The law of unintented consequences.

Let's hear some of yours, I just had one with a simple quasi silly thread about kissing in the teenage years, it quickly went in a completely different direction, totally unintended.
Years ago Denny's known for 24/7/365 decided to close on Christmas, they couldn't, no locks on the doors.
USA gave the Shah of Iran, the same printing pressees the Treasury uses, he's overthrown, a massive flood of $100.00 bills, called Super Bills, virtually undetectable, floods the mid East, the US has to change the way it makes new bills.
There are thousands of them, lets hear you examples and PLEASE, keep this lite!
One more, around here we had a bazillion Ladybugs all of a sudden show up, the good folks who control these things introuced Stink bugs who eat Lady bugs, now no Lady bugs just a keptillion Stink bugs[keptillion is my word for beyond an infinite number]

some years ago Guam had an invasion (not WW2 kind) of some bugs that were eating all the plants.
 
Guam brought in a bunch of frogs that loved eating those bugs. The bugs were gone but the frogs were all over the place, jumping into and out of everything.
 
Guam checked out the problem with a bunch of really smart scientists, and taking their advise imported a family of snakes who loved eating frogs.
 
Voila----frogs were gone, but now what do we do with the snakes that are all over ????  It is a puzzle-ment.

I read on Google that Email, first showed up in 1971,m thought to be a flawless system for instant communicating, all downside was dismissed with comments like,"why would someone do that"...reality, 75% of Emails are Spam, scams, viruses, phishing, etc. "Why would people do that"? LOL...unintended consequences!

>Voila----frogs were gone, but now what do we do with the snakes that are all over ????  It is a puzzle-ment. <
 
It shouldn't be. Back in slave days they had serious problems with snakes on plantations in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands. What they did was import mongooses (yes, that's the correct plural). The mongooses killed the snakes, and now the only snakes in all the Virgin Islands (U.S.) are the small tree pythons, an endangered species. Of course, there are mongooses all over St. Thomas, St.John and St. Croix.
As an aside, our oldest cat used to catch mongooses, kill them and being them home to show us her prowess.

Michael you continue to amaze me.  You have done so much, been some many places-- and now you teach guys like CTF and me.  Old Chewing keeps coming up with unusual topics, but---BY-GUM and JIMMINY CRICKET you are right there with knowledge of darn (was going to write dam, but didn't want to get in trouble) near everything. 
 
Hey Chewing how come you have all these great topics that keep getting kicked off the site----this one won't though.  "Why would
someone do that" is a darn good question. 
 
 

Well, we lived on St. Thomas for three years.

chewingthefat
[keptillion is my word for beyond an infinite number]

 
You make up a word to mean a very large number and in your next post you use the word Google.  Google is the misspelled googol which is 10 to the power of 100.  Googolplex is 10 to the power of googol and is a very large number indeed.  So, next time there's no need to make up a term, just use the one you know.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex

Kudzu.  You know the story.
Escargot are not problem snails.
Killer Bees speaking of insects.

 Goddamn slugs is all I have to say!
 
  David O.

Hate slugs----yuckee things----ate more of my garden than I did.  Yusta hunt them at night with flashlight and a box of salt. 
I will have to try Google to see what Guam got to replace the snakes.  How about St Patrick ?  He drove the snakes out of Ireland.  Or, mongeese as Michael suggested.  Mongooses just doesn't sound right, not politically correct.
 

Slugs...ugh! Ever step on one barefoot? The feeling NEVER goes away!

kozel

chewingthefat
[keptillion is my word for beyond an infinite number]

You make up a word to mean a very large number and in your next post you use the word Google.  Google is the misspelled googol which is 10 to the power of 100.  Googolplex is 10 to the power of googol and is a very large number indeed.  So, next time there's no need to make up a term, just use the one you know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex

True but my word keptillion, I have decided , is the largest number in the Universe! Unintended consequence of using Google!

the ancient mariner


Hate slugs----yuckee things----ate more of my garden than I did.  Yusta hunt them at night with flashlight and a box of salt. 
I will have to try Google to see what Guam got to replace the snakes.  How about St Patrick ?  He drove the snakes out of Ireland.  Or, mongeese as Michael suggested.  Mongooses just doesn't sound right, not politically correct.

Ancient One, in the Islands Mon, not nice to goose!

chewingthefat

kozel

chewingthefat
[keptillion is my word for beyond an infinite number]

You make up a word to mean a very large number and in your next post you use the word Google.  Google is the misspelled googol which is 10 to the power of 100.  Googolplex is 10 to the power of googol and is a very large number indeed.  So, next time there's no need to make up a term, just use the one you know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex

True but my word keptillion, I have decided , is the largest number in the Universe! Unintended consequence of using Google!

Inquiring minds want to know:
How many googolplex are in a keptillion?

6star

chewingthefat

kozel

chewingthefat
[keptillion is my word for beyond an infinite number]

You make up a word to mean a very large number and in your next post you use the word Google.  Google is the misspelled googol which is 10 to the power of 100.  Googolplex is 10 to the power of googol and is a very large number indeed.  So, next time there's no need to make up a term, just use the one you know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex

True but my word keptillion, I have decided , is the largest number in the Universe! Unintended consequence of using Google!

Inquiring minds want to know:
How many googolplex are in a keptillion?

Around a pazillion, give or take a crumbillion, seriously!

>Or, mongeese as Michael suggested.  Mongooses just doesn't sound right, not politically correct. <
 
I did not say mongeese. I said mongooses, and I said that because that is the correct plural of mongoose.

Michael Hoffman


>Or, mongeese as Michael suggested.  Mongooses just doesn't sound right, not politically correct. <

I did not say mongeese. I said mongooses, and I said that because that is the correct plural of mongoose.

Sounds like there's a Google of them there or is a Mongoose hoard a Gaggle?

CTF----a google of mongeese ----- love it.
Michael, I know that you know that mongooses is correct, but I was just teasing ya.  I prefer mongeese, myself.  Actually I have never been corrected for using either.  Or is it Eye-ther? 
Now since it is Friday evening here in lovely downtown St Pete, where every other store is for rent, I must decide who will win the football games tomorrow, don't you know.   
 
I wonder which name the mongeese/or mongooses prefer?

>Sounds like there's a Google of them there or is a Mongoose hoard a Gaggle? <
 
I believe it's a mogul, the singular of which refers to a sort of hill on a hill with which downhill skiiers like to play.

"Sounds like there's a Google of them there or is a Mongoose hoard a Gaggle?"
According to WikiAnswers:
"A group of mongooses/mongeese is called a troop."
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_group_of_mongoose_called

 
The result of much study on the Guam----Frog/snake situation------------
 
I had to satisfy my curiosity ---what happened to the snakes if no one brought in a troop of mongooses?
 
I found this story in the 8/10/2008 edition of Science Daily.  And I quote-----
 
"-----unchecked for many years the brown tree snakes introduced 60 years ago have caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific Island of Guam."
Also-----------they have attacked children, pets and even caused power outages.
 
This article was based on the experiment gone wrong that I mentioned in the first post Re:The Law of Unintended Consequences posted by that learned Gentleman About Town Chewing The Fat. 
 
Chewing---you are teaching us all things we didn't know. 
 

the ancient mariner


CTF----a google of mongeese ----- love it.
Michael, I know that you know that mongooses is correct, but I was just teasing ya.  I prefer mongeese, myself.  Actually I have never been corrected for using either.  Or is it Eye-ther? 
Now since it is Friday evening here in lovely downtown St Pete, where every other store is for rent, I must decide who will win the football games tomorrow, don't you know.   

I wonder which name the mongeese/or mongooses prefer?

The only one I ever met, introduced himself as Otto!

chewingthefat

Michael Hoffman


>Or, mongeese as Michael suggested.  Mongooses just doesn't sound right, not politically correct. <

I did not say mongeese. I said mongooses, and I said that because that is the correct plural of mongoose.

Sounds like there's a Google of them there or is a Mongoose hoard a Gaggle?

Wouldn't it be a mongaggle?

Otto Mongoose, ah yes, I remember him well.  Poor
guy was snake bit--------sad story.

the ancient mariner


 
The result of much study on the Guam----Frog/snake situation------------

I had to satisfy my curiosity ---what happened to the snakes if no one brought in a troop of mongooses?

I found this story in the 8/10/2008 edition of Science Daily.  And I quote-----

"-----unchecked for many years the brown tree snakes introduced 60 years ago have caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific Island of Guam."
Also-----------they have attacked children, pets and even caused power outages.

This article was based on the experiment gone wrong that I mentioned in the first post Re:The Law of Unintended Consequences posted by that learned Gentleman About Town Chewing The Fat. 

Chewing---you are teaching us all things we didn't know. 

O Ancient One, Your last statement simply underlines the Law of Unintended Consequences!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia
Check it out...YIKES! The law hard at work!

The Aral Sea is an interesting example; you can even experience it on Google Earth.  It was one of the largest lakes in the world (26,000 sq miles) in central Asia.  Since the 1960's when the Soviets began diverting rivers flowing toward the Aral Sea for the purpose of irrigation, the Aral Sea has been shrinking. By 2004, the sea shrunk to 25% of its original size coupled with a 5 times increase in salinity.  It's like the Salton Sea in California but on a grander scale.  From Google Earth, you can see a landscape littered with rusting ships.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
http://www.orexca.com/aral_sea.shtml
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/index.html
 

the ancient mariner


Otto Mongoose, ah yes, I remember him well.  Poor
guy was snake bit--------sad story.

It was not a good idea to stand to close to Otto, he had a lightning fast right hand! In the 70's he won the World Championship of goosing, held it until he accidentally goosed Idi Amin, while on a tour of Africa...he was never seen again!
Again the law of unintended consequences

I don't know how much is urban legend and how much is fact:
 
In 1884 New Orleans hosted the World Cotton Centennial Exposition, and all visitors passing through the Japanese Pavilion were given seed packets of the lovely water hyacinth..... To make it worse, there was a machine supposedly invented that could be floated on a barge, that would vacumn them up from clogged bayous and waterways, shred them, and then spew out the the bits and pieces - which they discovered caused them to multiply in even greater numbers.
 
In the 1930's one of the McIlhenny's of Tabasco fame and fortune imported several nutrias (South American coypu) to raise for their pelts on Avery Island.  A hurricane blew their cages open which they then escaped into the swamps, and have now multiplied into the millions, burrowing into levees and destroying wetlands.  Chef Paul Prudhomme was asked if a recipe could be developed that might cause a demand for them, but he wasn't too optimistic about it, given they were "members of the rodent family after all."
 

 
Belle, Belle, My Belle
So, I see that back as far as 1884 Japan had plans to invade the USA by means of the Water Hyacinth.  Yes 99 it was a devilish plot.  Better than the Water Buffalo or the Water Mocassin invasions though,  right Chief?
 
As far as the Tabasco Kings Nutrias are concerned-----if you see one of those varmints and bring it to the store you get a life time supply of their hot stuff.  I am otherwise neutral on Neutria Pelts.--------just bantering on a hot Sunday after a notre dame defeat.