Re: The Annual Off-Season RASN Get-to-know-ya Poll

Jim Horne wrote:
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> all this reminded me of a time my dad had a cat sleeping on the hood of his
> car most every night...he finally had the chance to 'catch' the cat, so he
> got out his trusty scoop net, used  for bringing fish into a boat, snuck
> outside and SLAP right over the cat while on the hood...then he had to
> figure out just how he was going to get the cat off the hood without loosing
> it...so he slid the net, cat and all, off and onto the floor...put the cat
> in the car and drove it 10 or 12 miles away and let it out, or so he told
> us...after daybreak we looked at the hood...there where major scrapes from
> the net frame as well as a dent...the cat couldn't have caused this much
> damage if he'd left it alone...on his next birthday he received a book
> titled "101 uses of a dead cat"...this book is still available on Amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517545160/002-2359254-7417659?v=glance

I think that is the same book I looked at over in San Francisco back around 1981. A
pencil holder seems to come to mind:-)

Cats: The other white meat


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