Posted on 11/16/2006 1:20:41 PM PST by jazusamo
A few choice chunks from the Big Gore-Tex Northwest Mailbag, special Mildew Edition:
Q: My mom, who lives in Spokane, swears she saw a moose in the backyard of her trailer park a couple weekends ago. I think she's been sipping too much schnapps and told her so. Am I out on a limb here?
A: Way out, and not that you probably care about this, but that sound you hear is wood cracking.
It's very possible your mom saw a moose because, according to officials with the joint Idaho/Washington Alarming Moose Statistics Information Bureau, moose numbers have "exploded" through the Interior Northwest in recent years.
Moose, in fact, have been spotted far outside their recent historical range, which formerly was limited to extreme (pardon the redundancy) Northeastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and the walls of taverns in Roslyn. They've recently been spotted next to naked Washington State University frat pledges in fields in the Palouse, and south all the way through the Blue Mountains to Hells Canyon in Southeastern Washington.
Our take: This little population boomlet is the proverbial moose nose under the tent flap. Next thing you know, they're going to be hogging all the good parking spots at Redmond Town Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
A moose once bit my sister.
Many sisters live in fear in WA now.
I keep my moose hung on the wall.
Well, the article was all about well hung moose.
Some are also mounted in barns.
Whatever you do, DO NOT CARVE YOUR INITIALS ON THE MOOSE!!!
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