Ah, I should have known you covered them in the Book of Beasts.
Joel Send a noteboard - 07/07/2012 11:00:20 AM
It's possible that it might have been an armadillo, though I didn't get the sense that it was alive and moving, whatever it was. It was a big one, if it was, but it certainly made enough clattering beneath me to be something jumping into my undercarriage. I'd still go with the shredded tire theory if pressed, but I wouldn't swear it wasn't an armadillo.
I happen to have written several articles on armadillos of various types, including that one.
http://bookofbeasts.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/nine-banded-armadillo/
I happen to have written several articles on armadillos of various types, including that one.
http://bookofbeasts.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/nine-banded-armadillo/
Well, you know what they say: Everything is bigger in TX.
Freaky little creatures, and I can attest to the jumping. I was driving home from an early night at work about 3AM one time and saw one about 20' in front of me at 50 mph, so I instinctively (and successfully) tried to straddle him with my tires. It worked perfectly, but right as I felt the thump under my butt I remembered that was exactly the wrong thing to do. Apparently no one told that possum I met among the veritable zoo encountered along the way to KS just before leaving the States, because he made me come to a complete stop on a one lane country road (again at 3AM) while he stared motionless at me as if to say, "Look, pal, I was here first."
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Eighteen Days in America, Part 8
- 30/06/2012 05:21:59 AM
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The previous decade or so, chicken places have become notorious for not having chicken.
- 30/06/2012 01:46:07 PM
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And they don't even have the best chicken.
- 30/06/2012 05:03:09 PM
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How can you like Mickey Ds chicken better than Popeyes? 
- 30/06/2012 06:05:17 PM
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You answered your own question (and, , briefly, which is a bit cruel). *NM*
- 01/07/2012 02:41:05 PM
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, briefly, which is a bit cruel). *NM*
- 01/07/2012 02:41:05 PM
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I like Raising Cane's best of the fast food chicken places.
- 01/07/2012 02:46:06 AM
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Never heard of the place. Must be regional.
- 01/07/2012 02:44:45 PM
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Re: Never heard of the place. Must be regional.
- 01/07/2012 08:21:24 PM
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Ah. I understand what you mean, but I don't agree. *NM*
- 02/07/2012 03:49:20 PM
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I somehow missed your Grand Canyon installment (and was waiting for it, too.)
- 30/06/2012 03:54:31 PM
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Hmm.
- 05/07/2012 04:57:49 AM
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Ah, I should have known you covered them in the Book of Beasts.
- 07/07/2012 11:00:20 AM
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"Suddenly, cactuses. Thousands of them."
- 30/06/2012 09:26:39 PM
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Would also have fit in well in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. *NM*
- 01/07/2012 02:46:52 AM
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