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Post by pitbulllady on Mar 23, 2006 16:20:03 GMT -5
Yeah, a couple of big Black Ratsnakes ought to take care of the problem, and they usually aren't too expensive. Nothing like natural enemies to take care of pests-they're cheap, they don't poison or pollute the environment, or harm non-target species. That's why I encourage spiders to live in my classroom and my house-they eat Fire Ants. Like my grandfather before me, I use snakes to take care of rodent problems, and mantids on my outdoor and house plants. As for fixing the wires, you'll need to consult someone who's expert in electronics for that, and it's best to do so right away, since not only have the squirrels chewed wires that carry internet and phone signals, but have probably chewed electrical wiring as well. This is a leading cause of house and business fires in this country-rodents gnawing electrical wiring.
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Post by Sean on Mar 24, 2006 11:11:28 GMT -5
I don't think my mom would aprove of Ratsnakes... She's got Randall to deal with... Any other ideas?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 26, 2006 3:26:11 GMT -5
Vee managed to hack me in for an open window so here I am...for how long I don't know.
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 24, 2012 21:00:30 GMT -5
What....Mike and Sulley drew on Randall's face with sharpies? Never heard of this before.....and why would they even do that? That's just...childish. I actually saw the comic last night in the Disney Store in Pineville, NC. I started to buy it, but this was at 5 minutes past the nine o'clock closing time, and they had shut down the cash registers. I had gone up to the mall there to find a camera lens(which Wolf Camera did not have, naturally)and to pick up a couple of Blue Beauty Snakes from a friend who lives there. Mike and Sulley did not build the robot; Mr. Waternoose bought it and unveiled it at a big presentation. He got it from a "private contractor". The robot looks like a cross between R2D2 and a smaller version of the Omnidroid(which makes me wonder just WHO that "private contractor" was) and is designed to work with a Scare Team(and though Waternoose wouldn't admit, probably eventually replace them) to scare kids. Waternoose assigned it to Mike and Sulley, after having earlier promised RANDALL that HE could be the first Scarer to use it(sounds like Waternoose, doesn't it? "Cronyism" at work, as usual), so Randall decides to sabatage the robot by reprogramming it to be sweet and non-threatening and to really like human kids, like a sort of mechanical dog. He sneaks into the room of the kid it's supposed to scare, and does just that. The little girl in the room is, of course, delighted with this new "toy" that came out of her closet-like early Christmas and a birthday all rolled into one. She and and robot have a great time coloring and playing dress-up. Randall, having hidden under the kid's bed, falls asleep,and he does look so cute while nodding off, trying to fight off the inevitable, though I felt sorry for him knowing this was probably the first sleep he'd had in days. Sulley and Mike come into the room to see why the kid isn't scared, watching from the closet. Meanwhile, the little girl discovers ANOTHER wonderful "toy" underneath her bed-it's big and purple and soft, perfect for coloring on with her markers, so she does just that. Now *I* thought THAT would have been an interesting story on its own, since this little girl was no more afraid of Randall than Boo had been of Mike and Sulley. Mike and Sulley realize who is under the bed, and that he had likely done something to the robot, so while the kid is preoccupied with her purple "toy" under the bed(and Randall is logging some serious Zzz's the whole time, oblivious to anything that's going on), Mike comes in to distract the kid with some of his lame jokes, and Sulley goes to wake Randall up by nudging his shoulder(no, Sulley does not hit him or even is rough with him-his main concern is that some adult will come in and find his co-worker snoozing under the bed and Randall will tell them about the existance of the Monster World). Randall, now more multi-hued than usual, thanks to that little girl and her markers(I'm reminded of my sister playing "connect-the-dots" with a green marker on the polka-dotted belly of my not-too-bright pet bobcat when she was five), wakes up, jumps out from underneath the bed, not really knowing where he is or what Sulley and Mike are doing there(anyone who's ever woke up in a different place than you usually wake up in can relate), and the robot, now programmed to LIKE kids, perceives him as a threat because he's loud and a bit confrontational, so it tries to attack him. Between that and suddenly realize that he is in a HUMAN house and the embarrassment of realizing that Sulley and Mike have seen him wearing some silly clothes the little girl put on him(Randall is obviously one of those really DEEP sleepers), Randall takes off for the closet door as fast as he can, with pink marker designs all over him. pitbulllady Okay reading through the thread more I saw this....so I guess Mike and Sulley didn't really do anything bad to Randall in this then? That's good at least. Makes sense that the kid drew the markers on his face then....which would have just been an innocent thing coming from her. My boyfriend actually fell asleep a few months ago and woke up with marker drawings over his face....but it wasn't a kid who did it in his case.....it was his friends. They took pictures of it even with him sleeping with drawings all over his face and posted it on Facebook.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 25, 2012 19:16:45 GMT -5
In terms of actually physically hurting Randall, no, Mike and Sulley did not do that. What they DID do was BREAK INTO HIS HOUSE! Breaking and entering/home invasion IS a serious crime, not to be taken lightly. In my state, SC, property owners are actually encouraged to shoot and kill home/property invaders, no joke! All you need is reasonable suspicion that they mean you harm, and it's open season! You cannot be prosecuted! I've been victimized by break-ins and property invasion/theft/vandalism twice, while I was at work, and there's nothing more terrifying than coming home to discover that your personal santuary has been invaded, other than actually BEING there when it happens and not being able to defend yourself. Mike and Sulley were nothing more than criminals in this comic, out for revenge. Randall had re-programmed the robot not to scare little kids but to want to PLAY with them, so I have to ask: if Randall was so "evil", why didn't he reprogram it to attack and mutilate little kids instead? That still would have meant failure on Sulley's part to gain Scream, since dead kids cannot scream, not to mention how horrible it would have made him and Mike look. It was the robot, not the little girl, who actually drew the faces on Randall while he was asleep, and then it chased him out of his OWN DAMN HOUSE, as the two home invaders laughed! He had no way of knowing, of course, that the robot would not harm HIM, or that Sullivan and Wazowski had not re-programmed it yet-again to do so, and it WAS capable of doing so, so in that respect, it counted as a deadly weapon. The whole story, from Waternoose chooses those two to benefit from a robot to augment Sulley's scares, even though he was already on top of the Scare Board, really showed just how much favoritism he was lavishing on Sulley, while he actually forced RANDALL to stand up on stage and announce that his two main competitors had been hand-picked to use the robot to scare kids-talk about rubbing someone's nose in it! I really wish that Randall had kept a shotgun under his bed, though in his world, being a reptile-like monster, he probably would have gotten capital punishment for shooting those two, while if the proverbial shoes had been on the other feet, and they shot HIM, they would have been still regarded as "heroes". It was just wrong on so many levels.
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 25, 2012 22:40:38 GMT -5
In terms of actually physically hurting Randall, no, Mike and Sulley did not do that. What they DID do was BREAK INTO HIS HOUSE! Breaking and entering/home invasion IS a serious crime, not to be taken lightly. In my state, SC, property owners are actually encouraged to shoot and kill home/property invaders, no joke! All you need is reasonable suspicion that they mean you harm, and it's open season! You cannot be prosecuted! I've been victimized by break-ins and property invasion/theft/vandalism twice, while I was at work, and there's nothing more terrifying than coming home to discover that your personal santuary has been invaded, other than actually BEING there when it happens and not being able to defend yourself. Mike and Sulley were nothing more than criminals in this comic, out for revenge. Randall had re-programmed the robot not to scare little kids but to want to PLAY with them, so I have to ask: if Randall was so "evil", why didn't he reprogram it to attack and mutilate little kids instead? That still would have meant failure on Sulley's part to gain Scream, since dead kids cannot scream, not to mention how horrible it would have made him and Mike look. It was the robot, not the little girl, who actually drew the faces on Randall while he was asleep, and then it chased him out of his OWN DAMN HOUSE, as the two home invaders laughed! He had no way of knowing, of course, that the robot would not harm HIM, or that Sullivan and Wazowski had not re-programmed it yet-again to do so, and it WAS capable of doing so, so in that respect, it counted as a deadly weapon. The whole story, from Waternoose chooses those two to benefit from a robot to augment Sulley's scares, even though he was already on top of the Scare Board, really showed just how much favoritism he was lavishing on Sulley, while he actually forced RANDALL to stand up on stage and announce that his two main competitors had been hand-picked to use the robot to scare kids-talk about rubbing someone's nose in it! I really wish that Randall had kept a shotgun under his bed, though in his world, being a reptile-like monster, he probably would have gotten capital punishment for shooting those two, while if the proverbial shoes had been on the other feet, and they shot HIM, they would have been still regarded as "heroes". It was just wrong on so many levels. pitbulllady Oh wow, I didn't know they did that since that wasn't mentioned in any of the posts I read in here(I didn't read the whole thread). From what I did read it sounded like this happened in the room/house of a child they were attempting to scare, not Randall's house. I wonder if the monsters don't take entering someone's house as seriously though since they technically go into the homes of various humans on a regular basis....which in a way is like break and entering....although I know they have a completely different reason for doing that, it's like a necessity in their world in order to get power to generate their city. Anyway, yeah, they shouldn't be breaking into Randall's house. Even if they think he stole something or whatever they think he's done(and I don't think he did anything bad personally), but if they thought he did what should happen is you have to report it and get authorities to get a warrant to enter and look at stuff.....you can't just go breaking in yourself. Also, it was the robot who drew the faces on him? I didn't know that because in the post of yours I quoted in my last post, you said it was the little girl who did it. So I guess I'm a bit confused now. XD Anyway, honestly I'd find it somewhat insulting to have that robot placed on my scare team if it were me....since it would make me feel like Waternoose thinks I need HELP scaring and aren't doing a good enough job of it on my own. Also, sorry to hear that people broke into your house before, pitbulllady. I live in Canada and that's never happened to our house....although there have certainly been break-ins, just never to our house. Most people here don't have guns though or anything and laws are different in some ways. I'm a dual citizen of both the US and Canada though and have been to the US on many occasions. One time when I was just a very young child(I was about 3 years old) we were in Florida and 2 guys tried to break into where we were staying. They had a knife too because they slit the screen. Luckily my dad was still awake and when they saw him they ran off. I think they were hoping to break into places where people were sleeping. My dad said if they had broken into the neighbour's house they probably would have gotten shot, especially because the guy who lived there was a war vet who was kind of easily awoke and shaky from the war and also slept with a gun under his pillow. They did break into quite a few places we heard, not sure if the cops got them or not.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 26, 2012 17:56:18 GMT -5
Keep in mind that my post was made back in 2006, and I'd only seen the comic in a store, didn't buy it, and didn't have time to actually read it through, only skim it, due to the crowds at the mall. Since that time, someone actually posted scans of it to their webpage(no longer around), so I was able to view it in detail. Randall was at his home(house or apartment, not clear, probably house due no one else being alerted by all the racket), in bed asleep, when Mike and Sulley broke in, bringing the reprogrammed robot with them.
Here is basically what happened in the comic, in a nutshell: Waternoose held a big assembly in the MI auditorium to announce that their Research and Development Dept. of which Randall apparently was a member, had developed this "scary" robot which was to accompany a chosen Scare team to make their job easier by scaring kids, reducing the "danger" to monsters themselves from "toxic" children. Randall actually had to be the one to get up on stage in front of everyone, alongside Waternoose, and make that announcement, then while he was there, Waternoose chose Mike and Sulley to be that team, and had Randall read out his choice on stage, which of course, obviously didn't sit well with Randall.
Later, Randall approaches Mike and Sulley to "congratulate" them, even though he clearly doesn't feel happy about it, and they actually YELL at him and Sulley tells him to "GET LOST" while Mike calls him a "creep"! Randall backs off, but plots to foil their plans as a result. While the robot is still in his care, he reprograms it to want to play with little kids instead of threatening them, so that when Mike and Sulley take it on its test-run, the bedroom of a little girl(who was having a "tea party" for all her dolls and stuffed animals), the robot does not come across as menacing, but cute, and she assumed it's a toy. Mike and Sulley await her screams, but after too long a time has passed, they peek in her room, and find her and the robot playing "dress up", putting on make-up, etc., with her telling the robot that it's "pretty", so it repeats the word over and over. Mike and Sulley conclude that Randall had to have been behind the robot's non-scary behavior, and quickly run in and retrieve it, embarrassed. Mike is able to somehow examine its programming and confirm that Randall had "tweaked" it to want to play with children instead of scaring them. They plan to get even with Randall for messing up "their" scare, so they break into his house that night, robot in tow, and wait for him to go to bed. They then send in the robot, with some make-up/markers, and the robot mimics what it learned from the little girl, putting make-up and lipstick on Randall's face while he was sleeping, while repeating, "pretty...pretty". Randall wakes up, sees the robot over him, and freaks out, running from his own home, with the 'bot in pursuit, while Mike and Sulley laugh their asses off.
I, too, would have thought that the robot, or any other "Scare enhancement" device, would have been best assigned to a team that was really struggling with their Scream collection, NOT with the top team who didn't need any assistance, but again, it goes to show the blatant favoritism that Waternoose was lavishing on Sulley and that team. Newsweek magazine coined the term "cronyism" for this sort of thing, when the employee being shown all that unfair favoritism and perks is not actually a family member of the "top brass" doing it, so it can't be technically called nepotism. And yet, we're just supposed to believe that Randall is just "mean" and jealous of poor Sulley and Mike for no reason, and is just being a sore loser because they are ahead on the Scare Board!
The only positive thing about the comic is that we get to see Randall in some pretty epic pajamas. Yes, he wears jammies, the button-up-top-with-pants kind, not quite as epic as Megamind's hazard-symbol jammies with the "evil" collar, because they had like, pine trees(looked a lot like the Timberland Boot logo, just with a pine tree) on them instead of those hazard symbols, but they still rocked, and they proved again that Randall is warm-blooded, otherwise he'd have had no reason to wear anything to bed. Randall obviously didn't wear them for modesty's sake, since he lived alone and went around naked at work, in public, all day, so the only purpose to wearing pj's would be to keep him warm at night by holding in his natural body heat. It's pointless to wrap up or put clothes on an ectothermic creature, with no body heat of its own to hold in, after all.
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 26, 2012 18:29:47 GMT -5
Keep in mind that my post was made back in 2006, and I'd only seen the comic in a store, didn't buy it, and didn't have time to actually read it through, only skim it, due to the crowds at the mall. Since that time, someone actually posted scans of it to their webpage(no longer around), so I was able to view it in detail. Randall was at his home(house or apartment, not clear, probably house due no one else being alerted by all the racket), in bed asleep, when Mike and Sulley broke in, bringing the reprogrammed robot with them. Here is basically what happened in the comic, in a nutshell: Waternoose held a big assembly in the MI auditorium to announce that their Research and Development Dept. of which Randall apparently was a member, had developed this "scary" robot which was to accompany a chosen Scare team to make their job easier by scaring kids, reducing the "danger" to monsters themselves from "toxic" children. Randall actually had to be the one to get up on stage in front of everyone, alongside Waternoose, and make that announcement, then while he was there, Waternoose chose Mike and Sulley to be that team, and had Randall read out his choice on stage, which of course, obviously didn't sit well with Randall. Later, Randall approaches Mike and Sulley to "congratulate" them, even though he clearly doesn't feel happy about it, and they actually YELL at him and Sulley tells him to "GET LOST" while Mike calls him a "creep"! Randall backs off, but plots to foil their plans as a result. While the robot is still in his care, he reprograms it to want to play with little kids instead of threatening them, so that when Mike and Sulley take it on its test-run, the bedroom of a little girl(who was having a "tea party" for all her dolls and stuffed animals), the robot does not come across as menacing, but cute, and she assumed it's a toy. Mike and Sulley await her screams, but after too long a time has passed, they peek in her room, and find her and the robot playing "dress up", putting on make-up, etc., with her telling the robot that it's "pretty", so it repeats the word over and over. Mike and Sulley conclude that Randall had to have been behind the robot's non-scary behavior, and quickly run in and retrieve it, embarrassed. Mike is able to somehow examine its programming and confirm that Randall had "tweaked" it to want to play with children instead of scaring them. They plan to get even with Randall for messing up "their" scare, so they break into his house that night, robot in tow, and wait for him to go to bed. They then send in the robot, with some make-up/markers, and the robot mimics what it learned from the little girl, putting make-up and lipstick on Randall's face while he was sleeping, while repeating, "pretty...pretty". Randall wakes up, sees the robot over him, and freaks out, running from his own home, with the 'bot in pursuit, while Mike and Sulley laugh their asses off. I, too, would have thought that the robot, or any other "Scare enhancement" device, would have been best assigned to a team that was really struggling with their Scream collection, NOT with the top team who didn't need any assistance, but again, it goes to show the blatant favoritism that Waternoose was lavishing on Sulley and that team. Newsweek magazine coined the term "cronyism" for this sort of thing, when the employee being shown all that unfair favoritism and perks is not actually a family member of the "top brass" doing it, so it can't be technically called nepotism. And yet, we're just supposed to believe that Randall is just "mean" and jealous of poor Sulley and Mike for no reason, and is just being a sore loser because they are ahead on the Scare Board! The only positive thing about the comic is that we get to see Randall in some pretty epic pajamas. Yes, he wears jammies, the button-up-top-with-pants kind, not quite as epic as Megamind's hazard-symbol jammies with the "evil" collar, because they had like, pine trees(looked a lot like the Timberland Boot logo, just with a pine tree) on them instead of those hazard symbols, but they still rocked, and they proved again that Randall is warm-blooded, otherwise he'd have had no reason to wear anything to bed. Randall obviously didn't wear them for modesty's sake, since he lived alone and went around naked at work, in public, all day, so the only purpose to wearing pj's would be to keep him warm at night by holding in his natural body heat. It's pointless to wrap up or put clothes on an ectothermic creature, with no body heat of its own to hold in, after all. pitbulllady Okay that makes sense now PBL. I assumed you had already read it when I quoted that original post of yours since it was a decently long post and therefore didn't seem like a skim to me but thanks for explaining. It makes sense now. What's funny is that if it had gone the way it did in your post back where you just skimmed it, it would have actually been a somewhat nicer story than what ended up being the real story. Randall has a lot of reason to feel jealous of Mike and Sulley....unfair treatment definitely goes on at that workplace. Waternoose really bothers me the most since he's the core of the whole issue. What Mike and Sulley did by breaking into his house and doing that was pretty over the top....that's way more extreme than what Randall did by simply messing up their scare robot(which wouldn't have even happened had there never been this unfairness). Sometimes I wonder how Mike and Sulley would react if it were Randall getting the special treatment from Waternoose....I can certainly imagine Mike taking it pretty badly. Anyway that's cute about Randall's pajamas. I have some undies with pine trees on them. LOL. I heard recently that some dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded. Also, well when Randall is naked at work and all that.....most of the monsters are naked. LOL. They either have fur or retractable private parts I imagine....so it's fine for them to walk around like that. I agree though, he wouldn't have to wear PJ's if he didn't need to keep warm. It must be warm enough at the workplace since there are a lot of monsters without clothes on there(or much in the way of clothes if they do wear something).
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 26, 2012 19:12:46 GMT -5
Someone-can't recall if it was on this board or not-said something about Randall's pj's not being proof that he was warm-blooded. I know that some of the members of the "Winds of Change" board refuse to believe that he was, though since I'm clearly unwelcome there(that board was formed pretty much as an "anti-PBL, anti-RB" board after all, and I know it)have questioned any evidence of his being endothermic, although I have presented LOTS of evidence here, from a Biologist perspective. But as you can yourself understand, there'd be no need for someone who lived totally alone to wear anything to bed other than to keep warmth. No one can argue that Randall only wore jammies out of modesty.
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 26, 2012 23:23:24 GMT -5
Someone-can't recall if it was on this board or not-said something about Randall's pj's not being proof that he was warm-blooded. I know that some of the members of the "Winds of Change" board refuse to believe that he was, though since I'm clearly unwelcome there(that board was formed pretty much as an "anti-PBL, anti-RB" board after all, and I know it)have questioned any evidence of his being endothermic, although I have presented LOTS of evidence here, from a Biologist perspective. But as you can yourself understand, there'd be no need for someone who lived totally alone to wear anything to bed other than to keep warmth. No one can argue that Randall only wore jammies out of modesty. pitbulllady Well honestly I think people can have their different opinions, so people can believe he is cold blooded if they want. I do think the PJ's thing is a step towards him being warm blooded, so I agree, although it's also reasonable for people to believe that the people who wrote the comic didn't think about that anyway and just put him in PJ's because it looked cute. Who knows. I think I'll go with it making it more likely that he's warm blooded though, just because I'd rather like to think that the creators of the comic thought that through. Anyway, when I joined this forum I got an invite to that Winds of Change forum and I like it there, but I like it here too. I like to discuss Randall on as many places as possible with as many different fans as possible. I know that some people there and you apparently have a history but I wasn't around when any of that stuff happened and all that. I consider myself pretty laid back and try to get along with everyone as best I can.
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 27, 2012 23:37:38 GMT -5
Oh, just wondering but what exact issue of Disney Adventures Magazine was this in/what was the comic called?
Just curious. Might be able to find a copy somewhere, possibly.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 28, 2012 12:45:46 GMT -5
Oh, just wondering but what exact issue of Disney Adventures Magazine was this in/what was the comic called? Just curious. Might be able to find a copy somewhere, possibly. They were all just called "Disney Adventures" magazines, issue whatever the number happened to be. This one wasn't out-of-the-ordinary, as they always had one or two comics, along with articles, etc. Sometimes they had an all-comics edition, and when Disney was promoting a particular movie, they'd have an edition just about that movie(like MI), but this wasn't one of those. I can't even remember the year, since it was after MI's release. pitbulllady
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Post by mintygreen on Jan 29, 2012 3:31:30 GMT -5
Oh, just wondering but what exact issue of Disney Adventures Magazine was this in/what was the comic called? Just curious. Might be able to find a copy somewhere, possibly. They were all just called "Disney Adventures" magazines, issue whatever the number happened to be. This one wasn't out-of-the-ordinary, as they always had one or two comics, along with articles, etc. Sometimes they had an all-comics edition, and when Disney was promoting a particular movie, they'd have an edition just about that movie(like MI), but this wasn't one of those. I can't even remember the year, since it was after MI's release. pitbulllady Well thanks for the help. ^^ I doubt I'll be able to find it but who knows.
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