@adriverhoef. Thank you for noticing my 10,000 results. Were it not for you I wouldn't have known
@NixChix: Exactly! "arf, arf" must mean "more treats" in Dog - perhaps it's a Californian dialect of Dog.
I shall not be able to judge as to what role 'triskel' plays in Star Wars - but I'm working on the sci-fi part of my brain.
Started softly (I assume) with 'Iron Sky' and 'Fantastic Four', recommended by acpartsman and BladeD.
They must think I need some upgrading
@stefada: What would Louloup say if he wanted more treats?
I looked up 'triskel' in Danish and find it's an ancient symbol.
Celtic, but the ornaments are not very different from the Viking ones.
It would be nice to use it for a badge some day.
You have been fast achieving 10,000 results, very fast, stefada congratulations

Good Afternoon Base Campers!

Has Little Mermaid been missing in action so she could see the new movie...
The Little Mermaid (2018)

No, BladeD, I didn't see it.
I starred
To be honest, it has not arrived in Denmark yet. I read it opens on November 15 here.
I’m sorry to have skipped a day. I was on a Sunday outing with a friend
to a fairly interesting place - a a co-op village - like an open air museum
that demonstrated how people cooperated solving all kinds of issues in common.
A dairy founded by the milk farmers in a district, a grocery store where the consumers had a say,
and all those things that were very important for developing Denmark.
The coop idea is still in use in say housing coops, windmill coops and more of today's contemporary dealings
started by a group of interested people, and owned and operated by them.

As for our current challenge trek:
I haven’t seen any posts from MOT recently. Is Captain keithhenry completely bogged down by the mishap of his 'stats-cooker'?
You out there, you still have time to earn this neat badge.

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Comment Louloup demande une friandise ?

Si on est en balade, il va lécher la poche (de mon pantalon ou du sac) où ils sont. Si on est à la maison, il va lécher l'armoire où ils sont stockés.

Des fois, il va juste s'asseoir en se léchant les babines et remuant la queue. Mais ça peut aussi dire qu'il a faim ou soif.

Si il a vraiment faim/soif et qu'on est à la maison, il va aller lécher sa gamelle d'eau ou de croquettes suivant ce qu'il veut. Et si vraiment il n'en peux plus (je n'ai pas été assez rapide, ça peut arriver), il se met à faire des allez-retour entre ses gamelles et le rideau de la cuisine (il n'a pas le droit d'y entrer, c'est la limite).

Il n'a pas la parole, mais il sait très bien se faire comprendre.
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How does Louloup ask for a treat?

If you're on a walk, he'll lick the pocket (of my pants or the bag) where they are. If you are at home, he will lick the cabinet where they are stored.

Sometimes he'll just sit and lick his chops and wag his tail. But it can also mean that he is hungry or thirsty.

If he's really hungry / thirsty and we're at home, he'll go lick his bowl of water or kibble according to what he wants. And if he really can not take it anymore (I have not been fast enough, it can happen), he begins to go back and forth between his bowls and the kitchen curtain (he does not have the right to enter it is the limit).

He does not have the floor, but he knows how to make himself understood.



Une légende amérindienne (je ne sais plus quelle tribu) dit ceci :

Un jour, les animaux qui parlaient la même langue que les Hommes, on fait un jugement secret, pour les exclure. Et le Grand Manitou à décidé de les punir, plus jamais ils ne comprendraient les hommes. Mais, comme les chiens et les chevaux s'étaient opposé à ce complot, ils gardèrent la faculté de comprendre les hommes. Cependant, comme ils ne les avaient pas prévenu, ils n'ont plus le droit de parler comme eux.
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A Native American legend (I do not know which tribe) says this:

One day, animals speaking the same language as men, we make a secret judgment, to exclude them. And the Great Manitou decided to punish them, never again would they understand men. But as dogs and horses had opposed this plot, they kept the faculty of understanding men. However, as they had not warned them, they no longer have the right to speak like them.



Concernant le Triskel, je connais essentiellement ce qui se dit en Bretagne, la version Celtes donc, et il y a déjà beaucoup de versions. Mais c'est un symbole qui a été beaucoup utilisé, il suffit qu'il y ait trois éléments. Donc je ne suis pas du tout étonné que les Vikings en aient aussi. Nous avons déjà vu que les Vikings ont envahis la Bretagne pendant presque un siècle, il y a forcément des échanges culturels. Mais en plus, il y a une théorie (que je n'arrive pas à retrouver), qui dit que les Celtes et les Vikings sont des 'cousins' originaires d'Eurasie, qui ont migré certains par le nord et d'autres par le sud de l'Europe. Ce qui, si cette théorie est vraie, ferait qu'il y ait des traditions communes vraiment très anciennes.
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Concerning the Triskel, I know essentially what is said in Brittany, the Celts version, and there are already many versions. But it is a symbol that has been used a lot, it is enough that there are three elements. So I'm not at all surprised that the Vikings have some too. We have already seen that the Vikings have invaded Brittany for almost a century, there is necessarily cultural exchange. But in addition, there is a theory (which I can not find), which says that the Celts and Vikings are 'cousins' from Eurasia, who migrated some from the north and others from the south of Europe. Which, if this theory is true, would make that there are common traditions really very old.



NixChix,

Même si ça n'a aucun rapport, j'ai beaucoup rigolé ! Il se trouve que le meilleur ami de mon Louloup s'appelle Spok !
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Even if it has no relation, I laughed a lot! It turns out that Louloup's best friend is Spok!

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Once again everything is quiet on the MOT front.
I would say too quiet.
One thing is that Captain keithhenry had his 'stats-cooker' giving way, and I agree with BladeD
that it is probably work to get the stats going again.
But he could just post some words - they don't have to be stats.
Words will do in the meantime.

Business
Captain keithhenry entered MOT reinforced with our Base Camp crew in some challenges.
In three of them we are #3 behind Team China and Decrypthon,
in the fourth - Small Cheese Challenge - we are #2 behind Team China, and ahead of Team Andrax.
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The most fun we have had has been the beer - and later on Puppy treats - that NixChix has brought in his backpack.

Chit-chat
I'm working on my Berlin trip. It takes me considerably longer to plan the - well any - trip than to do it.
We need some fun - I'm going in September, so I cannot offer an Oktoberfest.
I can offer the ultimate German street food: Currywurst - a sausage with ketchup and curry.
Some have it with bread or with french fries. We'll just have it straight.
I'll get some for Puppy without the curry - Crunchie loves curry; says it keeps the cyotes at bay

Inasmuch as I'll say your staying away from street food is a sensible precaution given the threats to your health, NixChix,
- and on top of it you may get a less fatty diet
I would think the currywurst is ’clean’. It is a usual sausage – Frankfurter – which is chopped up in bite-size pieces,
and you get a small plastic fork to stab them with.
As to hepatitis, I was vaccinated for the type A in connection with a trip to South East Asia and had a booster some 10 years later.
It doesn’t protect against norovirus, though.
When I was hospitalized in January, there were several rooms with carenteened patients.
Yes, norovirus. It's explosive in a hospital environment where people are ill as it is.
All the food and drink we usually took by self-service was restricted to be handled by the kitchen staff only.

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Business
Sorry to say, nothing has changed for good.
Happy to say, nothing has changed for bad, either.
Same crew, same stability.

NAP2614 has made a badge for a trek we shall do in October – just one week.
It will go to The International Team – it will be the The International Team 2.0 trek.
stefada, if you would be so kind, could you please copy it for the website where you keep the Base Camp badges?
Wasn't it fast we found use for the triskel? It's a beautiful pattern.
We promised Captain flodisar to be back when he was named captain of this team.
But first we shall carry out Base Camp’s GRAND GALLA SNURK CELEBRATION trek
for – in fact and no less – the entire month of September.
I hope SNURK gets around to knit TDL the badge he asked for many moons ago.

Chit-chat
I may not be able to post for a couple of days because of company and outings, but I shall if I get the chance.
In the meantime I trust you to behave. I have filled up the refrigerator with beer, soft drinks, milk, and watermelon.
Say, do any of you drink milk?

Nice badge. Now if I can figure a way to beat the siggy limit and get them all in my signature.

Cheers