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Tref
02-25-2007, 01:09 AM
For those who have never seen my pet turtle (and that would be the lot of you) may I present to you ... Texaco *

http://cgi.ebay.com/TEXACO-TEST-AUCTION-DO-NOT-BID-TEST-AUCTION_W0QQitemZ200083162273QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14 111QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

He is not actually being sold -- we used him for a test auction.
Betty
02-25-2007, 08:09 AM
Yay Texaco. But riddle me this - does he feel used? (I mean you used him in your auction - did he give you explicit permission to use his face online? Imagine the emails he'll now be getting from potential mates, psycho turtles wanting to stalk him and all that.)
Kevy Baby
02-25-2007, 10:33 AM
I'm the current high bidder.
wendybeth
02-25-2007, 11:52 AM
Texaco looks a bit pissed off there, Tref.
Kevy Baby
02-25-2007, 12:25 PM
Once I own him, I will calm him down.
Tref
02-25-2007, 02:10 PM
Texaco looks a bit pissed off there, Tref.

Texaco is the grumpiest turtle I have ever seen. (A reflection of his owner?) He spends his whole day under his rock. To feed him I have to knock food his way with a plastic knife, otherwise he ignores it.

But he is family and I love him. Her. Whatever.
Kevy Baby
02-25-2007, 04:07 PM
Somebody tried to outbid me, but I am determined to save that turtle from his horrible captors.
Tref
02-26-2007, 12:04 AM
Somebody tried to outbid me, but I am determined to save that turtle from his horrible captors.


I'm insulted. How dare you!

Actually Texaco has it quite good. Quite, indeed.

- I clean his bowl twice a week.
- He has all his food swatted into his mouth.
- He is kept at my job so he always has somebody at which to stare.

And I have made progress as well with him/her.
Texaco doesn't shrink into her shell like he used to when I picked her up.
Now he/she just looks at me. In the old days when I sat
him down on the table she would run to anyplace I was not.
Now he comes right to me and once he even lifted his
little paw and scratched my arm to signal that he/she was
ready for his/her bowl.

And I've noticed that Texaco has even picked up a few words, such as "Hello", "Bye" and "Anthropomorphistic". Few people realise that turtles are natural born parrots, just as parrots are also natural born parrots. Though, I am not stupid, I understand this ability in turtles is not intelligence, more than it is the rote memorisation of sounds.

OK, that last part was a lie. Turtles can not actually speak, and I am not sure if they can even recognise people from day to day. But Texaco isn't afraid of me anymore and that is something, I suppose.
wendybeth
02-26-2007, 12:58 AM
I tried to bid for Texaco, in the hopes that he might serve as a tutor to our poor mute Zebra finches, but it seems a certain person who shall otherwise remain nameless has placed a max bid that I, frankly, am too bored to try and surpass. So, our finches shall remain mute, Texaco shall remain cranky, and KB will have some 'splainin to do to Gus Gus when she gets home.
Kevy Baby
02-26-2007, 08:10 AM
You must not have tried THAT hard - it isn't that high.

You just don't have the same desire as I.
alphabassettgrrl
02-26-2007, 04:54 PM
Tex is cute!
wendybeth
02-26-2007, 05:34 PM
You must not have tried THAT hard - it isn't that high.

You just don't have the same desire as I.

Maybe I should put the birds on E-Bay.
Kevy Baby
02-26-2007, 10:54 PM
Well some tweedledot named copper eos thinks they can outbid me.

HA!
Kevy Baby
03-03-2007, 04:13 PM
The bidding is getting up there - currently at $51.00. I gave up.
Tref
03-03-2007, 06:12 PM
The bidding is getting up there - currently at $51.00. I gave up.

Hmm, "I gave up" is not in my dictionary, KB.

At least not as one word, though you can find each one individually in sections, I, G & U.

I just got word that our store is closing! Oh woe is Tref!

But please take with you this last photo of my dear friend, Texaco. (Can you spot him in the auction?)

http://cgi.ebay.com/15-ROLLS-OF-YELLOW-ECONOMY-GRADE-MASKING-TAPE-48-X-55MM_W0QQitemZ200084877296QQihZ010QQcategoryZ11701 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Kevy Baby
03-04-2007, 09:01 AM
http://a763.g.akamai.net/7/763/1644/v001/app.infopia.com/img/image/fp/extra/4/VPID/2920328
Tref
03-09-2007, 12:52 PM
Hey, thanks, KB

Here is a clip of a turtle (not unlike our young hero,Texaco, fighting what I believe to be a shark)

http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/movies6/gamvsguiron1.mpg
Kevy Baby
03-09-2007, 07:30 PM
So was "copper eos" responsible for paying $1,000,001.00 for Texaco (http://cgi.ebay.com/TEXACO-TEST-AUCTION-DO-NOT-BID-TEST-AUCTION_W0QQitemZ200083162273QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14 111QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)?