Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for February 19, 2025
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Transcript:
there's an opossum in my garage! well don't panic! opossums are beneficial in many ways! they'll happily devour any lice, fleas, nits, ticks, chiggers, slugs, grubs, etc. infesting most foreign anddomestic cars, leaving them showroom-new! guy: hey! did you know? opossums are the only marsupial native to north america! they even predate the dinosaurs! this makes them just insufferable. possum: we came over to america in 153 mil-lion b.c., unlike some mammals i could name. opossum fun fact - when cornered an opossum will play dead, or at least fake a spastic colon, so convincingly that even hardened critics are fooled! it sure looked dead to me! -60 second preview better than 'shear madness!' -variety possum: agh opossums in the arts - american author henry james was famous for his collection of stuffed opossums! of course, it was probably one of those things where somebody once gave him a stuffed opossum & he feigned enthusiasm just to be nice & then - boom - everybody's giving him stuffed opossums until he's heartily sick of the wretched things. james had accumulated over 300 stuffed opossums by 1916 when he died, ironically of a spastic colon. want to learn more about opossums? come on over to my garage, but watch your step, there are tent-worms all over the place. next week - collecting snowglobes with ernest hemingway.
garcalej 2 days ago
Theyâre also immune to rabies, contrary to popular belief, and arenât very aggressive, despite their appearance. Like an ugly little koala mixed with a handsome rat.
TheWildSow 2 days ago
1) Opossums climb the fence and jump into my trash can, and then canât get back out. When I find one in there I tip the can on its side so the âpossum can run out, but the last one didnât want to! And I needed to take the can down to the street for pickup the next morning â so I scooped it up with a shovel and dumped it in the yard! It just looked at me like, âWhyâd you do that? I was having a good meal!â
2) Snowglobes with Hemingway? Yes, please! Iâll talk snowglobe collecting with anybody (been collecting âem since I was 8 years old because I actually DO love them!) Last week I managed to acquire the Fargo pair â Car Crash AND the rare and pricey Wood Chipper â for a very reasonable price. My husband would have definitely given them to me for Valentines Day if he were still alive <3
The wood chipper scene is rare and pricey because not many were distributed (they were a gift with the VHS tape of Fargo.) Seems the company got complaints that the scene was âviolent and disturbing,â what with the bloody red âsnowflakesâ â so they pulled it and replaced it with the car crash scene! What did they expect? Itâs supposed to be violent and disturbing â itâs FARGO!
ellisaana Premium Member 2 days ago
The collecting conundrumâhave been there, with moose-shaped objects.
beezel 1 day ago
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beezel 1 day ago
We had a stuffed possum that our daughter-in-law gave my husband, because he plays possum songs on the guitar. It became our âchurch possumâ (we met for church in our house at the time). The kids all played with him, we had pictures of him on a little pew reading the Bible, and other fun things.