Re: John Bois [joke. I hope. -- MR]

[Jeff Miller <jbmiller@fn.net>]

Lee J. McLean wrote:
> 
> On May 5th, 1996, John Bois wrote:
> 
> > Why, even I can gnaw at an egg the size of a house--I tried it on my
> > house.
> 
> > I am buying a mouse tomorrow.  All it gets are eggs.  I'll let you
> > know how the mouse gets by.

a mouse doesn't have to gnaw on an egg to break it. i forgot the name
of this critter, but this little mouse-like beast would find a small,
round rock, push it to an egg, straddle the rock, then with it's
little forearms, fling the rock at the egg, hopefully breaking
it. with the egg cracked, it could gnaw the egg right in half. Now the
name and whether it even existed in Mesozoic times is beyond me. Of
course it couldn't break an egg in a tree (although it could push it
out of the nest, i suppose) or break anything much larger then a
chicken egg, but small ground-laying birds are in abundance today, i'd
suppose there were also in (part of) the Mesozoic.  anyone else hear
of this egg mouse?
 
plus, houses have edges (unless you're dimensionally challenged) while
eggs don't. :)

JM