"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

A trick I hope never to try is to slip a noose over a skunk's head and yank it off the ground, the story being that they can't spray if they can't do their handstand.
 
Dogs would definitely mark the territory up and keep certain things away.

At my old place, the Mrs put Irish spring soap into stockings and hung them off of sticks low to the ground around the garden to repel the critters. I don't know if it works or not... But my little garden was great all except the brussel sprouts that the groundhogs stripped. So it didn't work for the hogs...


On the subject of critters....
I was having a discussion with a buddy recently. My Pap always called chipmunks "grinnies" any of yinz guys ever hear that term? He's the only person I've ever heard call them that. It's supposed to be a regional term but it must be an older one I'm thinking...
 
Maybe if you could put the Irish Spring on the ground, without flavoring the vegs?
I've heard of scattering Irish Spring in storage modules to repel rodents.
 
RickHuf said:
On the subject of critters....
I was having a discussion with a buddy recently. My Pap always called chipmunks "grinnies" any of yinz guys ever hear that term? He's the only person I've ever heard call them that. It's supposed to be a regional term but it must be an older one I'm thinking...
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I never heard that term, but I don't know the differences among chipmunks, gophers, and ground squirrels - I just use those terms interchangeably. :rolleyes:

- GT
 
RickHuf said:
On the subject of critters....
I was having a discussion with a buddy recently. My Pap always called chipmunks "grinnies" any of yinz guys ever hear that term? He's the only person I've ever heard call them that. It's supposed to be a regional term but it must be an older one I'm thinking
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Man, y’all talk funny up-ehr.

I never heard that one, but my younger daughter called them “mee-muk”s when she was little, so that’s what we refer to them as in my house…

I have heard folks refer to groundhogs as whistlepigs.

I had a coworker once who used to always say that old-timers he knew used to talk about eating groundhogs. He always said he heard they were “stringy and greasy”. I always thought he was BSing, until once, when we were particularly busy, we hired a guy from a temp agency to help out in the field. After seeing a groundhog, he told me the story of dinner at his aunt’s house. She served him some sort of stew and asked him what he thought was in it. He told her he didn’t know, and she informed him it was groundhog. He described it to me with the exact terms “stringy and greasy”…
 
screened porch said:
Maybe if you could put the Irish Spring on the ground, without flavoring the vegs?
I've heard of scattering Irish Spring in storage modules to repel rodents.
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I read skunks don’t like oily things like vegetable oil, or citrus. For now I spread some sort of hot-pepper concoction my daughter made a few years ago to repel some other pests (I don’t recall what, exactly).
 
RickHuf said:
On the subject of critters....
I was having a discussion with a buddy recently. My Pap always called chipmunks "grinnies" any of yinz guys ever hear that term? He's the only person I've ever heard call them that. It's supposed to be a regional term but it must be an older one I'm thinking...
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I never heard the term grinnies. I did, however, know you were a Pittsburgher when I saw yinz guys! My mom and dad both grew up around Pittsburgh. I spent a lot of time there as a kid, and still get back there to visit family.
 
Peregrin said:
I never heard the term grinnies. I did, however, know you were a Pittsburgher when I saw yinz guys! My mom and dad both grew up around Pittsburgh. I spent a lot of time there as a kid, and still get back there to visit family.
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All I know about Pittsburgh is that Unitas, Ditka, and Namath came from there, and that the Pirates beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series on the day I was born. (Made the Yankees cry!)
 
Prester John said:
All I know about Pittsburgh is that Unitas, Ditka, and Namath came from there, and that the Pirates beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series on the day I was born. (Made the Yankees cry!)
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I was 10 years old, and lived in Ohio. We were jubilant!
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Ironbut said:
My wife's from just East of Toledo, and her sister & bil still have a large farm there. It's so flat there that if your dog ran away, you could watch him go for two days.
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I was born in Lorain, lived in Zanesville and St. Clairsville (population about 5,000, 15 minutes from Wheeling, WV by car). Then we moved to NY. It'd be tough watching your dog run away for 2 days!
 
Peregrin said:
I was born in Lorain, lived in Zanesville and St. Clairsville (population about 5,000, 15 minutes from Wheeling, WV by car). Then we moved to NY. It'd be tough watching your dog run away for 2 days!
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Our one son bought a house & 8 or 10 acres in the hills between Cambridge & Wheeling a few years ago. There are alot of Amish in his area.
 
Ironbut said:
Our one son bought a house & 8 or 10 acres in the hills between Cambridge & Wheeling a few years ago. There are alot of Amish in his area.
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I remember the Amish from when I lived in that area. Interesting that Cambridge is just about half way between Zanesville and St Clairsville. My dad ran a steel mill in Canton, just north of Cambridge on Rte. 77.
 
Peregrin said:
I was 10 years old, and lived in Ohio. We were jubilant!
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I was -24! People still talk about that and the 1970s football team all of the time.

Sports is a popular thing here for sure. Unfortunately I think I'm one of the only ones around that just never got into it.

One thing that seems to be becoming more popular is soccer. 15 years ago you never heard a word about it. Now there are world cup parties and bars with soccer matches going.
 
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