Ha ha! Come on down youse Yankee golfers!

[Thumper]

Somebody's waitin' for ya'! :D

(I DARE you to take that last putt.) ;)



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[Big Muddy]

Just wondering....if you cut off a gator's tail, will it grow back, like a lizard's does???....and, if not, will he drown, while trying to swim??? ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

Me and Hombre were golfing once down in Florida and came across a gator sunning beside a water hazard. It wasn't a big one but we just had to mess with it (yes much alcohol was involved at 7:00 in the morning). Touched it with a golf club and that thing exploded into the water and I about shit my pants. I haven't seen many animals move that fast.
BKB

[Thumper]

Oh, TRUST ME ... they can haul ass!

Muddy, no, they don't grow back. Back when I hunted these things with Tony, we'd catch 'em with no tails. Missing feet/legs (VERY common). Missing eyeballs. And generally beat all to shit! They seem to do alright and I really think medical scientists should be studying these things. I've seen some horrific injuries (the bulls fight a LOT ... especially during mating season) and they always seems to heal up without infection. Even being in some of the nastiest, bacteria infested water imaginable (sewer plants for example) they can survive nasty, open wounds and seem to heal with no prpblem. The skin just grows right over the injury and eventually seals itself up. If they could isolate the mechanism that heals those dinosaurs ... and somehow transfer it to humans ... even if it's some sort of injection after a devastating injury, somebody would get a Nobel Prize.

The weirdest one I ever saw was one that was caught and was completely emaciated. He was a BIG gator (at one point) and had chomped down on a turtle. The turtle got wedged up into his upper jaw between the side rows of teeth and stuck there permanently and the gator couldn't eat. That gator actually looked like some sort of cartoon character. It had a HUGE head with a little, tiny body and looked like a giant tadpole! It'd been a long, long time since he'd eaten anything. I think I have a picture of him somewhere around here.

[Big Muddy]

That's innersting....I wanna see that pic, if you can find it.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Keith and I used to have access (which hopefully we're getting back soon) to a strip pit we called the 'l' mainly because it is shaped like a little L. We caught a bass wi the head of an 8 pounder and was sickly looking and only weighed just under five. The second time we caught him, months later, he was down to just under four, and the last time we caught him he was just at three pounds. We named him Firemarshall Bill because of his emaciated looks. But he was very much alive. We never figured out if it was old age or sickness.

BKB

[DeputyDog]

Thump, it sounds like the cure for your back involves some type of gator goo.

[Bwana]

I think DeputyDog just found the solution to heal Jim's back...instead of rubbing dirt on it, he needs to rub gator shit on it!