Re: Microphone problems
Mary Hopkins (mhopkins@@fas.harvard.edu)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:08:07 -0500 (EST)

> > That's something you have to break your pet of, immediatly. Do you have
> > any idea how many cats and dogs are electrocuted each year chweing
> > through power cords? Today the mic cord, tomorrow the lamp cord.
> >
> *** Hopefully, the cat just liked the taste of that particular cord.
> When I was a kid, my mother kept cats, and we never had any luck
> teaching them anything. They were proud creatures, and Would Not
> Be Trained.
Personally I'm more inclined to think of them as perverse. One friend of
mine used to say that any Promethean task was "Like trying to herd cats."
Mine, BTW, loves DD bec. it means I have a lap while working on the
computer. DD in consequence has had to learn ([purr]) and ([cat bath])
among other sound effects.