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raybin		2005-02-24 03:04:36 AM

Usually I spend more than that on dinner, movie and drinks to trap beaver fur.

/got nothin'

Asciiguy		2005-02-24 06:01:13 AM

"You get $5, $6, $7 for a beaver fur and you spend that trapping it.... but the beaver makes good eatin' though".

GooberMcFly		2005-02-24 10:00:10 AM

splishsplashfark		2005-02-24 11:20:23 AM

Use cat fur. It's cheaper.

xkenny13		2005-02-24 01:52:25 PM

Use cat fur. It's cheaper.

Cat-Fur!? Man, that was one biatchin' 202 xfer program for it's time. :-)

At least it was free...

/Wistful nostalgia

Confabulat		2005-02-24 02:19:02 PM

I can catch a helpless animal,
Skin it with my bare hands.
I wake up muddy,
And I go to bed bloody,
'Cause I'm a trappin' man.

I eat rabbits' heads for breakfast.
Breakfast!
With beaver butt on the side.
The side!
My mind's magnificent and my body no different.
I'm full of trapper pride!

Yo-ho! Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
Rip their fur, cut their skin with my knife.
Yo-ho! Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
One thing's for sure, there's nothing like a trappin' life!

I'm badder than the baddest sailor!
Sailor!
I make love to women 10 feet tall.
Good lord!
I've got a chest of wonder and balls of thunder.
I can break right through a wall.

I love the sound of metal,
Metal!
Snapping on an animal's head.
Ka-chink!
Sometimes they scamper
Sometimes they whimper
But they always end up dead.

The blood of a fresh-cut rodent
Is as sweet as brandy wine.
And the brain of an antelope
Tastes like cantaloupe.
What a yummy life!

Yo-ho! Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
Rip their fur, cut their eyes out with my knife.
Yo-ho! Yo-ho! Yo-ho!

puffy999		2005-02-24 02:19:04 PM

LordVger		2005-02-24 02:19:09 PM

It's sad to see another American tradition die, though. Always change.

portscanner		2005-02-24 02:19:09 PM

wait until she is asleep, the sheer it off.

/Still dont think you will get that much for it.

numberz		2005-02-24 02:20:55 PM

They should make it illegal, that will drive the prices up.

Works for other things...

Hogwasher		2005-02-24 02:21:58 PM

Five bucks is better than getting a funny-coloured blanket.

bdbthinker		2005-02-24 02:22:09 PM

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you like the pelt? Be honest, because some *biatch* stopped me on the way in. "What poor and unfortunate creature had to die for you to wear that?"
[pause]
My Aunt Trudy, I replied. Walked away ladies and gentlemen, walked away!"

- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

aggrazel		2005-02-24 02:22:17 PM

GIS fails me.

Anyone got a pic of the two french-canadian fir trappers from Kids in the Hall?

AlienOmega		2005-02-24 02:23:35 PM

It's the twenty first century? Damn, I need to update my calender....

</hoping my computer is Y2K ready>

Mr. Clarence Butterworth		2005-02-24 02:23:37 PM

Most beaver pelt trappers don't use leg traps because they mangle the pelt, dipshiats.

Way back when American Indians wanted supplies from the white man, beaver pelts commanded the most because top hats were very popular in Europe in the 19th century. If you wanted something like a rifle, you had to stack beaver pelts as high as the rifle, stood on end.

In order to maximize profits, traders would sell "trading rifles" which were made 2-3 feet longer than standard rifles of the time.

colossus42069		2005-02-24 02:25:48 PM

Just Ignorant, is that in E flat minor, or F sharp major?

Shrugging Atlas		2005-02-24 02:26:09 PM

Getting $7 for something that grows back pretty quickly isn't all that bad a deal.

Now I know why so many porn stars go bare down there. That is a nice way to supplement their income, and perhaps delays the inevitable need to do DVDA while taking 4 internal money shots to hang onto their fame and appeal to the fickle porn audiences.

/didn't rtfa

Rev. Skarekroe		2005-02-24 02:26:17 PM

Shed a tear for me, folks. Shed a tear for ol' Firecracker McGregor.

Flavor40		2005-02-24 02:26:28 PM

speaking of random pictures (??) I sure could use a photoshopped picture of a cocker spaniel smoking a cigarette. it's for the purchase of school, i promise.

/i need an A
//i need a picture of a cocker spaniel smoking a cigarette
///i'll settle for a B

Mugato		2005-02-24 02:28:10 PM

Lt. Frank Drebin: "Nice beaver."
Elvis' widow: "Thanks, I just had it stuffed."

EnormousJuan		2005-02-24 02:29:47 PM

They should make coats out of the poor dogs and cats that end up at the shelter and have to be put down.

Renewable resource!

some_wild-eyed_8-foot_tall_maniac		2005-02-24 02:30:15 PM

numberz

Amen.

Son of Thunder		2005-02-24 02:30:43 PM

He should relocate to Alaska

BadAndy23		2005-02-24 02:30:51 PM

Solid State Vittles		2005-02-24 02:32:19 PM

Lest I get accused of threadjacking, we are talking about beaver, no? The personals girl should be getting TRACI LORDS, right? Is it actually her?

Also can't believe there hasn't been a Jerry Mathers reference yet. You guys are disappointing me.

gitsh01		2005-02-24 02:36:28 PM

Bravo, bdbthinker, Bravo.

Best. Musical. Ever.

mekkab		2005-02-24 02:37:04 PM

Solid State Vittles- you got it! she looks much more like traci lords...

Good work BadAndy, all I could get was the Transcript of the Kids in the hall episode.

ickyelf		2005-02-24 02:37:26 PM

All together now...

(singing) "Aloutte, gentille aloutte..."
//been posting less than 24 hours and already feel like a veteran!

rocinante721		2005-02-24 02:37:54 PM

Let me just say for the record, there is no such thing as a shaved beaver.

Once a beaver is shaved, it ceases to be a beaver.

Its like melted ice...there's no such thing as it ceases to be ice when it melts.

Spread the word.

rodeofrog		2005-02-24 02:38:38 PM

Nice link, Son of Thunder. My Christmas shopping's all done.

One more dream job, off the list. I've crossed out Viking, Pirate, Indian fighter, and now Trapper.

Good thing lawyers are always in need.

caamando		2005-02-24 02:39:21 PM

so thats why the last merkin i bought was so expensive.

"You like my jacket? Take it? You like my hat? Take it. You want a merkin? You know what a merkin is? A pubic wigive got one, you want it? No, of course you dont, youre a classy guy Family Guy

MasterThief		2005-02-24 02:39:51 PM

Les Claypool unavailable for comment.

/Wynona had herself a big brown beaver and she showed it off to all her friends...

Al Boondy		2005-02-24 02:42:40 PM

Best. Game. EVER.

Incredulous		2005-02-24 02:43:10 PM

"You get $5, $6, $7 for a beaver fur and you spend that trapping it." Fur traders surprised to find themselves in the 21st century.

Yeah, and dairy farmers, cattle ranchers, sugar cane farmers and on and on.

DupeOfURL		2005-02-24 02:44:59 PM

"The dirtiest thing ever said on TV was on Leave It To Beaver when June said to Ward, "You were mighty rough on the beaver last night, Ward."

-cannot recall comedian, no attribution
--try the liver...

Sophistimucated		2005-02-24 02:46:00 PM

"We 'ave Perry Ellis, Hugo Boss, an' ov course many, many Armani"
"Hmm, fresh?"
"Yesterday's kill"

/for you, ickyelf and badandy

ShapeShift3r		2005-02-24 02:46:56 PM

The trade has been hurt, too, by the animal rights movement. The Humane Society of the United States on its Web site says that leg traps maim the animals.

Yea, never mind the KILLING and SKINNING part that happens later.

/not an animal rights activist. just finding that quote a little odd.

quiefNpea		2005-02-24 02:48:15 PM

"This is sad. I've got two pelts (really med sized beaver) from my land and 6 more waiting to be tanned. Two are from 50-60lb beavers! That is some big beaver! (note to schoolbus driver joke).

Anyway, it costs more to trap (traps cost money, licensing costs money, skinning and tanning, time is money and you need to check the traps every 24-48 hours). Beavers are very productive and nocturnal. You could open a dam, and in a day, they repaired it."

(Hi Dougie!)

Plus most treehuggers will tell you that beavers are the worse damage to trees, as they can flood a forest in weeks, killing the root system, eating all the sapling and bark.

/Damn beavers!
//Gonna have one nice beaver quilt in no time t'all.

haplo53		2005-02-24 02:48:56 PM

zat one has speerit... let heem live!

/kids in the hall
//can't remember actual quote

last_ditch		2005-02-24 02:49:03 PM

Flavor40

Dude, are you high too?

desertmouse		2005-02-24 02:51:28 PM

I just finished reading "The Final Frontiersman" by James Campbell. Not a bad read if you want to see how they still do it for real up in Alaska.

mitsukomori		2005-02-24 02:53:37 PM

does anyone know if the skin from slaughtered beefy cows is used for leather? if not, why not?

/does your cat speak french?
//if not, why not?
///anyone? bueller?

Sophistimucated		2005-02-24 02:54:42 PM

Speaking of Hedwig, jadewaterz is the newest to take on the role.

learn2fly		2005-02-24 02:55:59 PM

So_it_goes		2005-02-24 02:56:00 PM

Fur Pie!!!

barry_the_green		2005-02-24 02:57:44 PM

Jeez, I would sure love a shorn beaver hat. I for one am happy the price is coming down.

flamingsquirrel23		2005-02-24 02:59:36 PM

Does anyone actually WEAR beaver fur?

/can't believe i actually meant that w/ out the sexual inuendos
//ha.. 'hard on the Beaver'..good one

erewhon		2005-02-24 03:00:20 PM

What I do with the little bastidges doesn't LEAVE a pelt. At least, not in any piece big enough to identify.

boywondered		2005-02-24 03:06:34 PM

I am from Wyoming, and know a few people who still trap beaver...family included. Most of them do it as part of a trapper/ Mountain Man re-enactment. One of them is a professional trapper for the city. They all use leg traps, and don't damage the pelts.

I see no problem with trapping, but then again, I have been a sportsman all me blumin' life...

/Boobies

BHK		2005-02-24 03:07:23 PM

I've got a Hudson Bay wool blanket. It's got markings to denote the number of pelts that can be traded for it.

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