KLEENT's Squirrel?

“Bakersfield, huh?

You is a hillybilly!”

“Click on the photo to learn about squirrel fishing.

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“sqwirlz and monkeys and beers, oh my!”

“That rocks”

“And it's catch and release too!”

“Sorry folks. Think I saw the squirrel laying in the parking lane of Greenfield aveune here in Chicago. He appeared to have fallen out of tree on to the pavement, and I just drove around him.”

“April 4, 2003

Squirrels fly Stars and Stripes from treetop nest
By DEREK HARPER Staff Writer,www.pressofatlanticcity.com (609) 272-7203

WINSLOW TOWNSHIP - Estelle Quidley doesn't know how the squirrels planted the American flag at the top of her pine tree.

All she knows is that last month, right after the Iraq invasion started, the rodents started proudly flying it from their nest.

"They're patriotic, but they're thieves," said Quidley Thursday. "They stole it from someplace."

For a couple of weeks, the flag has hung from her tree, several dozen feet up. When the wind is right, she says, it hangs down and ripples slightly.

The squirrels have been there for years, she said. Every spring they disassemble their nest and start again.

Quidley was out in the front yard, cleaning up after them last month, when she spied it.

"I probably wouldn't have noticed," she said, "but the flag was just flapping up there."

"It looks like they just stuck it out of the nest," she explained. "Maybe they use it to wrap up with at night," she said with a giggle.

She checked around, but none of her neighbors reported missing flags, Quidley said. The one she has on her handrail is still there.

It's the talk of the neighborhood. "I have fun telling the people how patriotic they are," she said with a laugh. Her friend Themla Raso even wrote a four-line poem about it, she said.

"I have a patriotic squirrel who likes to fly our flag.

He not only eats our nuts, he also hoards our rag.

He built his house way up in our tree

To be away from the hunters so that he may be free."

Locally, the squirrels have a bad reputation, Quidley said: "They eat my flower bulbs, anything they can get."

Once, about five years ago, she left a pair of house shoes out to dry.

"I only found one," she said. "They weren't in the yard or anything. Maybe that's how they got the flag."”

“And to think, everybody thought I was wierd when I told about Psycho stealing tomatoes.”

“BTW torll, the name is Kleetn, not Kleent!”

“It wasn't the tomato story that clued us in pal.”

“That's no torll, that's Violin!

The name check is no longer case-sensitive, you can log in with any combination of upper- and lower-case letters, and it will work.”

“See?”

“Wrong. I'm Violin and a torll. heh heh”

“...and back to the original..”

“see?”

“Violin has always been a torll, and a troll too, for that matter. And you are correct. I have always been wierd. It's kept me from going insane.”

“I think this is as good an opportunity as any to mention that Violin, in whichever letter type he uses, should be......
insert drum roll here.....
banned.”

“Banned or shot, whatever. Of course, shooting him would cost 35 cents.”

“Where's Phaedrus?”

“Quoting a famous line from the rock-opera Tommy, "Go to the mirror, boy!".”