Here are 10 of them. Conveniently located on Possum Kingdom Lake, west of Fort Worth, most origins of the name point to Ike Sablonsky, an East Coast native who settled in North Texas in the early ...

Democratic strategist James Carville suggested the tide is turning in the country and advised Democrats to “play possum” while it does. Carville appeared on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari ...

And I think they should do is, what we call in rural America, play possum. Just let it go. Don’t get in the way of it, or as we like to say, don’t just stand there, do nothing,” Carville said.

Pogo Possum, Churchy LaFemme, Porky Pine and the rest of the Okefenokee Swamp gang butchered common phrases and skewered current events in the strip nationally syndicated from 1949 to 1975.