BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?

Subject: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:11 PM

Hibernation? Captured by the Dutch? Devoured by spatulae?

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:13 PM

*I* am Spatulus!

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:16 PM

no - seriously - Corridus hasn't posted in quite some time - I'm just wondering where MudCat's most Intrepid Hamster might be.

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Teresa
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:46 PM

jOhn kidnapped 'im. :)

They need to come back and relate their adventures. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 04:16 PM

He's had other things on his mind lately. CLICK!

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 05:10 PM

Omigosh.

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 05:33 PM

I think Chongo ate him.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 08:45 PM

I also fear the worst.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 10:25 PM

Naw, Chongo's got other things on his mind, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,Corridus
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 10:30 PM

Fear not. I live! Yes, I am still climbing on the exercise wheel daily, a high-priced digital model which I have been enabled to purchase, having become a bestselling rodent author. I'm getting older though, so I don't push it too hard. Just enough each day. My dear friend and associate, Freddy the White Rat, is busy acting as my business agent and he is inventing on the side. He invented a small explosive device the other day which caused The Cat to beat a hasty retreat from our window, which he was attempting to pry open. I'm speaking of Mizzenchip, the orange cat, my nemesis. Freddy is hoping to cause Mizzenchip a fatal injury any day now, and I hope he succeeds, but Mizzenchip is not easy to kill. Believe me, we have tried. It's only fair, because he's been trying to kill me for as long as I remember.

Anyway, things are basically okay here. Zoe, our human companion, has gotten a job at the local health food store, and it suits her well. She is quite happy these days. My royalties have assisted in refurbishing the apartment, and Freddy is building an airplane to replace the one we lost when escaping from the Rich Kid. Zoe took us to the movies the other night, concealing us in her coat pockets on the way in, and we saw "The Aviator", a film about Howard Hughes. What a great movie!!! Freddy was so inspired by it that he is determined to build a new plane and take to the skies again. He ordered a radio control airplane kit on the Internet, and it came in a few days. The spare room is full of balsa parts and fabric and engine parts and all kinds of stuff. Freddy will modify the plane so it can be personally controlled from the cockpit. It's a classic biplane, and they have good lift, Freddy says. Best for emergency landings.

Mizzenchip will get a big surprise when we bomb him from an altitude of a hundred feet or so. I can hardly wait.

- Corridus

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,Corridus
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 10:36 PM

By the way, that "Boners" site is really vulgar. Ugh! And the picture of the chimps! Disgusting! I have to learn not to click on those blue clickies.

- Corridus

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 11:24 PM

Did you hear that female hamster outside your window? Couldn't tell exactly what she was singing but it sounded something like

Corridus, Corridus, where you been so long?
Corridus, Coridus, where you been so long?
Ain't had no lovin' since you been gone.

What was that about?

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 01:11 AM

Those weren't chimps, Corridus. They were bonobos. Bonobos are the horniest... Well, let's put it this way: They make you hamsters look downright celibate by comparison.

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Teresa
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 01:14 AM

Shame on them ... are they mistaking bonobos for chimps? That page says "chimp" in the title.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 11:12 AM

Corridus-

Thanks for bringing us up to date. Now all we have to worry about is what happens when you try to dive bomb Mizzenchip from Freddy's biplane. What model plane did he choose, the Fokker DVIII or the Sopwith Camel? Do be careful when grinding and mixing the exlosive components. One little spark and you're out of there.

Reminds me of the time I was advisor to the science club at the Technical School in Ethiopia where I was a Peace Corps teacher in the early 1960's. The students approached me one day, requesting the formula for rocket fuel. I dutifully looked it up in my old reference book TWENTIETH CENTURY FORMULAS under pyrotecnics and ascertained that what they needed were equal parts of sulphur, carbon, and potassium nitrate. They went off happily to mix it up. I didn't think much about it until they invited me for a test firing and I saw the six-cylinder rocket launcher they had built, each rocket being about a foot long and cast out of aluminum, with an electric firing mechanism. This was a technical school I reminded myself. I would continue this story but I'm probably boring people...

Emperor Haile Selassie survived his visit to the school the next week, as did I.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Teresa
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 08:34 PM

Oh dear ... pop! goes the hamster?

Charley, do you know if any of them work for NASA? :) what happened with the rocket?

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Corridus - Where Art Thou?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 10:29 AM

Teresa-

The multiple rocket launcher worked well in its initial test. The students aimed it up about 90 degrees, fired off one rocket and it sailed up about a 1000 feet and came down in the soccer field.

The next weekend when the Emperor paid his visit, they tried again, and I was standing by with my camera, and everything went off perfectly well for a second time, except for my brown underwear.

I was somewhat concerned that if there were an accident that I'd be shipped home within 24 hours.

One added benefit for the students is that the police from the barracks across from the school had also witnessed the rocket launching and for years never interferred with student demonstrations at the school.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble