I'm covered in tiny talking insects, you're funny JimRob...<P>------------------
If I shot you and your dead body falls on me and breaks my neck, have I committed suicide?
Now that is funny
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I was wondering when that issue would surface in Sybil and Alan's relationship. Mind you, I wouldn't imagine a skunk would be too fussy about... No. I'm sorry. That was speciest. Forgive me. I never said it. Gotta go, left the cat on the stove. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif">
Tsk.<P>Don't worry about it. Alex is a good deal more concerned with hygiene than precedence would claim. (And than Sybil, if we're honest.)<P>I do think the skunk's reputation for smell is rather unfair, though; as far as I know they cause no more stink than any other mammal unless angered. Either that or people who keep them as pets have remarkable endurance.<P>(From what I've read, in the slang of times past various other wild animals were symbols for smelling bad: pole-cat, badger, and - yep - fox. So Sybil and Alex are in roughly the same position.)<P>And I've known cats to be very happy atop Aga stoves. Since they're effectively always on, the casing warms up to a very feline-friendly temperature.<P>Oh, and congrats on your induction into the Illuminati, by the way <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>------------------
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JimRob:
<B>I do think the skunk's reputation for smell is rather unfair, though; as far as I know they cause no more stink than any other mammal unless angered. Either that or people who keep them as pets have remarkable endurance.
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think the scent-glands can be surgically removed - there's a Gary Larson cartoon of the first ever such operation, with panicking surgeons yelling, 'You fool, you've armed her!' or something along those lines. You didn't need to know that, and neither did I. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif">
<B>I do think the skunk's reputation for smell is rather unfair, though; as far as I know they cause no more stink than any other mammal unless angered. Either that or people who keep them as pets have remarkable endurance.
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think the scent-glands can be surgically removed - there's a Gary Larson cartoon of the first ever such operation, with panicking surgeons yelling, 'You fool, you've armed her!' or something along those lines. You didn't need to know that, and neither did I. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif">