The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
No. 29 pale watery dun question.
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JohnMD1022
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Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Being a native Virginian, I call them possums.
The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
"One of those harmless misfits you see in fishing who do no appreciable damage to the world at large and in the end have only cost themselves the normal life that they never wanted anyway."
No Shortage of Good Days by John Gierach
No Shortage of Good Days by John Gierach
!Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
We talk funny?! Growing up on the Canadian border just below Fort Kent, as kids we thought that the Mason/Dixon line was route 2 from Bangor across to Burlington, Vermont; and everybody below that line was unintelligible.JohnMD1022 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:18 pm Being a native Virginian, I call them possums.
The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.
Interestingly enough, the Acadian French word for Opossum is ..., Opossum. I'm not French so I say 'Possum'. My drunken Irish ancestors would have called it 'Apasam', which, when sounded out colloquially, comes out: Oh, look, 'A Possum'!
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JohnMD1022
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Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Yes, y’all talk funny.
"One of those harmless misfits you see in fishing who do no appreciable damage to the world at large and in the end have only cost themselves the normal life that they never wanted anyway."
No Shortage of Good Days by John Gierach
No Shortage of Good Days by John Gierach
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
...ayuh.