GEICO has the funniest commercials I have ever seen. Whether its the GEICO gecko or the cavemen, they are innovative and out of the box. The latest one has a family that is trying to save money. Instead of a dog, they get a pet Possum!
Charles Johnson is known to have Possum problems, so he probably hate this commercial. The rest of us laugh at how hysterical is it.
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Ick.
It sounds like GEICO still uses that anti-Semite as their voiceover?
And speaking of auto insurance, Flo actually has a counterpart Down Under!
Hell, Kitty can even save the whales!
gawd, I hope nobody tries this at home. Have you ever seen the TEETH on those things? YIKES!!
@ eaglesoars:
They are very vicious.
Hey Possum! Where you be! 8)
No they’re not. They’re skittish as hell, all show. We’ve had several possums here before.
@ Macker:
WE ARE ALL POSSUM.
@ Bunk X:
ALL YOUR POSSUM ARE BELONG TO US
@ Bunk X:
Like Spartacus? 8)
@ Bunk X:
Charles has nightmares of Possums taking his strawberries!
@ Bunk X:
I laughed at this commercial.
I had a friend who was driving home with his girlfriend late at night and they came across a possum in the road (dead) and a living one standing over it. They stopped with the possums framed in the head lights. The girlfriend cried how it was mourning its mate. At that moment the living possum leaned down and ripped a chunk of flesh out of the dead one, tilted back its head, and swallowed it crocodile style. The boyfriend dryly replied, “yeah, it is really torn up over it.”
They broke up shortly thereafter.
eaglesoars wrote:
We used to feed our Golden Retriever on the deck in
the Summer. The bowls attracted a possum.
I told my wife that we needed to stop,because these
are not nice critters.
She thought that it was sooooooo cute.
One night two possums went to war over the bowls, screaming
and gnashing teeth.
Buddy the dog dined inside after that.
Posssum are vicious when cornered. One summer my parents were keeping my border collie, Tramp, and my cousin’s terrier, Corey. My parents made the mistake of leaving them out at night and one morning they found a shredded possum in the garage shed. I absolutely freaked when my Mom told me. Both dogs could have been killed. At least it made them keep the dogs inside -- or so I thought. Because the dogs were COVERED with fleas, Mom made a bed for them in the shed.
I went back at the end of the summer to pick up Tramp. I pitched an unholy fit and shampooed those dogs with Naptha soap.
Saturday nite about 9 pm Hubby heard this horrid sound outside he thought was some nocturnal predator bird. He tried to mimic the sound for me. Not a bird. We have 4 nocturnal animals: possum, fox, racoon, skunk. Did some audio research -- it was a skunk -- a seriously aggravated skunk.
gulp
@ Rodan:
He relives it every night, and reminded of it every day. How ’bout that Lacerta Adipem Stultus Viridi Johnsonii, eh? I secreted it myself.
@ Macker:
@ RIX:
They’re solitary and territorial, and mess with each other more than with anything else. They scare cats, too.
Found a juvenile one in our garage a couple of years ago. It was going after the catfood. It tried to hide behind the washing machine, but just sat and hissed at me while I got the leather gloves. I picked him up by the scruff, he didn’t bite, but he was surprisingly strong. I set him down in front of the side door and he jumped before I had even released him.
@ Bunk X:
A possum is a tough animal, but pound for pound a
racoon is one bad mofo.
@ eaglesoars:
http://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/possum.jpg
@ EBL:
LMAO.
Had to rewind this commercial last night to show the hubby. It is hilarious.
An aside story, hubby went out to clean out the BBQ pit and fire it up and when he opened it up there was a baby opossum laying on the grill (alive). He had to pick it up with tongs and deposit on the grass. He was a bit freaked out. Mama was no where to be found, but it was mid-afternoon.
How the heck it got into the pit remains a mystery.
Raccoons will eat cat food noisily. When I yell and wave my hands they’re like “Oh, you want us to eat quietly! We can do that”
@ RIX:
Opposable thumbs are awesome. This was a cool show about urban raccoons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1Z06Dxy3M
@ RIX:
The raccoons here would kindly “share” the cat food with BYK (back yard kitty) a stray we “adopted” and gave it an additional two years. It was hilarious to watch them reach out and drag the bowl to themselves when they wanted a bite. The raccoons were not aggressive but the opossum were/are.
I do suspect neighbors are feeding the raccoons.
I moved the cat food at one time in close to my bed which I move near the fireplace during the winter. There is a a dog door I scaled down to a cat door at the back of the house for my feral cat to come and go as she pleased. One night I wake to crunching sounds different than my cat. I roll over to edge and come blue eyes to beady eyes. Just looking. I quietly say “Buddy, this is domestic. You don’t belong here.” If it is possible the skunk got a sheepish look, turned and sauntered out to the back and into the night. There wasn’t a single whiff of skunk odor inside or out. One healthy looking skunk too. Perfect fur. I never examined any skunk that close before
@ Bunk X:
@ Dolphin:
We have a pack of coyotes behind the house, which is the
inspiration fot my avatar.
I will see them some times in the yard. When they corner
a racoon at night the screaming is homeric, the coon is
a fightetr.
If the coyotes get my dog my new avatar will be a dead
coyote.
@ waldensianspirit:
One night my dog got sprayed by a skunk.
Oh man!
@ RIX:
One unhappy dog eh
RIX wrote:
Had a tenant several years ago who had two pet racoons. He claimed they were good critters and there had never been a report of a coon biting a person unless it was rabid.
Don’t know the truth on that, but they are hyper destructive. They would get out of their cage several times a week and because they had no fear of humans would get into the buildings in the neighborhood and tear stuff up.
Possibly my earliest memory is of being scooped out of a sand box by my sister and her running with me under one arm and my nephew under the other. behind us ran the family mutt backward snapping and barking at a coon that was frothing at the mouth. we got into hte house and I watched as that coon climbed the corner of the house. it terified me, and for years my siblings would tease me about raccymoomans. I would have been 18 months at most, that dog died at Christmas right before I turned two.
In all there were three coons that came into the yard that day. My brother shot one, dad impaled one with a pitch fork, and my brother in law nailed the last with another pitch fork.
@ waldensianspirit:
He was miserable & I made a serious mistake.
I put him in his crate & planned to take care of
it in the morning .
Bad idea, you’re supposed to take care of it right away.
Surprisingly Petco said to bring him in.
Problem solved.
@ RIX:
In-laws had a rabbit (appropriately named Thumper) that was acquired from my bil (pet), numerous nights that we stayed there -- the rabbit and a racoon would get into it. The rabbit would scream -- literally and wake mil and myself up. I think the reason Thumper lasted as long as he did was because of our intervention. Near as what we can tell Thumper died of old age at about age 12, which for a rabbit is a very good life.
@ JeremyR:
IMO if raoons were bigger, they would rule the world.
Nasty critters.
@ RIX:
The ones around her think 9-Lives cat food is the stuff to die for…
@ RIX:
Yep. Raccoons and opossums -- can’t even comprehend them on dinosaurs levels.
Night all.
JeremyR wrote:
That’s how they party ,huh?
@ Dolphin:
Good night. Check under vthe bed for racoons.
Sneaky bastards.
@ JeremyR:
Whoa! Scary! Stories of rabies shots in the past were convincing to be extra precautious
Good night all.
possum…it’s what were eating tonight
Five Pound Possum
mawskrat wrote:
Rodan wrote:
Strawberries, hell, he’s really afraid they will get into his Cheetos stash.
The Osprey wrote:
Heard a story about him, seems one day he noticed his member was turning a distinct shade of orange, so he went to the doctor. After an exam and blood work they told him that his symptoms matched no known illness, and his blood work was negative for poisons, so they speculated it might be work related and asked what he did.
he told them, “Oh, I don’t have a job, I sit home all day on the internet and eat Cheeto’s.”
@ RIX:
Living in the stix has its benefits.
There is a couple that often attends the Monroe, WA, auto swap meet who have a pet possum. It seems pretty gentle and placid, and will allow strangers to pet it.
The woman told me that she gets them by finding a road-killed mama possum on the highway. If mama was freshly-killed, and had babies in her pouch, one or more of the babies may still be alive. She would rescue the baby possums, and bottle-feed them and accustom them to being handled by humans.
I would regard those pet possums as tamed, not domesticated. They do indeed have a mouth full of needle-like teeth.
I accidentally caught a raccoon a few weeks ago while trying to capture a missing cat of ours. He was PISSED. Thank God the trap has a 2nd door I was able to pop open using a rake.
@ JeremyR:
http://tackyraccoons.com/2009/04/07/urban-hunting/
@ mfhorn:
If you could translate it would be a blue streak of “@#$%^&*@#$%^&*@#$%^&*@#$%^&*”
He let you know in no uncertain terms
@ JeremyR:
“Coon or rabbit. God put them there to eat. When men get hold of animals he blows them up and then he blows up. Fill ‘em so full of chemicals and steroids it ruins the people. It makes them sick. Like the pigs on the farm. They’s 3 months old and weighing 400 pounds. They’s all blowed up. And the chil’ren who eat it, they’s all blowed up. Don’t make no sense.”
@ waldensianspirit:
Supposedly the vaccines aren’t as painful as they used to be, but I don’t wanna find out either.
@ The Osprey:
http://diaryofdaedalus.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/cj-venomous-reptiles.png
@ Bunk X:
What reptilian critters are that small?
@ Bunk X:
That was an image I didn’t need. Ew.
@ JeremyR:
Gus_802 is one. Obdicut is another. Jimmah & Asswhistle. There are many others.
@ mfhorn:
It’s my job to share.
@ Bunk X:
Now THAT is frakkin’ SICK.