Comments on: Teddy Bear https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:17:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/#comment-34724 Jody Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:35:51 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53907#comment-34724 You and I love animals but had to grow into the role. You and I love animals but had to grow into the role.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/#comment-34721 bowser Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:00:29 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53907#comment-34721 New International Version When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. New Living Translation When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. English Standard Version When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. New International Version
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

New Living Translation
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

English Standard Version
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/#comment-34720 bowser Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:43:45 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53907#comment-34720 That came later. That came later.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/#comment-34709 Jody Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:22:04 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53907#comment-34709 I can't see you doing that to a porcupine. I can’t see you doing that to a porcupine.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/18/teddy-bear/#comment-34707 bowser Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:10:09 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53907#comment-34707 Back when I was a freshman and sophomore in high schools, the timber people in the Medford and Ashland area would pay $1 each for each porcupine killed on their lands. The porcupines tended to girdle the trees while eating bark, and the economic impact of each animal was really incredible. Neither my best friend nor I had possession of a gun. What I had access to was in Portland, and Ray had no access. We took off anyway, thinking we could find some on the ground and beat 'em to death. Had a great time, exhausted ourselves, had long talks about what we'd get with our new fortunes and smugly declared to each other that "nouveau riche" was better than no riche at all. Saw nothing. Back when I was a freshman and sophomore in high schools, the timber people in the Medford and Ashland area would pay $1 each for each porcupine killed on their lands. The porcupines tended to girdle the trees while eating bark, and the economic impact of each animal was really incredible.

Neither my best friend nor I had possession of a gun. What I had access to was in Portland, and Ray had no access. We took off anyway, thinking we could find some on the ground and beat ‘em to death.

Had a great time, exhausted ourselves, had long talks about what we’d get with our new fortunes and smugly declared to each other that “nouveau riche” was better than no riche at all.

Saw nothing.

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