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	Possum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Possums are small marsupials with brown or grey fur, ranging in size from the length of a finger (pygmy possums and sugar gliders), to the length of a forearm (brushtails and ringtails).
		All possums are nocturnal and omnivorous, hiding in a nest in a hollow tree during the day and coming out during the night to forage for food.
		Possums are commonly found in suburban areas, where they are often considered pests owing to their habit of eating fruit, vegetables, flowers and tender young shoots from gardens, and nesting in roofs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Possum (659 words)

	westword.com \| \| Backbeat \| PLAYING POSSUM \| 1994-01-26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The practice sessions were unauthorized, but the Possums were so unafraid of their extracurricular activity being discovered that they actually covered their equipment with boxes and left it in the warehouse during the daytime hours.
		The Possums have been thrilled with the attention Interscope has given them since their signing, but were less captivated by the producers company representatives suggested to helm their major-label debut.
		Possum Dixon was eventually completed with the assistance of Earle Mankey, a longtime L.A. scenester known for his bargain-basement approach.
	www.westword.com /issues/1994-01-26/backbeat.html (783 words)

	Encyclopedia: Playing possum
		Playing Possum is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's fifth studio album, released in 1975.
		'Playing Possum' is defined as 'pretending to be unconscious', the phrase coming from the possum's habit of falling into an involuntary shock-like state when frightened.
		I personally can't see people pretending to be unconscious very easily when playing this Possum, as the infectious tunes will soon have you bobbing your head along to it, however, it may just be that on first listen some are so dumbstruck that that they go into a shock-like state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Playing-possum (1183 words)

	Playing Possum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Possums aren't finicky about their food, either: they eat fruits, vegetables, insects, reptiles, and even roadkill.
		Possums are famous for "playing dead" when threatened, but this isn't quite accurate.
		They are not "playing" dead at all: the possum goes into shock when particularly stressed.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/possum.html (203 words)

	Terrierman's Daily Dose: Playing Possum?
		The reason "playing possum" works is that the attack response in many dogs and other predator is also genetic -- it has nothing to do with being "angry" or being "hungry".
		If chickens simply "played dead," like a possum often will, a vixen would pluck off one hen and be on her way.
		The red fox is the most widely distributed carnivore in the world, and the possum is one of the oldest animals on the planet.
	terriermandotcom.blogspot.com /2004/08/playing-possum.html (340 words)

	The Anniston Star - Bill Brown: Of greasy chins, and playing possum with the cat dish
		The possum scurried under the steps and a placed the trap, baited with cat food, near the opening.
		Possums for the supper, which is always on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, are caught and cooked by church members.
		He brought with him to the library a sampling of the possum and sweet potatoes that were served Saturday night.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2004/as-insight-1128-bbrowncol-4k24r5544.htm (671 words)

	Wildlife: Playing possum
		It was a possum, and it seemed dead.
		An opossum's involuntary reaction to bodily harm is to faint and play dead.
		The possum's catatonic state can last for hours, and sometimes the heart rate even slows significantly.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/outdoors/20030202shalaway0202p4.asp (658 words)

	Opossum
		You could say that the mother possum serves as a roadster, since she has a rumble seat too, even if this is underneath in the form of a pouch.
		Possums spend a lot of time in trees and often make their dens in hollow trunks.
		The expression “playing possum” - meaning to feign injury or death - has been around so long that many are unaware of its origin.
	www.gobacktothebasics.com /information_on_the_opossum_from_adirondack_wilderness_adventures.htm (1090 words)

	Bulletin - Playing possum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lindenmayer's research revealed the possums as edge dwellers who flourish in fire-disturbed environments.
		They commute between nesting hollows high in the trunks of mature ash trees, and younger, regenerating forest whose dense understorey of wattles provides a smorgasbord of energy-rich sap and nourishing insects.
		Lindenmayer’s research into the possum’s habitat needs led him to a formula that combines judicious clearfelling with strategic retention of patches of mature forest.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/7A9D32A64CD35C84CA256DB4003385E5 (724 words)

	Daily Devotionals
		I've always known that "playing possum" means being so still and quiet that people are fooled into thinking you're either not there or dead.
		Realizing the critter was "playing possum" from my dog; I pulled Aladdin in the house but went back out quietly about 15 minutes later.
		There is a way out if you sense that you have been playing possum over some issue in your life for a long time.
	www.hannahscupboard.com /wake-37.html (331 words)

	The possum no-one noticed for 200 years - smh.com.au
		Scientists had always thought the mountain brushtailed possum, found in eastern rainforests from Melbourne to Gladstone, was one species.
		But a decade of research led by scientists from Canberra's Australian National University has found that the southern possums are a distinct, and only distantly related, species.
		The possum, with a passion for clean accommodation and meeting other possums, moves house at least 20 times a year, always into another hollow tree.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/06/1019441477260.html (409 words)

	PLAYING POSSUM
		A friend told me that possums hate the smell of human hair, so I got a net bag and filled it with hair from the beauty salon.
		Ma Possum made the hair into a nest, and used the net to rinse several of her babies at one time.
		When I woke up in the morning, Ma Possum was happily washing her babies in the toilet.
	mmhbp.com /foolishstuff/Playing%20Possum.htm (342 words)

	Welcome To Disk-O
		Possum finds himself in the presence of a danger, he will feign death until the deadly predator leaves.
		Tina Parmouth, a noted analyst at Lipshitz and Associates has taken playing possum to new extents, she neither answers the phone, nor signs off on any paperwork, preferring to remain in her office in a semi-catatonic state.
		Then I realized that I wasn't the only one who had 'played possum.' Luckily, Brad remained motionless until a cleaning lady noticed the 'corpses' and called for medical attention.
	www.disk-o.com /disk-o05/schneider (528 words)

	Kajong Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The article said that possums weighed about 40 pounds, were brown and had long tapered hairless tails.
		The article also said that possums have 50 razor sharp teeth and that if they are cornered they lay down and play dead.
		The possum darted out from behind a half a ping-pong table leaning against the wall and ran behind the washing machine.
	members.aol.com /acecolvin/possum.htm (1905 words)

	playing possum
		LOL I always knew the origins of that expression "playing possum" but this is the first time I've actually SEEN it.
		Comment from toonguykc - 4/20/05 1:59 AM I have never seen a possum play possum-I did find one in my air conditioner once, along with her babies.
		Comment from tamntheboyz - 4/19/05 5:44 PM Well, I have heard the expression "playing Possum" many times but do you know this is the first time I have ever seen a Possum and it does look dead, the open mouth, the closed eyes etc. Fascinating, thank you and what a great pic!
	journals.aol.com /mosie1944/MYCOUNTRYLIFE/entries/809 (961 words)

	ajc.com \| News \| Playing possum? Not this year \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is called the Possum Drop and hundreds of people pack downtown Brasstown to see it.
		With just hours to go before the festivities, Clay Logan, host of the Possum Drop, said he got a call from a national animal rights organization threatening to sue him for animal cruelty if he used a live possum.
		Since 1991, Logan has used live possums, trapped by hunters, fattened on cat food and turned loose after they are lowered slowly by a rope from the roof of his gas station.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0104/02possumdrop.html (452 words)

	Playing Possum - a short story by Maxine McArthur
		He'd been playing in a back corridor of the Hill, one of those dark, dank passages that layers of scrap hide from reflector light.
		Baskets of food, including cages of possums, were piled around the cooking group and the rest of the yard was covered with junk in various stages of sorting.
		'Possums are food, I told you.' And presumably, if the Tirenni limited their diet to the living things that could not contain spirits, they would not inadvertently consume one of their gods.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /stories/possum.htm (5349 words)

	Queen at festival playing possum for the last time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the International Possum Queen who has reigned for a quarter of a century isn't giving up her title.
		The Doctor of Possumology says he has no plans to retire from giving the tongue-in-cheek lectures on what he calls the world's ugliest animal that are a combination of stand-up comedy and magic show.
		Their entire possum act grew out of promoting yams, one of the biggest crops in Upshur County, where they live and participate in the East Texas Yamboree each October.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/07/27/folklife-advance.0-1.html (766 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Playing Possum (February 26 - March 4, 1998)
		Fat Possum asks us to fill out that mailing-list postcard, the one addressed in the Addams Family font and offering a blank box where you're requested to trace your house key.
		But not all Fat Possum Artists are old blues guys: The punkish group Twenty Miles is comprised of brothers Donovan and Judah Bauer, only a third as old as their labelmates, if the shadowy picture of them leaning against the filthy urinals is an accurate indication.
		Fat Possum has yanked out of dirty Mississippi ground artists that meet and often surpass the impact of solid blues figures like Buddy Guy and Albert Collins, while also becoming the first label to make the blues sound as irascible as the punk thrashing that appears on the label distributing it.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/02-26-98/mus.htm (712 words)

	5-27-04 playing possum
		And then I threw a large rock and I don't think I hit the possum but it was dark and when I flash the light the possum on its back, with its legs in the air, shaking in a death rattle.
		And I found one, a large rock and when I turn around again and flash the light on the dead possum there is nothing there.
		When my back was turned the possum had risen from the dead and took off running for the woods.
	www.bullrunfarm.com /5-27-04_playing_possum.htm (813 words)

	Tweak - The Romantic Lure Of Possum Worship
		The Possum, or more correctly the Opossum, is of the family Didelphidae and is North America's only marsupial mammal.
		Being attracted to the worship of an animal described as 'gentle and placid' is at odds with the TNT enhanced punk thrash rock that they play.
		The fact that the album received a few votes in the SA Rockdigest's Essential SA Album survey is testimony to the impact it has already had.
	www.cd.co.za /legends/2000plus/tweak.html (341 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Funny thing though, about a week later we were showing the house to a friend late one night and noticed a possum crawling around in the rafters behind the garage...
		Maybe they were just playing possum, or maybe...
		After removing the entire ceiling from the garage, and disposing of all the evidence we could find, we knew that there couldn't be any more possums or their evidence up there.
	home.earthlink.net /~eddumas/possum.htm (1116 words)

	Coria playing possum..? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		You don't play possum in a FO final.
		I thought "playing possum" meant to fake an injury, but I guess by your
		Playing possum also means pretending or giving the impression that an injury
	www.groupsrv.com /hobby/about4019.html (643 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| News & Features \| Feature \| Playing Possum \| 2000-08-31
		The room is wallpapered with posters and fliers advertising shows the band has played and stickers of groups they've played with.
		Over the next 45 minutes or so, the three Toadies unveil their new album, happy to show it off for the first time to someone who's not a friend or family member.
		In the past, they've described the endless waiting game they've played with Interscope as "frustrating" and "fucking depressing," yet now, they claim to be through with all of that.
	www.dallasobserver.com /Issues/2000-08-31/news/feature2.html (745 words)

	Blue Heelers: Playing Possum - TV.com
		PJ is on the trail of a cat burglar known as the Possum.
		Gail Russell, a victim of the Possum, arrives at the station claiming that she' seen her stolen emerald dress clip in a local jewellery shop.
		Maggie wakes the next morning to find that her brother has made it through the worst of the withdrawal and seems relieved to have his addiction behind him.
	www.tv.com /blue-heelers/playing-possum/episode/57236/summary.html (480 words)

	Spot-On: Chris Nolan: The Possum Strategy: Playing Dumb
		In their interviews with the jury consultants – and they were interviewed extensively, count on it -- the men and women from the first trial must have made something of Keker’s courtroom style and the phalanx of tough lawyers he had with him.
		So Quattrone and his lawyers are dumbing down, playing up Quattrone’s lack of sophistication and daring – qualities he possesses in no small measure – to seem like a Normal Joe (ie not a Martha Stewart, snapping at admins or a Tyco exec with a $6,000 shower curtain).
		The juror who we spoke to after the last trial seems very willing to see Quattrone as a nice guy who didn’t really get what was going on in New York.
	www.spot-on.com /archives/000361.html (580 words)

	Danburg Murmur: Playing Possum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It looked as if it were sleeping, or else playing dead.
		It may a resemble a rat, but actually is more closely related to kangaroos: possum babies gestate in the womb for less than two weeks before getting born and climbing into their mother’s pouch.
		According to the Opossum Society of the United States, however, the opossum doesn’t actually play dead when threatened.
	www.arondanburg.com /movabletype/archives/000330.html (445 words)

	Blue Ridge blog: Playing Possum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I have never in my life seen a cute possum, yet you've captured one on film.
		Possums are highly intelligent, smarter than a dog, at least smart as a pig (I would argue smarter).
		Possums only live an average of 1 year in the wild.
	blueridgeblog.blogs.com /blue_ridge_blog/2004/06/playing_possum.html (618 words)

	Kaleidoscope: Home
		Kaleidoscope presented the show, PLAYING 'POSSUM, first at the Johnson City Area Arts Council in Johnson City, TN.
		The group presented PLAYING 'POSSUM from August 23 through September 30, 2003.
		PLAYING 'POSSUM last showed in the Rose Center in Morristown, TN in May, 2004.
	www.geocities.com /kaleidoscopeartists (337 words)

	IGN: SmackDown 2006: Sleepers and Playing Possum
		As such, another new addition to the SmackDown vs. RAW 2006 feature set is the ability to "play possum" or feign an injured state while lying prone on the mat, allowing players to take their opponents by surprise and secure a quick pin fall.
		Think back to WrestleMania 21 where a seemingly incapacitated Kurt Angle played possum and was able to lure Shawn Michaels into a false sense of security before quickly springing into action and applying his signature ankle lock on HBK.
		By successfully filling the momentum meter during a match, players will be presented with two options: attempt to perform a finishing move on an opponent or store a Superstar's WWE finishing move icon and use it at a later time during the match.
	ps2.ign.com /articles/643/643552p1.html (947 words)

	American Whitewater - NWRI - Possum Walk Creek Five Mile Road to Highway 263 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Possum Walk Creek, AR Five Mile Road to Highway 263
		Raccoon Creek contains some good surf waves and decent current in the pools then joins the Beech Fork for some nice volume, usually at or near flood level when Possum Walk is running.
		The left line is through a pyramid shaped hole (at the right water level) formed by the boulders touching above water level.
	www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/3599 (817 words)

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