DAMN IT!!!

General Discussion
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I poured some epoxy on a set of fins I was making today. I had the fins set on some upside down cups - all on a piece of cardboard. My ‘shop’ is outside and I typically encounter bugs and so forth but today presented a new one on me…

A lizard crawled over the puddle of epoxy and got himself stuck. By the time I noticed, the epoxy was good and hard and now the poor guy is really in a fix. He’s alive but I can’t imagine a way to get him out without tearing him apart. He’s still alive but quite unhappy.

I’m afraid I’m just going to have to do the deed and put him out of his misery. :frowning:

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The pic…

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Awe man…That sucks.

I don’t even think Steve Irwin would have been able to save that little guy.

Sorry John.

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Let the cat in and then take a run down to the store for a six pack. Then you can blame it all on the cat! Do him in yourself and you will roast in Hell !!!

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john, don

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cosmicly

this spirit lizard

gave its life

in the pursuit of giving this fin job

the mana of its entire being.

respect and memorialize this

in a higher spirit i.e.

dry him out and resin the lizard

into yet another glass shop

lizard shrine.To just pass over

this mortal sacrifice would just

make your inner sadness sack

get one increment fuller.

Taking this oppertunity

to exault this lizard’s life in thanks

to it’s contribution

to your ongoing growth

is a positive way out.

saving the foot or a tail

or a skull and laminating

it into the ''lizard ‘’ job wether

it’s a board or a fin or just a

conspicious ding will give pause

when looking back on the day the lizard

became the coincidental cosmic

blood sacrifice to the board that will forever be

;;;The Lizard Board :::

there is a board I made

it resides in santa barbara.

It is called fourteen spiders

because of the fourteen

mini spider exoskeletons I found on the deck

one morning that I put in the glass job.

the last three boards were plagued with

gecco poop on the raw glass before glassing

they all got lizard illustrations …the lizard series.

…ambrose…

in this instance

you din’t sacrifice the lizard like a pagan

yet the circumstance sacrificed it

none the less .

Due respect to the great lizard spirit.

may it;s memory live with the greatesst

lizard memories…like the one under the rug

in the murphy cartoon.

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Ambrose has the right idea, find a way to work the poor creature into a board or fin or resin sculpture.

I remember back on Magnolia Street with Jim Phillips, whenever we’d find a dead lizard or spider in the factory, Jim would get this devious little look on face (those of you who know Jim are familiar with this look) and go about finding a way to affix it into a board or fin. Knotholes in wood that are otherwise undesirable in fin panels suddenly became final resting places for several curled up lizards.

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Sorry John, but I had to notify PETA.

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Hi John,

Unpleasant for sure. I remember talking to a Hare Krishna once . She was telling me how a gopher was decimating their vegetable garden. THey’re vegetarians and opposed to the taking of life, nevertheless they finally made the decision “to send the gopher’s soul transmigrating.” I thought that was a funny way to put it.

Don’t envy you. Maybe give him a jigger full of rum before you do the deed?

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I hear that Government Employees Insurance CO is having casting calls for a new spokesanimal already

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Make a center fin.

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Hi John, lizards are cold blooded so put him in a cool area to slow his metabolism and he’ll be hibernating when you do the deed.

Brett

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Hi - if hes only stuck by his feet, would you be able to cut around them and set him free with new Cardboard and Epoxy shoes?

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Bummer man.

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Done deal. I sucked it up and did the deed. His sorry ass lizard soul has been ‘transmigrated’ with a good chop to the head with a flat blade shovel.

I realize I must sound corny but that was one of the most disturbing things I’ve encountered recently and I encounter a lot of disturbing things. On one side, I somehow felt responsible. On the other side, it was his own damn fault for walking in to it.

Anyway - done deal.

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Bummer John. They’re nice animals. Easy to take care of in captivity and fun to watch outside, doing their little pushups and sparring with each other. Wickpedia states areas with lots of ‘blue bellys’ have a lower incidence of Lymes disease. Once, when I was about ten years old, my buddy and I were trying to catch one. I was rolling over a boulder so he could make the grab when I felt something scamper up my leg all the way to my dick. I let go of the boulder and grabbed and squeezed as hard as I could(not my dick). I was afraid it might be a scorpion because we were in an area where we hunted for them, too. I sqeezed for about five minutes because I sure as hell didnt want to get stung there. Undid my pants and there was our ‘blue belly.’ It’s head was as flat as a dime. I felt bad about it, too. All the blue bellys in my yard have lost their tails at one time or another due to birds. It’s a tough neighborhood. Maybe the blue belly should be the new logo for your boards.Mike

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I would have tried not do disturb the natural order of things, and fed him to a bird or snake or something… but without his feet, I guess.

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sounds like it’s time to install lizard proof fencing…