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critter vs varmit (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Sorry, but you are hereby ejected from the southern naming convention panel.

As all right thinking individuals know, a critter is any non human that moves under its own power or surprises us by being alive but looking like it shouldn't be because it doesn't move under its own power, like yankees and coral.

A varmint is a critter you don't want in your garden, on your farm, and may be shot on sight, like coyote, raccoons, or yankees.

Edit: you may also substitute the following corollary to the definition of critter: any living thing which Ellie May Clampett would be likely to adopt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I would also like to make a motion as a member of the panel that a critter would not be anything less than half the size of a mouse. Bugs aren't critters unless they are big spiders for instance but a tiny frog definitely is.

Bees and wasps I dont know.

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