CookieCows

I'm going nuts trying to figure this out...

I better go back to playing with logic puzzles!

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lorax

ACD - Author Charles Dickens?

or do you mean Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame?

The both of them make me think of cold fog, Limehouse, and the pitter-patter of little rats.....

Of course, my imagery is largely due to Oscar Wilde, but that's another story entirely.

If that is indeed the answer and I win a pup, I regret that I am outside of your shipping range. I default my banana pup to whoever can tell me who illustrated the English version of Oscar Wilde's opera, and what other opera he illustrated.

chong

How about Sir "Arthur Conan Doyle"

Chong

Whatever

Acdc?

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With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going...

Whatever

Advanced controls and displays?

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With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going...

damaclese

Lorax would that be ? Aubrey Vincent Beardsley he did the original illustrations for the English vision of Oscar Wilde's solame and he also did illustrations for Tannhäuser

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Lagniappe

Dan , Many of my friends and family refuse to eat wild game .And Many people across the country do consume wild animals . So being from La or Tn has no true bearing in regards to ones palate.(mmmm bear)
Fortunately for me , I belong to the latter group.
I can tell you this much about the eating of possum(and ,no,not that the best part is the knee): My family has eaten all likes of wild game to include squirrel, rabbit, deer, turtle, alligator, eel, bowfin, alligator gar, snipe, woodcock, duck, goose, quail, dove, rattlesnake, blackbird, wild or feral hog,wild turkey(the bird,not the booze) and racoon but would NEVER eat possum or armadillo !

I have heard,however, that armadillo is best served 'on the half shell' :P

AnnaJW

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lorax

ok, if I won, send my pup to Damaclese.

bananimal

Lorax - you won. BTW, I walked thru a simulation of a Limehouse alleyway, circa latter 1800's, at Madame T's in Paris. Real creepy, dark, foggy, smell of chimney smoke.........

Damaclese, Pauly -- take a look at my naner list in the profile and see what you like. Had almost as much fun reading thru this thread as I had driving my wife bonkers reading her the posts. It is my pleasure to send you a pup on lorax's behalf.

Lagniappe -- awesome listing of critters. Why don't you send mskitty an invite the next time you hear that thump thump from the tires.

Dan

mskitty38583

.....meow...means i dont think so....LOL!!!

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damaclese

wow did i realy get that right thanks Loeax u are a pal and all return the faver when the AEAE pup that scots giving me grows up you can have one

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Randy4ut

I have stayed away from this thread until Lagniappe called and told me about it and I had to check it out. As far as possum goes, make a real good bar-b-que, as well as in a stew. Not near as good as groundhog, or coon, or wild boar, though... Hey, I will try anything once, and if it is halfway good, I ain't ashamed of going back for seconds!!!! Don't you guys knock it, if you ain't tried it!!!! Squirrel and dumplings are one of my favorites along with eggs and rabbit on Christmas morning.... BTW, did I mention how good bear is as a pot roast or just fried up!!!

Now I don't do roadkill, but if I could trap it or shoot and get it in a pot, hey, supper's on!!!!
Anyone need any good recipes for any of these or anyother "vermin" let me know!!!

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chong

My kind of guy!!!!!! When I was growing up in the Philippines, just for fun we'd hunt for monitor lizards. Like Randy says, I'll try anything once, myself. And to be honest, monitor lizard tastes like chicken, but you know what? It's the thought that counts. No seconds for me. I just go for the chicken the next time.

Now, roasted peccary or havolina, that's more like it.

lorax

Oh, man, I forgot about peccary. Super yum!

CookieCows

Now I've had BBQ bear burgers at an annual picnic in Oregon and they were good, but... wild boar.... oh my gosh ... that smelled my kitchen up so bad I could hardly stand it. Real strong, nasty smell.

Something must of gone wrong with that!

Deb

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damaclese

being Born and raised just on the state ling of Kansas and Missouri and spending almost every summer that i can remember in the northern Ozark mountens i have to say the thought if eating Possum or coon or bare scars the dickens out of me I'm sure and remember I'm a chef so i have vary adventuresome taste but wild Bear for example is a known carer of Trichinosis (spelling sorry) and coon and possum populations in the mid west have been devastated by Rabies (again sorry spelling)
so I just cant rap my lips on that Grissel! lol

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island cassie

You guys kill me!!! And make my roadkill tales seem tame! We were driving down a road in England when the car ahead hit a pheasant. We braked and managed to pick it up before he could reverse back and get it - made a great stew!!! Also in Scotland the pheasants were everywhere, and there was one bird ahead of me on the verge. As I approached he took 2 steps forward, 2 steps back , 2 forward, 2 back, then as I passed he ran into the back wheel and all I could see in the rear view mirror was a cloud of feathers - didn't stop for that one!! An avian Darwin awards candidate I think!

And in Australia we were driving non-stop down the East Coast from Cairns to Melbourne (don't ask!) and taking turns with the driving. The kangaroos were everywhere and as we changed drivers as darkness fell and it was my turn to drive, my husband said - don't hit one of those kangaroos as they will wreck the car. Well, they leapt across the road like lunatics but luckily I didn't hit any, and sometime in the early hours we changed drivers again. Well - he hadn't been driving for more than half an hour before he nailed one - I was so glad it wasn't me!! Haha!! didn't pick that one up either!

Cassie

tlturbo

Us Floridians LOVE gator.

chong

The wild boar that you had was probably butchered from the wilds. People in MS hunt those giant wild boars with several dogs to "get it trapped at bay". Then they send a pitbull to actually pin it down after which, a couple of the hunters would grab the boar's hind legs and hog-tie (no pun intended)them. Then they load it up on their pickup truck. While it's up on the boom of the picker, they caponize (neuter) the boar. Then they keep it in a pen for 3 weeks and feed it grain and surplus vegetables before butchering.

The meat that I sampled was somewhat gamy, but it actually tasted something between regular pork and beef. It didn't smell anything offensive, though. Just regular barbecued meat.