[Sca-cooks] momentary lapse of judgement

[Laura C. Minnick]

I just have to say it-

AAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!!!

Those @@#%^$*&@ buck-toothed barkchewers! Just wait till next year!!!

(Oregon 21, Oregon State, 50. *SOB!*)

Obligatory period content-

According to the bestiaries, (particularly the _Physiologus_ and Isidore of 
Seville) the beaver is in some places considered to be a kind of fish, 
allowing those who choose to be so silly the option of eating beaver during 
lent (God, if Puck were here, what would he say to that?). They were also 
valued for their smooth, rich fur. But the most interesting thing about 
them, that recurs in text after text, is the explanation of what happens 
when they are being chased by a hunter. Beavers are hunted for their 
testes- so the beaver will stop and *bite them off* and leave them for the 
hunter (the pictures are pretty funny- sometimes of the beaver biting, 
sometimes of him running away, leaving a little pair behind him on the 
ground). If the beaver is chased again, after already having divested 
himself of the important parts, the beaver will stop, turn, and lift a hind 
leg and tail to show the hunter that he no longer has what is he is being 
hunted for!

Nothing on what happens when a Duck meets a Beaver though... ;-)

'Lainie
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The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be 
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