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classic or dud

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 13 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Red squirrels = classic

Grey squirrels = dud

― C J (C J), Sunday, 13 October 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic. I remember seeing a squirrel in New York and Calcutta (not the same one, I'm assuming).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 13 October 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

saw them when i went to canada so classic cause they are lovely.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

all squirrels are fucking classic. i used to have an imaginary friend who was a squirrel. i think they are ace. and have no predjudice against grey squirrels. apparently there are orange and green squirrels in cameroon (this from gerald durrell). there fore, going to cameroon is very important.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 13 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

aww definitely classic. I just saw one recently for the first time in years. It was so cute. I was just trying to find my grans house and this little brown squirrel jumped out in front of me and paused to look at me. aww. It was beautiful.

― Shaz, Sunday, 13 October 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Squirrels in Berkeley = classic. Everyone feeds them, so they're extremely fat and extremely not afraid of people. I nearly stepped on one once.

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 13 October 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I was weirded out when, a few months ago, I was driving around outside Victoria, BC, and I noticed this little black thing dart across the street.. and I was like.. huh? As it turned out..

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Marysville/images/sqno1.jpg

oh no!!! BLACK SQUIRRELS !!!OH NO

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 13 October 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 13 October 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

S: squirrel bait [hahaha]
D: squirrel nut zippers

etc etc

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 14 October 2002 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://mam.er.usgs.gov/Media/usgsactivities/squirrel.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 14 October 2002 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

the squirrels who hang out in the yard of my building are really cute.

If you want to call a squirrel towards you, wave your arm in a slow up-and-down motion like a sine curve to mimic a squirrel's jump-advancing motion and cluck your tongue really fast continually. The squirrel will get "interested" and come over and check you out.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 October 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Black squirrels are pretty common up here in "upstate" NY. As the joke goes: Sarah Lawrence, where even the squirrels wear black.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 October 2002 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

don't be fooled by the bright eyes and bushy tail, squirrels will bite you HARD just for looking at them wrong; they are nasty and probably carry disease

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 October 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

well maybe if you try to collect them in ziplock baggies or feed them M&Ms, but I'm sure they just mistook you for an acorn.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 14 October 2002 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Humph. Photogenic tree rats, nothing more.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 14 October 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

My college was absolutely swarming with the little buggers. They used to break into people's rooms and nick their food. Particular liking for cornflakes, IIRC.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 14 October 2002 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic. I love the notion of hibernation. Sleeping in a warm place all through winter, only getting up to eat some nuts. Bliss. Except maybe with a different food to nuts.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

awww squirrels i love them, obv. the ones in Finsbury Park and Holland Park are well tame and will come and take peanuts out of your hand!

― katie (katie), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Stop encouraging them! The next thing you know they'll have broken into our flat and stolen Aubrey's No-Problem-Os.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh they might do Rick if there were any left in the BOX! but will he throw it away!?!?)

― katie (katie), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I suspect he is using it for purposes of dark magick

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, bnw stole my joke.

SLC also home to a few albino squirrels. And skunks.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Squirrels are classic. Except when they fall down the chimney and can't get out, so they scrabble around for a couple of days and maybe shriek a bit in the middle of the night, but eventually die and then a fly gets down there and lays eggs all over the corpse and it all goes badly maggoty and the maggots turn into a swarm of flies which then find a way out of the chimney and into one's bedroom. Shudders.

― Madchen, Monday, 14 October 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Squirrels are great, but in response to the last post: My family lived in an old farmhouse when I was growing up. The chimney wasn't capped and birds would somehow get trapped in the walls of the house. They would claw and scratch but we couldn't get them out. Come winter, we opened the furnace in the living room and it was full of dead little black birds. It was pretty traumatic.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think squirrels hibernate. I saw one collecting beech nuts yesterday when I was out looking at fungi, and I was wondering whether about its winter schedule. I think they just take it easy - like: long sleep in, wake up for late lunch (nuts), afternoon nap, a few nuts, early night.

― Ellie (Ellie), Monday, 14 October 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

When I lived in Iowa, there was this huge nut tree looming over the house. It must have been at least twenty feet taller than the house. Anyway, we'd often hear a thump on the roof. Turned out it was squirrels falling on the roof. They'd bounce down to the ground, get up, and climb back on the tree again. Maybe there's a lesson in life somewhere in there.

There were also a lot of really cute thirteen-lined ground squirrels there.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 14 October 2002 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey! They pulled the picture!

Here's the Google Image Search result, then.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 14 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny Things Your Parents Say, part 12323:

My mum, when confronted with squirrel intruders gnawing away in the attic:

"It's squirrels up there. But I'd hate to kill them - they're so industrious."

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother saw a black squirrel for the first time under rather striking circumstances -- running across the living room floor, hotly pursued by the cat.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 14 October 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a rat, J.Lu.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 14 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Could have been; I wasn't there at the time.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 14 October 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Dud. Vermin with bushy tails.

― alext (alext), Monday, 14 October 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

life is so unfair! that we don't have 'em in london. only in north america but not in london. damn!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 October 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://sooner.diaryland.com/images/squirrel.jpg

wazzat, alext? i don't tink i did hear you propaly...

― ch. (synkro), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

four weeks pass...

Today I watched two squirrels in the yard totally making out. The one squirrel went over to the other one and put his* paw on her head. At first she jumped away, but he kept chasing her and trying to put his paw on her until she let him. (guys, this works!) Then he started nibbing at her neck with the really fast nibbling like when the turntablists do the Hamster Scratch. He nibbled her neck a lot, then her head, then her back, then her neck again, then near her tail(!), then her back, all over her body. After about five minutes up this, they hopped up into a nearby pine tree and I felt like they wanted some privacy, so I went to the store to buy Diet Coke.

*For the sake of convenince. I don't really have any basis for believing the one was a male and the other a female. (This is Chelsea.)

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

My flatmate's mom once claimed that she saw a squirrel washing its hands on a leaf!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 14 November 2002 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

name the drug was she on andrew?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 14 November 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm amazed by the testicles on Ch.'s squirrel. They are testicles, right?

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

05.10.02 - 1:52

i witnessed a squirrel suicide today. there was a long line of cars behind a red light, and a squirrel standing perfectly still in front of a tire, it's back arched and tail held high. it remained calm as the cars began to move and it was squished.

fare thee well, little fellow... may the road rise to meet y... er...

― ron (ron), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

(if that's the appropriate response)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no pitty for squirrels, not after having to fight them just to put out my trash when i worked for a small coffee shop. Chimpmunks on the other hand are cute.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't think we have chipmunks in western canada ... at least i don't think i've ever seen one. can anyone back me up?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Why were squirrels trying to stop you putting out your trash, Mr Noodles?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

killer squirrel's career cut short

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 15 November 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Cause squirrels really like coffee grinds. They will chew through anything to get at them, they even try to hibernate in them. When hibernating, or trying to, they will bit at the broom handle thats poking them rather then just move.
And they can bite hard.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 15 November 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

The making out squirrel story is the funniest thing I've read all day.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Squirrels can be cute. A woman in my apartment building puts out bread for the lil' fuzzy-tailed vermin. The condo board is upset at this, because the bread attracts rats, but she's from Romania and appears to not understand English when it suits her purpose, she just ignores them.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Once I saw a squirrel sitting high up in a tree eating a Cheez-It.

― estela, Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a squirrel outside my window EATING a garden gnome

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Squirrels are annoying.

When I was around 12 my dad got really sick of all the damn squirrels on our property, so he took a BB gun and shot about 6 of them. Then he decided it would be a shame to waste all that meat, so he made squirrel stew out of them. He found the recipe in a game cookbook - the stew had grapes, wine, onions and of course squirrel. It was tasty. So from then on he would periodically cull the local squirrel population and make stew, until we moved from that house.

― fletrejet, Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

sounds good. Time to head for the ponderosa with and air rifle.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

this isn't some kind of metaphor. god damn, this is REAL.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who wants to eat squirrel should learn and utilise the Redwell Squirrel Attraction method (as detailed above) (followed by the g-kit's dad squirrel shooting method I suppose). It really is remarkably effective. You could eat like a king (or at least a king who likes eating squirrel).

I am very keen on your American pronunciation of 'squirrel', by the way: 'squirl'.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

As I think rosemary has noted elsewhere, the older editions of Joy of Cooking had diagrams for skinning squirrels. It's the main way I distinguish feom the new edition.

So why aren't there any squirrels in London?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 March 2003 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

there are plenty, nasty interloping american grey squirels,driving out our french red squirels.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"Come over 'ere, taking our acorns, nibbling our gnomes..."

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

There are lots of squirrels in london, just not black ones. Lots of annoying grey ones that make a racket with their screeching.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Vicky you should learn to shoot more accurately.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, sorry. I didn't have a copy of hugh's river cottage book at the time, so didn't know what to do properly.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hit them with the book

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It's big, but it's remarkably light, I don't think that would do it. The larousse should do the trick though.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

You could also trap them between the sleeve and the larousse itself. (I want a larousse)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/towns/Marysville/images/sqno1.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/durham/Images/lovelysquirrel.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

The French red squirrels are only being driven out because they are cowards who are scared of fighting, Ed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I dun gone cracked mah screen with mah bb gun. damn varmints

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

http://spot.colorado.edu/~halloran/photos/spot.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://worldkids.net/critters/mammals/squirre1.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, the area I live in is FULL of squirrels... on more than one occasion (usually in the park), I've actually had a squirrel attempt to climb up my leg. Therefore I am evidently irresistable to squirrels, and could probably live off them forever as the poor fools rush to their doom like lemmings at Beachy Head.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.kafox.freeserve.co.uk/fluffy/fluffy6.gif

They are all so lovely.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

... Beachy Head being a very popular holiday destination for lemmings, Matt? (You are on fire today, btw.)

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/xc/XONEXEsquirrel_wallace.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

the squirrel 5 posts up looks like a bat

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.petcalmer.com/squirrel.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

racial harmony:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/xc/ONEXEsquirrels_thom.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm . . . interesting. I guess I always just thought of the gray ones as "squirrels" because of not knowing other kinds. Although I think I may have seen red ones out West.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

i love squirells!!!!!!
so many happy pictures!!!!

― Sommer Lee, Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://contracostacc.homestead.com/files/squirrels.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://se-jik-suke.hp.infoseek.co.jp/squirrels.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of cute little ones here.

http://www.scarysquirrel.org/squirrel.jpg
What's up??

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.peachkin.com/ecards/pics/flying-squirrel.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My patient has me put out birdseed for them each morning.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 31 October 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

classic. We had flying squirrels come down the chimney all the time. The cats would tree them on the curtain rods, until we caught them and stuck em in a bird cage until it was time to let em go. Also, in Toronto I fed one bread from my hand one time. It was just hanging out on a trash can. 3 or 4 of us were walking by and it didn't move so I turned back to see if I could get close. I got close with the bread until it just reached out and grabbed my hand instead of waiting to get fed, with it's paw- like a rat claw actually, but still cool. My friend dared me to grab the tail and hang it upside down, but I decided not to.

― sucka (sucka), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

there is a bastard one who stands outside my window and makes screaming noises at my cats. I hate him.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 31 October 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

We have loads around where I work. I saw a black one yesterday

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

please, let me post sarah's

link again.

so lovely!!

also, do check up the wonderful earring offered at the squirrel

store

― chomisan, Friday, 31 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

4 anthony:
http://asciipr0n.com/4096/squirrel.gif
these guys will take care of your little problem¡

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Little bastards ate both the pumpkins on my front steps. I didn't even get a change to carve them. I came out the other morning and there was a hole in the side with a squirrel's hind legs sticking out. You should see how fat it was after eating the insides of a 15 pound pumpkin.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

my Spanish ex's nickname was Ardillita.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm seriously considering this:
http://www.victorpest.com/canada/1077.JPG

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I recommend this:

http://www.wknives.com/buck/106-hunters-axe.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.victorpest.com/canada/1077.JPG + http://tubes.ominix.com/art/a/household/wooden-bucket-soapy-water.png

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but:

These squirrels C/D?

Apparently it was a "big stray dog" they took down too...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

SQUIRREL VS. DOG

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

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