Some people have NO shame...

Let's go with coy. Does that work for everyone?

Hi Gus, Whatcha doin?

Hey, mms. I'm just getting ready to go outside and shoot a few possums.

Cool!!!!!!!!!

Can I go? I like possum huntin'... :wink:

[scratches gustav from her list]


I love your new avatar, MMS, that's so cute.

That reminds me of my trip through your state last summer, mms. I have been all over this country but never have I seen such a plethora of roadkill as what I saw in Arkansas. It was almost comical. Racoon...skunk....armadillo.....armadillo....possum....skunk....wildebeest....
racoon...on and on and on. It seems like every five yards there is some sort of flattened animal.

Are you guys just crazy friggin drivers or do you just have a whole shitload of animals waiting to die?

(I was just kidding about the wildebeest)

[adds Jane to list -- enjoys a woman that plays hard to get]

No...the Texans are the crazy friggin' drivers..lol All they know are straight lines and 100 miles an hour till they hit a curve. Then its slam on the brakes and cause massive pile ups..lol

So......you saw all them critters on the road huh? Well, in ARkansas...thats a nightly ritual. Them there hillbillies drink...and try their damnedest to run over the first thing that crosses their path, they got youngins' to feed. You ever had possum' on the half shell? Or possum on a stick?

You sure must have come through here early for there to be fresh road kill still lying there.


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BTW..Thanks CJ, I'm not real happy with it. I was going to change back to the other one, but can't find it now...go figure.

It seemed that once I shriveled it up to the right size, it squished my cheeks...lmao Ohh well........lol

Every section of the country has their own version of "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

The answer in my state is "To show the racoon it could be done." Another state's might be "To show the armadillo it could be done." Still another's might be "To show the possum it could be done."

That's why it was so funny driving through Arkansas. All of the friggin animals were there. They're all covered!

And, I swear to god this is true, after driving through a section of Arkansas one night and seeing kill after kill after kill all of a sudden my buddy yells "What the hell was that?"

"What?" I said. I had been looking at a map and didn't know what he was talking about.

"There was something big and white on the road", he said, "Some kind of bird."

Curiosity got the best of him and he spun the car around to see the mysterious creature up close.

You know what it was? A chicken. A friggin chicken.

Only in Arkansas.

While driving through Missouri, there were Coyotes standing on the
roadside at night, just waiting for dinner, and the menue seemed plenty.


[MMS, just make the avatar a bit bigger]

(Thanks CJ)

Coyotes? We have them here, they get to yelping at night, I love the sound of it.

I haven't told my bear story, have I?

Its Turkey season here, and about 2 weeks ago, I was sopposed to head to camp about dark and pick up my husband. WEll, when I got there, he was standing there looking around all bewilded. lol One of our Ice-chests was ripped to shreds, vienna cans with big teeth holes in them, crackers crumbled on the ground...etc..

It was a mess.......

That bear had come up and in camp before dark, sometime between 4 and 7...entered into the pavilion, moved the table around...and hauled off with the ice chest towards the creek....and had no mercy or shame. lol

I kept the ice chest as a sovenior...lol, it has big incisor holes in it...about 4 or 5 inches apart. He was seen the next day on a fire trail...to hear tell...he's a big brute.......humm

ROTF...yep, seen that too. Turtles, chickens, coons, possums, armadillos, foxes, coyotes, deer, and snakes....and on ocassion, a bear, which will make the evening news! LOL

I'm curious Gus, what part of Arkansas did you come through?

Well, this thread is officially derailed.

It mostly will after page 10, Hickory.

Yet, somehow it does fit into your "Some people have NO shame..."
(to derail a thread)

opps! I've been guilty numerous time of derailing a thread....

All the ways this can be taken . . .

Hey Screwball.......what you talkin' bout there? LOL

I don't derail threads on purpose, just head it off in other directions....gently, ending with such enthusiam that it would take your breathe away....

Responding to the original thread topic, society has gotten extremely relaxed regarding public appearances. I expect the pendulum to swing back the other way before too long - people will get tired of the "slob" look they way they get tired of everything else. (hopefully)

And I'll be waiting with my sensible flats and pearls