raw bacon does too. And it'll REALLY works on possums!

Dan'l Boone was a maaaaaan -yes a biiiiiiig man! But a bear was bigger 'n so he ran like a nigger up a tree...

I remember that little racist ditty rip off of the Daniel Boone theme song from 6th grade.

Here is Davey Crocketts Song. He wears a coon skin hat alright, but Daniel's song is way better.

Sorry for the little hijack Kingbee.

That is some title, pretty creative - made me look!

DrJBHL is an idiot.

Ah heck, that ain't very nice.

I heard that Mr. Crockett kilt him a b'ar when he was only three.   

not to worry.  ask me, it's at or right near the top of a list of "shamelessly mendacious faux folk ballad disney theme songs responsible for doing more damage to  babyboomers' minds than all the drugs ever used in human history".  disney's "davy crockett" triptych combined with "ol yeller" transformed an entire generation into volatile manchurian candidates.

(i have no idea why there'd be a 1955 ny times film review of the crockett trilogy online, but if you think i'm blowing this outta proportion, check it out yourselves here .)

not only that, look what he done to poor ol georgie russell when davy so selfishly died at the alamo; in less than a decade, after wandering around aimlessly for a few years, george reinvented himself as jed clampett, discovered oil and moved to beverly.  

hills that is.

possums go nuts for mushy bananas. 

why waste bacon when you can as easily use cats, small dogs and, for that matter, pets of all sorts, possibly even very young children to attract racoons. i recently met a guy whose alligator snapping turtle had been killed by coons.

jeez.

i hadn't imagined, much less anticipated, having that word appear on my blog. so i was taken aback (to say the least) and dismayed to see it here. i wasn't sure how to deal with it when i first came across your reply friday night nor any time to do so in any event. 

i am so adamantly opposed to deleting replies.  i've only had it happen to me a few times and i've never again replied or contributed to posts by those who did it to me--with one exception, although i'm not sure lucas counts as a real person.

so there i was til ms lw chimed in with:

and the first thing that came to mind was jimmy durante's complaint bout 'everybody's tryin to get inta da act"

you ain't lyin.

then again, i guess i brought it on myself.

there were two reasons i couldn't restrain myself when i ran across the times article on friday. 

one of those requires explanation by way of narrative and i planned to provide that here maybe tuesday or wednesday this week when i should have more time.

the other was, of course, you.  

if there's any sorta constant in my life, it's my fascination with not leaving well enough alone.