Cat Found...

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:50 pm

Trivia: In certain regions of the US (Texas, for example), an armadillo is also called "possum-on-the-half-shell".

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:55 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote: As in, don't you have anything better to do than invent ways to imagine yourselves superior?

Not today I don't, no.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:58 pm

Lambcjop wrote:It is "opossum." Pronounced "oh possum." Cleverly rendered for . . . err . . . "local color" . . . as 'possum.

Once upon a looking-for-Possum-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Possum oh oh Possum oh oh oh
Looking for my Possum

- Possum Hair
djm

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:45 pm

djm wrote:
Lambcjop wrote:It is "opossum." Pronounced "oh possum." Cleverly rendered for . . . err . . . "local color" . . . as 'possum.
Once upon a looking-for-Possum-time
There was a sixteen year old virgin
Oh Possum oh oh Possum oh oh oh
Looking for my Possum

- Possum Hair
djm

I met a 'possum called Frank Mills
On September twelfth right here
In front of the Waverly
But unfortunately
He got hit by a car.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:56 pm

gonzo914 wrote:If, however, you are eating one or skinning it to make a hat, feel free to call it a "possum," although that term is also used to describe any of about 64 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi, wherever the hell that is.

The possums down under were called possums simply because they were considered to be more-or-less the same thing as the American possums. The oriental persimmons got their name after the American persimmons, likewise. In both cases the words were transliterations into English from native North American languages.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:41 pm

Well, I know I'm not as cultured as some people on C&F, yet I've nonetheless been in a lot of places and met a lot of people and I have never met a single individual who pronounces the "o." Not one. I guess that's why I didn't think and I spelled it "possum" first when in retrospect I clearly meant "opossum."

Both words, while technically meaning different animals, are always pronounced the same in my experience. Sorry.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:21 am

I think it would be alright to call it an oppossum when you actually mean the opposite.

djm

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:41 am

Good Evening Furshine,
Get out of the road,
You shouldn't stand there,
Well it don't bode,

Good Morning Furshine,
Don't stare at the car,
Go hunt for grubs, worms
or stay where you are...

Squishy, squash, squishy, varoom, skitter, smishy, stay out of the road,
Scamper, stare transfixty, you'll never live to sixty, stay out of the road,
Cars are gonna get you, I don't want to upset you, but frisbees don't look good with fur...

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:48 am

She asks me why
I'm such a possum guy
I'm possum noon and night
Possum that's a fright
I'm possum high and low
Don't ask me why
(cuz he) Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
O Darling

Gimme a possum with hair
Short bristly hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Possum length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Flow it, show it
Long as Gord can grow it
My hair

-Son of Possum Hair

djm

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:13 am

non possum.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:25 am

It's opossomible, tell the sun to leave the sky, it's just opossomible ...

- Possom Como

djm

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:46 am

The Possum Crawls Tonight

(by Wild Blue Yonder)

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:50 am

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:34 am

Baby possums are cute. Grown up possums are ugly. How anybody would mistake a giant rat for a cat is mind-

-ing

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:35 am

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To prove to the possum it could be done.

Best wishes,
Jerry