Squirrels

Squirrel · 09-23-2005, 09:16 PM

Does anybody here like squirrels????????????

The last sane person · 09-23-2005, 09:35 PM

Depends on their mental stability. We do have a "Crazy Squirrel" on the moot, whom I and other are fond of.

Squirrel · 09-23-2005, 09:38 PM

tolkienfan · 09-23-2005, 09:45 PM

I like squirrels.

Welcome to Entmoot.

Squirrel · 09-23-2005, 10:27 PM

great thanks..... but who are you?

Spock · 09-24-2005, 01:32 AM

We love to watch their flying through the trees and their eating.....there smart as the dickens and a source of free entertainment for us as we're on wooded grounds.

***Earniel*** · 09-24-2005, 02:35 AM

They're fun. A family of them tends to steal all the nuts from our hazeltree and nuttree before we can collect them. We never had a cherry left from our cherrytree for the last three years either. We tend to call them plume-tailed pirates.

When I had still had my old room, I could put food for the birds on my window sill in the winter. Since my desk was right opposite of the window I could watch them while working. Very soon a squirrel found its way to it. I could watch it stuff walnuts in its cheeks from a 30 cm distance behind the window. It was a great experience.

***Jonathan*** · 09-24-2005, 09:06 AM

The squirrel has been my favourite animal for most of my life. Earlier this year when I was in London, I spent a lot of time feeding the squirrels.

Squirrel · 09-24-2005, 01:05 PM

YAY!!! im not the only squirrel-lover on here

Andúril · 09-24-2005, 01:32 PM

My dogs try to eat squirrels.

tolkienfan · 09-24-2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squirrel

great thanks..... but who are you?

Oh sorry, you can call me tolkienfan or tf.

Squirrel · 09-24-2005, 02:15 PM

**Nurvingiel** · 09-24-2005, 04:24 PM

Squirrels are cool. When I'm hiking, I like seeing them in the forest. However, the place I usually see them is on my university campus. I've got a couple funny stories about them...

Three years ago, my friend in my dorm left her window open and left the room. When she came back, she saw the hind end of a squirrel making a quick getaway. It had climbed the tree near the window to get in the room, knocked over her potted plant, and peed on the window sill.

Two years ago, my roommate and I, as well as anyone walking down our part of the corridor, noticed a truly nasty smell emitting from... somewhere. The girls' bathroom one floor above us also smelled absolutely vile. The source of the smell was an unfortunate animal who had gotten into the walls, but was unable to get out. The poor thing slowly starved to death and died, and its rotting corpse stank up the building until, I assume, it was fully decomposed. The animal was most likely a squirrel (since the little buggers get everywhere), but it could have been a rat.
The maintenance guy made a reasonable attempt to find the body but he never did. No, health and building codes were not a major concern at that dorm, why do you ask?

The squirrels on campus are an introduced species - the American Grey Squirrel. They are extremely prevelant on campus - you can't walk 20 meters without seeing one.
They have outcompeted the native Red Squirrel, which is smaller. After a year in Sweden, I can't get over how giant these things are. They are seriously huge, and completely unafraid of humans. Someday, some poor student with a bag of chips is going to get swarmed by a gang of the more aggressive squirrels.

Now to end with a cheerful story, three years ago, an interesting squirrel was spotted around our dorm. He had no tail, and due to the large size of the American Grey Squirrel, he was dubbed "The Dog Squirrel". He did look a bit like a dog, and he was sort of like our mascot. Anyone who saw him would feel a bit special.

BeardofPants · 09-24-2005, 04:32 PM

There's a really awesome book by Gary Larson called, "There's a hair in my dirt", which has a pretty funny cartoon of a bunch of grey squirrels smoking and looking rough around the edges, picking on a somewhat smaller red squirrel. Good book if you can find it.

CrazySquirrel · 09-24-2005, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Depends on their mental stability. We do have a "Crazy Squirrel" on the moot, whom I and other are fond of.

Squirrel · 09-24-2005, 05:02 PM

lol!!

CrazySquirrel · 09-24-2005, 05:13 PM

Welcome to the Moot, O my sane kin!

Lief Erikson · 09-24-2005, 05:29 PM

Arrr . . . I'm going hunting! (Goes to a nearby store and buys a shotgun)

This looks like the thread for me!

Lotesse · 09-24-2005, 05:37 PM

Don't even THINK about shooting the squirrels here, Lief!

UCLA campus grounds are very famous for the squirrels. Squirrels, apparantly, really love uni.

Hasty Ent · 09-24-2005, 05:40 PM

Evil Attack Squirrel of Death

one of the funniest stories I've ever read online... this is pretty old, but it still has me spraying my monitor with coffee whenever I read it

09-23-2005, 09:16 PM	#1
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09-23-2005, 09:35 PM	#2
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Depends on their mental stability. We do have a "Crazy Squirrel" on the moot, whom I and other are fond of. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

09-23-2005, 09:38 PM	#3
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09-23-2005, 09:45 PM	#4
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I like squirrels. Welcome to Entmoot. __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

09-23-2005, 10:27 PM	#5
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09-24-2005, 01:32 AM	#6
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	We love to watch their flying through the trees and their eating.....there smart as the dickens and a source of free entertainment for us as we're on wooded grounds. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Last edited by Spock : 09-24-2005 at 10:23 AM.

09-24-2005, 02:35 AM	#7
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	They're fun. A family of them tends to steal all the nuts from our hazeltree and nuttree before we can collect them. We never had a cherry left from our cherrytree for the last three years either. We tend to call them plume-tailed pirates. When I had still had my old room, I could put food for the birds on my window sill in the winter. Since my desk was right opposite of the window I could watch them while working. Very soon a squirrel found its way to it. I could watch it stuff walnuts in its cheeks from a 30 cm distance behind the window. It was a great experience. __________________ We are not things.

09-24-2005, 09:06 AM	#8
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	The squirrel has been my favourite animal for most of my life. Earlier this year when I was in London, I spent a lot of time feeding the squirrels. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻ Last edited by Jonathan : 12-05-2008 at 03:20 PM.

09-24-2005, 01:05 PM	#9
Squirrel Hobbit Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Georgia Posts: 23	YAY!!! im not the only squirrel-lover on here __________________ [COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][FONT=Comic Sans MS] To the Hobbit Hole I Go

09-24-2005, 01:32 PM	#10
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	My dogs try to eat squirrels.

09-24-2005, 02:15 PM	#12
Squirrel Hobbit Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Georgia Posts: 23	o ok __________________ [COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][FONT=Comic Sans MS] To the Hobbit Hole I Go

09-24-2005, 04:32 PM	#14
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	There's a really awesome book by Gary Larson called, "There's a hair in my dirt", which has a pretty funny cartoon of a bunch of grey squirrels smoking and looking rough around the edges, picking on a somewhat smaller red squirrel. Good book if you can find it. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

09-24-2005, 05:02 PM	#16
Squirrel Hobbit Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Georgia Posts: 23	lol!! __________________ [COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][FONT=Comic Sans MS] To the Hobbit Hole I Go

09-24-2005, 05:13 PM	#17
CrazySquirrel Shape-shifting, men-grabbing NAZGUL Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 796	Welcome to the Moot, O my sane kin!

09-24-2005, 05:29 PM	#18
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Arrr . . . I'm going hunting! (Goes to a nearby store and buys a shotgun) This looks like the thread for me! __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

09-24-2005, 05:37 PM	#19
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Don't even THINK about shooting the squirrels here, Lief! UCLA campus grounds are very famous for the squirrels. Squirrels, apparantly, really love uni. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

09-24-2005, 05:40 PM	#20
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	Evil Attack Squirrel of Death one of the funniest stories I've ever read online... this is pretty old, but it still has me spraying my monitor with coffee whenever I read it

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