Critter vs. Varmint
Kirsten
difference between a critter and a varmint?
Best wishes
Kirsten
Love
kir...@dontspamme.com says...
>
>Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
>difference between a critter and a varmint?
Varmints are critters that cause trouble, even if trouble
is defined only as them being unwelcome. One shoots
critters for fun or for food (or perhaps for practice).
One shoots varmints because they are causing trouble or
because one knows they will cause trouble if left unshot.
Whether critter or varmint, one's shooting can lead to
the discovery of bubbling crude just as easily.
--
Love
May Shai-Hulud clear the path before you.
john kahila
Critters can be pretty much any animals AFAIK, although I would
hesitate to describe something really large or really small that way.
Can be mildly pejorative (gophers) or affectionate (house pets).
Varmints (corruption of "vermin", I think) are usually critters that
are regarded as pests, e.g. rats; but the word is sometimes applied
figuratively to people (at least by Yosemite Sam). Almost always
strongly pejorative, although I have heard it used affectionately on
rare occasions.
jtk
john kahila
recent messages before posting a delayed reply ...
jtk
Hidden Draggin
(I have not read other responses)
Basically, critter is a term for any living
creature
Varmint has an actual definition and refers to
animals which are nuisances or carry disease.
Therefore, all varmints are critters but not all
critters are varmints.
Now of course, in regular usage, varmints
refer to small barely edible creatures such as
squirrels which may be dispatched with a gun
that fires a varmint round like a 22LR.
If you are Yosemite Sam, varmints and critters
are anything or anybody you might be referring
to or addressing in an offhand contemptuous manner.
There are slang uses. I might even tell a lady:
You are the prettiest critter I have ever seen.
She might reply: Backoff you varmint!
If she swishes her petticoats when I say that,
it is an indication that she is ready for coitus.
Admittedly, in my condition I might interpret
respiration or even lacking that, a warmth
higher than room temperature as ready for coitus.
Lacking that, if she don't smell bad or start to
fall apart, she's good to go!
(I am in a whimsical mood)
--
Hidden Draggin - Gilbert Hansford
Don't join dangerous cults, practice safe sects!
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Hidden Draggin
Extra points for mentioning Yosemite Sam
(as I did)
Lee Rudolph
>Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
>difference between a critter and a varmint?
Just as a weed is a plant where you don't want it, a varmint is a
critter where you don't want it.
We are all God's critters.
Lee Rudolph (but only some of us are God's varmints)
Willyboy
> Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
> difference between a critter and a varmint?
>
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john kahila
> john kahila wrote:
> >
> > Oops, Love answered first. That's what I get for not downloading
> > recent messages before posting a delayed reply ...
>
> (as I did)
In case someone out there is wondering what we're talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFnuScfizc
jtk
daletx
Déjà Flu
Bill Staines is satan - ask anybody in Oklahoma.
Nobody in Particular
> Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
> difference between a critter and a varmint?
Same as between a plant and a weed.
Déjà Flu
Best yet, Wm.
Love
daletx
I did not know that. Por que why?
DT
Kirruth
Heh, well, I got my answer and more! Speaking personally, I don't even
know if I actually have any petticoats to swish.
Best wishes
Kirsten
Kirruth
> In article <DdWdnf9mUqgKPRbXnZ2dnUVZ8o__f...@giganews.com>,
> kirs...@dontspamme.com says...
I think the reason for shooting could be used for, say, people too.
I don't think I could shoot critters for fun.
Best wishes
Kirsten
Wilson
Aha! Another individual out there who obviously has the theme song to
'The Beverly Hillbillies" burned into his mind. Why did they do that to
us?
--
Wilson
Kitty P
"Kirruth" <kir...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Come visit and I'll take you to the weekly square dance where we can wear
swishy petticoats without being suspect of....well...being mentally ill.
Kitty
Wilson
Just in case you don't remember it ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkOGM6gHvao&feature=related
--
Wilson
Love
kir...@hotmail.com says...
>
>On 19 Aug, 09:00, pho...@address.for.spam (Love) wrote:
>> In article <DdWdnf9mUqgKPRbXnZ2dnUVZ8o__f...@giganews.com>,
>> kirs...@dontspamme.com says...
>>
>>
>>
>> >Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
>> >difference between a critter and a varmint?
>>
>> Varmints are critters that cause trouble, even if trouble
>> critters for fun or for food (or perhaps for practice).
>> One shoots varmints because they are causing trouble or
>> because one knows they will cause trouble if left unshot.
>>
>> Whether critter or varmint, one's shooting can lead to
>> the discovery of bubbling crude just as easily.
>>
>
>
>I don't think I could shoot critters for fun.
Me either, but as long as I'm shootin' 'em I
might as well have me some fun.
Love
says...
I suspect it was part of MKULTRA mind control experiments.
I have a musician friend who rewrote the lyrics to a
"Deep Space Nine" theme. "Bubblin' crude" turned into
"bubblin' white", etc..
Love
One of my teachers in middle school was an old-timer
who thought children should learn to dance in traditional
forms and one of the forms he taught us was square
dancing. I've only ever been to one square dance outside
of that class and I have to admit it is entertaining.
Count me in for some allemande left and do-si-do action
too. I'll do without the petticoats.
Love
Nobody in Particular
zenworm
> >> kirs...@dontspamme.com says...
>
> - Show quoted text -
that is a great tune - TY
ZN
Keynes
wrote:
>Wilson wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxFwH39FDs
Nobody in Particular
Never heard that before, never watched the show.
And a song rarely burns itself into the mind the first time it's heard.
john kahila
Nobody in Particular
Yeah, that's one too, but it doesn't stick quite as much as that
%#(^#@&#&^!! small world.
Love
zenworm
> john kahila wrote:
> > Nobody in Particular wrote:
> >> Keynes wrote:
> >>> Nobody in Particular <nob...@invalid.com> wrote:
> >>>> Wilson wrote:
> >>>>> Love wrote:
>
> >>>>>>> Something has been bothering me for a little while. What is the
> >>>>>>> difference between a critter and a varmint?
>
> >>>>>> Varmints are critters that cause trouble, even if trouble
> >>>>>> is defined only as them being unwelcome. One shoots
> >>>>>> critters for fun or for food (or perhaps for practice).
> >>>>>> One shoots varmints because they are causing trouble or
> >>>>>> because one knows they will cause trouble if left unshot.
>
> >>>>>> Whether critter or varmint, one's shooting can lead to
> >>>>>> the discovery of bubbling crude just as easily.
>
> >>>>> Aha! Another individual out there who obviously has the theme
> >>>>> song to 'The Beverly Hillbillies" burned into his mind. Why did
> >>>>> they do that to us?
>
> >>>> Want to replace that in your mind?
> >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWFU2L-4D3s
>
> >>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxFwH39FDs
>
> >> Never heard that before, never watched the show.
> >> And a song rarely burns itself into the mind the first time it's
> >> heard.
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNtNlnN4O-s
>
> Yeah, that's one too, but it doesn't stick quite as much as that
> %#(^#@&#&^!! small world.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWFU2L-4D3s
you mean you do NOT like 'it's a small world'???
...not even the german part??
ZN
Lee Rudolph
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMWFU2L-4D3s
>
>you mean you do NOT like 'it's a small world'???
>
>...not even the german part??
"Dass ist meine Reich, dass ist deine Reich,
ist ein grosse Reich, nicht ein kleine Reich,
ueber alles das Reich, tausendjaeriche Reich,
deutsche Reich, Reich, Reich!"?
Lee Rudolph
Kitty P
"Love" <pho...@address.for.spam> wrote in message
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> May Shai-Hulud clear the path before you.
Oh yes - A petticoat would really ruin the symmetry of a kilt. You would be
most welcome and your kilts would be a hit here! Like I said
Northewesterners love em but it's so windy sometimes that wearing a skirt in
an outside public place can sometimes be daunting.
Kitty
>
>
> --
>
Wilson
As near as I can tell the Theme to the Beverly Hillbillies resides in a
place in my mind that nothing can replace. Nested with multiple
recursive protections, it is apparently uneraseable. MK Ultra has
nothing on Jed Clampett.
When I'm 90 years old (if I get that far) and I'm sitting there drooling
on myself (if I'm up for the physical activity), I will have that song
on instant recall, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until the day I die.
"Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief, & despair are dukkha; association with the unbeloved is
dukkha; separation from the loved is dukkha; not getting what is wanted
is dukkha, and that theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies is most
definitely dukkha."
--
Wilson
zenworm
you seem to be all "Reich"ed up about this
ZN
Pete Watters
Decidedly FAQ-worthy!
daletx
Oh, that's wonderful!
DT
Nobody in Particular
It's a mind virus.
Déjà Flu
uh oh... you just switched on Sandy's anti-meme meme.
Nobody in Particular
Is that from "Hogan's heroes?", written by
someone with only the slightest exposure to
the German language.
The German word for such writing is
"Kauderwelsch"
Nobody in Particular
Déjà Flu
That's not new. Dennett, Blackmore et al have been at it
for years and there certainly isn't any "new science"
about it yet. Now Sue's got this teme (technology meme,
so to speak) thing going as a "third replicator" and we're
arguing about it. As usual, it's a question of evidence
and Occam's razor. There's no reason to propose an R3 when
a simple subset of R2 will do the job and no good evidence
that R3 is independent of R2 at all.
Lee Rudolph
You are invited--nay, encouraged--to fit an _echt deutsch_
replacement for the present _ersatz_ placeholder, while
maintaining the rhyme scheme of "It's a small, small world"
and if possible making fun of Krauts.
Lee Rudolph
Déjà Flu
shit.
I placed the tune as the "Howdy Doody" theme...
zenworm
can you sing that song without feeling hopeful?
ZN
Nobody in Particular
I'm not a poet.
And I noet.
Nobody in Particular
Can't get over the syrupy stickiness.
Lee Rudolph
john kahila
Verily. If a tune is going to take over one's head, one should at
least try to find a good version of it. ;-)
I knew something fundamental had changed when I found myself humming
the Sesame Street theme while walking down the street one day. In the
days of better living through chemistry, it had usually been Leonard
Cohen's "Dress Rehearsal Rag".
jtk
Keynes
wrote:
You can't enter the kingdom of heaven
until without shame you can poop your diaper.
Just sayin'.
Nobody in Particular
Not the same.
Love
I find wind quite entertaining. What's the worst that
could happen, my skirt blowing up? [puts finger in
mouth, makes popping sound, makes circles in air with
same finger] Really, you gals worry too much. :)
--
Love
says...
>
>Nobody in Particular wrote:
But what about R2D2 and C3PO?
Kitty P
"Love" <pho...@address.for.spam> wrote in message
For some of us it is out of kindness to the eyes of others.
snort
daletx
You'll like this, then. Every day when I come into the parking garage,
I see the sign that says, "Closing Time 11:00PM". My brain immediately
starts going, "Oh, the women tear their blouses off, and the men they
dance on the polka dots..."
DT
(for the uninitiated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0BdtZr2_M )