Today is the day. I’ve tried to be nice and invite them to leave. I’ve hidden the food and turned down the heat. But they just didn’t take the cue. So I’ve poisoned them. Every last one of them. And now I must hunt down their bloated little corpses and get rid of them, or risk having vole zombies in my garage, squeaking “braaiiinnnsss” in their high little voices.
The mice were bad enough, but at least I could trap them. Voles are so small that they crawl all over the traps, eat the bait and spray nasty grafitti on them. Well, today is garbage day my little tagger friends, and the landfill awaits you.
I’m just awestruck that nobody else was willing to share your glee over this development.
As for Odin!!! I was a big fan of the Kirk Douglas - Tony Curtis - Ernest Borgnine The Vikings back in college days. Odin!!! became our way of praying.
Last Thanksgiving I was asked to offer Grace over the family dinner. Guess what I used!
I saw that movie probably ten times when it came out; Odin became my favorite exclamation for several years. I think I may have a very ratty paperback copy of the book around here somewhere. Edison Marshall was a very prolific writer but I think The Vikings was his home run shot.
I loved the music, too. In fact, a college buddy and I had a little <off color> song we’d scream on our way back to the dorm from the cafeteria. It was to the tune of the theme music and started off with O-o-din over the opening three notes.
What was the line? “Even now he hastens to his death” or “Look how he hastens to his death.”?
I always thought that stupid Rocola cough drop commercial lifted the first line of the Vikings soundtrack. And the line you ask about was “Look how he hastens to his death.” And yes, Janet Leigh was absolutely gorgeous; I don’t think she ever looked better. Now I want to see that movie again a few more times.
I cannot say how many books I read in my youth that were illustrated by Frazetta.
If I remember correctly that first one is Moorcock the title is escaping me at the moment.
Yes Vellejo did some GREAT illustrations. There was much “study” of my brothers Playboys any time I saw one.
This seems a good place to mention that there is a really, really nasty rodenticide out there that no one should ever use. It’s more of an agricultural rodenticide so maybe it’s not in the local Home Depot yet. It’s a zinc phosphide poison and when ingested releases phosphine gas which kills the rodents, your pets and the people at the vet clinic trying to help your pet and maybe you too, if you’re around when your pet vomits the stuff up.
This has been a public service announcement from a veterinary technician that does not want to be poisoned while trying to help your pet.
I was just cruising through old threads that hadn’t had all that many replies to see if I might want to open the topic in a new one and point to the old one (as we’re supposed to do with zombies) whan I saw that I had mentioned Thring! There’s a current thread dealing with “prick character actors” and I had mentioned Thring with no links or pictures and just asked, “Does anybody remember Frank Thring?”
What has followed has proven to be a self-referencing zombie thread dealing with real-life vole zombies and Vikings and fjords and no telling what all before it gets locked and that sort of thing.
It’s not your fault in any way, Chefguy, and I beg your forgiveness. :smack:
