tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post6252388468704238384..comments2024-01-17T19:11:06.286-08:00Comments on Orange and Silver: ChipdrunksTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665343970056841693noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-18069675330950513552014-10-09T12:14:08.240-07:002014-10-09T12:14:08.240-07:00Seriously, I looked at it as natural selection. Al...Seriously, I looked at it as natural selection. Also, there wasn't a hell of a lot I could do about it, short of cutting down the mulberry tree, filling in the pool, and/or starting a chapter of AA for the chipmunk population (none of which I was particularly inclined to do). Besides, you make a point--can you imagine if we were taken over by chipmunks and they mandated things like all music must be recorded with the "chipmunk sound"? Pharell Williams' "Happy" was hard enough to take 7,493 times at regular speed, much less at Chipmunk speed.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-41363505610818065092014-10-09T12:02:02.587-07:002014-10-09T12:02:02.587-07:00Imagine all the chipmunks there would be in the wo...Imagine all the chipmunks there would be in the world if those mulberries and that pool weren't there to thin out their numbers. At their reproductive rates, I'm quite sure we would have chipmunk overlords by now. <br /><br />ALVIN!Jeffhttp://jeffandjillwentupthehill.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-35100995405869116522014-10-08T20:23:48.608-07:002014-10-08T20:23:48.608-07:00I'll save you a seat if I get there first!I'll save you a seat if I get there first!Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-12364351821045575352014-10-08T20:14:46.920-07:002014-10-08T20:14:46.920-07:00Ok, maybe it's wrong but I'm going to burn...Ok, maybe it's wrong but I'm going to burn in hell anyway, but this made me laugh my ass off from beginning to end.Opticynicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059382464905100473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-35790032078330095252014-10-08T16:34:32.509-07:002014-10-08T16:34:32.509-07:00Without the pool it could be quite amusing. Drunk ...Without the pool it could be quite amusing. Drunk chipmunks, drunk birds, drunk...other things that eat mulberries. I was thinking bears, but you know, I'm not so sure a drunk bear would be amusing as much as it would be alarming and scary as shit.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-80678866348013844652014-10-08T16:29:05.999-07:002014-10-08T16:29:05.999-07:00I want a mulberry tree and I want it now. I don...I want a mulberry tree and I want it now. I don't have a pool, but I'm imagining my yard filled with drunk forest animals and it is strangely appealing.Stephhttp://wedontchewglass.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-89369470614331056732014-10-08T14:08:26.111-07:002014-10-08T14:08:26.111-07:00Brooke - we may yet see such a work emerge.
Chri...Brooke - we may yet see such a work emerge. <br /><br />Chris - they were very hard to herd. The problem was, they never gave us any advance notice before they showed up and got tanked. By the time we could have had some fun with them, they were so plastered that they were incapable of doing anything but drowning in our pool. People talk about herding cats, but that's cake compared to wrangling a bunch of sloshed chipmunks.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-73324161103250349982014-10-08T13:55:33.413-07:002014-10-08T13:55:33.413-07:00I'm not sure if I'm more amused or horrifi...I'm not sure if I'm more amused or horrifies. What I do know is I have all sorts of ideas about what I'd do with a bunch of drunk chipmunks. Like a little beer garden for Octoberfest, complete with lederhosen. Chris Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00008694485795818520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-44526523453182063412014-10-08T12:14:37.034-07:002014-10-08T12:14:37.034-07:00Shitastrophy - I highly recommend a pool. Both as ...Shitastrophy - I highly recommend a pool. Both as an asshole chipmunk control mechanism, and for sheer enjoyment.<br /><br />DRE - Chipmunks apparently don't take kindly to drinking with humans. They only did it when we weren't out there. Occasionally we'd hear the splash as they fell in.<br /><br />Margot - I suppose we could have done that, but truthfully we probably had half a dozen of these per year. My description makes it sound like it was daily occurrence, but that's not really the case (poetic license ;) ). So I'd have been setting out water to save the lives of six chipmunks. Eh, natural selection. Alcoholism wasn't passed on to future generations. They were pretty visible when they were in there--you'd see them lying on the bottom pretty plainly. No danger of paddling along and all of a sudden putting your foot down on a dead wino chipmunk.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-18685153485250515612014-10-08T12:11:18.486-07:002014-10-08T12:11:18.486-07:00I imagine a novelist moving in and writing a scree...I imagine a novelist moving in and writing a screenplay based on those piles of chipmunk corpses.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17672559549435752463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-71047790876696618152014-10-08T11:13:10.670-07:002014-10-08T11:13:10.670-07:00Let's see....If I were the new owner of the ho...Let's see....If I were the new owner of the house behind yours I'd think that either there was some sort of Nazi/KKK chipmunk killing brigade running rampant, or that the zombie apocalypse had begun and was going after small animals first. Or that there was a budding psychopath in the neighborhood. And I'm pretty sure I'd sell the house without ever actually occupying it. But I'd also have probably done the same thing if I were in your position. I guess you could have tried setting out bowls of water for them. Did you ever swim in the pool without checking for dead chipmunks first?Margotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-16566710748793919762014-10-08T10:10:11.161-07:002014-10-08T10:10:11.161-07:00Hahaha, drunk chipmunks!! I love them already. I t...Hahaha, drunk chipmunks!! I love them already. I think I would be sad to drink my own beer on the deck while my little buddies got drunk on berries and died in my pool. I hope the PETA people don't read this. Oh, I may tag them in a Twitter post of this!!! That might be fun.DREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043765605688184247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-56206573417662763472014-10-08T09:33:07.888-07:002014-10-08T09:33:07.888-07:00We could use a pool bc our chipmunks are total dic...We could use a pool bc our chipmunks are total dicks and need to be drowned. The Shitastrophyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354384117658924612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-4131481238748391612014-10-08T06:12:30.511-07:002014-10-08T06:12:30.511-07:00Well, there's every chance that nasty little s...Well, there's every chance that nasty little scavengers picked up the remains and...ah...disposed of them some other way. Although I'm not sure things like raccoons eat carrion, but I'd rather not think about it before breakfast.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-52519807031472972072014-10-08T06:06:50.145-07:002014-10-08T06:06:50.145-07:00OMG YOUR POOR NEIGHBORSOMG YOUR POOR NEIGHBORSSarah (est. 1975)http://established1975.comnoreply@blogger.com