Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:06:38 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: rodents in pantry
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You're on to something here, Mike. But we know that Westies distort reality,
and what you may be mistaking for an event horizon is actually a big
gravitational warp around the westy. I know that I can see the back of my
head when I am near mine sometimes. Anyway, I suspect that the damage he's
seeing is through a white hole to another, parallel multiverse or else he's
seeing the same mouse through some time lens, the same lens that's making
him think this is all happening inside three dimensions. I suspect this
parallel multiverse is getting into his westy either through the hole for
the copper gas pipes or through the fresh air intake system.
Jim
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>wrote:
> Quantum pairs of little mice forming at the event horizon of a vanagon,
> leading to mice escaping from anti-mice, appearing inside your van?
>
> It baffles science. See "Hawking radiation," your answer may lie there.
>
> (Do Vanagons have event horizons? I know my sock drawer does.)
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
> On 8/3/2008 5:30 PM ken fischman wrote:
>
> Couldn't find postings on this important subject so here goes.
>> Was camping in our 87 Westfalia near the Escalante River in southern Utah
>> last May when we returned from an overnight backpack to find the food in
>> our
>> pantry (under the sink) ravaged by unknown assailants; small turds
>> indicated
>> mice. So the rest of the trip we had mousetraps set and they would go off
>> randomly as food shifted during the drive, but no mouse. Left the baited
>> traps in for weeks after we returned home to Boise but still nothing.
>> So now, 2 months later, we leave the van parked at the portage into Murtle
>> Lake in Wells Gray Park in BC. When we returned the 2 pounds of peanuts in
>> the shell we had in the pantry looked like they had been run over by a
>> large
>> truck. Devastation. Heartbreak.
>> Two theories. It was the same mouse who had gone into a state of
>> semi-hibernation waiting for food supply to return. Or two, new mouse,
>> attracted to the smell of peanuts wafting through the air and he gained
>> access to our pantry . . . how?
>> This is the question I pose. Anybody with thoughts on how a small rodent
>> gets from outside to inside, and we are sure he/she didn't come through
>> the
>> door. Are there openings under the van we should be trying to close off?
>> They couldn't climb up the side and come through the fridge vent and then
>> to
>> the food? Rest of the trip south, no sign of mouse.
>> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>> Jerry
>> Boise, Idaho
>>
>>
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