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I love the lyrics! Whoever wrote them seems to have had their hadron  
straight <g>
 
I'll tell ya something, though - 
 
When I moved in here last December, the lower "level" (a 3" step up/down)  
was carpeted in old - but still nice - area rugs with a Southwestern motif 
that  
I really liked. The upper level, where the bedroom and the office are, was  
covered with large green carpet squares, the kind you cut to fit. It looked  
okay.
 
Then came the flood of '08. This being such an old place - the under-sink  
cabinet in the kitchen was so nasty that I just put a hook-and-eye on it so 
the  
cats would get in there, and then forgot about it. 
 
One night last March - since I usually only sleep 1-1/2 to 2 hrs at a  
stretch, I awoke and headed for the kitchen, only to find myself ankle deep 
in  
water. A pipe had burst under the sink...where the faucet had a chronic leak. 
 
There was no water turn-off valve, and I didn't know where the outside 
shut-off  
was. Landlord was away - no way to reach him.
 
To make a long story longer, I ended up with a flashlight in my teeth,  
punching a hole in the front door screen, and hooking up my garden hose to 
the  
faucet to send the water outside before it got to the 'real' furniture and  
my 
books - oh my gosh - piled all over, some on the floor.
 
My point being, and to get back on subject, I had to spend the next days  
taking up the area rugs, and the green carpet tiles, and discovered that -  
underneath - was a plank floor - no underlayment, no plywood - just 2x8's (or 
 so) 
with some pretty healthy knotholes where you can look right down to the  
ground underneath the bungalow.
 
I kinda liked that. I just don't walk around without shoes in, and I keep  an 
eye on the cats (they tell me when something is imminently arriving into the  
living room from below). I figure I'm in an excellent place for Borrowers and 
 Little People. Just gotta keep an eye on the cats and teach them to treat 
Little  People like big ones.
 
Sometimes I see the cats, in the middle of the night, gathered in a circle  
around one or another of the knotholes, on their stomachs, ears at attention 
but  other wise calm and with folded-in paws, and there they remain - for 
long, 
long  periods of time. I have gone outside with a flashlight, and looked 
underneath  the bungalow, and see nothing - and, when I come back inside, 
that cats 
haven't  budged.
 
I finally give up and go back to bed, and have decided to buy all-cotton  
socks from now on.
 
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/19/2008 9:21:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:

Well, I  know.
They cross over into another dimension of space and time.
It is a  little known fact that the LHC is actually a device that locates 
and  retrieves those lost hairpins and lost socks, also known as 
anti-matter  domestica. The LHC spins up, creating a huge magnetic force 
that sucks the  metal pins and the static-laden socks right back into 
this dimension.  :)
The LHC Rap lyrics state so... ;)

> LHCb sees where the  antimatter’s gone
> ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
> CMS  and ATLAS are two of a kind
> They’re looking for whatever new particles  they can find.
> The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
>  And the things that it discovers will rock you in the  head.




Lynda wrote:
> Geez Louise, Sandy.  Have  you not read about the Borrowers and the Little 
> People  <g>  They're not evil, they simply have a need for things one  
doesn't 
> put away properly <<bg>>
> 
>  Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:  <Bunjov AT aol.com>
>> This does not explain why the washer seems  to eat my socks. Or  why one 
>> runs
>> out of  bobbypins and paperclips, when one lives alone and is not in  the  
>> habit
>> of making hairdos or doing paperwork off the  premises. I can't blame  the
>> cats - their hair isn't long  enough and they can't read. There is 
>> something   evil
>> out there armed with a tiny magnet, and it comes after dark  and  runs off
>> with my stuff. It doesn't go bump in the night,  but it wears  mis-matched 
>> socks. 
> 

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