is that why all the feathers fell off thier necks and heads

Its Shibuyaeggs will hatch into Shibuyaeggmen.

Is this another Dharma Initiative experiment? DNRTFA

Sounds like a game of Joust to me.

oldernell: History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.

BIRDZILLA!!

Dean Cain and Edward James Olmos in a SyFy Original Movie... BIRDTOMIC

I, for one, welcome our new Ostrich overlords.

jbuist: +++ATH0+++

I wonder how many people even know what that does these days.

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Description:
It was possible to disconnect the remote
host by sending it an ICMP echo request packet containing the string '+ + + ATH0' (without the
spaces).
It is also possible to make the remote modem
hangup and dial any phone number.
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The auto dial sounds part sounds like fun.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: What a Fukushima ostrich might look like

Alee, Godzilla awaits.

jbuist: +++ATH0+++

I wonder how many people even know what that does these days.

It doesn't do much of anything these days.

Harv72b: Dude, it's a llama.

Must be convergent evolution.

That would make an interesting documentary. Probably doomed birds wandering around the abandoned existence of man.

Megaslow: It's more like

+++ (wait a second) ATH0

That's how it was supposed to work, but Hayes had a patent on the (wait a second) bit and some manufacturers didn't license or implement it.

Wile E Coyote!

Hey! How about that?

Mutant ostriches? Someone get SyFy on the phone!

Om nom nom nom!

The second +++ is totally superfluous
Amateurs.

I think my hangup script in Opus used to be +++ATH0+++ATZ as my Telebit trailblazer modems didn't play nice with the fossil driver I was using... resets between hangups were required to keep the board running.

/subby
//former Fidonet host

COMALite J: jbuist: +++ATH0+++

I wonder how many people even know what that does these days.

It doesn't do much of anything these days.

Have you used a Coinstar machine lately? They still use dial up modems to access authorization for 3rd party gift card transactions. The first time I heard it, I thought I was transported back in time.

It's a trap!!

There's magnetic steel shot in there, or some kind of explosive, or just a big freakin' anvil above you- sure it doesn't make much sense, but it's best to let this one go.

I'm on it!

hahhahahahahahahahahaha Nuclear disasters have their lighter elements! Yay!

/seriously... fark this planet.

texdent: Ostriches vs Monkeys. Who wins?

They both do. The two will become allies, and soon you'll have monkeys riding on the backs of ostriches, howling for blood.

texdent: Ostriches vs Monkeys. Who wins?

Whoever wins, we lose.

Dude...it's a llama!

jbuist: +++ATH0+++

I wonder how many people even know what that does these days.

I have no idea what it means. Does being Australian count as an excuse?

Nidiot: jbuist: +++ATH0+++

I wonder how many people even know what that does these days.

I have no idea what it means. Does being Australian count as an excuse?

It usually does.

I used to pet sit a couple of dogs (husky and doberman) that got loose once (nothing to do with me, just their air-headed owners) and raided a nearby ostrich farm. It was all over the local news. That's my CSB, but in all seriousness, those farkers are mean and can break your neck if they kick you in the head, which they will try to do. (the ostriches, not the dogs).

also, FYE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNgOkl5KqRY

//required in an ostrich thread

Acquaintance of mine was going to make his fortune raising ostrich. Spent thousands on a couple breeding pairs. Several months later I'm at a party and I run into him. I ask him how the ostrich business is going. He gets a pained look on his face and starts telling me that when you put up a fence for ostrich it needs to be pretty strong and tall but when you put in a gate you need to make sure that the gate is either so close to the fence post that the opening is smaller than the diameter of their neck or they need to be far enough apart that the opening is wider than the size of their head. Like a good little straight man, I ask why this is. He allows as how, if it's in that wrong size, the ostrich will try to reach through there but won't raise his head up to get out, rather he will back up and pull his head right off. At which point he opens a container he's been carrying around under his arm and asks if I'd like to try some ostrich jerky, then points out the nifty pair of ostrich leather cowboy boots he's wearing. He ended up going out of the ostrich business for other reasons but he's certainly got a nice pair of boots! And I still laugh at how he told the story.

FTFA:
In May, the central government instructed the Fukushima Prefectural Government to catch and kill them after obtaining consent from the owners.

consent from owners? respecting property rights? Japan, you're doing it wrong.

Arcturus72:
Mr. Right: Funny CSB

I wonder how many he lost before he figured it out?

He only lost the one. He got out of the business because his "partner" who was going to sell all the fertilized eggs for vast sums of money turned out to be a shyster and took all the eggs and may have even hatched them but never forked over any of the money. Lawsuits were involved because my acquaintance's wife convinced him that baseball bat negotiations would, while making him feel much better about the situation, only land him in jail. He won the case only to find out that his "partner" had no money. The "partner's" ex-wife, with whom the "partner" apparently still shares a conjugal relationship, appears to have done pretty well at some venture or other but the "partner" is always dead broke. At the time of the CSB, my acquaintance could be funny about it. It's been several years now but it would probably still not be in anyone's best interest to mention ostrich to my acquaintance. From what others have told me, mentioning ostrich makes a particular vein in his temples start to throb and from there things go downhill pretty fast.