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From: robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Pets vs. Mac
Keywords: cats
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Date: 17 Oct 90 02:06:44 GMT
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In article <49233@unix.cis.pitt.edu> er225711@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Martin NMN Thurn) writes:
>People have been worrying about and giving advice for computer - pet
>cohabitation.  Heck with cat hair, dust, insects, I'm worried about my cats
>walking on the keyboard and turning the machine on when I'm not home, wasting 
>electricity and running down my disk drive (or jolting me awake in the 
>middle of the night with the big electric-piano chime)!  
>:-)
>
>--Martin, Nobuko, Peaches, and Melba Thurn

I'm more worried about the possibility of my cat accidentally turning on my
Mac and accidentally calling up some bulletin board and running up my phone
bill!  Those d*mn cats - you gotta watch 'em every minute...


Robin Goldstone, CSU Chico