—The Cartoon Network tends to be a mixed bag, with some decent ‘toons and some better left forgotten. A cute, funny, and very viewable series that didn’t originate there is Skunk Fu, featuring a panda kung fu master and a variety of martial-arts trained anthropomorphic animals. Skunk is a likable, spunky title character given to laziness at times and seeking shortcuts. Vulpines are well-represented by Fox, a vixen who is quite graceful and alluring and uses agility rather than strength to defeat her opponents; Rabbit has a serious crush on her. Other animal characters include an ox, a snake, a turtle, a tiger, a bird, and a pig (among others that include insects).
Recurring enemies include a baboon with an Aussie accent, his legion of seldom-effective ninja monkies, and a dragon mastermind who was once a friend of Panda’s. The dragon had been assigned to guard the animals of the valley, but grew arrogant and so was punished by Heaven with imprisonment; now he’s angry and bitter, and blames the animals for his situation. Most of the other characters also have histories and at times, issues…
Intended for children, Skunk Fu can be appreciated for a variety of things, including fight scenes uncommonly fluid for ‘toon characters…
–Early reports sugest that a bird strike caused a jet plane to crash in 
–A lobster named George caught off Newfoundland, Canada has been estimated to be about 140 years old using a rule of thumb 
Q:–What is a wok?
Near Juneau, Alaska resides a handsome black wolf who lives a solitary existence apart from a mate or wolf pack. The locals call him Romeo, as he may be the mate of a deceased female wolf called Juliet, who was found dead in 2003. Romeo is estimated to be about eight years old, and for the past six years he has appeared for a six month stretch beginning in November when the glacier’s lakes start to freeze.
–My mother used to eat pickled herring on New Year’s Eve, probably figuring that if she did so, nothing worse would happen to her in the upcoming year.
–Whitehall, New York has a history of sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures extending from Indian lore to as recently as 2006. This small town on the eastern edge of New York’s Adirondack Mountain Preserve has long been consider a “hotbed” of Eastern North American Bigfoot activity. As described by MonsterQuest, the Monster of Whitehall is a sasquatch-like creature that stands up to eight feet tall, and makes a sound like a woman screaming. Several police officers reported a Bigfoot sighting in 1976, and the original officers have recently passed polygraph tests.
—Eartha Kitt died recently of colon cancer at age 82, and we remember her here for playing the unforgetable Catwoman in the original, campy Batman series of the 1960’s. 
–Mice have been genetically engineered that can run twice as far and about an hour longer than their unaltered brethren. The mice also stay in peak condition, even without exercise or a good diet! 
–The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) is a well-studied region in the Monoceras (the Unicorn) constellation. The Christmas Tree Cluster, the blue reflection nebula surrounding bright stars, was so named because it looks like a tree in visible light…alright, use your imagination! 
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