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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:01 PM
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What would you do if you had a moat?
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:03 PM
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1. Slip on it and break my neck.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:08 PM
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2. Is that Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas?
I've always wanted to visit...

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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:13 PM
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3. It totally is and you should totally go
If you go, you have to camp overnight. It's a different place after all the tourists leave.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:20 PM
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6. Wow! I didn't know you could do that!
My parents went ages ago, with my sister. Dad was a Civil War buff, so we visited just about every fort on the East Coast.

But my mom and sister went snorkeling while they were there, and got some cool pics of a barracuda!

I'm going to have to look into camping out there! :bounce:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:24 PM
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7. The camping fee?
3 bucks per night per person.

You have to bring EVERYTHING including water, but it's a good time. Especially if you like birding or snorkeling.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:31 PM
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8. Can't beat that!
We'd either have to drive down to FL or rent equipment once we got there, though. It's a drag trying to combine camping stuff with your regular luggage on a plane.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:33 PM
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11. This is a socially irresponsible suggestion
but Target has sleeping bags for 15 bucks that are totally serviceable in such a warm/humid climate.

That's what I did, and it worked out great. :D
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:41 PM
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12. I'll bet we could find a homeless advocacy group
to donate them to afterward. Hmmm...
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:16 PM
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4. Cross it with my
goat in my boat.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 05:16 PM
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5. Fill it with hungry crocogators
And put up a "Welcome GOP" sign.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:32 PM
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9. swim laps?
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 07:32 PM
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10. I don't know, but I'll probably have to get one. My grandson declared to me that
he has "minions" now. They consist of a couple of toy robots and a few teddy bears. But loyal minions need a moat behind which they can defend their master. B-)
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:27 PM
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13. Get the boat out and go sailing...
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:29 PM
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14. Did you call me?
oh wait, you said moat not mote


:yoiks:
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:29 PM
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15. Well, I'd probably build a drawbridge so I could get across it...
...and I might swim in it a little bit if it were the kind of moat that's more like a pool and less like a ditch. One of those I would be down with.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:31 PM
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16. Piranha are, unfortunately, illegal in this state
I guess I could fill it with ocean water and put lionfish in it...
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 09:28 AM
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29. Fill it with anti freeze, because the damn thing would be freezing over
with temperatures in the teens. Then when it's warm I think I would stock it with stingrays.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:32 PM
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17. Mess with the pizza delivery dood...
:P
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:41 PM
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18. Fill it with alligators and invite the Repukes over for a swim.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 12:39 AM
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22. Alligators would be good, but
if you added piranhas too, you could sell tickets and :popcorn:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:41 PM
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19. Charge all the other residents of this building a toll to cross.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 08:50 PM
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20. Need more specifics
Depth?

Populated?

Crocs, or sharks?

Do the sharks have frakin' lasers?
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 12:36 AM
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21. get a bridge, I guess
It would be pretty inconvenient, since my door opens right onto the sidewalk.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 12:49 AM
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23. Time for some Biological Warfare! Muahahahaha.
I'd fill it with fishies; all kinds of fishies. Geneva? I don't need no stinking Geneva Convention in My "International Waters" :evilgrin:

Hmmm...

Let's see:
Puffer fish
Barracudas
Piranhas
Portuguese Men of War
Box Jellyfish
Blue Ring Octopus
Stonefish
Great White Shark
Sea Snakes
Cone Shell

and just for the fun of it:
some Saltwater Crocodiles (if it's salt water)

I may add some guppies, bettas, goldfish, and angelfish too, just to lure people closer, then :popcorn:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 04:35 AM
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25. You need some candiru in there
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 05:39 AM
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27. Oh, that's good thinking.
When they see the 16 foot saltwater crocks and the Great Whites, they'll piss themselves and Presto! Instant awareness that they've trespassed at the wrong person's castle. :evilgrin:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 06:25 AM
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28. .
:patriot:
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 03:57 AM
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24. I'd raise my drawbridge and declare a siege against the rest of the world.
I'd starve the fuckers out.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 05:12 AM
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26. I'd probably have a drawbridge that didn't work
or wasn't built flush, so it wasn't wheelchair accessible, or something stupid like that, and I'd be stuck inside the moat. :grr:

That would be my luck.
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