I don’t know if they come rat-sized but there are humane traps you can get for mice where the mouse can get in but can’t get out. Here’s one example, though the one I’ve used had a one-way ramp and a little “bowl” to put peanut butter in (the food of choice for mice, apparently).
Acid
5042
Heck, they have raccoon sized “Have a Heart” traps. Would work for a rat, too.
Brendan
5044
In other news I think I just became smitten by Lily Cole tonight.
I think you are needed in this thread.
I got accepted to the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and am really, truly going to spend 6 weeks of the summer in San Diego writing like mad. Added bonus - I get to hang with George RR Martin for one week and Samuel Delany for another.
Rock the fuck on! Delany’s Nova is probably my all-time favorite sci-fi novel. Cue insane jealousy.
Rimbo
5048
damn you
i had to google ‘lily cole’ to see who it was, and now i’m smitten, too
Brendan
5049
Go watch the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus now if you haven’t already.
You obviously have never owned two cats like mine. They are vermin exterminating machines.
Strato
5050
Just chiming in to say I got photographed with the Prime Minister of Australia. Ok, not that interesting, being a politician and all, but, well, screw it, it was interesting for me because I don’t meet famous people.
That was a bit ambiguous. Are you a politician?
Strato
5052
Oh, sorry, no, I’m just an ordinary pleb. He came to the hospital I was working at.
Mrenda
5054
Seeing as it was the Aussie Prime Minister he probably had his pie in his beer holding hand and his beer in his pie holding hand and needed surgical correction to sort the imbalance.
Pie shares were up as beer swilling happens more often, similarly beer stocks were down as pie munching only happens a few times a night.
Just forwarded on the Worst Forgery Ever of a military DD-214 (discharge certificate) to our local FBI office. The blatant errors on this are so bad as to be parody.
- the word “sergeant” is misspelled. Twice. Differently.
- four different fonts are used on it.
– the date on the discharge is 1984. One of the typefaces used is very obviously Calibri. Created in 2005.
- Lists the Southwest Asia Service Medal among awards. This was awarded for Desert Shield/Storm, and created in 1990. Six years AFTER the date of discharge.
- Character of service and Re-enlistment code are in drastically different typeface than the rest of the document. Obviously altered to read “Honorable” and “RE-1” respectively. However, the individual did not bother changing the separation code, which reads “BNC”. A BNC separation code means “Misconduct: moral or professional dereliction of duty”. You don’t get an Honorable discharge for that.
And the winner:
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Silver Star (2 awards). Okay, the Silver Star is the third-highest decoration of valor the military grants. As such, every awarding of it is a matter of public record. This guy’s name? Does not appear anywhere on that record.
Now here’s the great bit - the guy’s name and SSN are on this document. His address is on the application he submitted.
Unfortunately, it’s only a federal misdemeanor - but the outright ineptitude of this forgery is pretty much worth a public shaming. He could get up to a year in prison under the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, but man - I think that’s light.
Nevertheless, I feel like treating myself to lunch today.
Man, you figured out the font he used was too new to be used on an old form? That’s pretty slick. What’s an old font, Courier?
For those of you infatuated with Lily Cole, gross, man. She looks 12.
Most military forms from that time period were either typewritten (especially if done in a forward area) or used a consistent font throughout the document. It varied over the years and between locations due to obvious differences in equipment. But yeah, I’m a bit of a typography geek so that jumped right out at me among all the other blatant inconsistencies.
Courier’s old (1955) and there’s a fun story behind it with how IBM commissioned it for their typewriters but forgot to copyright it and thus it ended up becoming public domain. But that’s a completely different set of geekery there.
(Note to self, pick up Helvetica on DVD soon.)
Those are not the boobs of a 12 year old. I think it’s the fact that her face is such a unique shape and her eyes can swallow a man whole.
For the record the only other Hollywood stars I’ve found this dreamy were Uma Thurman and Clive Owen. Just dreamy.
ElGuapo
5059
I don’t know, man, to each his own, and all that, but . . .
To me, she looks like a children’s doll or something. Weird.
Agreed. Also, not attractive at all.
