cav, Some years ago, teenagers used to put cats into microwave ovens in this country, and it wasn't for eating. c.i.
Frogs get microwaved in my parts.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........
Sadly, to the detriment of scholarship and the comfortable afterlives of them wot done it, many a wee atom of Egyptian cat mummy lies a livening up of the dank English country-side, since the poor wee things were stolen from Egypt and ground up as fertilizer, so they were, maiow, miaow - let us hope there IS a vengeful Cat Goddess!
CI!!!
Please!!! That will give me nightmares for months!!!
Stop such stories, please!
I didn't say "wabbit>" c.i.
Sofia, cats were regularily tied up in sacks and drowned in medieval Europe as they were considered to be witches' familiars, and tools of the devil. Strange...the meows are not so loud underwater, heh.
I love black cats the best
I will walk under a ladder, on purpose
I will walk on cracks in the sidewalk, on purpose
Is there any link betwee the Black Death and the reduction of the population of cute black cats in the medieval Europe?
There might be satt, but I have no reference for that.
Cats do seem to be witchy-like...
What are they thinking.
Why are their eyes reptillian?
Evil, I tell you!
Yes.
More cats = less plague.
Because more cats = less plague vector (rat and human flea)
Cats are in fact descended from crocodiles, that explains the slit-eyes. Rabbits are descended from................... hmm, better check the biology textbook for some of the lowest multi-cellular creatures. Get back to ya.
Furry snakes. I knew it!
They're slithery and scary! And cold-blooded!
<except Rae's cat, of course>
The first Bunny---Earzilla--was brought to life from a test tube of smegma.
And Klingons?
(I shall ignore the Earzilla remark.)
Little known history - Operation Cat Drop
Little known history - Operation Cat Drop
Quote:In the early 1950s, the Dayak people of Borneo suffered from malaria. The World Health Organization had a solution: it sprayed large amounts of DDT to kill the mosquitoes that carried the malaria. The mosquitoes died; the malaria declined; so far, so good. But there were side effects. Among the first was that the roofs of people's houses began to fall down on their heads. It seemed that the DDT was also killing a parasitic wasp that had previously controlled thatch-eating caterpillars. Worse, the DDT-poisoned insects were eaten by geckos, which were eaten by cats. The cats started to die, the rats flourished, and the people were threatened by potential outbreaks of typhus and plague. To cope with these problems, which it had itself created, the World Health Organization was obliged to parachute 14,000 live cats into Borneo.
Right! The first one who starts going on about Dayaks and pussies will get a smack in the head!
Well, that story reinforces my feelings about the WHO travel ban on Toronto....
