Caption This for 11/6/15

But I can't bear the thought of riding in the back.

Jake was inseparable with his hound dog ole 'Duke'.

Anyways, Jake took ole "Duke' out Bear hunting one day, and dang if ole 'Duke' got lost.

It took Jake most of the day to find ole 'Duke', when he did, Jake loaded ole 'Duke' up in the cab of his truck and went home.

btw, Jake always did have bad eye sight.

Moving the bear necessities.

The sign said don't feed the bears. It didn't say don't give 'em a ride!

Ah, Bob? Where are you taking me today?

Bear Bones Trucking Company. "Bear with us while we move you."

Who takes the trash out!? Huh!... Huh! ...

One needs to bear down on all rubbish when using an open truck.

I bearly squeezed into this Haloween costume and now we are running late.

If it was good enough for Grandma Clampett, it's good enough for you!!

GET IN THE BACK!!

while your comments are valid in many places, it would be ignored as the culture in many countries is the exact opposite

Taken in Oman only a few weeks ago... it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!

One usually carries a spare tire when you get a flat..... But a camel wil do instead.

By any chance, is his name 'Joe Camel'?, I think I know him.

Obviously, he has a sore "camel toe".

"it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!"

A lot of people have said that, and a lot have been proven wrong:

King George: "You are British subjects and you WILL submit to our laws and taxation. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One War of Independence later, and we DID change it.

Plantation Owners: "Slavery is required for the success of the United States. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One Civil War and a Constitutional Amendment later, and we DID change it.

"Women are too simple and flighty to make any real decisions, they should not be allowed to vote. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One struggle for Women's Sufferage later, and we DID change it.

"Kids make a nice, cheap, replaceable labor force, we need to but them to work in the factories to stay competitive. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One fight for federal Labor laws later, and we DID change it.

I don't mean to get on a soapbox here. However, "it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" is the mating call of the Sacred Cow⁽¹⁾, and when I see a Sacred Cow, I pull out my hamburger recipes.

Notes:

1. Sacred Cow as in something done because "it's always been done that way," without analizing the procedure to determine WHY or if there is a better/safer way. No offense is intended to those religions who consider cows to be sacred. Despite my love of the late Gram Chapman's comedy and sense of bad taste, I would not open a McDonalds in the middle of New Deli.
   

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King George: "You are British subjects and you WILL submit to our laws and taxation. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One War of Independence later, and we DID change it.

Plantation Owners: "Slavery is required for the success of the United States. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One Civil War and a Constitutional Amendment later, and we DID change it.

"Women are too simple and flighty to make any real decisions, they should not be allowed to vote. it is the way things are done! You'll not change it!" One struggle for Women's Sufferage later, and we DID change it.

In all those statements there is a "WE"... and not a 'me' or 'I'.

Yes things to changes, that is life its self! I for one expect and require change to be part of my everyday life, and I adapt to that change very easily. In fact i look forward to change.

BUT (that word again).. there has to be a need, a desire, a collective requirement to change for the better...

Slavery.. was it good? For some, but not for others. You mention the War of Independence... excellent example of the masses wanting and needing change.
But it still took a war to do it!!

While I wholeheartedly agree with you that things can be changed, one person, no matter who they are cannot do it alone.
They plant the seed of change, (Martin Luther King - I have a dream), they water it, get others to water it and nourish it and when the seed becomes big enough and many people are looking after it, AND for a long time I might add, only then can change be made.

It took from the late 1800's to the start of WW1 for women in the UK and other parts of the world to be give voting rights...

It took from 1955 to 1968 for the seed Martin Luther King planted to become law and a change for the better.

Slavery
When did slavery start in the US?
The first 19 or so Africans arrived ashore near the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship. The Spanish usually baptized slaves in Africa before embarking them.

What ended slavery in the United States?
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free." The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. This was 1865.

When slavery was abolished?
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.

After 200 years of slavery, time for a change! Progress no less.

But one question to everyone.... while some voice their opinion on ONE bear or camel tied into the back of truck..... I hear no comments/complaints about VAST numbers of chickens, sheep and cows being moved in large 30 ton trucks all around the respect countries for hours on end.

Different perspective?

I've got a copy of a wonderful management text called "Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers". It's a tongue in cheek approach to a serious matter.

Unfortunately, challenging the sacred cows can be a CLM (Career Limiting Move), but it is an exciting way of life!

Moo

That was common place, we had an old bachelor farmer down the road from our farm and he'd load his calves up in the backseat of his car, and take it to the auction house 80+ miles away.

And yes, his car smelled like it.

He's was a pretty nice fellow, he was just a bachelor without a wife to straighten him out.

If you think this is bad, you should see how the Pa. Game Commission moves them. It looks like a travel cage for a Great Dane and is in the back of a open bed truck. It would be quite a bit more uncomfortable than this scenario. They shoot the bear up with some drugs then stuff him into the small cage. Worst part of the ordeal, is it NEVER works. They take the animal 30 miles from where it is creating a nuisance and in 3 months, it is back.

I don't know about stuffed animals, but some dogs LOVE to ride in the back of a pickup truck. It is bound to rate among their very favorite activities.

Would it be safer if they did not ride in the back? Sure, but I bet there are a lot of things you enjoy doing that present some non negligible risk....yet you still participate.

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What is the proper way to transport a large stuffed animal? Is a trailer required. Or is it best to bind and blindfold the stuffed animal for for transport in the trunk?

Theme song to Astralian childrens program....

"There's a bear in there,

and a chair as well,

There are people with games

and stories to tell,

open wide

come inside

It's Play School"

I thought the last line in that song was "It's Parliament"..

Bear bones transportation....

Mmmm! Meals on wheels!

"I tell ya, that piece of plastic fluttering in the breeze is gonna make me go apesh*t! You ever see me go apesh*t before? There's three guys in the backwoods that did, but they can't tell anyone about it, yaknowwhatImean?"

He BEARLY has that load tied down.

Larry, Daryl, and Daryl's Pest Removal Service attempts the largest removal to date.

When you come to the why in the cab...........bear right!!

Anti Road Rage Device Deploid:

A record 870 consecutive days without a single middle finger salute...

Dug had entered his "roller bear float" in the in the annual parade, not anticipating the crowds reaction to a Bear, stuffed or not, scooting along the parade route randomly behind his pickup.

"I shouldn't have used castor wheels" he thought, driving away from the enraged citizens, while the fleas clung desperately to the bears pelt.

I know what that old rhetorical question is, but I will s**t in your TRUCK if you don't let me sit in front! Got it? Grrrr!

Now that's what I call riding bear-back!