For My North American Citizens: DEAD SKUNK

by RAYZORBLADE 10 Replies latest social entertainment

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  RAYZORBLADE

  Whew!

  You can tell you live in North America.

  The lovely, cute and so-called skunk, when it encounters the automobile: WHEW

  My fellow Americans and Canadians: you know full well the smell of a dead skunk.

  We'll leave you with the lyrics of Loudon Wainwright III.

  Crossing the highway late last night
  He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
  He didn't see the station wagon car
  The skunk got squashed and, there you are:

  You got your
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Stinking to high heaven

  Take it from me, that ain't no rose
  Roll up the window and hold your nose
  You don't have to look and you don't have to see
  You can feel it in your olfactory

  You got your
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Stinking to high heaven

  (Now STINK!)

  Well you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
  On a moonlight night you got your dead toad frog
  You got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
  Aw, the blood and the guts are gonna make you swoon

  You got your
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Dead skunk in the middle of the road
  Stinking to high heaven

  (All OVER the road!)

  - Loudon Wainwright III

  T'is the season of our favourite scented North American mammal.
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  Scully

  Hey Ray!!

  That's an old favorite song for the long ride up to the campground.

  For anyone who's never heard it, here's a link (requires RealPlayer to work)

  Dead Skunk

  Enjoy!

  Love, Scully
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  Nosferatu

  Believe it or not, I grew up with this song. I found it when I was about 7 years old, and I bought an 8-track at a second hand store that someone recorded on.
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  bull01lay

  I got my first whiff of a skunk when I was in Dallas last November - PHEW!!!!

  I thought I had it bad dealing with my brother in laws smelly farts.........
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  ohiocowboy

  Strangely enough, after it has been scraped from the road, and then braised with butter and garlic, it seems to lose it's smell, and does not leave you with" Skunk Breath"......

  Yes, that was a joke!!! (I always omit the butter as it is too fattening)
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  xjw_b12

  Ha Ha That is too funny. Skunks are brazen creatures as well. At one campground we frequent regularly, they will come out at night and actually waddle right underneath your lawn chairs, while you're sitting there, scrounging for snack scraps. We've learned to move very slowly, when they do that, but you can shout at them and throw pebbles at them to "shoo" them away. But they are usually in no hurry to leave, and take their own sweet time, until they move to the next campsite.

  Oh. And we make sure we put the dogs inside the trailer. They never seem to learn that that white striped "Pepe LePeu" dosen't want to play.
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  pamkw

  My sister's car was the next one in line after a skunk got squashed just a week or so ago. when I called my son, the first thing he told me about is how awful the car smells. that is one thing I do not miss leaving Kansas, skunks and tornados. Alaska is getting better and better all the time. Pam
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  Stefanie

  I got my first whiff of a skunk when I was in Dallas last November - PHEW!!!!

  I thought I had it bad dealing with my brother in laws smelly farts.........

  lol

  I once passed a run over skunk on the road and the smell stayed in my car for two days!
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  Special K

  Hey Scully

  thanks for the link to the song. I never heard that one for a long time. lol

  Special K
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  Thirdson

  It took me 5 years to figure out that the occasional nasty smell that wafted into the car was roadkill skunk.

  3rd