BS: Drunken Moose Treed

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 10:43 PM

Don-

Just maybe, some of us will be remembered as well as old Hewitt.

Cheerily,
What's His Name

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 06:24 PM

Don... quite a picture of him you have painted. Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 06:09 PM

Did he have a liquor license, Don?**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 06:08 PM

Yeah, probably. But Hewitt was a bit of a free spirit.

He passed away a couple of years ago, well past the age of ninety. But one of the last times I saw him, I was driving down a street on Seattle's lower Queen Anne Avenue and I saw Hewitt walking in the opposite direction. Too much traffic to stop and "Howdy."

Hewitt was wounded in World War II. He was part of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress that got pretty badly shot up, but made it back, then crash landed. Hewitt buggered his back pretty badly and it bothered him all his life, so he walked a lot, and he walked, not with a cane, but with a bloody-great staff. Also, when he got older, he tended to let his hair and beard just grow.

As I saw him walking up Queen Anne Avenue (going to his girl friend's place), striding along with his staff and his hair and beard blowing in the breeze, he looked for all the world like a Biblical prophet!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 05:41 PM

Contributing to the delinquency of a chicken is agin tha law innit?

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 04:49 PM

Eleventy-fourteen years ago, a fellow I knew, local artist and maritime historian, Hewitt Jackson (impressive looking gent!) invited a bunch of us over to his place for a cider-pressing party. He lived on a large tract of land in the suburbs with a lot of golden-delicious apple trees on it. We spent a lot of time tossing big, juicy apples into the hopper of his cider press, then when we'd finished, he took us into his house and we sat around drinking fresh-pressed apple juice. Delicious!!

There were gallons of the stuff, and he gave us each a quart bottle of it, saying that if we wanted to drink it as is, put it in the refrigerator. "But you can also set it in a window where the sun can hit it for a few days and it develops a very nice 'tingle.'"

After we had finished pressing the apples and before we headed into the house, Hewitt tossed all of the mash out into the yard. He had a few chickens wandering and clucking around the yard, and he commented, "At first they'll just ignore it, but after it's laid there a few days and the sun's shone on it, they'll get into it. Believe me, there's nothing in this world funnier than a drunk chicken!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 02:50 PM

Not so bad when you consider what that squirrel musta been on.

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 02:33 PM

My name is Bullwinkle and I'm an alcoholic......

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 01:34 PM

"There goes the Wapiti,
Hippiti Hoppiti.

   -Ogden Nash

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 01:18 PM

Alces alces is "elk" (or variations thereon) except in North America, where it's "moose", and "elk" instead refers to Cervus canadensis.

You'd think that European settlers of N. America, being familiar with Alces alces and likely encountering them before Cervus canadensis in the new world (Cervus canadensis is a western species in N. America, also is present in Asia, but not Europe), would have used the familiar name, "elk". However, they adopted/adapted the Native American name, to get "moose", instead. Then for some reason when they encountered what the locals called "wapiti" (Cervus canadensis) they called that "elk".

Leading to further confusion and conflict down the years.

Maybe it was "moose" because those early settlers were English and French and before they sailed west they hadn't traveled out of their back yards far enough to see "elg". You'd think by the time they got out to the "wapiti" they would have realized their mistake and not chosen "elk" for that. But, there's no accounting for ignorance and habit.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 12:59 PM

Up Kent County, the name for this critter is Swamp Donkey or Breakfast.

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: open mike
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 12:15 PM

In Swedish, the name for this critter is ELG

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 11:49 AM

Daring Deed! Drunken Treed Moose Freed!

(Where's Dr. Seuss when you need him?)

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: GUEST,Ebbieonaborrowedmac
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 11:29 AM

What an amazing photo! I suspect that many a New Year's card will depict it as the morning after.

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 11:08 AM

Robins like my mum's apple tree in late winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 11:05 AM

Could have been worse..

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 10:58 AM

Puir thing...what a sight! do they have AA for moose?

Subject: RE: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 10:02 AM

Does a drunken moose like Moose Head Beer?

Subject: BS: Drunken Moose Treed
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Sep 11 - 09:51 AM

Don't try this at home, or in your neighbor's yard.

Evidently a moose in Sweden had too many fermented apples to eat, and lost his balance while climbing an apple tree reaching out for another round: click here for story

Happily the moose was rescued but the next day he was back looking for more fermented apples.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble