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From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard)
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Subject: Re: Mouse Execution.
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 00:39:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 00:39:35 1985
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DISCLAIMER:  This article posted by STella Calvert of the Church of the Holy
Starship.  I can be reached via decvax!frog!wjr, but I'm me.

In article <2976@sdcc3.UUCP> ee161bep@sdcc3.UUCP (Paul Van de Graaf) writes:
>In article <2966@sdcc3.UUCP> I wrote:
>>Death to slugs and other vermin!  Reminds me of the time I chased a mouse
>>into the garbage disposal.  Yep, without a thought I hit the switch and that
>>little mousie was hamburger! Made interesting crunching sounds. Anyone have

>I have received more than my share of hate mail in response to this posting.
>Rather than respond by mail to all my fans, I bring my grievances here, to our
>forum:  "The Stupid People's Court!"
>
>On the evening of the mouse execution, I heard a mouse scratching and gnawing at
>some boxes in the cupboard immediately above my kitchen sink.  As we had a
>profound mouse problem at the time (4 traps, each filled for 3 days straight!),
>I decided to investigate.  Within I found a dirty foul-smelling mouse chewing
>through a box of crackers.  [. . .]
>plumbing, I did the sensible thing-- I flipped the switch.
>
>I await Judge "Wop-em-up-side-da-head's" verdict.
>
>Paul van de Graaf 	sdcsvax!sdcc3!ee161bep		U. C. San Diego
>
Perhaps you would accept religious advice from the Left Reverend STella
Calvert of the Church of the Holy Starship.  The mouse was invading your
territory, stealing from you by force (of numbers).  Your action was correct.
If the general organizing device ("god") liked mice, why did it make cats so
fertile?

What did the SP suggest you do?  Put the little sucker in a shoebox and take
it out for pizza?  (If you do, I suggest a sealskin and first edition pizza --
all the mice I've met love them!)  I suspect that what really got to these SPs
wasn't that you osterized it, but that you enjoyed it.  And if their objection
IS that you enjoyed it, that's really bizarre! If you've got to kill mice, it
might as well be fun.  (Try painting little crosses on the mice and throwing
them in the bathtub with a cat -- lions and Christians! (That ought to divert
some of the stupid flames from you to me! :-))

Seriously, though I let the cats handle rodent problems, I suspect most mice
would rather be zizzed in a disposall than fall into the paws of my cats.


				STella Calvert
				(guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr)

		Every man and every woman is a star.