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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 06 10:04 am Post subject:
For years there was a statistical correlation between the number of theology graduates produced by OxBridge each year and the number arrests for prostitution in Sydney.

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 06 10:05 am Post subject:
Or send them here - I can make 'em swallow dynamite then catapult them at the magpies from my kitchen window

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 06 10:06 am Post subject:
Cornwall is one of the hotspots for Bovine TB. Is it the badgers or the TB thats killing the hedghogs ? Nothing is as simple and as straight forward as it seems.

quixote

Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 198

Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 8:43 am Post subject:

ReevesRareBreeds wrote:

Personally, I trap hedgehogs with a Larson trap and then boil them alive in a vat of bubbling old motor oil

That's just a sick thing to do!!!!

EVERYBODY knows the best way is to use fresh motor oil!!!

Then (once they've gone crispy) you can stick 'em on the end of a pole & use them to clear the lawn of leaves

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 9:47 am Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

For years there was a statistical correlation between the number of theology graduates produced by OxBridge each year and the number arrests for prostitution in Sydney.

I never was one who was much for theology

moonwind

Joined: 10 Sep 2006
Posts: 1140

Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 10:15 am Post subject:

Quixote wrote:

ReevesRareBreeds wrote:

Personally, I trap hedgehogs with a Larson trap and then boil them alive in a vat of bubbling old motor oil

and compare them to BMW drivers?

Chickpea

Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 208
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 8:07 am Post subject:

In defence of magpies... I always wondered what good they did, they have robbed out wrens nests in my garden, they take the young blackbirds in the honeysuckle, they cackle like demented witches at the slightest provocation....

Then... Wednesday this week, I thanked them for allerting me to the distress of my hens! I'd let them out of the hen house very early, but hadn't let them from the coop into the garden as it was too early. Just after 7am there was an almighty racket in the garden, led mostly by the magpies, accompanied by the blackbirds and my girls. The magpies were actually dive bombing a fox who was going mad trying to get into the coop!!! I think, because the girls are quite often a bit loud if it wasn't for the magpies, and to a lesser degree, the blackbirds, I wouldn't have been allerted so quickly.

Having said all that, there seems to be a record number of magpies around here this year, at one count in the week, I counted a massive 13 of them!!!

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 8:42 am Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

For years there was a statistical correlation between the number of theology graduates produced by OxBridge each year and the number arrests for prostitution in Sydney.

Global warming directly correlates to the reduction in pirate numbers:

but which causes which?
is it possible then that low hedgehog numbers allow the badger population to thrive?

Not really proposing that as a theory, but correlations do not a causative relationship make.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 10:02 am Post subject:
So, hang on, if we all went ARRRRRR, Shiver me timbers a lot more, the polar ice cap might stop melting? Excellent.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 8:55 pm Post subject:
Statistics are like a lampost to a drunken man, more for leaning on than illumination...

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 9:18 pm Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

Statistics are like a lampost to a drunken man, more for leaning on than illumination...

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 9:23 pm Post subject:
or a bikini. what they show is interesting, what they hide is crucial

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 06 9:25 pm Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

or a bikini. what they show is interesting, what they hide is crucial

ROFL

quixote

Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 198

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 06 8:22 am Post subject:
Did you know that 76% of statistics are made up on the spot?

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