Re: Cat Lover in Training


"Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <3kqeefFvdrl0U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Yowie"
> <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "Charleen Welton" <ilikecats@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:QuzFe.18506$iG6.13687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > "Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:3kno55FvajkmU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Still, once I
>> >> get batteries again (I buy packs of 12 AA batteries, use a pair, and
>> >> then
>> >> pack just vanishes) I"ll see what I can do.
>> >>
>> >> Yowie
>> >>
>> > Vicky, I believe the Mothership runs on AA batteries. The same thing
>> > that
>> > happens to your batteries happens to ours. When you figure out the
>> > number
>> > of batteries, the length of time the disappearances have been occurring
>> > and
>> > the number of victims you can see that the Mothership could be fueled
>> > quite
>> > easily from Earth.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the Mothership changes expended AA batteries into coat hangers
>> before sending them back to earth?
>>
>> I know socks (*especially* baby socks), pens and teaspoons also go
>> missing
>> on a regular basis, but *red* socks seem to appear magically in a laundry
>> load of what was, before the red sock arrived, whites.
>>
>> Yowie, who thankfully, doesn't mind pink.
>>
>>
>
> There was a letter to the editor of one of the Institute for Electrical
> and Electronic Engineers' journal -- can't remember if it was Computer
> or Network -- that theorized that one sock in each pair is capable of
> reproduction, while the other is speutered at the factory. Two
> reproductive socks mate, and become a wire coat hanger.
>
> Further research is needed to understand the role of AA batteries in all
> this.

I can't shed light on the role of AA batteries, but paper clips are
definitely the larval form of ballpoint pens. I can prove it. I open my
office drawer and it is full of paperclips and only one pen. Two weeks
later, only 2 paperclips and more pens than the whole office needs.
I rest my case.

Tweed



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