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KICKING THE BUCKET: AGAIN (email the scientist)
I have heard, yet again, from my Canadian critic (enemy of science).. apparently if the opossum-bucket were in Canada and had frozen over (as I posited a few days ago) then cockroaches could not have played hockey upon it as they would have estivated due to the temperature.
Canuck Dude!.. cockroaches don't play hockey no matter what the temperature is! That's just silly.
Even cockroaches have evolved beyond hockey.
Today is the second pour-off day to reveal what we have left.
The rosy-fingers of Aurora, godess of the day revealed something like this:
which really, considering what we have been looking at, looks clean enough
to hard-boil an egg in. Paticularly in some third-world countries. Like Canada.
It also reminds me, a little, of the lose-weight-fast milkshakes that one of
my co-workers has been drinking for lunch. I briefly think of switching her...
.....but then I realize that would be the wrong thing to do (in the sense that
I might end up in jail).
So, I poured off the water and revealed this:
this photo includes the rock I had futilely tried to use to weight the opossum down. I took the rock out and another fill-up and pour resulted in the spine and remaining fur of the critter coming out:
Looks like some kind of evil parasite from a cruddy sci-fi movie, eh? I buried this mess in the backyard and did one more wash and pour, which resulted in the final bucket shot:
You can see the skull bits and jaw, as well as some associated leg bits. I left this out to dry for tomorrow's episode of Opossum Project
NOTE: I was lucky enough to see the future of science this morning as the Jindo came within inches of snatching a squirrel off the top of our 7-foot fence.
The Jindo has hops!
Some Rubrics By Which we can Judge
the Hideosity of The Project |
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| Smell: Rancid water.. not so bad. In my youth I lived in houses that smelled worse than this. |
Consistency: Goat's Head Soup. And I mean that in a good way. |
Visual Appeal: Some bad special effects and dirty water.. nothing I can't see at a matinee. |
Shrinkage: Not much to see, so I'll say Jason Alexander changing at the beach-house |