ELK
ELK
is anyone here going?
I'll be there for the first time, it would be funny to meet some cactiguide folks there!
I'll be there for the first time, it would be funny to meet some cactiguide folks there!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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I am sorry, maybe It's because I have had a few beers, but I was thinking of the animal much like a large deer. What is ELK?
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An ELK writen w ith capitals would be an abbreviation of something, right? Or would that mean a deer-hunting?
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ELK is one of the biggest cactus-realted events in europe, held in (IIRC) Blankenberge, Belgium.
Not for me this year, but I'll make it sooner or later...
Filip
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Wapiti.Peterthecactusguy wrote:I am sorry, maybe It's because I have had a few beers, but I was thinking of the animal much like a large deer. What is ELK?
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As far as I can understant this thing Wapiti is elk not ELK. Right?Ron43 wrote:Wapiti.Peterthecactusguy wrote:I am sorry, maybe It's because I have had a few beers, but I was thinking of the animal much like a large deer. What is ELK?
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Europäische Länderkonferenz
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In the USA an Elk is the animal in Sharpy's picture. What Europeans call an Elk, we in the US call a Moose. I have no idea why this is, but we still use miles, feet, and inches, so maybe it is in our blood to be contrary!
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And the U.S. is only one of three countries in the world that is not metric.Saxicola wrote:In the USA an Elk is the animal in Sharpy's picture. What Europeans call an Elk, we in the US call a Moose. I have no idea why this is, but we still use miles, feet, and inches, so maybe it is in our blood to be contrary!
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Ron43 wrote:And the U.S. is only one of three countries in the world that is not metric.Saxicola wrote:In the USA an Elk is the animal in Sharpy's picture. What Europeans call an Elk, we in the US call a Moose. I have no idea why this is, but we still use miles, feet, and inches, so maybe it is in our blood to be contrary!
That's what I was getting at in my post.
Ironically I've been to one of the other ones several times, Burma. It was funny that the researchers I was working with were trying hard to convert imperial units to metric ones and I'd have to remind them I'm American so they should just go ahead and talk to me in our shared "native" measurement system!
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LoL, I was joking, slightly. I was asking what ELK was and still picturing an elk. I figured it was something to do with cactus tho.
And yeah I had had a few beers when I wrote that so it was a little awkwardly written.
And yeah I had had a few beers when I wrote that so it was a little awkwardly written.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Heh, don't worry about it. I didn't see that it was you that wrote it. I thought one of the Europeans wrote it and was confused by the difference between what we call an Elk and what they do.Peterthecactusguy wrote:LoL, I was joking, slightly. I was asking what ELK was and still picturing an elk. I figured it was something to do with cactus tho.
And yeah I had had a few beers when I wrote that so it was a little awkwardly written.
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LoL oh I see. I didn't know that there elk were known as anything but elk .. anywhere else. Goes to show that I still am learning new things everyday.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.