# Skippy, I hardly knew ye

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879 "2000-10-06T00:30:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879/41 "2000-11-28T23:08:57Z")

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While we’re busy slapping this Zombie thread back to life, allow me to make one minor clarification;

You don’t _run over_ a squirrel.

You _pop_ a squirrel.

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**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879/42 "2000-11-29T02:54:11Z")

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You only got one? I realize that squirrels are marginally more intelligent than gophers (the local road-kill rodent), but you should still have been able to pick off more than one. Maybe you should get wider tires.

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**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879/43 "2000-11-29T16:33:58Z")

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The real victims here are the little squirrel’s little family. Imagine how they feel now. They are sitting there in their little house in a tree, and Skippy never came home from his liesurely stroll. You know the squirrel police aren’t any help what with all the beauracracy and laziness of their force.

Nice one Chief.

Did you know that squirrels can neither contract nor transmit rabies?..or so I hear.

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879/44 "2000-11-29T17:09:36Z")

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Wow. This is a moldy oldy…

kinda like Skippy.

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**Author:** ![dfilpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dfilpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dfilpus)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skippy-i-hardly-knew-ye/35879/45 "2000-11-30T14:26:58Z")

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Why the chicken cross the road?

To show the opossum that it COULD be done.

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