Oh Shoot

  What about them? Small sub species of cougar. In Florida. Highly endangered. Not black. :)   - OS

  That would be a new one, and a truly bad day on the line for some manufacturer.   Sure the tube ain't just misaligned to the key, maybe due to gas block not being straight or tube just bent somehow?   - OS

  Well, that's all certainly definitive. I'm surprised at you as a pro man of science, but understand the "wanting to believe".  Hence all the "accounts" of mothmen, chupacabras, hoop snakes, wendigos, jersey devils and  sasquatch, whatever.   Remarkable creatures all, "seen" by thousands, but not one credible documentation. Heck, a black cougar should be easy to find, as so many more claim to have seen one, any number over the years just here on our small sample of TGO alone! And proportional to the much greaer number of "sightings" of "normal" cougars, at least a few should be killed by cars here and there every year. Heck, three bears were killed by cars in 3 different locations in  E. TN in one day not long ago.   I'm assuming the pic under discussion is considered valid or TWRA wouldn't have published it, and it's the first credible documentation of a cougar of any kind in TN in maybe 100 years. Although at least we already know that type cougar actually exists. :)   Maybe they'll find and truly document a black cougar some day, I'd love it. Even if one could be bred in captivity.  But wouldn't bet a sou on it happening.   - OS

    It worked earlier, down right now.   - OS

  Aw, that was probably just Elvis without a haircut since 1977.   - OS

Like all TN "panther" threads anywhere on the web, enough folks have "seen" them, that they ought to be found dead on the roads like possums. :)           Since no melanistic cougar has never been documented in history, from Alaska to South America, I'd call that a rather weak supposition.  Some animals simply never manifest a certain trait, the DNA strand for whatever reason just rejects it if it exists at all. So far (edit: among the big cats, to be clear) only leopards and jaguars are known to have black representatives, and apparently did not occur based on a limited number of breeding pairs. Interestingly, black leopards and jaguars actually do retain their spots, they're just not visible except under close examination.   And by the way, just for sake of pedantry :), there is really no such thing as a "panther", it is a wide colloquialism based on the genus name "panthera". The  jaguar, lion, tiger, and leopard are in that genus, but the cougar is not. And indeed there may well be some genetic possibilities based on the genetics of that genera that others simply can't manifest, any more than one of us could pop out of the womb as Neanderthal though many of us have recessive genes for that species.   - OS

  So if you can't post on a forum, do online banking, log into eBay, whatever,  you should just "wait" on the standards defying buggy software to be fixed rather than use a free alternative that, you know, works?   M$ has a long history of poor implementation and indeed outright flaunting of WWC standards in IE. Some of them were "cool" but proprietary, but some also ignored and choked on standard coding too, so some degree of this sort of thing can only be expected with Edge also I guess. M$ culture is in some ways akin to that of the ATF. :)   - OS

Kinda cool it's female plaintiff with female lawyer against female mayor.   - OS

What time? I don't want to go to bed and miss it!   (So far, so good, btw)

They've been upgraded from pearly? ;) Methinks English may be a problem. :) - OS

  All these thousands of "sightings" and nobody ever gets a credible picture. Till now, and TWRA ain't denying this one, eh? Maybe they waited the three weeks or so to acknowledge it to have it analyzed to rule out digital fakery.   - OS

  Ruben Blades, as Daniel Salazar. Old pro, beau coup supporting roles for 30 years, some in movies you've probably seen.

I bet they say "nay", 39-17-1311 be damned.   - OS

  I think Blades does fine, has always done fine in every role I've ever seen.   - OS

  The correct colloquial misspelling is "painters". ;)   - OS

  Would need some kind of crew for a boat that big?   - OS

Note that this style with the two screws will not fit the current crop of WASRs, now that they have changed to the solid wood stock they also changed the screw locations. I use this style on my WASRs, and use a strip of double sided outdoor tape inside. Mine are both UTG brand. - OS

  Common argument, but you don't get it.   The idea is to ferret them out by attrition over time, so that as more and more grandchildren and great grandchildren inherit them or just find them in the attic, they turn them in.   The argument that this or that won't stop Sandy Hooks isn't relevant to them -- each little building block of legislation they can achieve simply adds to the cumulative effect eventually. There will always be the next "common sense gun law".   And laws aren't even needed if "reeducation" becomes increasingly successful, and it seems to be working so far more than it's not.     - OS

  Really!   Anyone Buddhist to Baptist to Zoroastrian and every faith in between who wouldn't lie to an insane maniac in order to live is about as loony as the perp.   - OS

  Islam is much more pragmatic on this issue, since it's fine to lie to infidels for a variety of reasons, in this case that being saving one's ass. That's certainly at least one thing it has in common with my own belief system. ;)   - OS

I would have have said "atheist". Oh wait .... ;)   But seriously, I don't have to stay totally consistent with that ... iffen the shootin starts between you Christians and the Muslims in the streets, I reckon I'll shoot at the Muslims, since I already know English and all, and youse guys won't put me to death as a non-believer. ;)   - OS

  Yeah, I left out that perhaps most pertinent rebuttal to Johnny Rotten.   - OS

  You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.  And you can't spell Peyton.  :)   - Tee Martin was the QB of the national championship team. - Fulmer beat FL 3 more times after Peyton - Fulmer beat Bama 6 more times after Peyton   - OS

  ?? Fulmer was 11-5 against Bama.   And yeah, only 5-12 against FL, but 5 is a helluva lot better than zip in the last 11 years, huh? Plus one of them was on the way to a national championship.   So let's put Fat Phil's record in a bit of context here.   - OS

  Well, pretty apparent he's not a Good Guy, but a user. On the other hand, he's largely saved all their asses so far.   - OS