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  1. 08-14-2018, 09:15 AM #1
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    Default Upstate Gopher Tortoise

    Was checking for artifacts along the way as I always do while working and low and walked up on a Gopher Tortoise shell. Reached down and picked it up and found this under it....



    I guess he couldn’t digest whatever they use in them balloons.
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    I don't think so. Since the Gopher Tortoise range does not extend to the Upstate it is obvious that this poor creature was ensnared by the balloon which carried him aloft for miles, dropping him in the Upstate. He likely died along the way from inhaling dumpster fire fumes as he passed over Columbia.
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    It’s your story, wad
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    It’s your story, wad
    A five ounce balloon could not carry a one pound gopher tortoise.
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    picture of gopher tortoise shell
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    Physics does not apply here.
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    african swallow?
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2thDoc View Post
    african swallow?
    Nah, some sorta gray phase crow....


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    haha
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    2TH nailed it!
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    Better get that sicklepod while it's luttle
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    Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2thDoc View Post
    african swallow?
    More likely European....
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2thDoc View Post
    african swallow?
    They don't migrate.
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    Does a gopher tortoise weigh more than a coconut?
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    What is the air speed velocity of a gray phase crow anyhoo?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baggy View Post
    Does a gopher tortoise weigh more than a coconut?
    Depends on the size of the coconut.
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    Or the tortoise. I'm talkin averages man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    Better get that sicklepod while it's luttle
    This.

    That dirt/foodplot must have been tilled recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catdaddy View Post
    This.

    That dirt/foodplot must have been tilled recently.

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    Wrong. That picture was taken on the edge of a 75 acre field of the best looking soybeans I've seen grown in the upstate. They're belly button high on me and just starting to bloom.
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