I was planning on going to the New Years eve possum drop in Tallapoosa but as it is pouring down the rain the more die hard denizens of rural Georgia will have to enjoy the festivities of the swinging marsupial without me.
And it was gonna be a big shin dig too.
Wife's trio is singing for a party of about 50.?ÿ Scheduled to be done well before midnight, so we hope to be home before the drunk drivers are too numerous.
Wife's trio is singing for a party of about 50.?ÿ Scheduled to be done well before midnight, so we hope to be home before the drunk drivers are too numerous.
But there will be no angry, hissing marsupials swinging from a cage involved?? Gonna be a boring time for you.
33 years ago tonight. Spent the evening in Houston with Willie Nelson. ?ÿI was so far up in the seats I might have been higher than he was. ?ÿA great showman. though.
I think I"d rather listen to their harmonies.?ÿ Here's an older video of them.
I looked of the?ÿNew Years eve possum drop in Tallapoosa. Looks like the real deal.
I looked of the?ÿNew Years eve possum drop in Tallapoosa. Looks like the real deal.
Well of course it's real, did you think for a second that any self respecting Georgian would miss an opportunity to hang a possum in a cage, imbibe alcohol and have fun preforming a new years eve countdown. It's a hoot.
Apparently you have no clue that during the 96?ÿ Olympic games held in Georgia that the rednecks of this fine state began the Redneck Games. These games ran for 20 years and included fine sports demonstrating extreme athletic prowess such as bobbing for pigs feet, cow chip throwing and wife carrying, mud rassling and belly flop contest, and lets not forget tobacco spitting.
And you thought I was joking about the Possum Drop.
I was planning on going to the New Years eve possum drop in Tallapoosa but as it is pouring down the rain the more die hard denizens of rural Georgia will have to enjoy the festivities of the swinging marsupial without me.
And it was gonna be a big shin dig too.
You made out of sugar or something??ÿ ?????ÿ
The self acclaimed possum capitol of the world is about an hour west of me complete with museum and 10ft possum pole.
Was a large party at one time, now I am not sure of the sign is still kept painted.
I had a short drink to toast in the new and a room full of grandkids watching the old.
gotta go change their movie.............
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When I was a child, my father and one of his brothers caught a 'possum and tied tin cans to his tail.?ÿ They turned him loose on Slappey Drive (the main street through town and US 19) in Albany, Georgia.?ÿ The more noise the cans made the faster he would run, and the faster he would run the more noise the cans made.?ÿ It didn't take much to amuse us back then.
In high school I would "spotlight" 'possums out in the middle of peanut fields after harvesting and chase them down and grab them by the tail as I ran by.?ÿ I would sell them for a dollar apiece to some of the poorer families around who liked to eat them.
Andy
In high school I would "spotlight" 'possums out in the middle of peanut fields after harvesting and chase them down and grab them by the tail as I ran by.?ÿ I would sell them for a dollar apiece to some of the poorer families around who liked to eat them.
Andy
Andy, I have eaten possum and I gotta tell ya that while I have limited cooking skills I am of the opinion that no amount of seasoning can make a possum taste good and as it pertains to those poor families, I doubt that they liked to eat possums but rather because they were poor their options were limited unless they had a change of fortune which rarely happens to poor folks. So........they ate possums.
The only recipe I know of is pile a stack of sweet potato around the possum and bake until it is done.
