Grim reminder to keep alert this time of year. The day after I saw a dead deer on the side of the road, I spotted a live one in the driveway of the abandoned dog track. As the weather cools, they become more active.

I doe like this.

This parody is fawn and dandy.

LOL @ "chitlin's" and all the way through! Big improvement over TOS, too.

Impressed if you came up with "cervine" independently after moi's use of it yesterday, but since you K "peahen", not a surprise. Vote: A "stag"-gering 555 "bucks".

p.s.: Disney was for kids? Couldn't stand to watch most WD flicks back then - every bit as sad and gruesome as Grimm's grim tales. Should be R-rated for the violence.

stuck to original rhyme scheme v good theme pursued consistently some clever vocab, but would people catch it sung?

Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Patrick: I'm seeing them a lot. And apparently they are over-running Cleveland! :D

JB & POP: Thanks for voting with your hart.

Prudence: Thanks! I love Latinized fauna terms. Disney - I remember the first Disney show I ever watched some poor baby mountain lions were killed in an avalanche. I was about 4. Probably traumatized me for life. Movies and literature are pretty powerful. You should have seen what the combo "The Partridge Family: Mystery of the Haunted Hall," "The Flying Nun: Miracle at San Tanco" and "Desert Dog" did to me.... ;)

lifeliver: Thanks! I think most of it would 'sing' okay, but I understand what you mean. We've done some parodies that really work best visually (Dyslexian Typios comes to mind).

This was really fun to read while listening to the OS link you provided - 555! I wish everyone would provide a link to the OS with their parodies - not only makes it more entertaining, but also easier to judge pacing and rhymes.

What really puzzles me is why the powerful insurance lobby hasn't managed to get lawmakers to do something to solve the problem of urban deer - not only for the sake of the deer, but also for the costs we all share for all the claims they have to pay out. Not too long ago an insurance agent I talked to told me they averaged more than a claim per day in the medium-sized city where I live.

Like what? Kill them all? ... They were there first, you know.

Then, there's the same problem with dead dogs in the road -- hit one on a motorcycle at a decent rate of speed, and - ouch! Not to mention cats, possum, tortoises... Guess we could eliminate all other living things (including whatever pets you have) and save some insurance money -- or perhaps we'll kill ourselves off in wars, and let the animals have a clean, unpolluted Earth once again.

I rather like sharing the planet with other beings, aside from the environmental and food-chain benefits. (Plus, snakes eat rats for you; lizards eat pesky bugs, et.) If you care for elaboration of this beauty (a thousand pardons, Merry!),
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Merry: The worst for me were "The Partridge Family Chainsaw Massacre" and"The Flying Nun: Halloween" ;)

The nick was also a "subtle" hint to turn your cervine biology bilogy into a trilogy ... Oh, don't thank me! -- no, really! ;-D

(see? It works! ... what was said in e-mail, if you got it. If not, I'll resend to new address, but don't mention the topic here, 'k?)

@ Deer Prudence @ Derry

Killing them all is the best solution you can come up with? I certainly didn't suggest doing that in the comment to which you referred. The deer are already being killed and maimed at what I consider to be an unacceptable rate. I'd like to see the carnage reduced not increased.

Some suggestions I would make would include things like reducing the speed limits in areas and at times that are most prone to deer-vehicle collisions (such areas/times are not that hard to identify), putting out speed-detection signs that flash a deer collision risk message when a vehicle exceeding the reduced speed limit is detected, and perhaps (I don't know if this is a feasible idea) installing motion detectors connected to collision risk signs to alert drivers when deer get too close to the road.

I put in about 70 miles of urban driving per day in the wee hours of the morning (which in my opinion is the time of day when the risk of collisions with deer is greatest), and about 10% of those miles are risky stretches. In five years of doing this, I've never had a deer collision despite many near misses. I attribute this mainly to the fact that I voluntarily cut my speed to half the posted speed limit when going through the risky stretches.

The doe stops here.

No, it wasn't the best. It was (sorry) a somewhat sarcastic swipe, sensitized by those who advocate that we kill all sharks (e. g.,), when in fact, far more people in the US are killed by lightning than by sharks. Glad you clarified your intent.

Some of the risky stretches are rural highways where speeds of 60-65 mph are certainly safe in fair weather. Reducing that to 30 won't fly too well, and *time* is the one thing on which all of us are limited. I don't have a perfect answer there.

Motion detectors would send out too many of what we security-types call "false positives". Every bird, possum, squirrel, branch moving in the wind, etc., could set it off. GPS-track the deer? Give them all cell phones? (j/k).

Props for cutting your speed during the wee hours. No one behind you to get impatient. Might not work, esp., in winter, when morning and evening rush-hour are in darkness in many places.

IIRC, an Interstate highway that was built through a wildlife area had fairly frequent overpasses, with fences on all other areas, thus requiring *all* wildlife to go under the overpasses. That might work. Glad to see we'd both like to reduce the carnage.

That was hilarious, Peregrin, just my kind of humour.

That was hilarious, Meriadoc, just my kind of humor.

“Loose hind’s not funny” – nor is a loose ‘hind, which is probably what it had when it saw the car.

Andy's culturally aware! I love it! Power to the letter U!!!

Derry: Thanks! We always try to provide a link when we can. Unfortunately the links on our old parodies are no longer extant. I find that a lot of the old studio versions are available on YouTube however. I have access to downloadables, so if I see another's parody I really like but DKTOS, I go and get it and re-read. But with the loss of Napster, Limewire etc. I realize that many do not have easy access to the OS's.

Wandlimb: I should collect all your witticisms in a book... Or at least use them for the 'blurbs' on our parody page! :D

Andy: Ooops! the 'u' - I JUST caught it! LOL!