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Muskrat fur flies at Miss Outdoors beauty pageant
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Apr 4, 2008 7:28 AM EDT
Article Source: Chicago Tribuneadvertisement
Contestant No. 1 sashayed down the catwalk, her hair bouncing in blond curls, and smiled a radiant beauty-queen smile. She picked up a furry dead rodent about the size of a football.
Then she took out a very sharp 4-inch blade and stuck the point in just above the animal's tail.
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{"commentId":1654319,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
From the article: "Look at this," said Aaron, 54, holding up red hands after a recent evening of practice in her garage. "I have to go in and soak my hands in bleach every night to get the blood out of my fingernails."
Um...wow.
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- 2 votes
#1 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 7:29 AM EDT{"commentId":1654329,"authorDomain":"bigmomma"}
"Oh my God!" a boy in the audience yelled, at the sight of a woman in perfect makeup with her hand inside a muskrat.
Then, from another part of the crowd: an older woman's voice: "She's good."
different strokes.....
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- 3 votes
#2 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 7:34 AM EDT{"commentId":1654399,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
LOL...ain't that the truth!
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1654627,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
I know a few girls from my college that would fit right in and could probably show them a thing or two.
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- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 9:17 AM EDT{"commentId":1655150,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Its rules are simple: "Fastest time, clean 'rat," locals say, meaning that the hides can't be nicked or torn as they're removed. The pelts are usually taken home and sold by the skinners; the carcasses are sometimes stewed with liberal amounts of sage and eaten.
So, dinner and a show - hillbilly fabulousness! and why is this in decline?!
I once worked for a company that made fur-lined raincoats including muskrat fur. Every few days my boss would say to me "count me 50 rats" at which point I would have to reach in a green garbage bag full of untreated pelts, some with whiskers and claws, most with scrawny little tails... shudder. They get their name from their smell I believe.
Sing it loud..... "Muskrat Lo-o-o-o-o-ve"
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- 2 votes
#4 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 11:18 AM EDT{"commentId":1655751,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
OMG...and I thought I had some icky jobs! Wow...and you turned out ok. :)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1656051,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Worst -- Job -- Ever.
Don't let me commence. What made it even more awful was I had just graduated from fashion design and this was supposed to be my first "break".
♫♪ Muskrat Suzie... Muskrat Sam... ♫
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1656180,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
I feel that an article is appropriate. I will not stop hounding you. :)
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1656696,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Hahaha! thats an interesting idea...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1656709,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
Do it! Do it! Do it! Pretty please with a muskrat pelt on top?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1656053,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}
That's so hot.
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- 2 votes
#5 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 2:40 PM EDT{"commentId":1656195,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
LOL...there's probably a website: www.hotchickswhoskinmuskrats.com
{"commentId":1656195,"threadId":"244974","contentId":"1410197","authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1682239,"authorDomain":"celestina"}
Seriously...I was reading the whole thing going "damn...I wish I knew how to skin a muskrat..."
'Course, given the way my cats keep dragging roadkill up off the street these days, if I just learned tanning I would probably do all right.
{"commentId":1682239,"threadId":"244974","contentId":"1410197","authorDomain":"celestina"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1682992,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}
There are classes hereabouts...
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- 1 vote
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