BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:36 AM

Story goes that the reenactors at Plimoth Plantation were cooking lunch when a Proper Boston Lady asked them what they were cooking in that big pot over the campfire.

"Seagull," came the prompt reply.

"Why, I didn't know that they were edible! However do you know when they are done?"

"When the feathers float to the top."

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:33 AM

Or roadkill seagull (just like the Chinese food buffet joints do).

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:59 PM

Kentucky Burgoo

Makes 1200 gallons of stew; used for the Kentucky Derby Day celebration This recipe is from a very old southern cookbook entitled "322 Old Dixie Recipes"(1939)

Squirrels - 1 doz.to each 100 gals.
600 lbs. lean soup meat (no fat, no bacon)
200 lbs. fat hens, plucked
2,000 lbs. potatoes, peeled and diced
200 lbs. onion, peeled and diced
5 bushels of cabbage, chopped
60 lbs.of tomatoes, deskinned & chopped
24 lbs. of tomatoes - pureed
24 lbs. of corn, cut from cob
Red pepper and salt to taste and Worcestershire by the pint.

Mix the ingredients, a little at a time and cook coutdoors in huge iron kettles over wood for 20 hour, stirring constantly.

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You can substitute rabbits for the chickens if you wish.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:37 PM

They try to keep their shameful secret secret.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:34 PM

I didn't know that squirells laid eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:26 PM

OOOOOOOOO!!!! (raging in impotent fury here...) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:23 PM

AND they're delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:20 PM

Squirrels are sweet and lovable animals. They are also cute and agile. They are clever and adaptable. They are brave and feisty. They are determined and resourceful. I like squirrels. Squirrels are the greatest. People who don't like them can go suck eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: GUEST,celtaddict at work, using the term loosely
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 08:35 PM

To some folks a squirrel's a squirrel,
To others, a squirrel's a squirl.
Since freedom of speech
Is the birthright of each,
I can only this fable unfurl.
A virile young squirrel named Cyril,
In an argument over a girl
Was lambasted from here to the Tyrol
By a churl of a squirl named Earl.
                -Ogden Nash

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:22 AM

And the squirells in Brooklyn say Nerts, not Nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 08:57 AM

Cuz they're shy and don't sing in public. You gotta go out to the woods and lay down and stay real quiet, not hardly breathing or anything. You gotta lay there long enough that they either get used ta ya or think yer dead, one or the other. Finally, they'll come out and play and pretty soon they'll all start to sing. Different songs at first, but pretty soon all of them will start singing the same thing, usually "Kum By Ya" or "Three hundret millyun barrels of beer on the wall" or "The Notre Dame Victory March" or some other popular song. They'll all start to laugh and then pretty soon one'll sing a song and teach it to the others and that'll go around the circle for awhile. Somebody'll break out the fermented nuts and before ya know it them squirrels will be singing stuff like "Three Whores Came Down" and "Barrett's Privateers" and next thing you know there'll be a big fight over the words to someting like "Eskimo Nell" and then the squirrel cops'll come and haul the whole bunch off to the nuthouse. Squirrels got really good singing voices, but you can't hardly git banjoes and guitars and piobrachs small enough for 'em to play, so they only sing when they feel safe among their friends.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 07:35 AM

Rapaire, if squirrels are folk, how come I never heard no squirrel sing no song?

(Eddie grins wickedly, ducks head, and sprints for the exit....)

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:56 AM

you say squirell, i say squirrel... lets call the whole thing off!

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:47 AM

Yes - I do, and they can spel skwirrl two.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: 42
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:04 AM

does anyone else have the pop ups for squirrel traps below this box?

j

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:55 PM

Orillian Illuminati; Squire LL himself

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:06 PM

Squirrels are folk. Lots nicer than some of those who pass for human, too.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: s&r
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 07:22 PM

jOhn knows how to spel sqwirrel

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 07:07 PM

What a brilliant observation, jOhn!

It begs the question, "What are you doing here?" :-)

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 07:05 PM

this is folck site, not sqwirrel site.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:48 PM

'er', SINS.

I got it now. Everything's OK. I see on the other thread, brucie was asking LH a serious question about how to spell it. I don't think he quite understood the answer though. Maybe it would help to break it down phonetically into squi + rr + el.

Or you can do it:
'Squir', just like in the word 'squirt', only you leave the t off because squirrels don't drink tea. Then you add 'rel', which is almost like 'real', only it's a little different, so it's not 'real'. (Haha!) All you have to do is put them together.

I don't think the word is French, so you wouldn't use the double 'l' on the end. If you did, you'd have to put an 'e' after it, and pronounce it 'skwer ELLE'.

If none of these suggestions work, maybe you could invent a symbol, like the Artist Formerly Known as Prince uses, or you could just call them all Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:47 PM

It's not funny at all. It's deadly serious.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:35 PM

Ours not to question why, Jeri...

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: s&r
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:33 PM

Jeri - you can spell squirrel; Brucie can spell squirell. Where's the problem?

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:32 PM

Sounds like you are making Jeri SQUIRRELLY!

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:28 PM

Would somebody explain why this is funny? Usually, I'm pretty good at picking up why other people think something's humorous, even if I don't think it is. I figure:
1. Little Hawk made a typo, and brucie thought it was funny enough for there to be a whole thread about the typo, or
2. Lots of people can't spell squirrel right, or they can, but the word is just a typo waiting to happen, or
3. Brucie can't spell 'squirrel' and is making fun of LH for spelling it the right way, or
4. Brucie CAN spell 'squirrel' correctly, but is pretending he can't so he can make fun of LH for spelling it the right way, or
5. Something else that I'm not going to understand anyway.

Thank you for your assistance.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:24 PM

The password is sciurus. Don't forget the password.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:22 PM

This is gettin' serious. Orillian Illuminati.

LH, RUN! You're gonna be attacked by lightbulbs from 1984.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:18 PM

It was injudicious of you to let that slip, Rapaire. I fear that nothing can be done to save you now.

Subject: RE: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:06 PM

Brucie, that's "Squire LL". Squire LL is the secret code name for the member of the Orillian Illuminati who controls what passes for LH's mind.

Subject: BS: I learned to spell SQUIRELL from LH
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 05:42 PM

Does this seem like forever or what. But I have it at last.

SQUIRELL.

Thanks, LH.