the possum

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 17 - 09:16 PM

My brother did it. Baked the possum in my mother's oven. Stank to high heaven and came out greasy and damned near inedible. He buried it in that hole that's talked about. And that was that. Venison, fish, rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, porcupine, bear, mountain lion, rattlesnake -- but not possum.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 17 - 07:17 PM

This sounds reminiscent of the Hedgehog recipe from the mother of several of the Gipsy Kings brothers (Los Reyes).

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Joe_F
Date: 31 Jul 17 - 05:55 PM

Rapparee: Well, that's the kind of thing it would nice to *say* you had done.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jul 17 - 09:16 PM

If you's like to try possum you'll need to know this stuff.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Jul 17 - 08:28 PM

That last verse is a floating one. I have heard it attached to "Woody Knows Nothing".

I just tried Google to see if there was a restaurant where I could have possum & sweetpotato. What do I see? A pretentious one in Richmond, VA, called L'Opossum -- and opossum is not on the menu! Really, there ought to be a restaurant featuring all the dishes celebrated in song. (I just missed an opportunity to have groundhog, once upon a time.)

Gnu & Murray, if you are still around: Possum is not a noun in Latin; it is a verb, and means "I can". I have toyed with the idea of having a T-shirt made with a picture of an opossum & the legend "Haberi Possum" (i.e., "I Can Be Had").

Subject: Lyr Add: SQUIRREL (from Leon Bibb)
From: Felipa
Date: 30 Jul 17 - 08:05 PM

this song from the singing of Leon Bibb:

SQUIRREL

Squirrel is a funny little thing,
He's got a bushy tail.
He steals away the farmer's corn,
And he puts it on the rail,
And he puts it on the rail.

Partridge she's a pretty little thing,
She's got a speckled breast.
But she steals away the farmer's corn,
She takes it to her nest,
Then she takes it to her nest.

Possum he's a cunning little thing,
He travels after dark.
And he ain't afraid of any old thing
Till he hears old Rattler bark,
Till he hears that hound dog bark.

A raccoon's tail is ringed all around,
Possum's tail is bare.
A rabbit ain't got no tail at all,
Just a little wee bunch of hair,
Just a little wee bunch of hair.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 04:12 PM

Hardi got a frozen one once as payment for pastoral services. Has a great sermon on it.

~S~

Subject: RE: the possum
From: MAG
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 12:37 PM

When I lived in Florida (project finger-cross), armadillos were known as possum on the half-shell. Maybe your restaurants should start serving them in NZ.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 07:07 PM

In Texas it'd be an armadillo.

In Wyoming a pronghorn.(or a Kat.)

(no mention of A......s anywhere.)

In Oregon it'd be a salmon.

In Kansaw it'd be a tornado.

In Illinois it'd be me,Art Thieme.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 07:00 PM

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To prove to the possum it could be done!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Joe_F
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 06:24 PM

ObTrad:

Blue spied a possum up a simmon tree,
Blue looked at the possum, possum looked at me,
Saying go on, Blue, you can have some too.

Baked that possum good and brown,
Leaving sweet potatoes round and round,
Saying come on, Blue, you can have some too.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 12:15 PM

A page on George Jones is here with annoying popups, random apostrophes and flashing adverts.

A .wav file with him singing a bit of Wild Irish Rose. Long load/short clip.

I used to drink the stuff in college. Echhhh!

Subject: RE: the possum
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 11:16 AM

Art, does that mean no more "dining on the road" in Arkansas?

;) Rich McCarthy

(with apologies to Arkansasians)

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 11:07 AM

From a P.M. I got yesterday I realized my possum joke in this thread really got to and offended another Mudcatter who told me I'd insulted her Arkansas accent one time 15 years ago too. I am sorry for those insults even if I do think the first one 15 years back never happened. And I'm sorry if I discommoded any other Mudcatters at the same time.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM

Gnu, the plural of possum would be "possa" rather than "possi". But somehow I doubt it.

Murray

Subject: RE: the possum
From: gnu
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 06:12 AM

We don't have possums (possi ?) here in New Brunswick, Canada. We have porcupines. They also have a knack for staring at headlights. However, sometimes they get revenge on cars with bald tires, although steel belted radial tires are pretty much immune.

Anyway, it's Partridge Eve here... you can have your Xmas and New Year's Eve... today is my second favourite day of the year. Fried on high heat, they can't be beat. But I don't use the truck cause they tend to lift and go for the headlights and grille. Merry Partridge Eve one and all.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 11:50 PM

G'day Allie,

" ... Austrlaia ... protected. In New Zeland ... pests ... more possums than sheep! ... stick 'em all on Qantas and send them back to Aussie ..."

Yes - some silly Kiwi person thought there was a quid to be made from possum fur ... but all his imported possums escaped and their descendants took possession of all the tree-hollows in New Zealand forests - dispossesing the birds from the forest canopy.

Now there are hardly any birds left to eat the insect pests - and NZ's native forests will eventually be wiped out by the consequences of greed. (And the human population will all get on Qantas planes and move into flats in Bondi!)

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: the possum
From: AliUK
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 07:01 PM

Down here in Brazil we don't got us any possums. But we got this 'ere crittur called a timbú which probably is related to them there antipodean and yankie thingies. It is good eatin'specially brased in a honey sauce. And they're much smarter 'n possums and hedgepigs as they don't git squished in the road. Though my parents two dobermans make short work of un.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Gareth
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 06:54 PM

Aaaah ! The North American version of the Hedgehog - normally seen frisby shaped on the road.

Actually, locally some evil minded gentlepeople stuffed a dead Hedgehog with a brick, and put it on the road - expensive crunching noises from the autos of the local hooligans.

Yeeeaaaah !

Gareth

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 06:47 PM

Raccoon's got a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare,
Rabbit ain't got no tail at all,
Just a little bitty bunch of air.

-- various songs

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 05:34 PM

Guest, Doc Rock--Now that depends--to a 54-year-old lady like meself, he looks a heck of a LOT better than Shania Twain or Faith Hill! (Even if the man has been rode hard and put away wet, as we say in the home country...) I've never heard his version of "Wild Irish Rose," but I'd bet he did it justice.

Gareth, those poor little critters have entirely too many mean, evil predators looking for them (including big bad automobiles). Sometimes all they can think to do is to pretend they're already dead, in hopes their attacker will believe 'em. So--"playing possum" is quite similar to "sticking your head in the sand" as ostriches are famous for.

Or, on the other hand, it could be a North American perversion if you ask Cleigh O'Possum's opinion...

Lin

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Gareth
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 06:29 AM

What is playing "Possum", is it a North American perversion ?

**BG**

Gareth

Subject: RE: the possum
From: 53
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 09:11 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: the possum
From: GUEST,Doc Rock
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 09:39 AM

The song Wild Irish Rose which he released on a quickly forgotten album a few years ago, would have been a number one hit in an ideal universe. But unfortunately, he doesn't look as good in a video as Shania Twain or Faith Hill....

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 01:59 AM

Actually, now I think of it, being as I'm on the top end of the globe, and on this island rather than your continent, I've never actually seen a live, mobile possum. I've travelled to Canada and New Zealand, but the only possums I've ever seen have been pizza shaped in the road. Even in the zoo all I've seen is a pile of bedding that quivered occasionally.....

Seen a ground hog. Heck they're fat! Good eatin' on one of them!!

LTS

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 01:28 AM

In my younger days, when I listened almost exclusively to country music (those were the only radio stations we could get in the Texas Panhandle--except for KOMO in Oklahoma City), I never much cared for George Jones. Oddly enough, it was for the very same reasons 'Spaw gave--The Possum always made ME feel suicidal!

As I've grown older (but not up), I've managed to restrain my preconceptions long enough to actually listen to his singing--and Damn! Is he good!

I can't think of a sadder song than "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

Lin

Subject: RE: the possum
From: GUEST,truckerdave
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 09:24 PM

Baked possum and sweet taters was my grandaddys favorite dish. It just made my grandma sick.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: allie kiwi
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 09:21 PM

In Austrlaia the possum is protected. In New Zeland they are not, but are considered pests. Heck, we have more possums than sheep!

My vote is we stick 'em all on Qantas and send them back to Aussie where they can protect them to their hearts content!

allie

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:40 PM

In Arkansas it takes two people to eat possum. One has to watch for cars.

Art

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 06:09 PM

The one on my patio in the grape vine night before last was sure cute!

Subject: RE: the possum
From: 53
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 04:49 PM

spaw, man that's putting it in the kettle,i like that comment.bob

Subject: RE: the possum
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 03:57 PM

Assuming we're not discussing Cleigh here, I think he's the greatest honky tonk singer that ever lived. When he sings you get the mental image of a guy out of work and out of love, sitting in the back of a dark and smokey bar, crying in his tenth beer, and about to blow his brains out.

Now that's a honky tonk singer!

Spaw

Subject: RE: the possum
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 03:54 PM

I love the possum! (And the Hag)

Chip A.

Subject: RE: the possum
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 03:43 PM

Speshly wid ma mamma's dumplins and som o dat dere roadkill gumbo

: )

Subject: the possum
From: 53
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 02:43 PM

how many of you like the possum? bob