Thoughts for the day

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Well it was in the late 1950 Filet Mignon craze, Grandaddy got a bunch of the boneless wonders and turned them out in his pasture and hadn;t even got back to the house before the neightbors had called they were starting to get out and were wandering thru peoples yards eating their flowers.

Faced with having to encircle the whole pasture with a chainlink fence he ended up letting the nightbors keep them as pets.

[Lynne]

 

[Lynne]

That's a better story than my Aunt Cereath, who decided to raise minks.  She had a whole chicken house full of minks because she wouldn't kill them (or have them killed) for their fur.  And the minks kept doing what minks will do...I think Uncle Warner eventually put his foot down and sold the whole lot of them...must have been thousands (of minks)..no clue how much $$$$.

I used to love going to Aunt Cereath's house.  She was Grandma Mamie's youngest sister and spoiled rotten by all accounts.  They raised milk goats too, and that's why we'd go - to get goat's milk, which Granny loved.  The whole house reeked of animals and piled up newspapers though.  Pretty sure the goats had the run of the house.

And then there's my Uncle Herman who raised emus...he still has a couple.  For awhile he was convinced that the emu burger would be available through every McDonald's drive thru because of the lower fat and cholesterol.  They were mean and ugly and I'm still not sure how he managed to get rid of most of his stock - probably gave them away.   

[Shakesthecoffecan]

There are some emus around here, I think the people had the same idea as you r uncle Herman. I always thought they reminded me of Dr. Doolittle's Pushmepullyous.

[Lynne]

Having no clue what you were talking about, I had to do research  .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushmepullyou#Pushmi-pullyu

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Having no clue what you were talking about, I had to do research  .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushmepullyou#Pushmi-pullyu

didn't thay take you to see Dr. Doolittle? I loved that movie, with its flating island and everthing.

[Lynne]

didn't thay take you to see Dr. Doolittle? I loved that movie, with its flating island and everthing.

Nope, I was such a depraved deprived child. 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I think you had it right the first time there, Lynne! 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

"Alligators melt in lava."   

--Comment left on a youtube video.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Down in Florida, a python stalked a family's pet dog for a week before swallowing it whole.