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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    01/21/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    last year, my sister's french exchange student came to America and was SHOCKED to see our gray and black Chicago squirrels. She had no idea what they were.
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    Image of alawrites alawrites
    01/21/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    uh, am I the only one who realizes that this is just a spin off of the colbert report discussing squirrels a week or two ago?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/21/09

    @alawrites:


    You've been memerized!


    No, see it started at a financial blog as a bit of dark humour when people began to trade squirrel recipes. Then it migrated to Gawker, then the comedy central people ran with it then Gawker fried up some more squirrel posts then Colbert. I think you might find that one of the bloggers here has a google alert set for "squirrel" and is notified each time a story pops up.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Leave my dusky squirrelly friend alone.
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    Image of Nesbiteme Nesbiteme
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    After nearly 25 years of studying the "Black Squirrel," I must say that there are no real black squirrels or grey squirrels. Both black and grey-pigmented squirrels that you might see in our Central Park, for example, are simply just color variations of the common grey squirrel, or "sciurus carolinensis." In North America the grey variation has the upper paw over its black-pigmented neighbor, as it is more adaptable and able to eat a variety of foods, from pizza crusts and acorns to peanuts and white bread.


    The black variation, however, will only eat acorns or near-acorn substitutes. As an interesting experiment that we in NYC can all try, bring a handful of peanuts and a handful of hazelnuts to the Central Park West area of Central Park. There you will find both grey and black variations of our sciurus carolinensis. Offer the grey variation both types of nuts, and it will gladly eat either, as well as any other non-meat food such as gum, Twinkies, etc. Offer the black variation the same choice, and it will only take the hazelnuts. Here, then, our black variation is much less hardy and more fragile and often confined to a few isolated areas where acorns are plentiful. As for the British, and their problems with the black variation of sciurus carolinensis, well ,fuck the British. They are all cross-dressing toffee-nosed pansies who got us and the rest of the world into this freaking credit crisis. I hope they are all replaced by our "Black Squirrel".

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/20/09

    @Nesbiteme:


    "...who got us and the rest of the world into this freaking credit crisis."


    Explain please.

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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    01/20/09

    @Nesbiteme: I've tried that experiment with vagrants and ne'er-do-wells. Much more fun than pesky squirrels.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    01/21/09

    @Nesbiteme:


    Sciencey!


    But as of yesterday's Inaugural Address, curiosity is back in style, so keep bustin'.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/21/09

    @Nesbiteme: So you're a naturalist or biologist of some kind, but never got the memo that under the (modified) Linnaean taxonomic system, the generic epithet is to be capitalized?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    01/21/09

    @Hydroceph:


    Does capitalizing the generic epithet, does that mean I have to write "[Insert name here] is an Asshole"?

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Just wait til the africanized killer squirrels begin to swarm!
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/21/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: i'd actually pay to see that.
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    Image of SW-2 SW-2
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Some of my best squirrel friends are black, and they're nothing like this.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    01/20/09

    @SW-2: I know, right? My black squirrel friends at least act ginger in public.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Nuts!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    ...but even among the black squirrels there is huge variation...


    ...some have big balls.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    01/21/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:


    They certainly do to take over some other squirrels' country.

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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Ha ha, the Daily Mail refuses to put a byline to this story because they see how idiotic it is! Squirrelly Britons, wot with their hoity-toity Eur'pean accents!
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    Image of gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    So once the greys go black, they never go back?
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Why are they doing genetic testing on squirrels? Is there no other issue more pressing?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/21/09

    @lilbobbytables: I work at a public university in a certain unnamed but very large western state, and they're caging the little critters, sterilizing them, and then letting them go. Why, you ask? Because they're outbreeding the native squirrels. Like squirrels are the only exotic species outcompeting the native equivalent. They're not even economically significant (sorry, katastic).
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    A)What the fudge is a 'European accent'?


    B) If the brother squirrels are fitter, faster and smoother w/the ladysquirrels, it stands to reason that they're tastier, or at least better for you than their slow, fat, socially retarded cousins the Gingers.


    C) Big, black squirrel genitalia not mentioned. WTF?

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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    Oo, I have read about this, and it's a shame. Pushy American squirrels squeezing out the courtly, gentlemanly Ginger Squirrels. There's animal societies in the UK dedicated to recovering all the red squirrels' dropped monocles and exquisite tiny tea-sets. A pity, actually.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    01/20/09

    @Baroness: I am sorry, but squirrels with monocles and tea sets is simply the most adorable mental image. With little top hats and spats!!
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    01/20/09

    @lilbobbytables: Lol, it is adorable. But the Victorians actually used to taxidermy squirrels in just that way, posing them in domestic drawing-room scenes in diorama. I saw one antique in the French Quarter of New Orleans years ago and never forgotten it. And yes, spats were involved!
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    01/21/09

    @Baroness: oh dear, now I feel like a terrible person. Let the dead squirrels be, Queen Victoria!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/20/09

    In reply to American Blacks Blamed For British Squirrel Genocide
    The only thing worse than the Gingers are the Squirrel Gingers.
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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    01/14/09

    In reply to Amusing Folks Now Eating Raccoon!
    Genuine Kentucky free-range raccoons--or "night sheep"--can be purchased by calling or emailing Senator Mitch McConnell at (502)-458-8400 or contact@teammitch.com. Go team Mitch!
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