Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 60th Edition
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Yup it's iPOD inspired alright
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>.<"!Originally posted by the Bear:got a bit more space in the thumb drive.. want me to put in Spike And Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in it?
anyway, i went to check out some stuff and found this.
"THOSE TALES OF GREAT rodent nations marching into battle are pure myth, ratologists say, but no one really knows the rats' full capabilities. Surely there are many stories of rat cooperation and even compassion. A good example is the famous Rattenkonig or "rat king." Young rats close to one another in the nest sometimes get their tails entangled and become a living Gordian knot glued together by dirt encrusted wounds and the like. When they try to pull apart the tails are pulled tight, and the knots strengthen, knitting the rats together. As many as 32 rats are trapped in these knots and have died as a result of being unable to forage for themselves. However, they are often unselfishly fed for life by other family members.
"There is no doubt that rat kings exist: sixty or so have been reported in Europe since 1564 and about 40 (most of them found alive) have been authenticated, the latest in 1963. Rat kings have frequently been preserved, painted, and photographed, and in 1774 a 16-rat king was examined by a Leipzig court in connection with a charge that a miller's apprentice had cheated his master by stealing the king from him and pocketing a tidy sum by exhibiting it.
"The name rat king may come from the old superstition that an aged wise rat sat on the entangled tails of rats and was treated as royalty by the pack. But it could just as well derive from an early belief that the animals entangled were one organism, a supreme rat with many bodies. Rat kings range in composition from 3 - 32 rats, with most consisting of 5 - 10 animals, and are apparently found only among the long and less pliable tailed black rat species, although a few verified rodent kings of squirrels and several unverified mice kings have been reported. Brown rat kings have been induced in the laboratory. Rat kings fabricated by tying the tails of live rats together look nothing like real kings, but rat kings have been created in the laboratory by gluing the tails of rats together; this causes the rats to become so entangled while trying to extricate themselves that a true knot is formed. Yet no zoologist has been able to prove exactly how rat kings are formed in nature. It is possible that the tails become entangled when the rats huddle together facing outward for warmth and security, urine and feces from those in the upper circle falling onto the entwined mass of tails. Other possibilities are that the tails might become entangled while the males are wildly fighting for females, or during mass grooming, or in the nest shortly after birth, or after the tails of a number of rats come into contact with some sticky substance. It may even be that the "verminous vermicelli" are formed in several ways. The rat king remains as much a mystery to nuclear-age scientists as it was to medieval peasants."
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In other news.
I cant wait for Tang Yuan festival. -
errhh VK, i oso dun know about cooking...Originally posted by viciouskitty74:New auntie in the office is more trouble then she is worth.
Lets see how long she lasts...
It was hilarious to know that she totally dont know much about cooking.
And the bozz & some office gal expect her to brew Barley Water and Chrysanthemum water.
*go hide in one corner*
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ahhh.. rat king..
where a number of rats have their tails entwined together.. legend says these are super-intelligent and behave as one...
in a comic 2000AD, there is a story inside from the series Halo Jones which talked about 'ratwar' being banned in the intergalactic treaties as it was too horrible..
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hmmm. interesting.
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For me, my main concern is that the auntie keeps the office clean, the water ready to make coffee, tea & the cups ready for the gals to get water, and start their day in the office.
all those brewing stuffs, are frankly not in her job description and it was hilarious when I hear the 'office manager' tries to instruct her or instruct me to tell her that and I personally knows that she dont even brew those stuffs at home.
It was even funnier cos another lady actually did tell me about how one of our new intern...when ask her to help bring over a a bag of sago seeds....she went and bring staples.
And when asked her to bring gula melaka to the pantry from a table.....the poor gal brought 2 packets of dunno what else.
Not everyone knows how to cook! -
i'm back!!!
feel better after the heat AND electronic treatment... but was told not to bend, lift heavy stuffs [how do i carry files then? one by one will take me forever and dozens of trips to and fro]... and yes she said try to cut down on doing housework.... rite... so bubble is to sweep and mop and do my laundry??
and i'm to continue my pain medication cos i obviously need it... -
first time I heard of rat king ....
but I love james clavell's king rat ... -
U !Originally posted by Fatum:first time I heard of rat king ....
but I love james clavell's king rat ...
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hehe... din noe you were in corp comms... muahahahahahaahhahahahaOriginally posted by the Bear:sadly, we're corporate comms.. even if we wanted to use them, our Dy Dir will not allow us to use
was also looking at the internal magazine.. we keep telling the people to give us hi-res pics.. they take it upon themselves to mangle the pics, shrink them and all that before sending it to us.. as a result, pics of some people are hilarious... we've got a few that make some of them look like Frankenstein Monsters, a few who seem to have more than 2 eyes, and some look like pixellated mutants...
the stupidity of it all is that we ask them for the original digital pics, and the idiots have deleted them...
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apa si ? ....Originally posted by Ferret:U !
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what did I do again ? ...
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my cat loves to chase the laser pointer red dot....
she can recognise the sound of us picking it up and immediately stands and looks around for the red dot at the wall and floor opposite! -
you should buy your cat some toys ...Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:my cat loves to chase the laser pointer red dot....
she can recognise the sound of us picking it up and immediately stands and looks around for the red dot at the wall and floor opposite! -
I was in sheng siong last night.Originally posted by Fatum:apa si ? ....
what did I do again ? ...
and was thinking of making prawn salad.
was contemplating whether to add any veggies in...wandered to the veggie section...saw lettuce....THOUGHT OF U....and scuttled out.
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dot dot dot ...Originally posted by Ferret:I was in sheng siong last night.
and was thinking of making prawn salad.
was contemplating whether to add any veggies in...wandered to the veggie section...saw lettuce....THOUGHT OF U....and scuttled out. -
my last attempt at prawn salad ended up in the form of a whole pile of fresh prawns smothered with mayo and a dash of lemon juiceOriginally posted by Ferret:I was in sheng siong last night.
and was thinking of making prawn salad.
was contemplating whether to add any veggies in...wandered to the veggie section...saw lettuce....THOUGHT OF U....and scuttled out. 
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no toys for my cats! She loves origami too!.. the moment my husband takes a piece of note paper and starts folding it, she will sit there attentively wait for him to finish and flick on the floor so she can play with it.Originally posted by Fatum:you should buy your cat some toys ...
Best! every new piece of note paper is a new toy! -
My prawn salad turned out great.Originally posted by av98m:my last attempt at prawn salad ended up in the form of a whole pile of fresh prawns smothered with mayo and a dash of lemon juice
no veggies
I added onion slices instead of lettuce. No more lettuce. Too...horrifying -
Fatum should feel honouredOriginally posted by Fatum:dot dot dot ... -
tot your salad no veges deOriginally posted by Ferret:I was in sheng siong last night.
and was thinking of making prawn salad.
was contemplating whether to add any veggies in...wandered to the veggie section...saw lettuce....THOUGHT OF U....and scuttled out. -
onion might cause hippo to fartOriginally posted by Ferret:My prawn salad turned out great.
I added onion slices instead of lettuce. No more lettuce. Too...horrifying -
Yeah man I think of Fatum everytime I see lettuce
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arrrgghhh ...
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its somewhat....Originally posted by elindra:Yeah man I think of Fatum everytime I see lettuce
because i was holding one lettuce head and was gazing at it with total intensity