On 8/17/2008 4:42 PM Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply spake thus:

Smitty Two wrote:

Raccoons are tame as can be until they're threatened, and then they're
more vicious than a New Orleans cop. I've shooed whole families of them
out of the house with no problems, but I would never, ever try to snare
one.

I wouldn't call them tame. I just would not call them dangerous,
although my chickens would beg to disagree.

All I know is that I'd never tangle with a raccoon.


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"In 1964 Barry Goldwater declared: 'Elect me president, and I
will bomb the cities of Vietnam, defoliate the jungles, herd the
population into concentration camps and turn the country into a
wasteland.' But Lyndon Johnson said: 'No! No! No! Don't you dare do
that. Let ME do it.'"

- Characterization (paraphrased) of the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson
presidential race by Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost
Authority".