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2014-05-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 "Goodnight, Ladies" rang over the plain
(a wambenger was feeling no pain).
"Though I still have a yen,
I shall not come again,
For a [ahem] has torn me in twain!"

Some who are soft and suggestible
May find feline cruelty detestable.
The flying phalanger,
That frantic philanderer,
To the cat's just a wind-up comestible.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-08 05:11|| 2014-05-08 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 From Zenobia's link:

The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), also known by its Australian native name tuan,[3] the common wambenger or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. Males of this species do not live past the age of one, as they die after reproducing.

That last bit lends the line an unbearable piquancy... or a sardonic snort, depending on the reader's bent.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-08 09:55|| 2014-05-08 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Bugwit.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-05-08 15:27|| 2014-05-08 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow, I'd have thought the lad would be in Syria by now.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-08 16:37|| 2014-05-08 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow, I'd have thought the lad would be in Syria by now.

Anyone dreaming about my armpit hair and tu3031's bottom wiping skills isn't about to go where he'll miss a few showers, Pappy.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-08 16:59|| 2014-05-08 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, I'd have thought the lad would be in Syria by now.

Nah, his part of The War is lecturing the infidels on The Prophet's Way of Proper Ass Wiping. None of that getting shot at and getting blown up shit for him.
Tough to wipe your ass in the proper way when it's blown off. Which seems to be his main reason for living...

Posted by tu3031 2014-05-08 17:07|| 2014-05-08 17:07|| Front Page Top

#7 If you're butt-hurt from Rantburg abuse
And you'd like to indulge your caboose,
I'd urge you to notice
The opinion of Scotus
And clean up with the neck of a goose.

Wow. I hadn't read that through in, like, decades. Of course, we got TV and memes and stuff, so... Sob.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-08 18:05|| 2014-05-08 18:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Sob.

Which is not to suggest (as the ol' heavy lids belatedly start rattling atop the simmering brainpot) that I'm unappreciative of the Rabelaisian aspect of this place here. Big thanks to all.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-08 18:17|| 2014-05-08 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 *Sigh*
I remember when...we used to get good trolls

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-08 20:22|| 2014-05-08 20:22|| Front Page Top

#10 There is no such thing as a "good troll".

Well, maybe a dead one.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-05-08 21:13|| 2014-05-08 21:13|| Front Page Top

#11 We can but hope, Rob.

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-08 21:46|| 2014-05-08 21:46|| Front Page Top

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