Elk

Not Working

The snowshoes were  billed in the online  “Outdoor Super Store” website as “One size fits all,” but Bernie thought that may have been a little misleading . . .

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On the Run

It seems the EPA had decided that elk, like their bovine cousins the cows, created significant amounts of high carbon gas in the digestive process.  To stop global warming, it was necessary to fit these elk with a new catalytic converter, and the boys from Washington DC were here in Montana looking for the first recipients.  Bruce (with antlers) figured these DC guys had to be a couple of chips short of a motherboard . . .

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Empty As a Politician’s Promise

As part of a political inducement at election time, the locals had been promised all the alfalfa hay they could eat all winter.  Turns out the hay feeders were as empty as a politician’s promise . . .

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Wired for Sound

Enrique, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, had been told by his friends that if he wrapped his antlers in aluminum foil he could pick up AM radio and that way not miss Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity every day, and he might be able to get some of the AM oldies stations.  He had two concerns: Would he miss NPR on FM, and would the foil make him an ungulate lightning rod in a thunder storm . . . ?

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Not Interested

 

When the locals heard that there was going to be a debate between the president and the presidential contender, they did the only logical thing–they left town en masse before the pre-event fixers got there. . . .  David, Sf.G.

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