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Bo Borland
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 6:06 pm |
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Because pickers will buy anything.
The Cane Toad was introduced into Gordonvale Queensland, Australia, 22kms South of Cairns in 1935 from Hawaii to combat the sugar cane beetle which was destroying the crops of the sugar cane industry. It has since hopped all over Queensland and is now entering neighboring states. The Toad is presently considered a major pest and a threat to native wildlife. All efforts are now being made for its eradication. The skin of the Cane Toad is strong, tough and durable and makes up into excellent leather goods. Help save Australian wildlife by turning a toad into a prince of a pick pouch!  |
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 6:13 pm
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| Where can I get one of these and are you the US distributor? |
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Martin Weenick
From:
Lecanto, FL, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 6:33 pm Frog
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Bo, I need one, and will my dog eat it ??? Martin.
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Bo Borland
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 6:40 pm
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awww crap, I'm caught  ... I saw this on the Deering Banjo website.... 
I was looking there for a "friend".
I swear I have never been there or looked at anything remotely banjo-ish before in my life...please don't tell anyone. I promise not to ever go there again. |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 7:54 pm
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| I gotta have one. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 11:12 pm
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Me too!
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Ned McIntosh
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New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 12:12 am
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We probably have about 1.5 billion cane toads (bufo marinus) here in tropical and sub-tropical Australia, and they are a major pain-in-the-neck! Highly poisonous, tough, able to breed almost anywhere and mobile, only freezing cold weather and physical death seems capable of stopping this ecological disaster.
The skin exudes a powerful poison which kills any animal stupid or unfortunate enough to eat one of these things. Get it in your eyes and you'll know all about it! Large cane toads approximate a small dinner-plate in diameter. Truckies run them over in their thousands on the roads at night, at the risk of a wheel-alignment in the near future. A good golfer can hit a medium-sized cane toad about 80 yards with a 1-wood (but risks serious clubhead damage in the process). A .22 rimfire round, well-aimed, can despatch them (forget air-rifles, the toad just gets miffed and huffy if you shoot it with an air-rifle), but the best way to kill this amphibian nightmare is to catch them, place then in stout plastic bags and freeze them solid. No-one, not even the Greenies, likes these things.
Sadly, and ominously, these noxious pests are spreading into the magnificent Kakadu wetlands in northern Australia. They have no natural predators and because of their toxins they even kill crocodiles who consume them, especially smaller crocs, even the rightly-feared "salties". Other frogs and toads are eaten by the cane-toad, fish-eggs likewise. It's an ecological holocaust.
So, those who want a cane-toad pick-n-bar bag, take heart! These are not an endangered species (oh, how we Aussies wish they were!) and if someone here Downunder is enterprising enough to turn this horrible little object into something useful, "I dips me lid to 'im".
Basically, to remove all the cane-toads in Australia, every steeler in the world will need to order about 50,000 cane-toad pick-n-bar bags, based on roughly 30,000 steelers world-wide and the aforementioned 1.5 billion toads. The entrepreneur will need to factor this into his pricing and distribution network. So feel free to order up big and help us get rid of this truly awful pest.
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Jeff Evans
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Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 5:26 am
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It may be called "poison" by the knee-jerk reactionary anti-pleasure fascists, but the experience induced by licking a cane toad is also well known as a powerful hallucinogenic experience - those crocodiles aren't dying, they're being transported to a higher plane of existence.... I'm not sure if lizard brains are actually receptive to chemical enlightenment, maybe not hmmm.  |
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Mike Ester
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New Braunfels, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 5:34 am Re: Frog
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| Martin Weenick wrote: |
| ... and will my dog eat it ??? Martin. |
Naw, but if you throw it out on the road, I'm sure your dog will roll all over it. |
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Carl Williams
From:
Oklahoma
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 6:10 am Color Choices?
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Hey Bo,
Can I get a Black one?? 
P.S. This isn't one of those West Coast Licking Frogs is it? |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 7:19 am funny but cool
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gives new meaning to BAR HOP!!
cool deal  |
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John Groover McDuffie
From:
LA California, USA
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 8:49 am
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| So what are the factors that keep them from being a similar problem in their (presumably native) Hawaii? |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 4:10 pm
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No b0b, you don't have to buy it from a banj@ company...just back away from the monitor!
Dave Mason, Timothy Leary IS dead! not on the outside looking in.
MJ & Stu...this proves pickers will buy anything.
Groover, there is probably something in their native land that will eat them and not die.. I hope.
Carl, "Can I get a Black one??" .. I'm not going there!
and I was going to post this in the humor section .. |
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Scott Shipley
From:
The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 5:01 pm
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| Ned McIntosh wrote: |
| Basically, to remove all the cane-toads in Australia, every steeler in the world will need to order about 50,000 cane-toad pick-n-bar bags, based on roughly 30,000 steelers world-wide and the aforementioned 1.5 billion toads. |
Put me down for two.
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Tony Davis
From:
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Posted 16 Aug 2009 4:06 am
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You can buy then stuffed....mounted...as golfers..all kind of different things...,orrible buggers.....I usually use a golf club to bat them over the fence into my neighbours yard....let him deal with them.....no way would I buy one and use it as a pick bag !!!!!
Couple of years ago I gave Smiley a certain part of the anatomy of a male Kangaroo that makes a real good Pick Bag.....Smiley loved it....dont think the Kangaroo was too pleased though !!!!! |
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B.Jenkins
From:
Parkersburg, WV...U.S.A
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Posted 16 Aug 2009 5:14 am
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Here is what I use
BILLY |
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