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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 17, 2022 14:46:24 GMT -5
The great mouse hunt has reached its end! Using my cheap endoscope, I inspected every nook and cranny of the car's frame... and the very last place I checked was the right one! See that square column on the right? It's clearly hollow and there's a small access just above the wheel space. I dipped the camera in, and it hit something... soft. I couldn't see much, so I took a whiff... and the endoscope smelled terrible!  Using a shop vac with a rigged narrow nozzle (a repurposed tygon tube ducked-taped to the end of the vacuum cleaner's actual head), I started sucking whatever was a the bottom of that column. Bingo! Something stuck! It was a dead mouse, as expected. Then came another. And another. Here are the three first mice (sensible hearts should not look) : {Spoiler}  To make sure that the nest was empty, I taped a small flashlight to the end of the endoscope and took a better look. There were two more dead mice in there, plus what looked like decomposed mouse bits and pieces. Eeeeeeeeeeyuck. I jammed a funnel on top of the column and poured a liter of rubbing alcohol in there one cup at a time, vacuuming between each cup. The muck at the bottom seems to have mostly come out. Interestingly enough, the alcohol dripped below the car, suggesting that this spot is accessible from below and not only from the trunk, as I had imagined. This is where the critters tried to settle and eventually died:  The car still smells like a trashcan and most of its rear paneling has been removed, but at least there's now hope that things will get better! (And we may have saved hundreds of dollars by foregoing a visit to the mechanic). Kraven the Hunter? Bloodstone? Nimrod the great? Bah! Bunch of amateurs!  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 17, 2022 16:20:29 GMT -5
First of all, it's good to know that we all have access to endoscopes.
I love the cleverness of your solution.
Best of all, it is reassuring to know that you used that most invaluable of all modern scientific developments: Duct Tape. YES!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 16:26:31 GMT -5
I was delivering my route a few weeks back and found this being thrown out.   
Man I wish I found one of those being tossed out, that's a really nice Monopoly set.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 17, 2022 16:51:36 GMT -5
First of all, it's good to know that we all have access to endoscopes. Oh, the places I checked since buying that! That's the one piece of equipment every astronaut, jungle explorer or master of the mystic arts should always be carrying!!! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 17, 2022 18:14:22 GMT -5
That's the one piece of equipment every astronaut, jungle explorer or master of the mystic arts should always be carrying!!! Along with black fabric, Zip-ties and the glue gun, it is considered one of the keys to putting on any stage production. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 18, 2022 6:55:53 GMT -5
It’s sometimes interesting opening up Safari on my phone the day after having some drinks. You never know what you’ll find. Apparently last night, according to my wikipedia search, I needed to know about the hammond organ.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2022 23:19:38 GMT -5
Enjoy your last taste of summer in the Northern hemisphere, for today (9/21) is the Autumnal Equinox...  our local forecast is calling for a high of 90 here in Ohio on the 21st, but tomorrow the 22nd the forecast is for a high of 65. Mother nature sure likes to be dramatic when summer makes a exit!  -M |
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Post by impulse on Sept 22, 2022 9:01:09 GMT -5
Enjoy your last taste of summer in the Northern hemisphere, for today (9/21) is the Autumnal Equinox... our local forecast is calling for a high of 90 here in Ohio on the 21st, but tomorrow the 22nd the forecast is for a high of 65. Mother nature sure likes to be dramatic when summer makes a exit! -M Hot flashes into cold flashes. Is mother nature in menopause? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 22, 2022 20:32:57 GMT -5
Enjoy your last taste of summer in the Northern hemisphere, for today (9/21) is the Autumnal Equinox... our local forecast is calling for a high of 90 here in Ohio on the 21st, but tomorrow the 22nd the forecast is for a high of 65. Mother nature sure likes to be dramatic when summer makes a exit! -M Hot flashes into cold flashes. Is mother nature in menopause? If you mean unable to bear new life; then, yeah, it's lookin' like that might be the case. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 20:39:03 GMT -5
From the "Things I didn't think needed to exist but do" file. Was in a Half Price Books today and saw a scratch and sniff book about marijuana. Huh! Didn't think that needed to be a thing...
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 25, 2022 21:05:59 GMT -5
From the "Things I didn't think needed to exist but do" file. Was in a Half Price Books today and saw a scratch and sniff book about marijuana. Huh! Didn't think that needed to be a thing... -M Did you get a contact high? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 25, 2022 21:07:04 GMT -5
From the "Things I didn't think needed to exist but do" file. Was in a Half Price Books today and saw a scratch and sniff book about marijuana. Huh! Didn't think that needed to be a thing... -M Did you get a contact high? Did it come with a bag of chips? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 25, 2022 21:18:56 GMT -5
Did you get a contact high? Did it come with a bag of chips? There's a companion scratch 'n' sniff book called "Munchies." |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 22:51:26 GMT -5
From the "Things I didn't think needed to exist but do" file. Was in a Half Price Books today and saw a scratch and sniff book about marijuana. Huh! Didn't think that needed to be a thing... -M Did you get a contact high? Did you get a contact high? Did it come with a bag of chips? Did it come with a bag of chips? There's a companion scratch 'n' sniff book called "Munchies." Nope, just saw it on the endcap on my way from the clearance section to the comics section. It's more humorous here, b/c Mrs. MRP cannot stand the smell of marijuana and we have a number of neighbors who partake in their yards on summer nights, and often complains about it, so I offered to get the book for her, which if looks could kill, I would no longer be posting here. Our friends we were with thought her reaction was the funniest thing ever and that such a book was as about the most antithetical you could get to Mrs. MRP. As for munchies, we spent most of the rest of the day shopping at spice shops, Japanese bakeries and Greek bakeries, so we came home with lots of munchies, just not a scratch and sniff book on marijuana. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 26, 2022 11:46:30 GMT -5
I work in a building that is next door to a marijuana retail dispensary (it's legal in Illinois). It is an everyday source of amusement to watch people park in our lot and then walk over to the dispensary to buy their stuff, because they don't want to be seen parking in the dispensary's lot (which always has open parking spaces.. What's even more amusing is to note the names of businesses on commercial vehicles that park anywhere but their lot and then the driver (and passengers) get out and go into the place. I used to work for one company, whose truck I see parked on the street in from, every other day), and know for a fact the person is A) working and B) transporting the stuff to the store, because said company vehicle is checked out in the morning and returned at night. The company doesn't even allow smoking on the grounds (including their parking lot), let alone possession (let alone use) of substances such as alcohol and marijuana. I'm pretty sure they would take a rather dim view of said employee's activities, on company time, in a company vehicle.
I get why the people in commercial vehicles don't park in the dispensary lot; but, it is hilarious to watch the paranoia of those in private vehicles, when it is perfectly legal to buy the stuff, in this state.
Meanwhile, if you go to Walmart around here, the parking lot smells like a pack of skunks had a party all over the place.
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