Badgers

Poststructural Pub
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Dear foreigners,

THIS is a badger.

All those other odd things that you call badgers are not. I don’t care about history, etymology, zoological taxonomy or anything else. This is a proper badger. Accept no substitute.

If you don’t have this kind where you live, tough - you don’t have badgers then. If that doesn’t suit you, then move house somewhere where they do have proper badgers.

On second thoughts, don’t. The last thing we need is so many badger-seeking migrants trudging about the countryside that the poor things get persecuted to extinction.

Bugger off. Leave our badgers alone. :imp:

That is all.

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Ha ha! Badgers rule!! :smiley:
…so do our local (and many, many) owls. But not when they buzz you when you go out to the bin late at night, then sit outside your window, and “hoot” you awake at 3am! :laughing:
Never been fortunate enough to see a live badger…only several on the roads. :cry:

Cass.

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Good heavens! Do you mean this fellow? :astonished:

djm

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Badgers? Badgers?!? We don’t need no stinking BADGERS!!!

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We have loads of 'em. Good point about roads. Why does wild life insist on using the roads? Late at night I frequently see badgers, sometimes in pairs, running along in front of the car. They’re great, really comical.

There is an owl that patrols our lane. It often flies us an escort as we drive home. It kind of glides about 10 feet in front of the car, following the line of the road.

The biggest hazard is deer. They frequently lurch out of the hedges in front of cars. Hit one of those and you both know about it.

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heh :smiley:

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http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

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Jaysus, not again! :boggle:

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Badger Trance

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Yoink! :astonished:

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Here’s a real badger. Our badgers own your striped rats.

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I thought they were related to weasels :confused:

djm

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A White Mountain Apache Legend

Coyote was traveling along. Badger always used to carry darkness on his back. Coyote met him. “My cross-cousin, what’s in the bag you carry?” he asked. He was hungry and he thought Badger had food in his sack.

Because he thought there was food in there, Coyote wanted to stay around where Badger was and maybe get something to eat. So the two traveled on together for a way. Then Coyote was thinking he would offer to carry the load and let Badger rest.

After quite a while Coyote said, “My cross-cousin, you look tired. You have a heavy load there. Why don’t you let me carry it and you rest ?” “No, I’m not tired. I always travel this way,” Badger said.

After a while Coyote said again, “My cross-cousin, I think you are tired. Let me carry the load for you just a little way and you rest for a while.” “All right, you carry this, my bed, if you want. I know you are thinking it’s something to eat, but it’s not. I carry this always. I’ll let you have it, though.” “I’m just saying this because I want to carry it for you and because you are giving out. I will carry it a little way,” Coyote answered.

So Badger took his pack off and gave it to Coyote and they started on again. After a while Coyote said to Badger, “I want to stop to urinate behind this bush. You keep on ahead and don’t bother to wait for me.” So Badger went on ahead.

As soon as Coyote got behind the bush he started to untie the pack, as that was all he wanted to do in the first place. When he untied the pack, it started to get dark. Darkness was all coming out. Coyote got scared and hollered after Badger, “wa-'a, my cross-cousin, I’m having a bad time here. It must be that you are packing bad things with you. I can hardly see at all.” Badger came back and said, “I told you not to open my pack. Now you have done it and started this. I already told you that there was no food in it. You have done something bad.” Then Badger spread his arms and gathered in all the darkness and shoved it into the sack again, tying the mouth tight. Coyote felt mad on account of being fooled and said “You just carry badness.”

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http://www.steve-kane.co.uk/words/gubbins/badger.htm

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Now THAT’S a proper badger. :smiley:

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You are in error. I refer you to the original post, and respectfully decline to acknowledge the credentials of that object you misname.

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Us Amuricuns oughta grab an Indian word and use it (like raccoon), and the let the Euro-colonizers keep their original monikers. I’m with Bud on this one. I don’t know about English badgers, but they were called it before the name was adopted here.

I was always curious about the term “polecat” because its used on skunks here. There’s a Euro polecat, I guess that once again, is the original and is pretty different.

Now as for which critter called badger can kick Brit butt, well, that’s another story.

Me, I don’t know a badger from a wolverine, but I know the latter is one of the most ferocious beasts around, right??