Manie's Microcruiser

DriesLaas · Aug 20, 2014

Fanie said: ↑

Some funny "goat" stories.

Someone I know who has two bull-terriers, said yes to his neighbor when asked if he wanted some bones for the dogs when he goes hunting. He says next thing this neighbor throws a whole Kudu carcass over his wall, just the meat cut off. The two bull-terriers just lived next to the carcass for the next three days while he figured out a way to get rid of it...

Many farm houses had a porch, called a "stoep" that went around the house. These were usually red pollished and slippery as ice. So someone told me one day when he came out of the door, as he rounded the corner of the house on the stoep he walked smack into a zebra (one of those striped goats ). He flew back around the corner and next thing he heard the ga-dup, ga-dup, ga-dup, ga-dup, galloping sound non-stop of the zebra. So finally very puzzled he peeked around the corner and there was the zebra galloping at full speed on one spot because of the slippery stoep.

I heard a story of some hunters, one shot a Blouwildebees (Blue Wild Beast ). Very excited the guy got on the Blouwildebees to pose for some photo's, the next thing the Blouwildebees got up and took off with the hunter on it's back... It was just stunned by the shot.

This hasn't happened yet, but from peripheral vision I can see it. Some okes freeze when they have a hand grenade and you pull the pin, they get brain-lock or something. The animals we have here are really tough and can be very aggressive when they are wounded, hence the warthog is called "the poor man's leopard" and the Blouwildebees is called "the poor man's buffalo". Make no mistake, they can be very dangerous and aggressive. So if there are not a chance to get a second shot off, it is often required to scramble up a tree to escape the wrath of such an animal. Now once up there, if this guy gets brain-lock, you are not going to get him down out of that tree. The best would be to cut the tree, put it on his vehicle and have someone drive him home so his wife can talk him out of it. Most blokes listen to their wives.
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And therefore they are called poor man's wifes

Angélique · Aug 21, 2014

I've heard some trees suffer from men whose wives don't want to talk them out . .

-- Daily Mail --

Fanie · Aug 21, 2014

That looks like a primitive circus big wheel to me, you can see they climb up on the left, all the way round and down and out again. In the picture you can see they stopped, probably to get the next rider's ticket

I wonder where Manie is. TEN to 1 he's playing with a new boat

Yobarnacle · Aug 29, 2014

My wife uses a BB gun to "coax" me down. Unfair as she chased me up the tree to begin with.

RHP · Sep 6, 2014

Manie, I came across this fellow's blog and thought of you. If you go through the monthly index on the right there are many articles on his mini boat adventures in a Paradox. Enjoy.

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/sea...dated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=50

edit to add:

http://www.microcruising.com/paradox1.htm

looks cool.

Manie B · Sep 15, 2014

The Ten

Well folks it's all official now. I have started building my "ten"

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-building/manies-ten-51428.html

Manie B · Nov 22, 2015

please help if you can

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-building/manies-ten-51428-19.html#post757933

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