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#90799 - 04/10/07 02:40 AM Survival gone mainstream
ironraven Offline
Cranky Geek
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
I just saw my first television commercial for a PLB- ACR on Discovery. If it does well for them, prices will go down.

Remember, PLBs cost what cellphones did ten years ago. And now, it's only odd balls like me who don't carry a cell.
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#90848 - 04/10/07 10:22 PM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: ironraven]
wildman800 Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 11/09/06
Posts: 2847
Loc: La-USA
You are not an oddball, you're just not domesticated enough for an electronic leash, yet!
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#90857 - 04/11/07 01:16 AM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: wildman800]
ironraven Offline
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Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
*caws noisily and flaps off to the tallest branch*

You can't leash a Raven.
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#90863 - 04/11/07 04:33 AM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: ironraven]
cliff Offline
Sultan of Spiffy
Enthusiast

Registered: 05/12/01
Posts: 271
Loc: Louisiana
No, but you can write creepy poems about them. grin

....CLIFF

Six years a poster, 199 posts, the 22nd person registered at ETS, and still a "NEWBIE MEMBER"
Oh, the shame.

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#90877 - 04/11/07 01:25 PM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: cliff]
norad45 Offline
Veteran

Registered: 07/01/04
Posts: 1506
Originally Posted By: cliff

Six years a poster, 199 posts, the 22nd person registered at ETS, and still a "NEWBIE MEMBER"
Oh, the shame.


You may not have seen the notice, but if you email your preferred "title" to Chris K. he will update it for you. smile

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#91218 - 04/16/07 01:08 AM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: ironraven]
benjammin Offline
Rapscallion
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
I dunno, I snared one once and had a bit of fun with it trying to fly around with a line around it's shoulders. For a while it looked like them old RC planes with the two strings that I used to go round and round with till I got too dizzy to keep my feet. Fortunately the bird got tired of it before I did, and when he landed I slacked him out enough that he bailed and didn't even look back.
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#91229 - 04/16/07 05:35 AM Re: Survival gone mainstream [Re: benjammin]
JCWohlschlag Offline
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Registered: 11/26/06
Posts: 724
Loc: Sterling, Virginia, United Sta...
Originally Posted By: benjammin
… Fortunately the bird got tired of it before I did, and when he landed I slacked him out enough that he bailed and didn't even look back.

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
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