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October 03, 2009 |
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Kung-Fu Possum!
FOUND by Hannah L.
in Springfield, Ohio
I found this in an academic building at my college during a training session. It was crumpled up in a ball on the floor.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Nope, can't say as I have.
ipples like eyebal
lol! what has happened to found. my my
No, but living in western Washington state, we see them dead and run-over on the side of the road ALL the time. They aren't exactly fast creatures.
I'd never kick one....that would just be plain mean and cruel!
I won a Trivial Pursuit game one time with the correct answer of "oppossum". The question was "what kind of animal is Pogo, from the comic strip?"
When I was little, my parents Found a possum sleeping in the baby carriage in the garage, and they took a poloroid picture of it.
Walt Kelly is spinning rapidly in his grave! Everyone knows kicking a three-legged possum will bring you seventeen years crummy luck and a possible case of rabies, though you do get bragging rights at the next Monster Truck/Gun Swap/Pie Eating Triple Hoedown Bonanza.
No, I've never kicked a possum. If I saw one with chicken feet, though, I might be tempted. Mutated freak of nature.
But I saw a dead beaver in the river this AM. There was another beaver drinking water very near the dead one. It was a little sad. Until today I didn't even know what those creatures WERE- they're small compared to the beavers where I grew up.
One possum, many possi? Possae?
no but gramma used to make me aim for them when i was driving and my husband has taken a 2x4 to one - bat style. sorry, for all you out there, but when you trap more than 14 of them in two weeks because of the empty fields behind your house....let's just say they are nasty, mean things up close & you don't want them around anymore....uuugggooo!
@ Orinoco -- possumus?
So a dead one would be Posserat. And a fake one an Impossum. Or two fake ones Non possumus.
Seriously, folks -- looking in my Oxford Dictionary (Concise) -- a 'possum' is an Australian animal, the N American usage of the word being an 'informal' abbreviation of 'opossum'.
Sadly the derivation has nothing to do with Latin after all, but is from Algonquin words meaning 'white dog'.
So now you know.
Only a dead one on the side of the road...
I've never kicked a possum, but I did recently engage in hand to paw combat with a pack of wild meerkats. They'd been looking for me.
Bored.. perhaps they were Nutria, and not Beavers. Did you look at their tails, for sure? That is sad. Beavers are monogamous and mate for life. It takes them two years to raise their young. They build houses. In some ways they are like humans (or like humans would like to be.)
Nightingale! That's hilarious! Where's that Polaroid now? Laying in wait for some finder to rescue it, perhaps? I can just imagine the comments.. "How cute!" "Looks like my little brother." "Creepy."
I know.. let's imagine we're looking at a found Polaroid of a possum asleep in the baby carriage in the garage. I'll start.
"I LOVE PHOTO FINDS!"
No, but I have licked a possum once. I have had psychedelic flashbacks ever since.
Is 'kicked a possum' a euhpemism for something? It should be. I'm not sure what but it should be.
One time I let my dogs out and there was a possum in the yard and the dang thing fell right over and 'played dead' and it worked! The dogs didn't even look twice at it.
Glad to see all the nonsense from earlier on this find has been cleaned up. Thank you to the powers that be.
@just me in another state:
I second the compliment to the 'powers that be.' Our Found editors really are a superior team!
No, but I threw stuff at one once when it invaded my cat's outdoor house. It just stared at me.
@just me.. was there nonsense? I'm glad it's been cleaned up too.
Jonathan, thank you for your enlightening info! I had no idea that possums and opossums were different animals.
If possums live in Australia and opossums live in North America, do o'possums live in Ireland? (Sorry, once the thought occurred to me I couldn't resist.)
I actually have kicked a possum! A gal i used to work with said it's a big deal down along the Ohio river to get drunk and cruise around looking for possums to kick. We happened to be at my place that weekend and saw a possum across the parking lot. She said go kick that fucker and that was all the motivation I needed. I gave the possum a war cry of HEY MOTHERFUCKER and as it turned to look me dead in the eyes, I booted it. Three somersaults later, it landed on the ground, hissed and scurried into the woods. The experience is strangely bittersweet looking back on it now some 5 years later.
Ripley, that's sick.
Mean, immature and sick.
"just me", I forgot! They DO play dead! It's their only defense because they are so slow.
That is truly sick, to actually and in real life kick any living creature that is smaller and weaker than you.
Everyone is so disgusted by these harmless little animals, and I never have understood it. One time a mommy or daddy opossum with a string of little ones came to our patio. They lined up and stared in through our sliding glass door. It was during nighttime darkness, of course. I'm not sure what they expected.
Any time wild animals meet up with us in this civilized world, I find it magical-mystical in a way.
Clover, I'm not saying I agree or support it, but here is the rationale I was given for random cruelty to certain animals, where I grew up in the rural Midwest: "They carry rabies." Whatever creature, whatever was done to it, was OK because, "they're vermin, they carry rabies." Raccoons? "They carry rabies." O'Possums? "They carry rabies." Hibernating bats found in old buildings and tormented? "They carry rabies."
Even in those days, when I was the youngest and smallest member of the family, the rationale seemed irrationale, if you will. Who would willingly mess with a creature who might give you rabies with one bite, forcing you to go through (in those days) the whole "12 shots Right In the Stomach!" treatment so many kids were so exercised about? They always knew somebody whose cousin/brother/friend got bitten doing whatever they were doing, and had to have the shots. So why? Because it's there.
These days I live in the big city. There's no wildlife unless you count pigeons. And kids seem to torment each other, not animals.
Not saying I agree with or support that, either.
I'm originally from western Kentucky, and even I think that's the worst pickup line ever.
BBasil, I thought it was clarified the other day that Ohio isn't "midwest"
So what states ARE considered "midwest"??
Just askin'.... I truly am not sure.
According to Wikipedia, the midwest consists of 12 states, including Ohio. Also called "the heartland."
Oh... I thought that said "Licked a possum".. I suppose it says kicked.. and- in that case, I'm changing my answer to No... I'm a lover, not a fighter!
@ orinoco ...
Possum
Poses
Posest
Possumus
Posestis
Possunt
... or something like that (it's been a while since Latin 101)
We don't carry rabies. Our body temperature is too low for the virus to survive. Stop Hatin'.
Hey, You, in the Cloudy Morning Time. It's so funny that you posed that question (and visited Wiki)! Just this morning on my way to work I was thinking of that very question, and planning on consulting the oracle known as Wiki. Sure, it's not the be all and end all, or the Galactic Compendium of Human Knowledge, but if it's good enough for the US Census Bureay, it's good enough for me. Obviously you already read this, but for everyone else, here's the Wiki Snip:
[wiki]The Midwestern United States (in the U.S. generally referred to as the Midwest) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
The region consists of twelve states in the central and inland northeastern US: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.[/wiki]