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Mmmmmm...nice beaver!
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 12:58
by EvilBastard
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 13:13
by markfiend
The estate owners are not allowed to release the beavers into the wild because they are not native species.
Something about that doesn't quite add up. They're not "native" because they were hunted to extinction ~500 years ago.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 13:14
by Silver_Owl
markfiend wrote:
The estate owners are not allowed to release the beavers into the wild because they are not native species.
Something about that doesn't quite add up. They're not "native" because they were hunted to extinction ~500 years ago.
It just means they'll be easier to round up and put in a sack when the coat production begins.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 19:56
by weebleswobble
dammit, I had high hopes for this thread....
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 19:58
by Izzy HaveMercy
weebleswobble wrote:dammit, I had high hopes for this thread....
BBCNews wrote:Beavers had been absent from England for about 500 years.
Not good enough then?
IZ.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 20:24
by 6FeetOver
...but sheep were always in abundance...
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 21:12
by EvilBastard
SINsister wrote:...but sheep were always in abundance...
The abundance of sheep is actually safeguarded by the Magna Carta (1215), where King John swore that, "So that the Men of the Kingdom of Mercia [modern day Wales] shall be kept entertained and supplied with shagging aplenty, The Crown undertakes to supply each Nobleman with 150 sheep, and each Commoner 25 sheep. This undertaking is given on the understanding that they keep their close-harmony-singing hands off the fair maidens of Albion."
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 21:13
by 6FeetOver
*Guffaws*
Nice one.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007, 21:16
by eotunun
And the northerners were jealous at the southerners evr after for them having a harem.
