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My dog died in 1992, I blame Global Warming.

Because no species in the history of the world has ever gone extinct before the industrial revolution, or the rise of humankind for that matter.

As an aside, I wonder if that's "Doctor Death" Steve Williams, or "Stone Cold" Steve Austin using his real name again. Life after wrestling must be really desperate if they have to resort to shameless fear-mongering to make a living.

Possums? Never did much like those varmints.

Ingredients
1 each possum
1 each onion chopped
1 tablespoon bacon drippings
1 cup bread crumbs
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 each egg chopped

Directions
Remove head and tail of possum (some people keep the head on).

Soak in cold water to which is added 1 cup salt.

Drain and rinse with boiling water.

Stuff with possum stuffing, close the opening, and roast in black iron pot with a little water for 1-1/2 hours at 350 degrees F.

CoderInCrisis: Neither, Dr. Death Steve Williams is wrestling at indy shows in Oklahoma, and Stone COld Steve Austin is making a second movie.

Boo Fkn Hoo!

Global Warming got my granma too!

The coelacanth hadn't been seen for a billion trillion years either. Suddenly it pops up?

Besides that ain't no Australian white possum! They drive on the wrong side down there!

Possum: The Other White Meat

A species unique to one island goes extinct? Well, I've never heard of such a thing!

opossum IS a staple in the south...some say it tastes just like bald eagle which others say tastes just like chicken!

btw - we're in the beginnings of "bald eagle watching" days here in the ozarks and they're everywhere - have to keep an extra close eye on the small dog, lest he become eagle poop.

Naqamel: Yeah, I imagine Dr. Death can work in Oklahoma for the rest of his life. He was always hugely popular there (football star at OSU, if memory serves). Occasionally I'll come across episodes of the Bill Watts Mid-South wrestling shows recorded in Tulsa (I think), and William's fan reaction was always huge.

As for Austin's next movie, good for him. I always enjoyed watching him - sometimes his 10 minute promos were the only good thing about Monday Night Raw, unless the Rock was back from making one of his movies. Otherwise, it was all HHH all the time. Yuck. At least he doesn't have to kill himself in the ring anymore or add to his list of injuries - both knees shot, broken neck, etc. Not to mention dealing with Vince McMahon for any length of time.

I thought I saw that picture years ago, with the caption "Winner of the "It's not MY job" award."

It was 27 degrees last night, today it's 50. I dare not look outside for fear that everything must certainly be dead.

Hmm, I remember living in Indiana we never saw a opossom, and often would see them on the road dead when traveling south to Florida for spring break. It seems to me that the opossum liked the warm weather better, I'm sure they aren't racist. So if warmer is better for the opossum of America, why would it kill of those in Aussyland?

Possum pie and gopher gravy.

POSSUM STEW,POSSUM SOUP,FRICASEIN POSSUM,ROAST POSSUM YUM YUM YUM DROOL SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

I've never tasted Oppossum... I can't believe I'm going to ask this, but... am I missing out?

And there's no way it's better than deer or moose.

ITS DEAD JIM

Hang on a minute ... aren't Possums a pest, especially in NZ and California!! Why don't we just export them back??
Whenever I read some uneducated journo throwing a cuddly animal infront of GW hysteria I want to puke.

Global Warming is a HOAX !!!
The proof is undeniable.
Do your research. Use your brain.
Watch this ... you might learn something ie; the truth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHZOYtAytU

Also in SMH following about the new Brainwashing Religion of radical extremists who believe in GW.

'As the global financial crisis takes hold, perhaps people are starting to wonder whether the so-called precautionary principle, which would have us accept enormous new taxes in the guise of an emissions trading scheme and curtail economic growth, is justified, based on what we actually know about climate.
One of Australia's leading enviro-sceptics, the geologist and University of Adelaide professor Ian Plimer, 62, says he has noticed audiences becoming more receptive to his message that climate change has always occurred and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
In a speech at the American Club in Sydney on Monday night for Quadrant magazine, titled Human-Induced Climate Change - A Lot Of Hot Air, Plimer debunked climate-change myths.
"Climates always change," he said. Our climate has changed in cycles over millions of years, as the orbit of the planet wobbles and our distance from the sun changes, for instance, or as the sun itself produces variable amounts of radiation. "All of this affects climate. It is impossible to stop climate change. Climates have always changed and they always will."
His two-hour presentation included more than 50 charts and graphs, as well as almost 40 pages of references. It is the basis of his new book, Heaven And Earth: The Missing Science Of Global Warming, to be published early next year.
Plimer said one of the charts, which plots atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature over 500 million years, with seemingly little correlation, demonstrates one of the "lessons from history" to which geologists are privy: "There is no relationship between CO2 and temperature."
Another slide charts the alternating periods of cooling and warming on Earth, with the Pleistocene Ice Age starting 110,000 years ago and giving way, 14,700 years ago, to the Bolling warm period for 800 years. This in turn gave way to the Older Dryas cooling for 300 years, then the Allerod warming for 700 years, and so on, until the cooling of the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850. Since 1850, we have lived through the "Modern Warming", one of the most stable climate periods in history.
Plimer said some astronomers predict we are headed for a new cooling period.
Plimer said there is a division between those scientists who sit in front of super computers and push piles of data into the mathematical models that drive the theory of climate change, and those who take measurements in the field. "What we're measuring is urbanisation," Plimer said.

Plimer's message is that the idea humans cause climate change has become a fundamentalist religion which is corrupting science. It is embedded with a fear of nature and embraced principally by city people who have lost touch with nature.
He likens the debate to the famous 1990s battle he had in the Federal Court, where he accused an elder of The Hills Bible Church in Baulkham Hills of breaching Australia's Trade Practices Act by claiming to have found scientific evidence of Noah's Ark in Turkey.
Plimer says creationists and climate alarmists are quite similar in that "we're dealing with dogma and people who, when challenged, become quite vicious and irrational".
source: smh.com.au/news/environment/beware-climate-alarmists/2008/11/26/1227491635989.html