NEVER throw a mouse into a commode!!!!

[k0ua]

I was working in Russia for about two years many years ago. My employer got a contract to install control system for 5 compressor stations on a pipeline. One of the stations was located by Volga river north of Stalingrad in a village Antipovka. Perpendicular to the river was a large sunflower field stretching toward the main road about a mile or two away. One day large group of combines entered the field on the far end and started harvesting the sunflower. Doing that they pushed millions of mice toward the river and invading our station. When the calamity was over you would open a cabinet and find everything chewed up. Insulation from wires was stripped to bare metal. Chips on pc boards were chewed etc. Even cables in underground conduits were chewed up. The mice also invaded our compound and chewed our clothes, shoes you name it. We had a cat in our shop that was so terrified that hair on its back was standing up while mice was running over it. The mice peed everywhere and in everything, many died. When it was over the place just stunk. It was a total loss.

I guess the one poor kitty was a little overwhelmed

 

[blueriver]

Jeepers, fellas, its TONGS.

Kitchen TONGS.

NOT THONGS!

If you're grabbing things with thongs, I'm sure there's other websites for that.... and to each, his own. :laughing:

Shoot .... I'm laughing ... So if my wife grabs the TONGS while in her THONG and FLIP FLOPS out the door with a mouse she's good or do I need to make her an appointment!!!!

 

[Wagtail]

Shoot .... I'm laughing ... So if my wife grabs the TONGS while in her THONG and FLIP FLOPS out the door with a mouse she's good or do I need to make her an appointment!!!!

That was my initial mental image of the event. I figured that it was a typing error (thong was supposed to be tong) and decided to poke a wee bit of fun.

I know that some of you have to re-interpret some words/expressions that I use... and vice versa, such as;

split pin = cotter pin
butterfly nut = wing nut
CHUX = J-Cloth
tyre = tire

etc...

 

[bcp]

Since this is a tractor forum, perhaps it was a Talay Thong Tractor.

Bruce

 

[mapper]

About 25 or so years ago a group of friends, my wife and I rented a house boat on Lake Roosevelt (big reservoir behind Grand Coolie Dam in Washington). We soon found out that it came with a resident family of mice living under one of the settes in the main salon. The first one to emerge was captured by a kind hearted soul a placed ashore. The second one made the mistake of emerging while most everyone was sitting around the salon one evening. I was perched on a tall stool that was used at the helm when the boat was under weigh, as I was wearing thongs (flip flops - tying this all together here�&#56834 I reached down slipped one of them off, leapt from the stool and swatted the mouse. Then I picked up the twitching rodent by the tail opened the sliding glass door at the front of the boat and tossed it into the lake.
One of the women on the boat reacted rather Bradley to this accusing me of killing the poor mouse, my reply was that I lived in the country and that mice are not cute or desirable but should be gotten rid of as efficiently as possible. Another woman in the party who had grown up just down the river a bit on a Apple and wheat farm came back with " **** Katherine - it's a goddamed mouse" I'm not sure what she thought of us all after that but she did divorce our mutual friend a year or so later, I like to think maybe we had a bit to do with it, didn't much care for her.

Don't have much problem with rodents currently, have a cat that keeps us a several others in the neighborhood (about a 15-20 acre range) clear. East every last one mice, voles, rabbits, etc. Don't know how he does it some of the critters he catches would be the equivalent of you or I eating an entire thanksgiving turkey with stuffing in about 10-20 minutes, bones and all! Great cat, one of the best we have ever had.
Great thread, been laughing my *** off!

 

[mapper]

Gotta love the auto correct, didn't catch a couple in my previous post.��

 

[k0ua]

That was my initial mental image of the event. I figured that it was a typing error (thong was supposed to be tong) and decided to poke a wee bit of fun.

I know that some of you have to re-interpret some words/expressions that I use... and vice versa, such as;

split pin = cotter pin
butterfly nut = wing nut
CHUX = J-Cloth
tyre = tire

etc...

Never mind embuggerance... I love that word!

 

[Wagtail]

Never mind embuggerance... I love that word!

It is a lovely, apt, word... have you been able to employ it, James?

 

[farmer2009]

This thread has turned hilarious. I've got one to add.

I was about 15 nailing down a subfloor in another room in the house. Mom starts yelling about a mouse in the kitchen. I come running with a hammer. I never did make it to her brand new counter tops or kitchen cabinets. Mouse got away. Mom never did tell me to "grab something to kill this mouse with" again.

 

[MossRoad]

My sisters tell me a story about our grandma babysitting us. A mouse ran up high on some furniture and fell off. It was rolling around on the floor, apparently injured. My sisters were screaming, my grandma walks in the room and promptly stomps on the mouse with her shoe and says "Disgusting creature!" and walks out. They were stunned. Grandma came back in and cleaned up the mess with some newspaper.