For xbrad March 16, 2009
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Xbrad is getting disturbed by the mean weasel photos, so here is a little something gentler for him:

Better now? –Ripped off from Funny and Cute Pictures.
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Xbrad is getting disturbed by the mean weasel photos, so here is a little something gentler for him:

Better now? –Ripped off from Funny and Cute Pictures.
Short tail, no black tip. Must be a weasel.
We should have a caption contest.
I still put them in the “shoot them now!” category, but I’ve downgraded from “heavy machine gun” to “daisy air rifle”.
Speaking of Daisy air rifle, my local Big5 sporting goods store has a pink one just for the girls. Heh.
Awwww….he thinks he’s people.
Is that Chip or Dale?
Some Pennsylvania folks call them “grinnies”.
Did anyone else totally hate Dale and the way he was always leering after Gadget? She was completely out of his league.
My roommate refers to all of those tiny rodent like things (chipmunks/squirrels/etc) as squinnies. Nutcase.
Our cat calls those cute little critters ‘lunch’
I’ve always considered the chipmunks to be “grinnies” and the longer, more weasely nine-striped ground squirrels to be the “squinnies”.
I’ve always considered chipmunks to be chipmunks, ground squirrels to be ground squirrels, and squirrels to be squirrels.
There’s chipmunks living in some rocks near the stream that runs under my store. Sometimes when I leave my side door open in the Summer, one will come about a foot inside the doorway and stand there squeaking. Pretty cute.
Weird that my dog doesn’t seem to notice or care. When he hears chipmunks in the woods he goes wild trying to find them.
Never heard any of these colloquialisms you refer to. I consider them evidence of too much lead in your respective water systems.
Bait them with a few sunflower seeds. They’ll come right to you.
Or so I’ve heard. Some pansy nature lover must have told me.
Lead in teh water = no lead in teh pencil
We Spudders call them Whistle Pigs.
They are VERY destructive. They dig big burrows and cows fall in them and break their legs.
Farmers will sometimes pay you to shoot them.
How do you pronounce “squirrel”? Skwih-rull? Skwurl?
The latter
dinner
skwurhl
And aren’t “whistle pigs” groundhogs? Quite a bit larger than your average grinnie or squinnie.
Russ is probably right about the Genus/phylum. They (along with gophers) are anathama to me.
Death to All Rodents! *
* With the possible exception of cute lovable Ferrets.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Scotty; but if we kill all the GOLFERS, they’ll lock us up and throw away the key.
Oh wait, you said GOFERS? Well, yeah, we can kill them. We don’t even need a reason.
My older brother has taken out a prairie dog or two in his day, using a high-powered rifle. He took some picutres of their mangled little corpses, and showed them to friends on a trip to Japan. Well apparently prairie dogs are pets in Japan, so my brother was doing the cultural equivalent of showing Michael a pic of a three-legged dog he had tortured to death. That did not go over well.
YOU DIE, GOPHI!!!
Prairie Dogs? This here’s the ticket –
http://tinyurl.com/yss6nn
…can you repeat that?
By the by, Peel is talking about sex again.
It is incumbent upon us to go over there and freak her out.
Grinnies? Never heard that. That is SICK.
I say it more like “skwirrrrrl.” The second syllable becomes an elongated rrrrrrrl sound.