Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 16, 2009

We had black squirrels back in IL, and they are beauties!

How far back did the path crossing occur?

My path has been crossed by so many animals I can’t tell them apart anymore.

If no one else will do the donkeywork, I will. http://tinyurl.com/y93xjjv

I think I see a black squirrel in the background. So much unluckier than a black cat.

Thank you for the donkey work, judyparka

The bunny’s ears reminded me of Fletcher Rabbit from Kukla, Fran & Ollie

Whats so unlucky about a black squirrel?

The squirrels are coming! The squirrels are coming!

Nightmares will help you work out your inner conflictedness, my solemn-faced friend. And “black squirrel,” I should think, is less dangerous than “black cat” (pace judyparka).

Is that Jude Law from ROAD TO PERDITION ?

Squirrels are red in my area, grey in Missouri to the east, but I never heard of a black squirrel. Any theories about why the different colors???

And there are some white squirrels in Marionville. Missouri!

Black cats just bring you bad luck. Black squirrels give you an urge to dress funny. That can be devastating.

I have a theory about why black squirrels are black—- they are really red squirrels– but they are wearing the uniform of the commando squirrels!– yes , when citizen squirrels are shot at or chased by dogs and cats, the highly trained and motivated commando squirrel team is called in action to quickly extinguish the threat so that the normal, peace loving squirrels can go on with their contented, nut gathering lives…..bad luck? you betcha!

see what living with Teresa has done to me?

Today’s strip is a film poster just screaming for an independent production to be made around it.

In my neighborhood we have black, gray, and red squirrels. My dog is equally fascinated by all of them.

From the blog: yay! Bananaphone!

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We’ve got all the various squirrel colors in Oregon too - however, it was a large, grey squirrel that I saw on my college campus years ago that I believe to be the unluckiest one of all.

I was walking home from class, when I happened to look across the street to the sidewalk on the other side. Walking there was a girl with a backpack and a(n apparrently shiny) barrette in her hair. As she was passing under a low-hanging tree, a grey squirrel pounced out of said tree onto her backpack and then climbed up to her head and appeared to be trying to TAKE the barrette from her hair. Aside from (or perhaps because of) the fact that the girl was freaking out, this was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The squirrel gave up very quickly (~20 secs), but I still vividly remember the event after about 12 years!

Nighthawks: you live with Teresa!!??! That must be a bit more interesting than most people would wish for. ;-)

The National Zoo (in Washington DC) imported some 18 of the black Canadian squirrels for their grounds in 1902 and 1906 (someone thought they were cool).

The black squirrels managed to escape the grounds and breed with local squirrels, so the local squirrel population in and around DC has changed - I live about 20 miles north of the zoo and about half the squirrels here are shiny black.

In The Two Towers, Faramir mentions having seen Gollum, and says that he thought it was “…one of those black squirrels from Mirkwood…” This is why I always took issue with artist’s depictions of Gollum as pale or white.

One of my favorite words is qualtaigh - it’s an old Celtic word that means the first living thing you see in the morning.

If I lived with Teresa, I’d do a whole lot of ONE THING. Hubba hubba.

WITH! WITH! WITH! OVER AND OVER…

What a choice on the blog sex or toasters.

or squirrels!