"Tortoise Returns" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: pets

08/16/10 01:32 - 78.ºF - ID#52459

Tortoise Returns

We found the tortoise. Well someone found him on main St near north. They picked him up and brought him to a pet store on Massachusetts and Normal. Then they contacted (e:Matthew) via craigslist. I think it was the nephew of the pet store owner that found him.

He did not like the car ride. I think it made him sick as he shit everywhere.

As soon as he got home he ate and went into his borrough. Its a miracle he was not run over. Now to go take down all the signs.

samathon86 writes at 03:57:04 08/17/10 - Comment #57876: so i had emailed ArtVoice to see if we can put an ad in there for a missing pet. They just got back to me with this message:

Sameer,

You can place an ad at no charge by visiting www.artvoice.com

You will place the ad in the classified section under "Lost and Found" in the "Community Billboard" section. Feel free to call the office should you require any additional assistance.

Cordially,

Joseph Fell

Artvoice Classifieds
tel: (716) 881-6124
fax: (716) 881-6682
classified@artvoice.com

This is very cool of them and would have definitely come in handy if Basra had not been found yet. Very cool ArtVoice, very cool indeed!

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:29:59 08/16/10 - Comment #57874: Yay for the kindness of strangers!

matthew writes at 09:00:47 08/16/10 - Comment #57873: I'm putting the tortoise on the naughty step.

bill writes at 07:15:24 08/16/10 - Comment #57867: In the pic of Basra in the vehicle, there appears to be an open bottle of a New Belgium Brewing Company beer. Maybe that's what made him sick. Tortoises shouldn't drink alcohol. ;-) Glad he was found!!!

tinypliny writes at 06:04:01 08/16/10 - Comment #57866: Maybe you should really look into a GPS chip thing now. They used to do that Spooks all the time. :-)

tinypliny writes at 05:58:54 08/16/10 - Comment #57864: It's very lucky that the cars are a LOT more slower on Linwood now (as they ought to be). I hated all that zooming down the streets. It used to be a very dangerous block to cross the street. Not so anymore.

I wonder if some motorist saw him crossing... What would you do if you saw a huge tortoise crossing the road. I bet you would swerve thinking it was a rock or something.

tinypliny writes at 05:55:33 08/16/10 - Comment #57862: That's very happy news! I went past main and north today morning and didn't see him! I was somewhat worried that he would have found a place to hide in the middle of all that digging in front of N.Pearl/North! It's a miracle! He must have crossed the road safely and then navigated all across all that construction and what-not! Brave (and foolish) little Basra!

metalpeter writes at 05:52:24 08/16/10 - Comment #57860: glad he is back after his adventure , hopefully it is his last adventure and that he knows now not to take off like that.......

samathon86 writes at 05:40:59 08/16/10 - Comment #57856: great!! :)

libertad writes at 03:13:50 08/16/10 - Comment #57849: I'm so happy that you got him back! Poor thing. I can't imagine seeing such a large tortoise on Main Street! That would definitely be a WTF moment for me. He looks awful in the car.

heidi writes at 01:33:28 08/16/10 - Comment #57848: Yea!!!!! Welcome home, Basra!!

(That's probably Tango's Pet Store owned by Michelle Giomundo.)

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Category: pets

08/15/10 04:28 - 83.ºF - ID#52454

Lost Tortoise - North and Linwood

Our pet sulcata tortoise named basra got away today in Allentown near the corner of North and Linwood, by the Church of the Ascension in Buffalo, NY. If anyone sees him, please return him to 24 linwood avenue, 14209. He went missing around 3PM. Please so not put him in water, he is a land tortoise, not a water turtle.

::READ PDF::

He is pretty big and heavy. This is me carrying him.

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Category: fair

08/15/10 10:16 - 71.ºF - ID#52450

Erie County Fair - misc other

The fair also has tons of other stuff, from bizarre live infomercials to bathtubs, teeth whitening (2 shades, $79) and no cook cheesecake packets. Even a Christmas village. (e:matthew) said that he read it was the second largest fair in the world.

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08/15/10 10:10 - 71.ºF - ID#52449

Erie County Fair - animals

There are so many animals at the fair. Every farmer wants to win giray premium. We learned a lot of interesting facts. One was that Americans spend on average only 14% of their income on food. It is one of the lowest rates in the world.

bill writes at 07:21:19 08/16/10 - Comment #57868: What is that in the last picture???

mike writes at 11:21:31 08/15/10 - Comment #57836: it was cool seeing a chicken lay an egg and we saw a cow that just birthed a baby calf and still had the placenta hanging out of it.

metalpeter writes at 12:32:53 08/15/10 - Comment #57821: Nice Pictures seeing that one chicken with the egg is wild, at first. But if you think about it, it is natural just never seen it before........

tinypliny writes at 10:38:06 08/15/10 - Comment #57819: It's fascinating to see what people eat across the world and at what costs: :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 10:35:38 08/15/10 - Comment #57818: Re: the 14% comment. It's about how much subsidized processed food people eat in general. I am sure you must have seen this famous set at some point :::link:::
Commentary: :::link:::

One look at what people eat and how much they spend across the world tells you about the general health of the country.

I just read these insane facts about healthcare costs in US.
- The average cost to visit an urgent care clinic is less than $200, whereas a hospital emergency room visit usually costs at least $600 and often much more.
- Having a baby in the U.S. is expensive. Charges for routine delivery (including doctor?s fees) are about $6,000 â€” often more.
- The daily hospital stay for room and board and doctor's fees can be $2,500 ( and even more at some hospitals!), so an average stay of only three days costs $7,500. That amount does not include medicine, surgery, laboratory costs, and other similar expenses.

I guess the whole system of health is skewed in this country. The major stress - that should be on prevention, is completely non-existent. The entire system encourages bad habits and poor health and then taxes the individual (and the community through ill-advised subsidies) heavily for illnesses that develop due to these habits.

People may criticize social engineering, but the current wide chasm in the healthcare Vs. prevention balance cries out for shifting the stress to education about good eating habits and giving people the time and initiative to think about the well-being of their bodies for a change instead of travelling closer and closer to the sick part of the health spectrum every year.

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08/15/10 10:04 - 72.ºF - ID#52448

Erie County Fair Indian Village

We swung by the Indian village on the way out of the fair. Sadly, we missed the dance show. That is usually my favorite part of the fair. It reminds me of (e:Jacob).

The bead treaty thing is kind of sad. We all know how that ended.

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08/14/10 03:19 - 85.ºF - ID#52445

oysters, clams and crab

The oysters and clams were good as always. This time we got less oysters because they were out of the Fanny Bay ones. Instead we got the crab meat cocktail which was so freaking good. Crab without the inconvenience of the shell is awesome. It costs $9.95 which seems pretty reasonable to me.

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Category: language

08/13/10 07:36 - 76.ºF - ID#52439

translation

These are supposed to be the translated instructions for growing some seeds on a Chia pet type plastic toy, flower box.

What are we really supposed to do. Do they just mean to put them in

warm water? Seriously, what kind of seeds can live through an hour of boiling.

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Category: windows

08/13/10 04:51 - 80.ºF - ID#52437

Getting good at window puttying

I wish I was this good at it when I did the other ones. After taking on these types of windows the square kind are a synch.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: thursday

08/12/10 09:19 - 73.ºF - ID#52433

The Last Thursday in the square

It was the last Thursday in the square. I am kind of sad its over. The music sucked. I got bit by a spider. The worker in the yellow shirt was a jerk to terry last time. He gave him so much attitude trying to get a bracelet.

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Category: food

08/12/10 09:49 - 71.ºF - ID#52420

Braciole at Panaro's

For such a strange, complicated food, it is so delicious. An egg covered in pork and then wrapper in beef. I think my dad's mom made it with something else inside. Maybe salami?