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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2013-12-25 12:52 AM, Pico Rico wrote:
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>>
>> That guy needs to sharpen his knives, develop more skill, or both. I was
>> doing that job way better when I was a teenager. And we didn't waste a
>> bullet on him, either - ridiculous!
>>
>> Too bad he left the ribs in, too. I prefer to chop down along the
>> backbone,
>> then remove the ribs.
>>

>
>
> I never had rabbit when I was a kid. My father had been raised on a rabbit
> ranch during the Depression. He had butchered and eaten so many rabbits
> that he was pretty well fed up with it.
>
> In his account of escaping after being shot down during the war he wrote
> about sitting on the top of a small hill and watching a train load of
> German war materials going by. A rabbit came along The German soldiers on
> the train waved to him and he waved back, the rabbit sitting up beside
> him. It was close enough for him to reach out and grab it. He had not
> eaten for a couple days, but he didn't want rabbit.


Hmmm then he wasn't hungry enough!

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