An older friend of mine (now long gone) always used the saying "racing away like a herd of turtles"

[Stinky The Clown]

It now comes to be the embodiment of this news story.

75-year-old circus tortoise escapes, is found in time for Elizabeth performance

Berta, a 75-year-old circus tortoise that escaped from its cage earlier this month in Madison, Wisc., will be reunited today with the Zerbini Family Circus in time for a week-long run of shows in Elizabeth.

"He started to walk and couldn't find his way back," said circus owner and producer Alain Zerbini, 61. "It's not like he's a dog."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/75yearold_circus_tortoise_esca.html

[sakabatou]

1. WTF does a circus tortoise do? Backflips?

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Damned if I know

Ask reptile behavioral expert Senator Cornyn.

[callous taoboy]

2. Reminds me of something my mom did one time:

And this story I'm not proud of, but mom was fed up with a stray dog that had been doing bad deeds around the neighborhood so she drove said dog out to the lake about 6 miles away and let it go, sure that it'd find a new home. She spent the rest of the afternoon doing errands and, yup, when she drove up to the house the dog was back.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. "It's not like he's a dog."

Now, that's a CLASSIC line right there.

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[EFerrari]

7. I rec'd you, Stinky.

Some people don't know what else to do with their hands. Let it go.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I can suggest uses for their hands

In fcat, in my post, I think I did.

The only logical reason to unrec this is for wrong forum.

I dunno .... maybe its me. I just find anonymous hits to be cowardly.

[EFerrari]

10. It's not just you. But there will always be people that do that stuff.

I went into the Latin American forum last week and there were six straight new stories unrec'd. Stupidity. It's not just you at all.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. :sigh: I know ..... chickenshit jerkoffs with a new toy/weapon

[EFerrari]

14. I"m just going to pretend that this will settle down and be all right.

:hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. I gave you a recommend -

how can you tell if someone has unrecommended a post?

Whoever did that is just a sad prick...

[Stinky The Clown]

11. You can only tell early in a thread's life when the unrecs exceed the recs and you see "

So, since two people reced it, and it is now at zero, two chickenshit jerkoff COWARDS gave it an unrec.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Fuckwads............

What is the point of unrecommend again?

I really don't get it.......................

[Old Codger]

5. What we said

was like a terd of hurdles.....

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Two miles in six days?

At 114 pounds, that tortoise was SMOKIN'!

The Roger Banister of turtles..................................



(Remember him?)

[Stinky The Clown]

22. And he weighed less than Bannister did

I wonder if Guiness has been contacted about this new turle speed demon.

[timeforpeace]

15. rec'd, interesting story too

[Marr]

16. I had a "pet" tortoise for 15 years and didn't know it.

I thought the little bastard had... uh... "run" away about a week after he first came to live with me. Then one day, fifteen years later, I was trimming the hedges and voila-- a tortoise. He was just chewing away, happy as could be.

[Lorien]

17. Six days to find a giant runaway circus tortoise

that's one speedy, stealthy tortoise!

[Stinky The Clown]

21. That was our reaction, too

A regular speed demon! :rofl:

[orleans]

19. i love the "It's not like he's a dog." line. glad they found their turtle. n/t

[wroberts189]

20. amazing animals ..they can out live us all. nt

[Fumesucker]

23. That's funny, I use the phrase "We're off, like a herd of turtles"

With my grandkids quite a bit..

To the point that all I have to say is "We're off" and they finish the phrase. :)