O/T What's the point in Tortoises?

[mex]

Perhaps the day will come when we really need them.

[Trace]

I used to have a tortoise called Speedy One Eye.  He was great, can't remember what happened to him though.

Anyone know where you can buy tortoise from? - I know you can only buy ones that have been bred in captivity as importing them is illegal now.

I'd love another one.

[Maddog]

If tortoises weren't around, would pies ever have been invented ?

[thetank]

Perhaps the day will come when we really need Howard Hughes's milk bottles.

Too bad we flushed them.

[tigscoco]

It's just that as a species, we seem to be wannabe master players in the evolution, circle of life, whole lion kingy whatever it is nature thing the planet has going on.

Tortoises have been around for a while, but then so had dinosaurs. Their time came, maybe it's time to say cheerio to the giant tortoise.

If stegasauros rex was still alive today, on some remote island, would we do our level best to artificially manufacture conditions in which they could thrive? I've seen those films, they don't end good. Well that's exactly what we seem to be doing with the tortoise.

They don't seem to be too keen to reproduce either. Half the programme was about how difficult it was to get daddy tortoise to make nasty with mummy tortoise. Maybe on some level these wisened beasts know their time in the grand scheme of things is coming to an end. Oooh, don't get me started on the flippin' pandas.

What if, best case lefty scenario, they do multiply in numbers exponentially. Who's to say they won't call an annual general giant tortoise meeting and decide to nip out of their shells just to see what happens. We've removed all the nasty things they might trip over, and so even without their protective cheat blankets, their numbers continue to rise. Mummy and daddy doin' the tortoise becomes even easier without that shell thing in the way, and the population boom really kicks off.

A bunch of them feel too crowded, and hitch a ride on Air Galapogas Flight #27X. Before long, giant shell-less tortoises  are sprinting throughout London beating up little kids just for something to do.

When this day comes, we'll have made our own beds.

How much of your life did you waste writing that then??

[ItsMrAlex2u]

And the moral of the story..........?

CHILDREN - DONT DO DRUGS !!!

[Dewi_cool]

The very point of tortoises is that they are slow, at least I'm faster than something

Ahhh the Saturday afternoon entertainment for Bb4 sorted.

I back the one with the shell - all you have to do is make the race away from the bar.

I'll take that as a compliment then

[JungleCat03]

Tortoises have no points. You're thinking of hedgehogs!

No, Hedgehogs are round and blue, especially frozen ones.

It was so nice of you to make this point. I once found a hedghog and nurtured it with bread and milk. I couldn't decide whether I should keep it so i tossed a coin.

It came up tails so i had to let it go. I had a great day with "spikey" that the coin toss couldn't mar. I only hope that all of us.... well, u, i give back what we get from guys like spikey.

I was only 8, bit young to appreciate what i had. If i'd been 16, bit older I might've appreciated what I'd had, let my feelings out and not played games. Character's hidden, with insight all is clear.

I hope my message is obvious jane.

[Poppet7]

It's just that as a species, we seem to be wannabe master players in the evolution, circle of life, whole lion kingy whatever it is nature thing the planet has going on.

Tortoises have been around for a while, but then so had dinosaurs. Their time came, maybe it's time to say cheerio to the giant tortoise.

If stegasauros rex was still alive today, on some remote island, would we do our level best to artificially manufacture conditions in which they could thrive? I've seen those films, they don't end good. Well that's exactly what we seem to be doing with the tortoise.

They don't seem to be too keen to reproduce either. Half the programme was about how difficult it was to get daddy tortoise to make nasty with mummy tortoise. Maybe on some level these wisened beasts know their time in the grand scheme of things is coming to an end. Oooh, don't get me started on the flippin' pandas.

What if, best case lefty scenario, they do multiply in numbers exponentially. Who's to say they won't call an annual general giant tortoise meeting and decide to nip out of their shells just to see what happens. We've removed all the nasty things they might trip over, and so even without their protective cheat blankets, their numbers continue to rise. Mummy and daddy doin' the tortoise becomes even easier without that shell thing in the way, and the population boom really kicks off.

A bunch of them feel too crowded, and hitch a ride on Air Galapogas Flight #27X. Before long, giant shell-less tortoises  are sprinting throughout London beating up little kids just for something to do.

When this day comes, we'll have made our own beds.

How much of your life did you waste writing that then??

That isn't a waste! Warning us of things to come is time well spent. Even if it is just in poor old Thomas' imagination!

[tigscoco]

It's just that as a species, we seem to be wannabe master players in the evolution, circle of life, whole lion kingy whatever it is nature thing the planet has going on.

Tortoises have been around for a while, but then so had dinosaurs. Their time came, maybe it's time to say cheerio to the giant tortoise.

If stegasauros rex was still alive today, on some remote island, would we do our level best to artificially manufacture conditions in which they could thrive? I've seen those films, they don't end good. Well that's exactly what we seem to be doing with the tortoise.

They don't seem to be too keen to reproduce either. Half the programme was about how difficult it was to get daddy tortoise to make nasty with mummy tortoise. Maybe on some level these wisened beasts know their time in the grand scheme of things is coming to an end. Oooh, don't get me started on the flippin' pandas.

What if, best case lefty scenario, they do multiply in numbers exponentially. Who's to say they won't call an annual general giant tortoise meeting and decide to nip out of their shells just to see what happens. We've removed all the nasty things they might trip over, and so even without their protective cheat blankets, their numbers continue to rise. Mummy and daddy doin' the tortoise becomes even easier without that shell thing in the way, and the population boom really kicks off.

A bunch of them feel too crowded, and hitch a ride on Air Galapogas Flight #27X. Before long, giant shell-less tortoises  are sprinting throughout London beating up little kids just for something to do.

When this day comes, we'll have made our own beds.

How much of your life did you waste writing that then??

That isn't a waste! Warning us of things to come is time well spent. Even if it is just in poor old Thomas' imagination!

Your not the one who has to sit and listent to this when hes at home!

Its not just a random thing, this is the kind of stuff he comes out with all the time......

[Ginger]

Tortoises have no points. You're thinking of hedgehogs!

No, Hedgehogs are round and blue, especially frozen ones.

It was so nice of you to make this point. I once found a hedghog and nurtured it with bread and milk. I couldn't decide whether I should keep it so i tossed a coin.

It came up tails so i had to let it go. I had a great day with "spikey" that the coin toss couldn't mar. I only hope that all of us.... well, u, i give back what we get from guys like spikey.

I was only 8, bit young to appreciate what i had. If i'd been 16, bit older I might've appreciated what I'd had, let my feelings out and not played games. Character's hidden, with insight all is clear.

I hope my message is obvious jane.

Hmmmm, is it... you have gotten better at coin flips as you got older? or that if you don't want a frozen hedgehog, don't let a 8yr old flip a coin on it's fate!

[Rod Paradise]

Tortoises have no points. You're thinking of hedgehogs!

No, Hedgehogs are round and blue, especially frozen ones.

It was so nice of you to make this point. I once found a hedghog and nurtured it with bread and milk. I couldn't decide whether I should keep it so i tossed a coin.

It came up tails so i had to let it go. I had a great day with "spikey" that the coin toss couldn't mar. I only hope that all of us.... well, u, i give back what we get from guys like spikey.

I was only 8, bit young to appreciate what i had. If i'd been 16, bit older I might've appreciated what I'd had, let my feelings out and not played games. Character's hidden, with insight all is clear.

I hope my message is obvious jane.

Lucky for the Hedgehog - bread and milk is bad for them 

[Trace]

Cat Food and Water.

Bread and Milk can kill them!

[Poppet7]

[Ginger]

Tortoises have no points. You're thinking of hedgehogs!

No, Hedgehogs are round and blue, especially frozen ones.

It was so nice of you to make this point. I once found a hedghog and nurtured it with bread and milk. I couldn't decide whether I should keep it so i tossed a coin.

It came up tails so i had to let it go. I had a great day with "spikey" that the coin toss couldn't mar. I only hope that all of us.... well, u, i give back what we get from guys like spikey.

I was only 8, bit young to appreciate what i had. If i'd been 16, bit older I might've appreciated what I'd had, let my feelings out and not played games. Character's hidden, with insight all is clear.

I hope my message is obvious jane.

This post was bugging me yesterday as it just isn't the way the Cat writes, so after getting really paranoid, I got him to confirm that there was indeed something hidden in the post.

Annoyingly I had a pretty manic day yesterday and didn't have time to get back onto blonde to have another look at it, but this morning I solved his little puzzle.

Can anyone else?