Pallets in fields

[blueriver]

I have my suspicions. Florida is overrun with prowling cougars, like this example of cougarus floridiians: <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=360521"/> What chance would a monkey have? RIP Robert.

That's the girl that was at the party !!! I questioned if she was Indian .. I said how .. See said .. Me know how say when!!!

 

[Wagtail]

I take it you are not buying into the goose/scarecrow faction huh?

Nope.

Analysing sparc's new "information", the only landing deterrent the pallet erections could possibly pose would be to an extremely timid WWII glider pilot. Heck, there's not enough 'bold' surviving WWII glider pilots left to warrant preventing them from landing in a NJ field.

 

[Wagtail]

Either that, or the tree-trimming guy didn't really know why the pallets are there, and was the type that can't admit not knowing anything.

I'm not buying the bird deterrent thing at all. In fact, if geese perched, I bet we could find goose crap all over them pallets. :laughing:

I agree Dave. (this should eliminate at least one off of Steve's 'delusion count' by my reckoning)

It's a canard!

 

[Wagtail]

An excellent scientific critique. However, you are not completely unbiased in this matter. As I recall, your Antipodean Avian Abode theory claimed that the pallet structures were in place to attract our feathered friends. Photographic evidence of an avian presence near the pallet formations would strengthen your case (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

Steve

Alas, there are no migratory gooses/geese in my part of the continent. There is only the Cape Barren Goose [Cereopsis novaehollandiae] which is a coastal Anatidae, found only on offshore islands with pasture, tussocks and scrub.

Being water-birds... they would require a source/body of water, not an open field in an unspecified area of NJ.

 

[k0ua]

Alas, there are no migratory gooses/geese in my part of the continent. There is only the Cape Barren Goose [Cereopsis novaehollandiae] which is a coastal Anatidae, found only on offshore islands with pasture, tussocks and scrub.

Being water-birds... they would require a source/body of water, not an open field in an unspecified area of NJ.

The often land in open fields to rest and eat, and poop.. mostly they poop a LOT.

 

[smstonypoint]

Alas, there are no migratory gooses/geese in my part of the continent. There is only the Cape Barren Goose [Cereopsis novaehollandiae] which is a coastal Anatidae, found only on offshore islands with pasture, tussocks and scrub.

Being water-birds... they would require a source/body of water, not an open field in an unspecified area of NJ.

It looks like I have to do all of the scientific field research. Here is clear evidence that the pallet formations are not effective in deterring avian trespass.

Steve

 

[stuckmotor]

It looks like I have to do all of the scientific field research. Here is clear evidence that the pallet formations are not effective in deterring avian trespass.

Steve

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Note: The grass is often greener where there's a goose around. It often appears in rectangular patches.

 

[Wagtail]

It looks like I have to do all of the scientific field research. Here is clear evidence that the pallet formations are not effective in deterring avian trespass.

Steve

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*Wagtail SuperScientific TM Computer - Message follows:*

<Negative "Photoshop" skills detected = 99.9% legitimate> OKaaaaaay(?)

Well, there's irrefutable evidence contradicting sparc's latest scientifically ambiguous contribution. Intrepidly done, Steve.

As I stated; it's a canard.

 

[smstonypoint]

Note: The grass is often greener where there's a goose around. It often appears in rectangular patches.

Yes. The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is known to be territorial and sets up a rectangular perimeter to defend her goslings. The droppings of the goose and her offspring provide an organic fertilizer; hence, the "greener the grass" within the perimeter.

Steve

 

[smstonypoint]

It's a canard!

As I stated; it's a canard.

I cannot accept your assertion that the pallet formation is a canard.

An airplane with horizontal stabilizing and control surfaces in front of supporting surfaces; also : a small airfoil in front of the wing of an aircraft that can increase the aircraft's performance.

Canard - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Steve

 

[dave1949]

I agree Dave. (this should eliminate at least one off of Steve's 'delusion count' by my reckoning)

It's a canard!

Thank you, Sir.

I have no idea where Steve's delusion will lead in the future. His obsession with getting a Nobel prize in Stockholm is all-consuming. I checked the nominees for the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize. I didn't see anyone named Steve on the list.

The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded on Thursday night, September 18th, 2014 at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The ceremony will be broadcast live.

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a long ways from Stockholm. If Steve wins, we can be charitable by putting him on a plane at Logan Airport in Boston, then ask the pilot to fly in circles for about seven hours before landing back at Logan. If we hire a limo with dark tinted glass to take him to Harvard, I think we can fool him. He wants to believe; that is our best tool in maintaining his delusions.

The last Ig Noble awarded in Economics was in 2010. Here are two examples of prize winning efforts:
ECONOMICS 2010: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.

ECONOMICS 2005: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.

 

[dave1949]

I cannot accept your assertion that the pallet formation is a canard.

Steve

I had a canard breast in Montreal. It was quite succulent. Does that clarify anything?

 

[smstonypoint]

I had a canard breast in Montreal. It was quite succulent. Does that clarify anything?

No. Is Wagtail claiming the pallet formations resemble a Canada Duck?

Steve

 

[Wagtail]

No. Is Wagtail claiming the pallet formations resemble a Canada Duck?

Steve

Oh for cry out loud: From the Oxford Concise Dictionary (10th edition); canard (noun) "an unfounded rumour or story." - Origin C19: from Fr., lit. 'duck', also 'hoax', from OFr. caner 'to quack'.

sparc was telling us a furphy. I can't be clearer than that!

 

[Wagtail]

Oh, by the way... I just dropped in to the thread "Things found in the fields" and SPYDERLK posted,

"If you find a couple pallets dont [sic] tell anybody. ... It could get ridiculous."

What does he know?

 

[lilranch2001]

You guys are the most scientific bunch I have ever had the pleasure to hang out with!

 

[lilranch2001]

I am not quite sure about James's Canardian bresticles tho.........

I think he may have some other malady other than scientificy!

 

[stuckmotor]

I am not quite sure about James's Canardian bresticles tho.........

I think he may have some other malady other than scientificy!

Are they really geese or do they just look like geese?

 

[blueriver]

Are they really geese or do they just look like geese?

Hallo gram

 

[smstonypoint]

Oh, by the way... I just dropped in to the thread "Things found in the fields" and SPYDERLK posted,

"If you find a couple pallets dont [sic] tell anybody. ... It could get ridiculous."

What does he know?

Apparently, very little.

Steve