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Thread #18250   Message #180455
Posted By: Troll
17-Feb-00 - 10:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: For Catspaw and others: possums
Subject: RE: BS: For Catspaw and others: possums
That pic reminded me of a thing the Forestry students here at the University of Florida do every year for their annual picnic. The afternoon before the picnic, they go out on a stretch of country road and spray every dead animal they find with yellow paint. Then, the next morning right at daylight they drive back along the same stretch of road and anything dead that hasn't got yellow paint on it is picked up. It's taken home, cleaned, and goes into a stew for the picnic. It's called "Yellow Paint Stew" and is a popular hit at the picnic.

I have been to some of their picnics and no, I didn't eat the stew. I was raised in the country and I know what possums will eat! But a lot of the students are city boys and...

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