Comments on: ELECTROCUTED SQUIRREL SHORT-CIRCUITS PLANT (Feb, 1934)

By: RBayard

RBayard — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:47:37 +0000

Squirrels are actually rats in disguise. They’re Disney rats. You’d realized that if you undressed one. They have a rat tail.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:18:19 +0000

How do we know squirrels aren’t actualy rats in disquise?

I’m waiting for evolution to develop deer that can cross the road safely.

Down under they say the kangaroo looks both ways and crosses the road irreguardless.

By: fred

fred — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:26:16 +0000

guess we’d all get a little squirrely spendin the winter gnawin our nuts,,,shocking ..eh?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:40:06 +0000

Who is going to get psychiatric help for all these suicidal squirrels? Is it a sense of personal failure from not accumulating enough nuts, or is it just the existential angst of the squirrel condition in an absurd universe without meaning? You may hoard plenty of acorns to physically survive the winter, but can any acorn fill the aching gap in your soul?

By: Casandro

Casandro — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:28:04 +0000

Yes, there is a cartoon named “The Car of the Future” or something where they mention that the engine still has a few “bugs” to be worked out. Then you see the engine and literally bugs crawl out. So the expression “bug” for technical problems is far older.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:01:55 +0000

Just as a nitpick, computer bugs were not actually named after the famous moth - programming and circuitry glitches were already referred to as "bugs" at that time. When the infamous moth was found in the circuitry, the techs jokingly referred to it as "First actual case of bug being found" in the lab notes.

By: skab

skab — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:45:30 +0000

Oh man! There’s a theme park I worked at for a summer as a technician. There’s a roller coaster there that has been running for about 2 years by a very dead rat that completes a conneciton in two seperated high power wires! The other techs said he’s been doing a great job there and they’ve decided not to move him. Oddly enough this roller coaster also has a rodent in its name.

By: Alan J. Richer

Alan J. Richer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:52:50 +0000

Had it actually happen to me. One fine Summer’s day, working at home and concentrating hard. Suddenly there is a BANG! outside my window here in Suburbia, the lights in the house go out, and the computer’s UPS starts whining.

Saw a large cloud of greasy smoke go by my office window, and realized that I’d been squirreled. Took the power company an hour and a half to reset all the breakers the little bastard tripped with his kamikatze run across the transformer output.

I,unfortunately, had the pleasure of performing the last rites – the power company left him on my lawn…what a lovely souvenir.

Alan

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:39:23 +0000

This is fairly common, and if Google is to be believed it’s becoming more common as the years go by.