This is not my photo, but a circulating one. Persons unknown, perhaps foreign students, have apparently failed to correctly identify the species Trichosurus vulpecula.
In my neighbourhood you don't mess with these characters. You call in an expert with a long pole and heavy-duty gloves.
In my neighbourhood you don't mess with these characters. You call in an expert with a long pole and heavy-duty gloves.
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posted by Eddie Campbell at
00:01
7 Comments:
The phone number is the 'talking clock' number. Students, but probably not foreign.
ha! I didn't think to check it while I fondled the word 'apparently'. An excellent jape.
I tangled with one of those buggers in Uni, when it got trapped in our Res. Never again.
A replacement copy of Snooter which I ordered from the UK arrived today. I've been looking through it again... it's a bit odd, me being the same age now as you are in the book... I might write a bit about it in my blog at some stage soon.
Are these creatures dangerous that you need and expert to get rid of them? Or just plain stubborn (like a cat, really)?
Good prank.
I'm glad it was a prank - the idea of unsupecting students at close quarters with a wild possum doesn't bear thinking about.
Tonia
Clever boys.
Well, I believe I've tracked down the culprit, and as I suspected it's someone I know...
Ah, the joy.
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