewhere in the text.  Nick
RN> won't tell me.
!!!  I'm hoping to hear more about his writing of
code that will make it easier for these web forum operators
to join fidonet for their users.  I"d love to carry a
couple, one joined up with my live_audio echo from
prosoundweb which is a cumbersome java based user interface
which keeps some users away.  Getting him participating in
fido would give live_audio a wider user base, and users who
like the content on prosoundweb but don't like the ui could
do fidonet via newsreader from such folks as ROss, etc.

Regards,
           Richard
... WHen the only tool you've got is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+