Remember when.......
9…lucky rabbit’s feet were everywhere. You could buy them as impulse items at convenience stores and department stores alike. People openly carried these animal feet on their key chains and in their purses. What an array of colors were available too. That was a neat trick because orange and purple fur don’t register as easily in the brain as being from an actual rabbit.
It all seemed so innocent when I was a kid. This was the pre-PETA age when you could kill rabbits for no more than a superstition. Ah, the memories.
Coming from the rabbit’s perspective, that whole thing sucked. They escaped the plight of being considered delicious food by the masses but somehow instead got their feet chopped off for trinkets. I won’t blame the bunnies if they some day rise up and get their revenge.
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/giphy rabbit’s foot revenge
@chacham
/youtube Where’s the wabbit opera
I so remember them. I could not even touch one, it grossed me out so much.
@conandlibrarian how about how they look without fur
@denboy you know so many kids would rub those soft feet on their faces, not knowing what lurked underneath.
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This thread makes me sad. I had one. I never really thought about it. When I got older and would go to the Renaissance Festival, I always wanted a fox tail, but then I just thought about that poor fox, and I refused to buy it. I don’t have a problem with leather, because I eat cows… But any other animal fur, I just can’t do.
The faux fur out now, is sometimes just as nice.
@RiotDemon
/youtube little bunny foofoo
@denboy As for the revenge part, in due time, this could happen too …
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/running-with-chainsaws
My wife’s family raised rabbits for food during lean times. The pelts were sold to crafters or for other uses. My Dad and uncles hunted rabbits for the pot. At my first job, the store next door was a leather craft/taxidermy place and we made rabbitskin presents for our parents one year. When my Dad took us camping after we came along we used to have trout one night and rabbit stew the next.
What is owed the critters is a quick and as painless as possible death, and not killing them for no purpose (fun is not a purpose, neither is cutting off a couple of their paws and leaving the rest).
I’ve seen large feral cats torture and ‘play’ a rabbit or squirrel to death, and the sounds the critter makes are something I won’t ever forget. I wish I’d had a .22 or even a pneumatic handy to put the rabbit out of its misery (it was tempting to shoot the cat) but local laws made that impossible.
I had a purple (of course) one as a kid and I loved that thing. Of course, at the time, it never occurred to me that it was from a real rabbit. I guess I just thought it was made in a factory or something. I haven’t thought about it in years and now I feel guilty for owning one. Thanks.
@PurplePawprints You got tricked by the pretty colors too. Mine was orange and it didn’t sink in till years later that it was chopped off of a real bunny. Guess we’re both riding the guilt train.
I’m sure some of them were fake.
https://www.amazon.com/Assorted-Color-Lucky-Rabbits-Chains/dp/B00I53T2OE/
and now I’m depressed.
You did forget to mention the pregnancy test phase, where if the rabbit lived, it got to continue being a lab experiment or test and if it died, it meant you were pregnant.
Rabbits got the short end of the stick on this.
@Thumperchick "…the misconception that the rabbit’s death was an indicator of a positive result. In those early tests, the rabbit always died, because the animal had to be killed so its ovaries could be removed and examined." I’m glad they had come up with more accurate and humane tests by the time I became pregnant.
@gio Snopes actually fact checking in the biggest urban legend of all
@chacham Snopes was just the source I used to pull the quote. The same information can be found on multiple websites, as well as in books (for us oldsters who remember having to physically go to a library to do research).
@gio Heh. Didn’t mean to attack you. It just rankles me when people quote snopes as if it was reliable.
@chacham I didn’t feel personally attacked. I just wanted to make sure that your disdain for Snopes didn’t negatively color the veracity of the information offered.
@gio And i was just pointing out that using “veracity” and “snopes” in the same sentence is cause for pause.
It’s all good.
@Thumperchick Did you ever watch MASH? There was one where they wanted to use one of Radar’s bunnies to do a pregnancy test.
for some reason i can’t find the chris farley skit with Sir Paul with “remember when you were with the Beatles?”
So did this topic come from elsewhere (social media) or do Walton and Johnson read the Meh forums? I got in my car and they were having this same discussion.
@djslack It was just something I thought about this weekend and took to the forums with. Wish there was a more exciting story like…
Bunnies were again attacking my garden veggies, undeterred by my half ass attempts at stopping them. So I went inside and grabbed my lucky rabbit’s foot, took to my yard brandishing the severed foot to intimidate those bunnies, mob style. They’ll never come back once they think I’m capable of taking a bunny limb. I sure showed them.
Unfortunately the bunnies keep winning but they’re so cute and my daughter loves them.
@denboy Well then it would seem that someone lurking around here is associated with the Walton and Johnson show, because it seemed like it was almost word for word from your post, and a pretty random subject.
@djslack I’ll consider myself honored to be copied if that’s what happened. Is the segment online?
@denboy So, I may have remembered it a bit differently than it actually happened. They do have an app that will replay their show so I got the app and found the bit. I jumped in the car in the middle of the conversation, but in context it’s not exactly this conversation. I think I just heard a rabbit foot discussion right after reading this rabbit foot discussion, and it being so long since anyone’s mentioned them that I read more into it.
I’m going to try to get the snippet out of my phone just to complete this story. Brb.
@denboy here it is. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhjryuplyb0uzah/rabbitfoot.mp3?dl=1
Now you can see how completely out of proportion I blew this. But this morning I got in the car about 45 seconds into this clip, which made it a different conversation.
@djslack Cool, thanks for the clip. Probably not a copy but just maybe it was inspired by some good ol’ community lurking.
Those were actually rabbits’ feet!? I always thought they were chunks of plastic with fur-like substance. What kept them from rotting and the hair falling off?
@SSteve whatever they do to keep taxidermy animals from falling apart I suppose. My family had two sheep skins for a long time. The wool didn’t fall out very fast. After many years, they still looked fairly new.
/giphy I try to forget
