In North Carolina, a possum drop, or at least a possum lowering.
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Possum Drop — Tallapoosa, Georgia In this town in West Georgia, which was once called "Possum Snout," Spencer, a stuffed possum in a ball covered in holiday lights is lowered. 8.
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Whatever the reason, it's no stretch to see why it's "rabbit rabbit" and not "possum possum," or whatever.
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How many of us have watched a possum "play possum" or a goshawk swoop after a blue jay?
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I just found out that the reason they call him the Possum is because he looks like a possum.
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Spider Eating a Pygmy Possum Is Obviously AustralianThat's a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!
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Though it's not clear which species of pygmy possum we're looking at here (I've reached out to experts for help identifying it), the island has two species, the Eastern pygmy possum and the Tasmanian pygmy possum.
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Wall Watchers Music Video: © Fat Possum RecordsEasier Said Music Video: Directed by Charlotte Hornsby and Jesse Ruuttila (C) 2016 Fat Possum Records
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By the time my dad moved the cameras into the backyard, he had captured another possum, or maybe the same possum, plus more foxes, a rabbit and a pair of coyotes.
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Burch responded with her possum story, which quickly went viral.
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There are safe spaces on the internet for possum lovers.
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The common brushtail possum, a major pest in New Zealand.
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"Little possum" is an Australian term of endearment for babies.
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Possum Springs is where Mae spent most of her life.
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And Oscar is just happy he's free from possum hugs.
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Beneath the only street light, a possum Practices its death.
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" "Wait, how do you know you can't train a possum?
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Since then, "Interview Possum" has inspired plenty of social media love.
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Minor Victories self-titled album is out now via Fat Possum Records.
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Apparently, a possum had made its home inside an toilet roll dispenser.
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The next mammal to go could be the white lemuroid ringtail possum.
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How much does he know about what's going on in Possum Springs?
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"Appleblossom the Possum" explored a marsupial's-eye view of the human world.
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Vega showed her the "Old Possum" first edition, and her eyes widened.
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A possum had climbed up onto our deck, looking for spilled birdseed.
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The possum later died despite efforts from the hospital&aposs veterinarian team.
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Playing possum is Eve's only real way out of this terrible, gory situation.
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Play possum for a half, then strike when they're not ready for it.
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The cigarette butts contained King's DNA, and police learned King's nickname was Possum.
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Mae's Possum Springs isn't too different from my hometown of Philippi, West Virginia.
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The good news is that the gym no longer has a possum problem.
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The one after that showed a possum plodding into and through some hedges.
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Mr. Day began selling Andrew Marc leather jackets with possum lining for $800.
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After rehearsal, Ricardo shoots Payton with BB gun bullet laced with possum guts.
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Who would put "larger, stronger and smarter than a possum" on his resume?
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Photo: Justine LattonThat's a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!
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Jim Fortier and I watching "The Possum" George Jones record the Squids theme song.
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The band's debut album Get Gone is out May 83 via Fat Possum Records.
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However, it was too late for the possum as it had already died, Justine says.
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A pet beagle, distraught after losing her litter of puppies, has adopted a baby possum.
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Having backyard drinks at a mate's place and a possum rocks up & steals some pizza.
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You're not alone, 'cause this little possum called Leo enjoys eating these nutty treats too.
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The genome of New Zealand's brushtail possum is currently being sequenced to look for targets.
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When she sees that payphone, she bitterly remembers that Possum Springs has no cell service.
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" Eliot included these poems in letters to entertain his godchildren and signed them "Old Possum.
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The possum drop is particularly striking because it comes less than a week after Christmas.
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Possum Springs is a clear stand-in for the abandoned steel/coal towns of southeastern Pennsylvania.
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While this particular possum-eater is Australian, huntsman spiders are found on every continent except Antarctica.
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During my nostalgia trip, I realized something else: Awesome Possum wasn't alone in its radical environmentalism.
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This should be in a gift basket with the creamed possum and the Duck Dynasty chocolates.
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Photo was taken in 1881 & she's wearing a possum skin cloak & wallaby tooth necklace 🖤 pic.twitter.
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Because this is no way for a possum to live, the park rangers quickly took action.
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Aldridge will join Hunt and 14 other male and female divers at Possum Kingdom this weekend.
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Norris said that one year a customer wanted a red-velvet cake shaped like a possum.
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On a recent visit, humans were joined by a possum, a woodpecker, deer and a woodchuck.
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"You've got Billy Bob as your manager, you go duck hunting, possum hunting together," she said.
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On Thursday, she took in a possum and a wombat, both of them suffering from burns.
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A volunteer holds a severely burned brushtail possum rescued from fires near the Blue Mountains, Dec.
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In life, Anatoliadelphys would have resembled something akin to one of Australia's quolls crossed with a possum.
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Despite this, Final Frontier and the Project PoSSUM team take the lessons of Soyuz 11 very seriously.
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With over 215,000 followers, Facebook account Possumcore has one of the largest possum followings on the web.
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Perhaps sensing the mother dog needed a child to love, the wild sent her a baby possum.
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What does it really mean when Night in the Woods emphasizes that Possum Springs lacks cell service?
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McGibbon and Gilbert theorize that the snake has just eaten a possum or possibly the neighbor's cat.
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That's a distinction without a difference in the world of Americana that Fat Possum has helped build.
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Popular Manipulations is out on August 11 via Fat Possum and you can pre-order it here.
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Throwing that dead possum on his roof has come back to haunt Wendy in a big way.
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The fires could wipe out some endangered species, including the southern corroboree frog and mountain pygmy-possum.
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The words they sing — "fugere non possum" — translate as "we cannot escape," expressing both fatalism and faith.
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The Moyles plan to look after Poss for as along as the possum wants to stay with Molly.
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The pictures, posted by Justine Latton on Saturday, show a suspended huntsman spider grasping a small pygmy possum.
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Don't mess with big spiders, even if you are a human and especially if you are a possum.
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Mae, Night in the Woods' feline protagonist, is a college dropout returning to her hometown of Possum Springs.
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It begins with the protagonist, Mae, returning to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college.
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There are differences within Possum Springs, her group of friends, and also within herself that she cannot ignore.
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"We see a tremendous amount of wildlife," Mayor Keith Kazmark said, listing deer, fox, skunk, raccoon and possum.
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This is followed by months of more-or-less constant feeding: strips of fish, possum bits, duck chunks.
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A volunteer holds a severely burnt brushtail possum rescued from fires near the Blue Mountains on Dec. 29.
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But Mae doesn't speak with everyone in Night in the Woods; plenty of Possum Springs residents zip by her.
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To keep her hands warm, Kate opted for $420 black leather ski mittens lined with possum fur from Alexski.
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The rare animal looks more like a cute cross between a squirrel and a possum than a large rat.
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He flopped around the ring on rubber legs, but appeared to be playing possum, perhaps to frustrate Frazier further.
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But you probably eat mice yourself when you run out of possum, you monster truck-loving, buck-toothed hillbilly.
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Behind him, out a nearby window, I could see a sugar glider, a small possum, clinging to a cage.
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And what are we to make of the rogue possum that no one but McKay seems able to see?
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"We're not getting that many animals coming into care," Burgess told Reuters as she held the injured brushtail possum.
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The rare animal looks more like a cute cross between a squirrel and a possum than like a rat.
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How fascinating to learn the next day that it had been the last surviving screeching possum in the world.
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Making the encounter all the more frightening, Justine notes that the possum was a very unlikely prey for the spider.
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So it should surprise no one that the country also produced a possum-eating spider inside of a ski lodge.
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Not only is Possum Springs experiencing economic decay and technological stagnation; it is experiencing an unraveling of its social infrastructure.
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Unlike in Awesome Possum, environmental destruction isn't an explicit goal of humanity, just a side effect of continued global industrialization.
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But — with all those memes and all those tweets — did you ever once hear about the vibrant LGBTQ possum scene?
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Peele ends up with "a platter of stork ankles, an old cellar door, a possum spine and a human foot".
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Mouse Possum Like the American badger, this animal likes to rest its giant eyes for roughly 14 hours a day.
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Premiering below is the second single lifted from their forthcoming second record Volcano (out on March 3 via Fat Possum).
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On Trayce's first night there, the Wagners had little trouble pranking him into believing they were serving possum for dinner.
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Fans have wondered for years how Thomas Harris, shown cradling a rescued possum named Bruce, comes up with his characters.
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A burnt paw of a brushtail possum is shown as it is nursed by volunteers in Merimbula, Australia, Jan. 9.
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Germany's Angela Merkel, who was never an over enthusiastic engager with Trump, now does passive like a possum does dead.
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Night in the Woods is set in the fictional town of Possum Springs where everybody is a bipedal animal person.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article included illustrations of an American opossum in place of a New Zealand possum.
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A baby possum named Plum just wanted to get a little shut eye by crawling into mom's pouch for a while.
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"Needless to say, the possum was evicted and has been set up in new, more spacious accommodation," they wrote on Facebook.
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Two years ago, New Zealand embarked on an ambitious effort to rid the country of every single rat, stoat, and possum.
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I told them about the hideous-looking silver possum that had climbed up the front stairs of the house last Thanksgiving.
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Not to mention all over the drinks I just ingested from the same bar a nasty possum was crawling around on.
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I feel like if you're going to compare me to an animal, I've got kind of a possum thing going on.
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Thank you, Mia Stine, for bringing the screeching possum you found under your bed for show-and-tell and then—whoops!
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The whole thing is streaming over at NPR this morning, ahead of its September 7 release on Fat Possum/Bella Union.
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Meghan and Harry were also introduced to a yellow-bellied glider, a type of native possum, and Lynx, a short-legged echidna.
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Researchers have also begun work on sequencing the possum genome to look for targets to develop a toxin against the invasive marsupials.
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Thanks to the rangers at an Australian park, a possum no longer has to live its life inside a sad restroom stall.
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Her attempt to turn the church into a homeless shelter is thwarted by Possum Springs' town council, and that rejection unnerves her.
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The conflict, between the older generation and the younger generation of Possum Springs, reaches its head near the end of the game.
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That distinction belongs to the honey possum, a very small (they grow to 3.5 inches long ) marsupial that lives in western Australia.
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But Roberts is a savvy player, Boyer said, and it is possible he had been "playing possum" until the games that count.
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Burgess is hoping she's in time to save her possum patient, especially since she discovered the small marsupial is carrying a passenger.
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Soccer Mommy: Clean (Fat Possum) Sad singer-songwriters are supposed to gesture at the anguish of adolescence, but Sophie Allison understands it.
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Ultimately, visitors caught and released the pair, Latton explained, "But no spiders were harmed in the relocation effort (too late for the possum)."
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A carpet python named Monty was filmed devouring a possum in the backyard of Gold Coast resident Greg Hosking's home on Monday afternoon.
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At the end of the game, after literally kicking Dr. Machino's butt, Awesome Possum is enshrined next to Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore.
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If hearts could smile, the friendship between this teeny orphaned ringtail possum and a zookeeper would have you positively beaming from the chest.
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A new wave of dogs, cats, monkeys — and even a possum — are fetching big bucks and wide followings as influencers on social media.
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He's in his mid-27s, gently grayed, and manages the rootsy label Big Legal Mess in addition to Fat Possum and Bible & Tire.
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" Mr. Palmer eventually brought Mr. Davis to the Mississippi label Fat Possum and produced his 1994 debut album, "Feel Like Doin' Something Wrong.
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No lynx spottings, but I skied for a while with a nature tour, with a girl with a stuffed possum on her hat.
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At times, it can be downright cheerful, as Mae bounds through the streets of Possum Springs throwing colorful autumn leaves into the air.
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It's rich in watercolours inspired by the illustrations in nature-centric Australian children's books like Blinky Bill, Diary of a Wombat and Possum Magic.
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Australia, a nation notorious for its delightfully nightmarish animals, has further cemented its reputation with new viral images of a spider eating a possum.
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It's a short collection of tender and fun moments between a possum named Gaz and his human compadre and sometime Symbio staff member, Jarred.
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None of the optional conversations or events seem laborious because it feels like you're really making a connection with the animals of Possum Springs.
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So when the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series kicks off this weekend at Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas, he'll be a little nervous.
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Is your house a loosely-joined collection of garbage piles among which you tread, as dazed and rudderless as a possum in a landfill?
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Instead, they got a contract with Fat Possum, the blues label whose roster also included one of their idols, the Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough.
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Unless you're an underprepared through-hiker, there aren't many good reasons to drink from a stream that probably contains more than one possum carcass.
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The throwing of the antibiotic dart worked, though, the rash fading to possum-nose pink, and I was back at work two days later.
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In 2018, Logan decided he was no longer able to run the Possum Drop so he asked the town of Andrews to take over.
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This statute grants legal immunity to a western North Carolina practice of dropping a live possum from a rooftop to celebrate the New Year.
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The terrified possum is confined in a small plexiglas box for hours before the drop, subjected to loud music, a boisterous crowd, and fireworks.
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The family&aposs patients included "Blossom the possum," which was admitted after being caught in one of the bushfires in other parts of Queensland.
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Blossom the possum was admitted to the #AustraliaZoo Wildlife Hospital after being caught in one of the bushfires burning in other parts of Queensland.
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There are others just like you — people who love their elongated tails and beady eyes, and who are fighting for equal possum representation in memes.
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The subreddit r/Possums doesn't have the same following that other possum accounts do, but the content they do have is very tender and weird.
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The kitty from Australia was minding his own business on Tuesday when a tiny ringtail possum put his arms around him — and wouldn't let go.
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Last year, Pizza Rat dragged his slice right into hearts everywhere, becoming a viral meme that led to things like Taco Squirrel and Pizza Possum.
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"He was really well behaved actually because he was so full, you can clearly see that he had a possum in his belly," Vaughan explained.
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Night in the Woods is able to talk about all of this while placing Mae's problems into a broader perspective—the suffering in Possum Springs.
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Orchestral Variations is out in record stores for Black Friday on Nov 25 and will be out everywhere else in January via Fat Possum Records.
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Others have pointed out the similarities between catatonia and "tonic immobility" an animal's defense strategy in response to fear—like when a possum plays dead.
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Malin insists that the Possum Drop has been the subject of various rumors, including one that claimed living opossums were being thrown off a roof.
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Instead of a Possum Drop, the town will be celebrating New Year's Eve with a wrestling match and a womanless beauty pageant -- no animals involved.
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Instead, he flung himself at her feet and writhed like a fish out of water, then went completely still in a belligerent game of possum.
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If New Zealand's government could have its way, no one in the entire archipelago would ever have to see a rat or a possum again.
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Given the political turmoil in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States, President Putin is likely to play possum well into the spring of 2018.
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Vega was ready to give Hayward a quick Eliot lesson; she had brought out a first edition of "Old Possum" and some photographs of the poet.
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A man staying at a ski lodge in Tasmania, Australia had the scare of his life when he witnessed a massive huntsman spider devour a tiny possum.
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Bose has added a cute feature that will even suggest names for the speaker like Moon Boots, The Possum, and Heavy Metal Poet to name a few.
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While that might be a little OTT, there's nothing like coming across a huge snake devouring a possum to put the fear of nature back into you.
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It means that despite 98% of the country having cell service, the cell companies didn't think Possum Springs was worth the infrastructure investment to cover their needs.
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First, there's Mae's on-and-off relationship with her faith: when Mae returns to Possum Springs, she learns of a new pastor working at the local church.
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Night In The Woods, the new side-scrolling, indie adventure game available on Steam and PlayStation 4, takes place in the small, Pennsylvania town of Possum Springs.
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In any case, it's worth noting that Givenchy and Dior have been playing possum since the weekend, another indication of fashion's still-ambiguous relationship with Mrs. Trump.
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In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the bettong, or rat kangaroo, the brush-tailed possum and other medium-sized mammals all disappeared from the Western Desert.
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In the first half of the film, after emerging from the bottom of the sea, Banks produces jagged snarls that sound like a possum strangling a duck.
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What you learn from listening to Clean, the debut album by Soccer Mommy out today on Fat Possum Records, is that Sophie Allison is very good with words.
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He had an impressive ability to find every dead bird, squirrel, possum, or rat within a several-block radius, and he put all of them in his mouth.
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Elle and Sara Moyle, Molly's owners, believe that Poss — the name the Moyles have given to the possum who loves to ride piggyback — was abandoned by her mom.
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DRIVER WITH CAR PROBLEMS SPOTTED GOING IN REVERSE ON BUSY OHIO HIGHWAY "The possum had its lips drawn back, was foaming, and releasing a foul smell," authorities said.
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It was kind of woke AF. Creamed Possum As much as we'd love to try canned roadkill, we're really, really glad that this is just a gag gift.
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On a roll With bathroom tissue so soft, no one can resist -- especially this possum who made his home in a toilet paper dispenser at a Melbourne park.
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Sports' 2015 debut, All of Something, played possum for a full minute, as guitarist/singer Carmen Perry crept in softly with a mischievous whisper over a meek guitar.
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On the night of the incident, Freeman drank heavily, got into his pickup truck and shot at animals from the roadside, where he killed a possum, prosecutors said.
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Shipp's archives sat in storage for decades while, 70-odd miles away in Oxford, Bruce Watson and Fat Possum built a minor empire out of analog-recording fetishism.
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It's understandable to take out some mangy, problematic pest like a possum, or feed a turtle a rat, because they're gross, and there are too many of them.
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But should a few dozen Australian possums with an all-male gene drive be carried from New Zealand back to Australia, they could devastate the native possum population.
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Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services (WIRES) volunteer and carer Tracy Burgess holds a severely burnt brushtail possum rescued from fires near Australia's Blue Mountains on December 29.
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"Once we got the pouch open, a tiny little hand came out with claws on it, so, yeah, there's a pinkie - very little baby unfurred possum," Burgess said.
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His latest album, an exploratory set titled "Some Rap Songs," considers family: A standout track, "Playing Possum," incorporates sampled audio from his mother and recently deceased poet father.
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" As for what happened after Adam took the photo, Justine says the spider and the possum had to be caught and released outside "in order to open the door.
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Johnson's self-deprecating narratives detail personal battles with allergies, arthritis, insomnia, panic attacks, rat attacks, possum attacks and even a gang that kicked him out for being too polite.
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Each morning, you wake up, throw on some cat boots, see what friends are online, talk with your mother, and walk around the pleasantly boring town of Possum Springs.
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Especially Laurence Kirk in Sydney, Australia, who decided to take matters into his own hands when he spotted two magpies giving a possum on the road a hard time.
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After 25 years of anti-environmental rhetoric, games like Awesome Possum, as ridiculous as it is, have started to feel defiant as a relic of a more enlightened time.
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Upon arrival a week ago, the possum duo were losing weight rapidly in the wake of their mother's death, but have made a recovery in the care of Scott.
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Fat Possum had already acquired the Hi Records catalog by that point, and soon Watson discovered Designer, which was his gateway into the voluminous history of midcentury Memphis gospel.
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He's brought orphaned squirrels and an injured ibis there, and he took a wildlife rehabilitation workshop, learning how to intubate a distressed animal by practicing on a dead possum.
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It was Ezra Pound, calling himself Brer Rabbit, who gave Eliot the nickname Old Possum, another moniker borrowed from Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" collection of African-American folklore.
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New Zealand has discussed using a gene drive to eradicate the Australian brushtail possum, which preys on the nests of native birds and is currently controlled with poison traps.
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Her most recent efforts include a campaign to eradicate New Year's Eve "possum drops" in North Carolina; the petition collected well over 2000,220 signatures in just a few days.
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Clay County, North Carolina, where the possum drop apparently originated, is one of the most religious in the country, with 94 percent of its residents affiliated with local churches.
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Their band doesn't even have a name; it's just a group of four twenty-somethings in Possum Springs, a small Rust Belt town whose best days are long behind it.
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"I never had this happen, but I imagine if a possum fell out of a tree and tried to scratch your eyes out, it would be something similar," he joked.
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The man's wife, Justine Latton shared photos of the horrifying moment on Facebook, which show the spider clinging on to the hotel door with the tiny possum in its mouth.
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In the latest update of its closely watched Red List of threatened species, the environmental group also moved Australia's western ringtail possum by two notches from "vulnerable" to "critically endangered".
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According to the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade, a local accountant went into his backyard after hearing the cat "meowing madly" and found the possum holding tightly to the feline's neck.
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The cat's owner brought the possum to the vet in a towel and shoebox where it was put in a pouch to keep warm until it gets a little older.
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Beeping the confrontation didn't seem to work, so Kirk decides to hop out and deal with the matter — taking the possum off the road and escorting it back into nature.
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Today there is trouble in Bunnyland: Gone are Playboy's movie projects, the casinos, the hotels – even Hef's black DC-9 outfitted with an elliptical bed covered with Tasmanian possum skins.
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We learn that Possum Springs is in a bit of an economic depression after the local mine closed followed by the closure of a saw mill and a glass factory.
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These groups' solemn, blended sound was contrasted by Fat Possum artist Liz Brasher, who accompanied herself on electric guitar and brought the crowd to its feet with her impassioned belting.
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It drops August 11 via Fat Possum and it's not so much portrait of a band going through a slight transition but of one that's really fucking going for it.
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"It is damn hard to put a pipe-smoking granny or a pet possum into a novel these days and get away with it," the novelist Lee Smith once said.
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But ROBICHEAUX (Simon & Schuster, $27.99) reminds us of his talent for naming locals like Baby Cakes Babineau and Pookie the Possum Domingue, along with a contract killer called Chester Wimple.
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She plays possum with surprisingly convincing commitment — going without blinking is among her many talents, apparently — and she survives the slaughter, emerging in a pristine white nightgown of symbolic purification.
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Possum Springs is the town she grew up in, but it's not the same town as it once was in her youth, or in the youth of generations before her.
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The musical, which is based off of T.S. Eliot&aposs collection of poems entitled "Old Possum&aposs Book of Practical Cats," was originally adapted for the stage by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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A MINUS Soccer Mommy: Clean (Fat Possum) Sophie Allison's melancholy drags less and charms more than teen-alt's indie-strummed norm, and not only that—it's fortified by tastier guitar parts.
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In addition to Bandcamp waiving its fees, dozens of labels, including Anti-, Fat Possum, Merge, Polyvinyl, Saddle Creek and Sub Pop, gave up 100% of their revenues to artists on Friday.
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An environmental scientist at the World Wildlife Fund Australia, Stuart Blanch, told HuffPost that the fires could wipe out some endangered species, including the southern corroboree frog and mountain pygmy-possum.
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The possum being looked after by Burgess was found in the rural town of Clarence in the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains region, around 100 kilometers (62.1 miles) west of Sydney.
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On the other hand, one community that had backed off reinstated the practice, and a business in Georgia began advertising its own possum drop with sponsorship from the local Ford dealer.
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The tone of the painting verges on a lament, but perhaps they are sad about their dinner, which is a wretched-looking pie resembling a possum baked in a bedroom slipper.
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According to Just Jared, the 18-year-old new model was spotted taking her adorable pup Koa to the vet after it was caught up in a scary fight with a possum.
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After playing possum for awhile, Tara made her way into the camp proper, where she observed a group of hardscrabble women doing chores, educating their children and, eventually, trying to shoot her.
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It's exasperating to watch a smart woman play possum like this — not just in the interviews but in the writing, especially when her conclusions don't tell us anything we didn't know before.
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Possums blew up in February 2018 after a photo, featuring a possum being "interviewed" by a journalist was posted to Facebook in the form of a meme and then shared across the internet.
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"Sometimes when it's nearly midnight and there's a hissing possum in your shower, the only ones to contact for help are the police," the department wrote of the May 30 incident in Ladner.
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They are also not the only giant arachnids that feast on mammals—just a few months ago, scientists published footage of a tarantula dragging a possum through the undergrowth of the Peruvian Amazon.
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His nicknames, "Possum" and "No-Show Jones," are miniature autobiographies of a man who drank his way to the top of the country charts, and then drank himself all the way back down.
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Mae comes back to Rust Belt-y Possum Springs to find her parents and best friends a little older, the town itself a little more depressed, the whole world a little more tired.
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" That was 15 years ago and since then, Matthews said, they've rescued "probably three or four geese, a duck, several turtles and the occasional possum or two -- bringing them to AWARE for help.
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The last renovation happened a decade ago, leaving the interior with wood-paneled walls covered in various memorabilia: old photos, vintage advertisements, license plates, taxidermied animals (a kookaburra, a raven, a ringtail possum).
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Also prior to the fires, there were an estimated 2,8.6-3,000 mountain pygmy-possum in the wild and some 370 glossy black cockatoos on Kangaroo Island, the main place the bird has survived.
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I would regale my friends with tales of cross-eyed cats perpetually on the verge of death, ailing chickens convalescing in the house or a paraplegic possum that fancied scrambled eggs for dinner.
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This desire for isolation may stem from a fundamental biological need; whether you're a human or a possum, physical withdrawal means concealment and protection from predation, making privacy an evolutionary life-or-death matter.
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Nobody that isn't from Possum Springs has any economic or cultural reason to be there, and in its decay, the world—including a modern utility like cell service—let it slip away into obscurity.
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It falls out of my hand at night as I drift to sleep, and when I wake up it is nestled into my back, alarm vibrating, small and warm like a twitching baby possum.
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Nearly two centuries after the British colonization of Australia, that changed: Indigenous artists of the Papunya Tula collective, like Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, were showing work at top galleries around the world.
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Among them are Poppy the Possum ("I dropped the o, deal with it" her IG bio reads, thumbing her nose to correct classification), whose owner shares her day to day with 31,000 Instagram followers.
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But now they're returning with a new record called Blue, released with Fat Possum, and it's spearheaded by the single "Got To Be Free" which we are premiering in full fat audio content below.
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Josh cleans the toilets at a lab that's seeking a cure for herpes — a project connected to the future doom of the human race — and one running joke involves the swabbing of possum urethras.
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As she meanders through the fictional town of Possum Springs, players of the game are confronted not only with her memories but also the sense of a place whose better times are behind it.
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One 93 study found that getting rid of the country's entire possum, rat, and stoat population would cost the government $9 billion over 50 years (the entire New Zealand economy is about $254 billion).
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Women and men of Project PoSSUM, all wearing matching black jumpsuits, turned their attention to Shawna Pandya, a medical doctor and Canadian astronaut candidate, as she pulled up the baggy orange legs of the spacesuit.
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On the one hand, Watson is simply attempting to do for gospel what Fat Possum did for Mississippi blues—to introduce it to the eager Americana audience that values rough-hewn authenticity and overlooked folkways.
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Mr. Greenberg is perhaps best known for collecting dolls, some of them made in the 1950s by Calvin and Ruby Black as part of the California roadside attraction Possum Trot Shop and Fantasy Doll Show.
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Like I said, Trump could be playing possum here in an attempt to force the hand of Congress to act without feeling as though they had to adhere directly to every wish of the President.
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"When I was a child, it was very easy to wake up in the morning and see armadillo in the yard - or a possum, or a raccoon," said Brunet who lives with his teenage son.
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Three endangered species — the corroboree frog, the mountain pygmy possum and the stocky galaxias, a fish found in only one river system — are at risk unless the number of horses is reduced quickly, scientists say.
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But yeah, we're in inner-north Melbourne, the hike is a couple of steps from the front bar of A Fan's Notes, with Lulu's behind an alleyway door leading out to the bat versus possum battleground.
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You might hear people call it the "possum," but "opossum" refers to the group of Western Hemisphere marsupials, while "possums" are a distantly related group of Eastern Hemisphere marsupials from Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.
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The vika, like its closest relatives, is an avid climber and likely spends most of its time high in the trees of the rainforest, clambering around in the middle of the night much like a possum.
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"I don't think wild animals should ever be taken or captured from the wild, but I do believe that if a possum is orphaned or injured, rescuing it as a pet can be done," she says.
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I read this fine Gabe Bullard piece in The Bitter Southerner about the eating of squirrel and possum, and discovered a breed of dog I didn't know, the mountain feist, a squirrel hunter of some renown.
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I try to find a balance, though—an early version of this had [Toadies'] "Possum Kingdom" at like the third song, but a few friends said they weren't quite willing to go with me on the jam.
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The cabin — one of three that cling to the underbelly of the aircraft like a baby possum to its mother — detaches, is seamlessly transferred to a nearby train, and then continues its journey toward the city center.
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There are numerous prompts for Mae to observe and comment upon her surroundings, which she does it with a combination of love and dry detachment: All around Possum Springs, there is evidence of the town's former prosperity.
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The Associated Press reports that Damico — who was one of the officers on the scene when Pantaleo restrained Garner — also said that he initially believed that Garner was "playing possum" as he laid unresponsive on the ground.
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" Grizabella the Glamour Cat, the downtrodden outcast who sings "Memory" and whose ascent to the "Heaviside Layer" (where cats go to be reborn) is more or less the entire plot of "Cats" doesn't exist in "Old Possum.
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Just as rising temperatures are forcing some tropical rainforest species, like the white lemuroid ringtail possum, to migrate uphill, ever-encroaching flames could shrink the safe havens available for plants and animals that are already highly restricted.
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And although the public appears generally supportive, without their long-term participation, there's a real chance the initiative to kill every rat, stoat, and possum in New Zealand could turn into an expensive and ultimately futile experiment.
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By the time Fat Possum Records approached Bryant, in 2016, Hi hadn't been an active label since the late 1970s, and Bryant hadn't written or released any secular music under his own name for nearly half a century.
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A white boyfriend tells her that her hand is "like a possum paw", and a fellow student stages psychological warfare by anonymously leaving a series of notes that read "FUCK OFF BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM" in her schoolbag.
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Originally brought to the area as pets, the snake — which can grow up to 23 feet long and weigh up to 85033 pounds — has wiped out up to 99 percent of the area's native deer, raccoon, bobcat and possum populations.
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As Mae reunites with some of Possum Springs' residents like her best friend Gregg, his boyfriend Selmers, a former friend Bea, various tertiary characters, and a fantastic poet named Selmers, the town comes to life and more shocking twists are revealed.
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Watson's wooing is alternately sexy ("I want to make love to you more expertly than any college boy, slowly and passionately") and folksy ("You're staring at me just now like you opened a hatbox and found a possum curled up inside").
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The Ethicist We live in a large house on a one-acre plot, and one-quarter of that is a wooded ravine, full of wildlife like deer, raccoons, the occasional woodchuck, possum or even fox — and quite a few copperhead snakes.
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In the video, Jones and his camera men confront Darcy while Jones lambastes him as 'the equivalent of like the Hitler Youth' and accuses him of 'smiling like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow.
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The curtains had been drawn all evening, and when I parted them to open the sliding door and retrieve the pie I saw — to my horror — a small possum with its face buried in my perfectly cooked, beautifully seasoned pumpkin pie.
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The Animal Rescue Craft Guild said on Monday it has been deluged with offers of help after putting out a call for volunteers to make bat wraps, joey pouches, birds nests, possum boxes, koala mittens and other snuggly homes for marsupials.
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The Los Angeles Clippers, the Washington Wizards, the Utah Jazz and the Toronto Raptors have all risen and fallen and risen again, while the traditionally dominant teams played possum, suffering through injuries (Kevin Durant, Kevin Love), fatigue and roster shake-ups.
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Back in 2014, the band released Blame Confusion on Fat Possum, a solid (heh) collection of layered, drone-y punk music, and next week they'll follow it up with an EP called Else on Topshelf Records and Dine Alone available April 15.
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Conversing over coffee, across a kitchen table in a Lower East Side apartment borrowed from the owner of his label, Fat Possum, he wore a brash Guitar Army T-shirt with a black-and-white photo of Fred (Sonic) Smith from the MC5.
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I will say that it has attempted murder, political intrigue, a plotline involving feral possum blood that is inspired by the myth of Philoctetes, a one-episode appearance from two boldface actresses beloved by the gay community, and several heartfelt, full-length songs.
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The town has fallen on hard times in the years since the coal mine closed, and the game's protagonist, Mae, returns to wander around and listen in on people's conversations, slowly piecing together the tangled web of relationships between Possum Springs's residents.
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Sunflower Bean is a guitar-bass-drums trio that makes hand-played music, and its debut album, "Human Ceremony" (Fat Possum), moves along briskly and even impatiently with circular picking patterns, transparent strummed chords and or fuzz-toned riffs behind Julia Cumming's airy voice.
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That isn't easy: Cleveland essentially asked Love to make the same type of defensive plays Green makes, playing possum between the ball-handler (who has an open lane to the rim) and the dunker (who is in the short corner, waiting for the lob).
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The terrifically titled Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt from Tengen saw an environmentally minded marsupial go up against a mad scientist set on world domination, but the late-1993 Mega Drive exclusive was poorly received by critics and didn't spawn any follow-ups.
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An earlier study by Dejan Stojanovic, of the Australian National University, and colleagues had revealed how logging and land-clearing for farms in Tasmania had left swifts, which breed in the trunks of old gum trees, vulnerable to predation by sugar gliders, an introduced possum.
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I elected to start from Mansfield, so I could pay an early visit to Healesville Sanctuary, a conservation and education center, for a primer on area wildlife like the ground-dwelling echidna and the wombat, the nocturnal river-dwelling platypus and the tree-inhabiting possum.
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That's especially evident in a recent suite of paintings by Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, entitled "Grandmother's Country," in which the allover pattern is interrupted by horseshoe shapes or running rivers of dots — a bird's-eye view of the landscape expressing a continued claim of territorial sovereignty.
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FEDERAL, New South Wales — To get to Federal Doma Cafe from the New South Wales coastline, you cross the Pacific Highway and turn onto Possum Shoot Road, which twists and turns up the side of a dramatic hill into the hinterlands above Byron Bay.
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It was no longer about changing the world or closing the deal or beating the living s--- out of the guy across the hall, but about playing possum till the crackle of gunfire quieted, so maybe, with any luck, they could do it again tomorrow.
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One of the small outfit's most successful titles was Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking (1986), a book of recipes; it became the go-to authority on such gastronomic marvels as Mock-Cooter Stew, Oven-Baked Possum, and Irma Lee Stratton's Don't-Miss Chocolate Dump Cake.
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Other animals on Kangaroo Island are facing questions about their survival: the dunnart, a small, possum-like marsupial; the Rosenberg's goanna, a lizard for which the island was considered a final stronghold before extinction; and the short-beaked echidna, which was classified as endangered in 2017.
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, Australia (Reuters) - A possum severely burnt by bushfires in Australia's Blue Mountains laps water from a bowl as her rescuer holds her gently in a towel, while at a nearby home a kangaroo with bandaged feet is rocked like a baby by another carer.
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I got an early look at what commercial space adventurers and researchers could be wearing when venturing into low Earth orbit in the future—part of a joint initiative by citizen science group Project PoSSUM, and Final Frontier Design (FFD), which makes commercial spacesuits, all hosted by the NRC.
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"We have found dead mice and rats and a live mother possum feeding her two babies in attics," says William Begal, president of Begal Enterprises, a disaster restoration company in Rockville, Md. All of these problems can be fixed — they&aposll just add more to your bottom-line costs.
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The Oxford, Mississippi, label has cultivated and reissued Southern blues and soul artists since 1991, and Don't Give Up On Love, the album released in 27, featured Bryant in a typical Fat Possum retro setting: close-miked, unadorned, surrounded by tasteful session musicians playing live in the room.
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Following a series of efforts to control the pest population, Prime Minister John Key announced in July the launch of "Predator Free New Zealand 2050," an initiative aimed at eradicating every single rat, stoat, and possum (and now, feral cat) from the 103,000-square-mile country by 2050.
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As Beth and Mama C targeted the cause of the horrid smell (a dead possum), Randall met Malik (Asante Blackk) for the first time, quickly learning that the high school junior, who is two grades older than their freshman daughter Deja (Lyric Ross), is a father to a 6-month-old baby girl.
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In case that statement wasn't clear enough to some people, JetBlue listed some of the animals it will not allow on board, including hedgehogs, ferrets, sugar gliders (a type of possum that's illegal to own in five states), anything with tusks (so, no emotional support elephants), birds of prey, and, of course, spiders and snakes.
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Reading "Not Without Laughter," one can't help feeling as if Hughes had a desperate need to get all of his early cultural memories down on paper, from the "sooty gray-green light" that turns to blackness before a tornado touches down, to the possum, peach preserves and yams that make up a humble Thanksgiving dinner.
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Spring fever has definitely kicked in, and with it an uptick in energy and corresponding lack of focus (à la POGO at 14A, which reminds me that our local possum has finished its winter nap and we need to start keeping our garbage in overnight again — he or she is more focused than we are).
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Memes there range from the silly (a video of a possum carrying her babies captioned with "When you're the only seasoned nurse on the floor with a bunch of new grads") to the serious (the phrase "A national effort for safe staffing ratios for nurses" combined with the viral clip of Mo'nique saying "I would like to see it.").
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READ: Australians fear 'mega blaze' if 2 fires join forces: 'It's an atomic bomb' Animals that were already critically endangered ― such as the bright yellow southern corroboree frog, the mountain pygmy possum (a small marsupial that sort of looks like a mouse), and the glossy black cockatoo ― could reportedly be wiped out completely by the fires.
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Sculpture-loving Aarne Anton of American Primitive Gallery will show pieces by Raymond Coins and a rare female-figure sculpture from Possum Trot, an art environment the now-deceased artists Calvin and Ruby Black constructed in the California Mojave Desert (it was dismantled years ago), filling it with dolls made from found materials, and small-scale carousels and windmills.
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In today's My First Fight, we talk to physician, Team Canada athlete, citizen-scientist astronaut candidate with Projects PoSSum and PHEnOM, pilot in training, and all-around super human Dr. Shawna Pandya about how she got her start in Taekwondo, her first amateur Muay Thai bout, and why she believes that her true first fight is always ahead of her.
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Curtains - ThemeMadteo - We Doubt You (Can Make It)LNDCROY - Slam City (Mix Assist Mix)Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the DancefloorDebbie Deb - Lookout WeekendCyrk - Bossanova RockStrafe - Set it Off (edit)Alex Seidel - Secret HighLil Baby, Drake - Yes, Indeed (AD blend)Violet - Silver LiningTextasy - I'm the NeedleDaniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Thru ThisShort Stuff, Mickey Pearce - Tripped Up (Ramandanman Mix)DJ Technics - Luv U MoreToadies - Possum Kingdom
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In the clip below, watch how Jokic plays possum with Eric Bledsoe, drawing him into a double team and perfectly timing the kick-out for a wide open three-pointer: Efficiency-wise, kick-outs on three-pointers and cuts to the rim are much more valuable than post-up shots themselves, and very few bigs have the knack for drawing double teams the way Jokic does.
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More voices: Mark Rosenberg and his bot, CEO and his lead robot, Geoquant: Putin will go it alone, then carry out a purge Adrian Stones, intelligence analyst, Alaco, and former operative on Russia with MI6: Putin will try his hand at North Korea Peter Wilson, military historian and analyst, Rand: Putin will play possum Andrea Limbago, social scientist and cyber-geopolitics analyst, Endgame: Putin will double down on 'active measures'
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More voices: Evelyn Farkas, security analyst, Atlantic Council, and former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Russia: Putin will strike Donbass Mark Rosenberg and his bot, CEO and his lead robot, Geoquant: Putin will go it alone, then carry out a purge Peter Wilson, military historian and analyst, Rand: Putin will play possum Andrea Limbago, social scientist and cyber-geopolitics analyst, Endgame: Putin will double down on 'active measures'
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More voices: Evelyn Farkas, security analyst, Atlantic Council, and former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Russia: Putin will strike Donbass Adrian Stones, intelligence analyst, Alaco, and former operative on Russia with MI6: Putin will try his hand at North Korea Peter Wilson, military historian and analyst, Rand: Putin will play possum Andrea Limbago, social scientist and cyber-geopolitics analyst, Endgame: Putin will double down on 'active measures'
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