SQUIRRELS: NASTY, UNPATRIOTIC LITTLE RODENTS?
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(Thanks to Isabelle Briand)
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First.
Yes, but you should see the squirrel's dress, though. It came out SO pretty.
Posted by: D'Artagnan | June 29, 2004 at 06:08 AM
Does anyone know how that yellow ribbon song became patriotic? I thought it was about an inmate writing to his girlfriend.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 29, 2004 at 06:08 AM
How do we know it wasn't the neighbors stealing the ribbons and putting them on THEIR trees. The video was staged and the squirrel was framed.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | June 29, 2004 at 06:08 AM
8 Months of this?!? I suspect the ribbon manufacturers trained rogue squirrels.
Posted by: Drew | June 29, 2004 at 06:08 AM
I'm coming home I've done my time
And I have to know what is or isn't mine
If you received my letter
Telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'd know just what to do
If you still want me
If you still want me
Oh tie a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
It's been three long years
Do you still want me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
Bus driver please look for me
'Cause I couldn't bare to see what I might see
I'm really still in prison
And my love she holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon's all I need to set me free
I wrote and told her please
Oh tie a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
It's been three long years
Do you still want me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon
'Round the old oak tree
Now the whole damn bus is cheering
And I can't believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons
'Round the old, the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the old oak tree
Russell Brown/Irwin Levine
Irwin Levine Music/
Larball Publishing Co. Inc. Plat.
BMI
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 29, 2004 at 06:10 AM
Isn't it about time we withdrew from our occupation of the suburbs & gave the sqirrels control over their nation?
Posted by: lurker | June 29, 2004 at 06:10 AM
(great, now I've got that furshlugginer song in my head. Well, at least I'm not alone . . . )
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 29, 2004 at 06:12 AM
MKJ
There is actually a historic precedent for yellow ribbons signifying remembrance of a loved one off with the miliatry ("She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" 1949, John Wayne, etc. wasn't based on nothing). But how it went from a gal left behind wearing a ribbon with her beau's regimental colors to a convict's moll vandalizing neighborhood trees is anybody's guess, and God knows there's no excuse for that song.
Posted by: Lairbo | June 29, 2004 at 06:14 AM
Lairbo - Gratzie, always wondered about that.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 29, 2004 at 06:16 AM
"Ribbon-Thieving Squirrels".
1st CD comes to stores Monday.
Posted by: jamester | June 29, 2004 at 06:40 AM
Wasn't the ribbon first introduced in front yards during the Iranian Hostage situation? Carter/Reagan era?
Time for someone to write a new song though.
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 29, 2004 at 06:46 AM
Lairbo
Yellow Ribbon Folklore Explained
Posted by: MOTW | June 29, 2004 at 07:05 AM
"Aw, Dad not yellow ribbons again. Why can't we have sunflower seeds like the other squirrels? Perky down the street gets sunflower seeds every day and they never have to eat these stupid ribbons."
"Now Junior eat up. If only you knew what your father had to go through to get these ribbons. You should be a little more supportive."
"Yeah but all the kids laugh at me. Don't you care about my feelings? I HATE YOU!!!" *throws down his ribbon shard and scampers off to his branch in a huff*
"Well that's done it George, Snarly is going to be sulking on his branch all day. You'll be off getting ribbons and I'll be home here listening to him chatter his inane music until I could just go crazy. Something needs to be done."
"I know dear I just don't know what to do. I thought when ribbons started showing up on the other trees that ribbon eating would catch on with everyone. I guess not."
"Mother warned me that I needed to find someone with a bigger territory, but did I listen, Noooo."
Posted by: Lily | June 29, 2004 at 07:10 AM
(who tied the ribbons with his wife, Alexis.)
how do you tie a ribbon with your wife...I usually use my hands.
Posted by: miel | June 29, 2004 at 07:12 AM
Lily, you're so creative! That's hilarious.
Posted by: MOTW | June 29, 2004 at 07:44 AM
Fat Tony: "Tie him up nice and pretty, boys. We don't want the meat to fall off while he's rotisseried."
Squirrel: "I didn't do nuthin'!"
Posted by: MOTW | June 29, 2004 at 07:47 AM
I WIN!
.... so, what do I get? A yellow ribbon?
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 29, 2004 at 08:12 AM
MOTW
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ribbons/ribbons.html
Posted by: Lairbo | June 29, 2004 at 08:40 AM
Where I live, yellow ribbins have also been used to protest road-lane expansion.
Posted by: Mike B. | June 29, 2004 at 09:13 AM
Lairbo, thanks, I like yours better.
Posted by: MOTW | June 29, 2004 at 09:53 AM
The only yellow ribbons on the trees in my front yard read: "Police Line - Do Not Cross."
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