You don't eat crawdads if their tails stick straight out! I learned that years ago from good trailer park livin, crawdad sucking, gumbo swilling, alligator wrassling, LSU cheering, swamp stalkin, hurricane drinkin, bead throwin, float ridin, nutria cookin (they eat those over there, supposed to be good meat, wished they would come get them out of the ditches near my house!) where was I, oh, Saints flopping in playoffs lovin, moss growin, jambalaha snuffing, buddy Jimmi Patin (pronounced Pah-teen) who taught me that years ago. Jimmi owned a pristine 69 BBB AMX until he sold it a few years ago, I should have bought it for $5000 but no room nor $$$. When Jimmi speaks, you have a meal, as all you have to do is get out the chipstillas and wipe off what slides down off the side of his mouth when speaking, all sorts of good stuff, just splash on some Tabasco and you have a good meal, more food on his shirt, big AMCer about 400 lbs who loves to cook. Good cajun fella who has probably lost more money betting on the Saints (the ain'ts) than I have spend on all 292 AMCs I have owned combined. As for Nutria, man, they are RODENTS, big ones at that: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/images/nutria.jpg "Nutria (Myocastor coypus) are semi-aquatic rodents native to South America, which now also occupy brackish water marshes in parts of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. The rodents were first introduced to the United States to enhance the fur trade, and arrived in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1943 as part of an experimental fur station. The station did not succeed and the nutria that were inadvertently released to the wild produced the major populations that exist today in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Nutria grow to a length of about two feet and weigh about 15 to 20 pounds. The beaver-like nutria have large yellow incisors and enormous appetites. They forage on the essential root mats of wetland grasses. The destruction of these root mats, also called an "eat-out," destabilizes soil, which leads to erosion of vital wetland areas. Female nutria reproduce throughout the year, often giving birth to three litters annually. Adult nutria have few competitors and often out-compete the native muskrat by aggressive behavior and habitat requirements" http://home.teleport.com/~hotaru/nutria/photos.html But supposed to be good eating, but you add enough Creole or Cajun fixings to it everything tastes great, no one needs to know what is in the cookin pot anyhows. How do you think fat boy Paul Prudohomme got so rich? My guess is nutrias. Just like Swap Meet Sausage. Everyone here loves it, me too, but what the hell is IN it? Is it meat? Bondo? Granny's possum? Sure is good though! Not sure what gris gris is, but my guess it could be cured by pennicillin... Eddie Stakes www.planethoustonamx.com *Note volume of email is extremely heavy, expect 5-12 day responses ----- Original Message ----- From: <badass73gremlin@xxxx> To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: Re: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: If Rednecks rule the world!! (non amc!) They were good for a laugh Eddie. It's nice when we can make fun of each other and laugh at each other without getting mad. There were 4 redneck comic's on tv last weekend and the story's they told kept me laughing for hours because I could relate to them haveing spent 3 1/2 years of my 4 years in the Navy in the south. My favorite is Jeff Foxworthy. "Doc" I especially dug that Tater Salad guy when he was making fun of you YANKEES!!>:) lol and yes we all can kid each other,i never get mad at Eddie and his borderline psychotic abusive nature towards those from the'Sportsmans Paradise state'and that i mean Louisiana where i happened to be born i.e New Orleans LOL Eddie musta had a bad time at Mardi Gras one year or some sh!# LOL ate some bad jcrawdads or got into some bad gris gris :) Bart