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Beaver tail aspirin?
1 posted on 03/22/2011 7:06:43 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv; neverdem

Offbeat ping?


2 posted on 03/22/2011 7:07:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
The oil found in the glands at the base of its tail contains salicylic acid (aspirin) which was used as medicine for headaches and fever in the middle ages.

Too much information.
3 posted on 03/22/2011 7:09:29 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: decimon


4 posted on 03/22/2011 7:09:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: decimon

Wynona’s big brown beaver?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg


9 posted on 03/22/2011 7:17:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: decimon

No wonder the birth rate is so low.


11 posted on 03/22/2011 7:22:03 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: decimon

“Beaver tail aspirin?”

“The oil found in the glands at the base of its tail contains salicylic acid (aspirin) which was used as medicine for headaches and fever in the middle ages.”

Well, I understand they like to chew on young willow trees, I guess that’s where they’d get it.


15 posted on 03/22/2011 7:39:39 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: decimon

I guess the Brits were a little too hard on the Beaver.


17 posted on 03/22/2011 7:48:50 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: decimon

When I was a boy they had beaver up some of our mountain creeks. They helped create meadows and the fishing was great. Beaver feaver caused the authorities to trap them all so they wouldn’t have to worry about the water supply.

Now, not many fish, everything is overgrown, trails all washed away, just not that fun to hike, let alone camp up those creeks anymore. I miss them.


21 posted on 03/22/2011 8:19:50 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Sorry for typos: typed with IPhone)
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To: decimon

I like beavers.


23 posted on 03/22/2011 8:45:50 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: decimon

They’ll be sorry...


25 posted on 03/22/2011 9:30:42 PM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: decimon

“June, I’m Home”.
“Ward, I’m worried about the Beav”.


35 posted on 03/25/2011 6:36:37 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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