Trying to come up with a joke about, "You Yellow-bellied marmot!" but it isn't working for me...

Keep at it. I have faith in you.

Dad years ago in Pittsburgh had a Woodchuck get on his engine block one night. Was sometime in the late 1950s. He starts the car one morning and hears an odd noise - pops the hood and finds Woodchuck guts all over - the fan had caught it. He drives to a nearby gas station and asks the guys there "Do you steam clean engines? Oh yes, just leave your car and keys. He came back later and was cussed out and told to never come back after he paid for the work.

Similar thing happened one winter when I was teen in the 80's. Though less bloody, a neighbor's cat had jumped up into the warm engine of another neighbor and when said neighbor started his car all us kids playing in the street heard a horrendous cat screaming and long haired catfur flying everywhere out from the engine of the car a split second before a fluffy bolt of cat-form shot out from under the engine, across the yard on over a 7ft fence in 2 seconds flat! Fur flew out the engine every time the neighbor started his car for nearly a month.
A week later me and a friend saw the cat with scabbed over bald strip on its back where it had been scrape-shaved by the fan.

Yet another reason I like being one of those weirdos who actually uses the garage for the family car instead of as a storage locker...

My folks were living in an apartment complex in the Pittsburgh area that had covered exterior parking. Wooded area near the apartment and lots of critters in the area. Late 1950s time period.

Perfect environment for aftermarket self-installing accessories...

How much guts can a fan blade chuck if a fan blade can woodchuck?

You got it.

ROFLMAO. Well, they didn't ask him why he needed it steam cleaned so, I blame them.

Still would be a hell of a mess to deal with.

Well, yes. LOL.

Probably be a better mechanic than most that have been under there 😂😂😂

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1034765/

Yeah but…. Major…. Last time I’ve checked, Esso weren’t vending in Canada?

Soooooo?……

Well, for pity's sake, don't tell the poor little critter! Let him maintain SOME dignity!

Ectually... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esso#Canada

Ohhhh! xD

Varmints. A groundhog got under someone's hood in Ohio once. No squab is he.
https://youtu.be/AEl4c5fQtv0

A ground up groundhog?

There's no shortage of them here in MI.

One can imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lriq8n59aw

I was stacking 'em like cordwood.

Fresh ground groundhog $2.39 per #

60/40% Dang things are kinda fatty....

Fat is flavor! ;D

Out my way the problem is with Packrats. Dang things chew wiring and/or build nests on the engine block. Start driving and soon you have smoke billowing from under the hood due to twigs and dry grasses and well done baby rats on the hot engine block.

Well... If it was in the 1930s, this situation would have made more sense. Especially if that Marmot was under the hood of a Marmon Automobile.

Okay.. Lame Joke.

Oh, you Stutz! You're positively Mercer-less!

That I Am. I just couldn't afford the assurance.

"Well, there's your problem..."

(snickers)

*laughs... how very subtle...

Vix

~.^