Something you learned today

[Doreen Peri]

I learned that an elk is the same thing as a moose.
I thought they were two different animals.
Unless I misunderstood.

Is this correct?

What did you learn today?

[panta rhei]

as far as i know, there is a difference between what americans call "elk" and what europeans call "elk" -

the european elk is the same as the american moose; its antlers are sort of palmate.
the american elk is a bit smaller and looks more like a red deer, and is known in europe as wapiti. its antlers look like twigs.

they both belong to the deer family, though, btu are members of a different subfamily.


... as for what i've learned today:

i learned why on st. martin's day (today - 11.11.) people eat the traditional goose meal -- it's becasue according to legend, martin was reluctant to become bishop, which is why he hid in a stable filled with geese. the noise made by the geese betrayed his location to the people who were looking for him.

i am almost embarrassed i hadn't known before (or maybe i just forgot. my daughter, at least, had known.)

anyway, kids are still strolling the nightly streets with their self-made paper lanterns and candles, singing their st. martin's songs in return for treats.
this, at least, is not new to me...

[Artguy]

2 completely different creatures up here in the great white north...

[Arcadia]

well... just some hours later... (long, maybe not tasteful story) that I can be helpful to (dear) people and at the same time convive with my phobias only having an open window or door near... ... less complicated than I thought!

[Dave The Dov]

I've seen elk and deer but never a moose. I'm learning about to ins and outs of computers. I'm also learning about what it means to have a busy life too.
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Healthy Living Forum

[stilltrucking]

I am a hypochondriac, I try to learn the symptoms of a new disease every day.

I read the symptoms and imagine I have the disease. It cheers me up sometimes.

If I had the money or the insurance I would see a therapist about my Cotard's syndrome.

[Artguy]

MOOSE


ELK

[stilltrucking]

Jim Beam on the right
Moosehead on the left
I will make it through the night

[judih]

in my wild youth (elementary school), being able to draw a moose was one of my greatest surprises. Maybe it was due to Bullwinkle. Maybe it was picking up on my native canadian/american prior incarnations, but i was born knowing how to draw a moose.

today, i have learned that i no longer express my inner moose.

[stilltrucking]

I learned I do not have as many friends online as I thought I did
I am lucky to have made even one in a lifetime

I learned a lot of things lately
Without money something you love could die
I learned to express my inner rage
and deflect it from murdering myself and others
thank you George Fox



It is fun to learn
it is fun to learn to hate
To learn to be a martyr

What is in the heart of a child
that it can be so twisted.

I learned I am a fool
That life is beautiful
That women are the wonder of the world
and every child is a miracle
even when it's mother smothers it
and throws in a garbage dumpster

my previous 3 incarnations
were as an ape
a sea slug
a patriot and a true believer


so many people here so much more enlightened than me
so much to learn
this go round
I think it might be my first time as a human being
but that is proably just my vanity speaking

I learn
I forget
I suffer
I desire
to learn more
seems like only yesterday I learned how to wiggle my ears

I learned I was born to follow
a fearless leader
and I have a flair for the obvious.

tomorrow I am going to learn how to walk on water, and change the water into vodka
and how to write

I have yet to learn the courage of shutting up
But I learned there is life after litkix and even studio eight

and I learned a new disease
I am pretty sure I have aspergers syndorme too

cowards live such exciting lives
we face so many deaths.

I am a mean green learning machine

[Artguy]

Amazing words ST,,,I'm moved.....

[stilltrucking]

much to learn here in the new world
among the things of new spain
walking shinny floors
with an Aztec God
with the white face of a Conquistador
I think too much
because I think sometimes that in the United States,
human sacrifice is still required
to keep the wheels of industry churnning
to make the rains fall on wall street
I learned I am not the patriot i used to be
since I walked the streets of nagasaki
with Ferlinghetti's eyes
oh god
sorry for the ramble









much honored
by your words
thank you
wishing you well

[Doreen Peri]

i learned that all you have to do is think of someone you knew many years ago and a week later they call.

Very mysterious.

Has this ever happened to any of you?

.......

Thanks, Kurt & panta for the moose/elk comparisons. Great photos, Kurt! Further proof that I believe almost everything I hear. I heard a news announcer saying they were the same animal. I thought it wasn't true but since he said it on the TV, I figured I didn't know something I thought I knew and I believed him. lol... i'm such a dummy. I should know better not to believe stuff I hear on the news.

......

'truckin' .... you're on a roll with the poetry! I love it!

[izeveryboyin]

I learned that having a mini-marathon of the Matrix trilogy is and endless good time, and that the complete collection, including all 3 movies, the animatrix, and a ton of bonus material will be released in early December. I also learned that sometimes, even when you think you hate someone you realize with one look, or gesture, or smile that you still love them. Maybe not as much a before, but enough so that when someone else comes around trying to love you, you have to say no, and spend weeks trying to figure out why until an ugly truth reveals itself. And when that moment comes you are so naked, and fearful. And... alone.

--k

[stilltrucking]

I learned I am from the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy not from the Milky Way. Not only that but the Milky Way is eating my lunch.

Take your mind back to your early education, and tell me what galaxy it is that our Solar System inhabits? Your answer is, naturally, the Milky Way galaxy. However everything is not as it seems, according to a study coming out of the University of Massachusetts.

What they learned is that we’re not from the Milky Way galaxy, we come from the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!

Scientists have long been baffled by the sideways appearance of the Milky Way in our night sky, for if we were indeed a part of the Milky Way, everything would have been aligned accordingly, just as we are aligned with the 8 other planets in our system and our sun. The fact of the matter is the Milky Way galaxy is slowly but surely eating our own Sagittarius galaxy.

In fact, we are witnessing the end of a 2 billion year meal, in which the Milky Way has slowly consumed the smaller galaxy, and it looks as if Sagittarius has reached the end. "We are seeing Sagittarius at the very end of its life as an intact system,” said 2MASS Science Team member and study co-author Martin Weinberg of the University of Massachusetts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said it best, when he said that “… things are not what they seem.”

Don't Panic