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Re: come here, mousie...

To: "Shop-Talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: come here, mousie...
From: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:16:19 -0500
I wasn't gonna say a word  .  .  .  I didn't want to stir up any animal
activists or gross anyone out, but I can't stand it . . . I'm gonna tell
all:

Several years ago I stumbled onto an amazing company called "Dixie Gun
Works" in Union City, Tennessee.  Any "shop talk" person could spend a day
in this amazing Mecca for anyone with an appreciation of old engines, cars
and especially guns.  Among my purchases that day was a "Black-powder
Mousetrap".  It loads with a few grains of black-powder and a wad of
newspaper.  When the mouse raises up to nab the cheese bait, he trips a
hammer which fires a percussion cap into the black-powder propelling the
paper wad right into his cute little tummy, ruining his whole day!     Does
it work?   I donno, I've never loaded it but from the day I bought it as a
conversation piece, I've never seen a mouse in my shop  -  they're smart
li'l boogers!

Tony_______________________@Sherman.Texas




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