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Old 11-07-2011, 13:12   #1
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Too Funny . . .

From today's 'Lectronic Latitude, comes word that there was some advanced thinking that went into the decision whereby a man stands to urinate.

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"I Don't Give a Rat's Ass"

"July 11, 2011 – Barra de Navidad, Mexico


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"We weren't sure whether to laugh or shudder when we read Carl J. Carlson's report on a most unwelcome midnight visitor. In the end, we did both."

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To read the rest of the story, go to:

"I Don't Give a Rat's Ass"

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Old 11-07-2011, 13:25   #2
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Re: Too Funny . . .

If it's not snakes in the toilet, then it's rats in the can.
I wouldn't have had to drown it, he would have suffocated in the $hit that I would have dumprd when he started scratching me..

Great story Tao
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Re: Too Funny . . .

Looks like a mouse to me and a good thing too.

Old trick for catching mice is to put out a bucket with a few inches of water in it.
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From today's 'Lectronic Latitude, comes word that there was some advanced thinking that went into the decision whereby a man stands to urinate.

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"I Don't Give a Rat's Ass"
From the days of operating my mouse trapline (a long story), I would suggest that looks like a mouse to me.
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Looks like a mouse to me and a good thing too.

Old trick for catching mice is to put out a bucket with a few inches of water in it.

Ooops... musta been typing when you wrote this.. I agree!
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Re: Too Funny . . .

I bet not many heads would not clog with that going through it. I know my Wilcox & Crittenden Skipper head could handle it. It's already eaten a few long white mice made of cotton.
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Old 11-07-2011, 13:47   #7
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Re: Too Funny . . .

Maybe a young rat? Rats swim, mice don't, how'd a mouse get on board at anchor? Tail looks too long for a mouse.
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Maybe a young rat? Rats swim, mice don't, how'd a mouse get on board at anchor? Tail looks too long for a mouse.
Proportionally, the tails look the same. A rat is 8-9", a mouse much smaller.

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Looks like a mouse to me and a good thing too.

Old trick for catching mice is to put out a bucket with a few inches of water in it.
But you must give them a way to climb up and look in...but no way to climb out.
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Re: Too Funny . . .

maybe that is just a "target" for when peeing standing up in order to improve one's aim, after all this a proven thing "must drown that xxx thing in the bowl"
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Re: Too Funny . . .

I don't wanna know how AVB3 came by that photo, nor why he even took it.
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I don't wanna know how AVB3 came by that photo, nor why he even took it.

Let me google that for you

Take the 5th link down, and there is the pic
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Re: Too Funny . . .

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Rats live their lives in fear. They are wary of investigating new things, and they don't explore much. In that sense, people believe that they are harder to trap, but I've never had any problem trapping rats.
Well, that tells us that rats=politicians and a few other creatures of disrepute, doesn't it? And the guy must be an investigative reporter or a lobbyist, since he has no trouble trapping them.
Then, this next quote.....
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I caught both the above rat and mouse today...not in the same place, mind you, although they probably share territory in some areas... I caught this mouse at a lawyer's office in downtown Orlando.
The second quote proves that, indeed, mice DO share territory with rats, given where it was caught!
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Maybe a young rat? Rats swim, mice don't, how'd a mouse get on board at anchor? Tail looks too long for a mouse.
Its either a light brown eastern longtail mouse or a light brown greater eastern short tailed rat.hmmm -both quite rare round these parts.Dont kill it just in case.Remember ten compresses and three short breathes.
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I don't wanna know how AVB3 came by that photo, nor why he even took it.
It's from the 'net.
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