Ralph II appeared the next night after I released Ralph I. I contemplated removing the tray/peanut butter jar lid with sunflower seeds feeding/workstation after releasing Ralph II and the interloper. But then I remembered, it’s the key to keeping mice out of the pantry (and away from the chocolate in my wife’s purses), so I left them there. They still haven’t been touched.
At least, I’m satisfied that I do have a good handle on the mouse comings and goings in this household, but the Global Whistle Tweaking Research and Production Consortium Headquarters just isn’t the same without a loyal mouse.
Re: Arkansas - I’ve always pronounced it as arkan-SAW, by way of my grandmother, who used to reminisce about visiting relatives there. No matter how you pronounce it, the state has been a sore tribulation to my wife who can’t understand why it’s not spelled the way it’s pronounced.
I told her she’s lucky she’s not the one with the obsession on IrTrad music; after looking at some of the tune titles in my Waltons 101, she’s in full agreement on this. I’m told that Gaelic spelling is close to phonetic once you’ve learned the rules. Obviously, I still have much to learn.
AND did you know (although obviously not enforced very often) an amusing trivia fact … in the lawbooks it is actually illegal in the state of Arkansas to mispronounce the state name while in that state
“yeah, you all got any Ar-Kansas maps?” .. “Sir, you have the right to remain silent…”
Would my noble friend, the polymathic Lord Walden of the Arquinsavian Marches or any other lord or lady here present care to speculate on how 55 people in Britain alone manage to injure themselves with putty each year, and that without evidence of the intervention of that most unBritish phenomenon, the ambulance-chaser?
Even more troubling is the 73 people who injure themselves with toothpaste, each and every year. Perhaps Pepsodent tooth powder is the answer for these poor souls.
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