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he was under my bench by the river tonight. i came around the corner and there he was. we both exited stage left quickly in opposite directions. he didnt spray and i didnt pee in my pants.

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you should publish these in a book of poems.

not kidding at all.

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I really don't like nature that much, but from your posts, where you live sounds beautiful.

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i went for a walk once , it was getting dark and i get to this spot around the block that is kinda a fielded area with some bushes, by these bushes i see about 5 skunks !!!
i started running back the way i came... a gang of skunks is a scary sight..!! probably the only time i've seen a skunk that wasn't dead on the road.

glad you didn't get sprayed or pee in your pants, dude. skunks suck!

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I have to bypass 2 or 3 skunks every night I go home. In the dark! I cannot imagine how much it would suck to be sprayed by one.

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I am confused at how both of you could exit stage left while moving in opposite directions.

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What color were they wearing?

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seperate stages, duh!

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What color were they wearing?

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lol

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What color were they wearing?

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i like to ask my boyfriend what color he loves me.

i don't know how colors relate to gangs if that is suppose to be funny. but they were black & white and read all over. crap, wait, no. i dunno. they were carrying spiked clubs and flails. wait no. there was just a lot of skunks, basically.

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gorie, skunks are solitary so you saw a family. mom and her young. thats fun to see. but getting TOO close.

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one time I was walking my dog on the Kim Williams nature trail by the Clark Fork. We ran into a mommy skunk and her babies. Mommy did a hand stand with her butt up in the air and pointed torwards my dog. Fortunately I had a nice dog. He wagged his tail and smiled at her. Everyone just walked away. Good thing I had a smart dog.

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oh man, I could tell you some skunk stories. My dog back home prolly killed 1 a week when I was growing up.

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Don't skunks only spray you if you try to get to close or harm them?

Lawrence

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I am confused at how both of you could exit stage left while moving in opposite directions.

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they are facing each other.. then both exit to their respective stage left, in opposite directions.

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I have a big white dog. It got hit pretty bad by a skunk once so we had to rub tomato juice all over it to get rid of the smell. For the next month I had a big fluffy pink dog. When people drove/walked by they couldn't help but stare at it.

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For an animal, especially a small one, being close is almost the same thing as attacking them. That's how people get bitten by rattlesnakes without being aggressive; they just get too close by walking around or stepping over a log, never even knowing a snake was close by.

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they are facing each other.. then both exit to their respective stage left, in opposite directions.

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No... in that case one person would exit stage right and the other stage left.

stage left can not have different meanings for two (or more) people, that would defeat the purpose of the term.

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each of them is on his own stage clearly.

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you can't weasel out of being wrong that easily...

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the truth hurts, i'm no theater nerd.

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each of them is on his own stage clearly.

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Clearly.

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the term as i know it was always used to mean now you are getting out of here quickly. remember snaggle puss, thats what he said when he was splitting. no direction needed just splitting.

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For the record:

Stage directions pertain to the actors left or right...i.e, if I said I was exiting stage left, the audience would see me leaving to their right.

Makes it easier on the actors.

Nice post Ray. We need more of this in OOT.

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the term as i know it was always used to mean now you are getting out of here quickly. remember snaggle puss, thats what he said when he was splitting. no direction needed just splitting.

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I was speaking to daryn's explanation which is clearly wrong.

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You don;t hear too much about skunks over here. I take it being sprayed is really, really bad. But like how bad? I need stories.

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When I lived in Pasadena there were skunks around all the time. Driving back home from LA, north on the 110 at night it always smelled skunky.

Then there was the time I pulled into my parking spot and there was one right there. He ran away but I think he sprayed somewhere in the yard because it reeked for days.

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I have a big white dog. It got hit pretty bad by a skunk once so we had to rub tomato juice all over it to get rid of the smell. For the next month I had a big fluffy pink dog. When people drove/walked by they couldn't help but stare at it.

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Yea. We had a dog growing up that at least once a year she'd get into a skunk when we were out hunting. Tomato juice works as good as anything, but she was still sleeping outside for a few days. Ironically her name was Rosebud. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

edit: we used to always take the juice with us hunting because no way were we letting her in the truck smelling like that.

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You don;t hear too much about skunks over here. I take it being sprayed is really, really bad. But like how bad? I need stories.

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Well I don't have any personal stories, but my brother used to work at some tree store and they had to set traps in the fields for raccoons. One day he went up to get the trap then realized it was a skunk that was in there, when I walked into the mudroom that day where his BOOTS were I was like W...T...F IS THAT SMELL!? It's awful

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edit: we used to always take the juice with us hunting because no way were we letting her in the truck smelling like that.

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Yeah my dog got sprayed once and what did it do?

It ran inside and wiped itself off all over my bed! Greeeeeaatttttt...

He is a Yorkie and has a puppy cut, so we washed him up and he only stunk for a few days.

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I cant imagine what actually getting sprayed would be like. But I've had dozens of encounters of being really really close to where it sprayed. The smell is so awful it has made me throw up before. It also sticks around what seems like FOREVER. My dog got sprayed so many times we finally quit washing her with tomotoe juice when it happened, cuz it was to much effort. She would smell horrible for 3 or 4 days. And then the rare times she managed to avoid a skunk for a couple weeks, if it rained, she would stink all over again.

IF we left the windows open at night, and a skunk sprayed, it would wake you up from your sleep. The whole house would stink, and the clothes in your closet would smell like skunk when you wore them out the next day.

Its truly awful stuff

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Thanks.

This invites an obvious question. How much money would it take for people to be willingly sprayed by a skunk?

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when i was a kid and trapped i would get sprayed frequently. no big deal. just throw out the clothes and shower real good and stink for a few days.

the secret when you run over one in your car or pass by one dead is to close your windows as soon as you see it. then immediately past it, open them up to get that air out.

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Wow, your clothes that are inside your house would smell from a skunk spraying outside? That's nasty.

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I love the smell of skunk....

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I like it too, but getting sprayed directly would not be good. I also would not like to be doused with an entire bottle of my favorite cologne or perfume.

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It turns out that there's a better option: hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and soap. Read this page .. he did some research, published it in Chemical and Engineering News a while ago and then put some stuff up on the web. This was very nice to have last year when we trapped 11 (yes, 11) skunks under our house.

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great for your pet but hydrogen peroxide also bleaches everything, like your hair and stuff. so watch out. what you see on the internet isnt always good for you even if its effective.

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As it happens, whatever wiring is required to do this, I don't have. I can smell plenty of other things, good and bad, but have never smelled skunk. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] I'm not curious enough to go to the hunting supplies and sniff the skunk scent, so I guess I'll have to go without.