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    Llamas?

    So, I get an email from my brother yesterday.

    This is almost earth-shattering news. I hardly EVER hear from my brother. Usually, we hear from my sister-in-law, but she's cut back on her email in favor of Face(Palm)Book, which I'm not on (though the boss is).

    I knew that they were looking at moving out of their allegedly cramped apartment, somewhere in London. Obviously they've gotten something, because he sent along their new snail-mail address. With the cryptic note "How are you? The llamas arrive tomorrow"

    So I asked. I figured this had to be slang for the movers, or something like that...

    Nope. He tells me that they bought a farm. And they're going to be raising llamas.

    Llamas?

    Now, my brother has done many things in his life. Some of which we know about. He's worked as an assistant engineer on two tourist steam railroads, been to sea with cargo ships (and be shot at off of Africa), been a book dealer, an art dealer, his first wife was a bit of an avant-garde performance artist, art instructor at a University, internet radio DJ... not that I should talk, mind you, but it's been an interesting journey.

    Llamas?

    In England?

    All righty then...
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    We had a llama farm down the road from us but they really didn't like the outcome of the 2012 elections so they closed up and moved the animals to Idaho.
    Personally, I'm a Vicuna man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    Personally, I'm a Vicuna man.
    Alpacas, man, it's gotta be alpacas.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Our neighbors had a bunch (herd, group, skein, troupe) of Alpacas, but they started to die off for some reason. They sold what was left of them, and got mules instead.

    Ya know, I'll bet it's hard as hell to knit a mulehair sweater.
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    Ah, they should of got moles.

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    What the blazes can you do with a llama in England anyway? Eat it? Sheer it for wool?

    I just don't get it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post
    What the blazes can you do with a llama in England anyway? Eat it? Sheer it for wool?

    I just don't get it.
    Did the llama sale include hip boots, per chance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post
    What the blazes can you do with a llama in England anyway? Eat it? Sheer it for wool?

    I just don't get it.
    There is a society just for llamas and the lovers of llamas in England.
    http://britishllamasociety.org/news/news.php

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    Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post

    Nope. He tells me that they bought a farm. And they're going to be raising llamas.
    At least he didn't buy the ​farm...
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    I'll stick to raising rats and cockroaches.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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