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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 4 Dec 2024 19:13:21 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <68718613-d60f-a88a-4191-404acc1ed82d@example.net> <3a416c2c-ac2e-686b-3357-8a12c8b29181@example.net> <068213f4-0fe4-4fe0-c912-60d5a8d89c54@example.net> <7cd4f2b3-e9d0-17df-56f5-855d7a5ebcaf@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aQ86HDnCapEKeusPGl+aFw58EZ98SWbnBm6aiBH2knZ68OdvLR Cancel-Lock: sha1:4EJYrWI/a9wGrXGifb6U+AWYC2o= sha256:AwvibjE2D0YBMLBnnmkRkjaRAXXCNy+VNztqfi1gfGQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2852 On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:35:14 +0100, D wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 21:18:55 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> This is the truth! They were bred in captivity close to my country >>> side house, and one day either the farm closed, the birds escaped, or >>> both. So now there are "wild" pheasants running around there from time >>> to time. I have thought about getting out the old longbow, since they >>> are not shy at all. Maybe a project for next summer! >> >> That could be interesting. My father and I were rabbit hunting when a >> pheasant provided a target of opportunity. My father managed to knock >> the bird down and it landed in some brush about 50 yards away. The >> beagle ran over but after a brief scuffle the pheasant flew off and the >> beagle decided he wasn't a bird dog. >> >> > Really?? Was that a very small beagle, or a very big bird? ;) Well, he was a 13" beagle which is the US designation for the smaller end of the scale and a pissed off ring neck wasn't quite what he expected to find in the brush. Rabbits run away and don't fight back.