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From: sues@hercules.UUCP (Sue Anne Smith)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Build a better mousetrap
Message-ID: <1320@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 16:25:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: hercules.1320
Posted: Thu Sep  4 16:25:25 1986
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Reply-To: sues@hercules.UUCP (Sue Anne Smith)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: cheese...

On the subject of mousetraps...

I finally gave up trying to be ms. niceguy and started setting traps for a
rather healthy mouse population down in the basement.  I found a little hole 
the mice were crawling out of the wall through and put a mousetrap in front 
of it.  The mice would step out of the hole onto the trigger in the mousetrap 
and ...  well, I need not go on.  It was a great set up (sort of like instant-
on radar, they didn't notice it until it was too late).  Then one day I was
down in the basement and noticed the trap had a mouse in it but didn't have
time to empty it.  I came back a few hours later to find the mouse and trap
were missing.  I looked all over the basement and even tried to see if the 
trap could have been pulled through the hole into the wall (no way).  To this
day, I've yet to find a trace of either the mouse or the trap.  What happened
to it (them)?  Have you seen my mousetrap?  (I'll send a desdription along if
it will help.)  Did the other mice carry off their fallen comrade, hold a 
funeral service and burn the trap in his/her memory?  Are the mice using the
mousetrap to help THEM design a better trap?  Should I pay more attention to
those sqweeky whispers I sometimes hear in the night?  (Should I have posted
this to net.rumors? net.general?)


Sue Anne Smith
hercules!sues
Tektronix, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon

Say what you want, but don't say "walizxinbinhitrujlomngingquksnablityabingbing"
all in one breath.