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Wednesday, August 1. 2007

Crow Story

Texas guide for a dove shoot: "Hey fellas, let's shoot some of them crows for warm-up practice."

Sport: "Sure, why not?"

The guide calls the crows into range and the sports shoot some crows.

Guide: "OK, I'll just go pick up them crows to take home, and we'll go find them doves."

Sport: "Pick them up? What for?"

Guide: "To cook 'em."

Sport: "Eat a crow? What do they taste like?"

Guide: "Well... tastes kinda like owl."

Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 10:48 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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don't laugh--the only confirmed cannibals (that i know of) in USA were the Karankawa Indians from the Texas gulf coast.
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 12:32 (Reply)
You ever eaten crow, Bird Dog?
#2 Hugo Chavez on 2007-08-01 13:13 (Reply)
Daily, Comrade.
#2.1 BD on 2007-08-01 13:26 (Reply)
Mmm. Always remember to flip the bird when you are cooking it, comes out better that way.
#2.1.1 Hugo Chavez on 2007-08-01 13:30 (Reply)
Hugo, you're great at flipping the bird. Be sure and have your taster check it out before you tuck in tho, ha ha ho ho.
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 14:00 (Reply)
Dust of Snow
by Robert Frost

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Addendum to Dust of Snow
by Jephnol

When I shot him
He hit the ground
With Hemlock trim
And barely a sound
I saw his friend
Cawing away
At the fields end
Though I let him stay
#4 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-01 15:19 (Reply)
an injured crow
lay in the snow
wing was broken
couldn't go

Took him home
fed him bread
then took aim
and blew off
his head
#5 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 15:36 (Reply)
Good Lord,

This website is spawning poets!

Buddy, we should publish.
#6 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-01 15:41 (Reply)
Jephnol, well, i did once, but the sheriff, judge, and jury were all very very critical of my effort.
#7 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 17:26 (Reply)
Actually, your 15:36 was very well done. Made us sad.
#8 sheriff, judge and jury on 2007-08-01 17:44 (Reply)
Jokining aside, that would be the thing to do with a broken wing wild bird. Put it out of its misery, that's about it.
#9 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 18:12 (Reply)
Here's something cheerier about animals and eating. A friend's Egyptian mau kittens just ate a wheel of her best brie and have survived. Thus far. She's kinda unhappy.

Buddy, it's easy to get lost as to who is who in poetic allegory, but nature's not Bambi-kind, is it? Neither are we, sometimes. Really sorry about that critter having to be put out of its misery. I've always erred on the side of trying to heal things, but some things are difficult to mend if they don't want to be.
#10 sheriff, judge and nurse on 2007-08-01 18:25 (Reply)
Anyway, I clearly see I need to go. And street labor's come by begging for a job. Must go out and work with him, since he looks a little drug-addled. Bye, the best, and good luck.
#11 sheriff, judge and erstwhile whipping girl on 2007-08-01 19:05 (Reply)
Turn on Fox news--a bridge has just fallen into the Mississippi. I'm watching now--it just happened--what in the....
#12 buddy larsen on 2007-08-01 20:01 (Reply)

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