Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get
rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that
happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting
beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at
you.

You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

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katysails wrote:
You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

I've known a few city boys who didn't know, wouldn't believe it when
told, and had to find out the hard way. Most recently a neighbor who
tried to pick up a "dead" possum he found on his porch (the thing had
come up there to eat his dog's food) and had to get stitches plus a
tetanus shot. If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

DSK

Doug related: If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

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katysails wrote:

Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get
rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that
happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting
beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at
you.

You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

A:Yes. B:Yes. C:At last, an area where the US education system
works well (?)

At the time, the top-rating show was Harry butler "In the Wild",
a softer, gentler and more intelligent forerunner of the
Crocodile Hunter. In each show, Harry B would shove his hand
into all sorts of horrible holes and pull out some bitey scratchy
sublethal or wholly lethal furry rodent or lizard or snake with
comments like "look at this little fella" and said lethal fella
would look appropriately cute as Harry B communed with it. Mind
you, being shoved in a freezer for a few minutes before being
placed under some rock before filming assisted in developing an
amenable personailty in the wildlife. The first-year students,
half fresh out of school, had a lot of unlearning to do.

(BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous
snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory
sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that
it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality
shines through while you handle it)

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On 21 Jun 2004 10:31:12 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

Anyone impressed? Seems that before Scotty Potty was a woman, he was a girl
with a BB gun.

You jealous because your daddy never gave you a Daisy Red Rider?

Nope, I was taught how to box and that only weak people needed guns.

So you were shot in the head multiple times? Explains a lot.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

too busy steering? She didn't want any. Said she needed more tan.

Scotty

"katysails" wrote in message
...

Lisa gooped me up with
lotsa sunblock, but she got burnt

Why didn't you reciprocate?
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funny how the weak-kneed pussy fem liberals always whimper about normal
people ''needing'' GUNS. Who said anything about 'needing' a gun? Don't
fear the GUN. guns are fun. they're a useful tool. get over your fears.

SV

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On 21 Jun 2004 10:31:12 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

Nope, I was taught how to sew and that only weak people needed guns.

katysails wrote:
He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????

Nope. he tried to pick it up, it tore the beejeezus out of him (lucky it
didn't get his neck), and he dropped it (of course) and it ran off into
the woods.

That was idiotic enough, but to shrug off the possibility of rabies is
moronic IMHO. It's been too long since "Old Yeller" was aired....

... I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

I keep a small stock .22 shorts for just such occasions (and of course,
a shovel). Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls.

What's even funnier is the reaction of these suburban geniuses to the
presence (or even the mention) of snakes.

DSK

"Flying Tadpole" wrote:
FYI

Toads used to be pithed for frankensteinian biology experiments,
particularly dealing with hearts and nervous systems. Take one
live toad, preferably a cane toad, hold firmly by the back legs
so that it doesn't fly across the laboratory on the up swing,
swing around one's head then bring it down hard so that the head
cracks against the edge of the laboratory bench (not so hard that
its head snaps off and flies across the laboratory). Toad should
be unconscious or dead after that. Ignore movement. Sever the
backbone at the neck then with a probe push up the spinal nerve
conduit and pulp the spinal nerve and the cerebellum. Ignore
movement while doing so. Dissect out the heart, suspend between
supports, flood with saline and apply various stimulants. Watch
it beat. dissect out other bits of nerve and muscle, apply
electrodes, charge, watch responses.

The most revolting thing I was forced to do as an innocent
student.

We had to bring in our own frogs for that class. My partner brought in a
dead, dry, perfectly flattened sample of road kill. We had a heck of a time
making the abdominal cut on that sucker and commenced giggling...our biology
teacher was pithed.

Seahag

Taddy related:
(BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous
snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory
sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that
it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality
shines through while you handle it)

That's ok...we don't refrigerate our skunks...or our porcupines...and you'd
be hard pressed to find a freezer big enough to stick a Michigan brown bear
in, let alone the argument that would ensue over the stuffing...the coyotes
are reclusive enough in Michigan that most never see one, but you do hear
them at night...i'm sure there's a fool out there that would think they're
cuddly...and then there's the Mississauga rattler who does like to hide in
the leaves and doesn't make a very large sound so you get bit about the same
time you hear the rattle....we just let idiots go out there and become more
projects for the Darwin Award people....
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