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#124089 - 02/28/04 11:40 AM What am I to do?
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	Sudden time on my hands and worried on a long-ago triv, I went and I looked and I verifized: Sammy Lerner is indeed the author of all three verses of "Popeye the Sailor Man" and "Falling in Love Again." He demised in the same year as the German Democratic Republic. No causal relationship has been established. http://www.harrynilsson.com/misc-1736-15063.html
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#124090 - 02/28/04 12:08 PM Re: What am I to do?
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear IP: I never knew the author of "Is it true what they say about Dixie". But one line from it did not sound authentic "Do they keep eating possum till they cain't eat no more". I doubt very much that possum can be a delicacy even to the reddest of rednecks.
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#124091 - 02/28/04 01:11 PM Dead on my plate
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	"Do they keep eating possum till they cain't eat no more" It depends on what the line rhymes with, wwh. The lyricist may have put his professional predilections ahead of his culinary predilections. In any case, there is no accounting for some people's taste in food. I've heard of people who travel miles to hunt and eat blackbirds ... which they consider a delicacy. Given a choice, I think I would take the possum. But I would rather see a possum play dead than see one dead on my plate (roasted, grilled or baked).
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#124092 - 02/28/04 01:26 PM Re: Dead on my plate
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	wwh: don't know the song but I wonder if it expresses a lament rather than a predilection.
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#124093 - 02/28/04 01:28 PM Re: Dead on my plate
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	I wonder if it expresses a lament rather than a predilection A person can lament a predilection, especially if it's fattening.
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#124094 - 02/28/04 01:36 PM Re: eat possum
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Is it true what they say about Dixie Does the sun really shine all the time Do the sweet magnolias blossom at everybody's door Do the folks keep eating possum til they can't eat no more Is it true what they say about Swanny Is a dream by the stream so sublime Do they laugh do they love like they say in every song If it's true that's where I belong Is it true what they say about Dixie Does the sun really shine all the time Well do the sweet magnolias blossom at everybody's door Do the folks keep eating that possum til they can't eat no more Is it true what they say about Swanny Is a dream by the stream so sublime Do they laugh love like they say in every song If it's true that's where I belong
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#124095 - 02/28/04 04:11 PM Re: Dead on my plate
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	<<lament[able] predilection[s]>> I've never eaten possum but I think I remember hearing it's pretty awful.
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#124096 - 02/28/04 04:48 PM Re: Dead on my plate
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont	helps if you eat it standing on your head... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#124097 - 02/28/04 06:45 PM Re: Dead on my plate
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	pretty awful. It really is. It doesn't help that here they are major vectors for bovine TB, and that there are nearly twice as many of them as there are sheep. _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#124098 - 02/29/04 03:25 PM Re: Dead on my plate
Capfka Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/28/02 Posts: 1624 Loc: Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok	Old NZ recipe for eating possum: Boil the possum with a large stone for five hours. Throw away the possum. Eat the stone.
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