On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:05:41 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> At 08:32 PM 6/19/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote: 
> 
> >(hmm, we could concoct some, pitch a book to a regional 
> publisher......)
> 
> Maybe the same publisher that put out FLATTENED FAUNA: A Field Guide 
> to
> Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways, by Roger M. Knutson. 

You know, I thumbed through that once.
What was saddest of all? I recognized the critters without the captions.
Too many years on country roads, I suppose....

>  He
> must have overdosed on field guides and then came up with this.  
> It's
> hilarious!  It was published by 10 Speed Press.  Oh, my -- if you 
> come  across it, buy it.  It's freakin' hilarious!

=g=

Have you seen the one with smashed fairies? Taking that theme to an ever
grosser extreme....


> > we see one, we sing "Squished dillo, squished dillo, squished 
> dillo" 
> > (to the tune of "Tit Willow").
> > 
> > We sing it a lot.
> > 
> > Veloci--and then there's your dead skunk in the middle of the 
> > road--raptor
> 
> >I've been known to filk that one to armadillos on occasion -- 
> 
> It's such a natural.

fer sure

> >the thing about not quite remembering the words to things, when I 
> was 
> >singing lullabyes to Reid when he was wee and up in the wee hours, 
> 
> >I made 'em up as I went. A =cough= skill that stayed on.
>  
> 
> 
> >This one, however, I think I set to my own music ... but since I 
> don't
> write music, it's lost.
> >I'm sure you'll think of something:
> 
> >I thought the natural state of the armadillo is dead on the side of 
> the 
> >road. Russ Jernigan Oct 02
> 
> It certainly does seem that way.
> 
> >Song of FM 620 on a Spring Afternoon:
> 
> >Dead Armadillo
> >            your footies in the air
> >
> >Dead Armadillo
> >            too late to even care
> >
> >Dead Armadillo
> >            (good Lord! you have no hair!)
> >
> >Dead Armadillo
> >            just a layin' there.
> >
> >Dead Armadillo
> >           Why did you take that dare?
> >
> >                                                BarbJ 5 Apr 2003
> 
> 
> Oh, that's good.  Heeheehee.

=curtsey=
> 
> Veloci--flattened fauna all over the place--raptor

oh yeah....
though you wonder some times -- a SEAgull?????? tygress

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