tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9457805.post5248903230428855393..comments2024-01-06T10:31:34.575-08:00Comments on Across Difficult Country: Cuckoo in cuckoo clock landC. Van Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918883799053031223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9457805.post-57285991788925126022008-10-30T20:03:00.000-07:002008-10-30T20:03:00.000-07:00In case anyone should run across this entry lookin...In case anyone should run across this entry looking for goldfish euthanasia tips, I can report that a suggestion we encountered on the Interweb actually worked quite well: submerge Goldy in a small vessel of high-proof vodka. The alcohol will completely anesthetize the fish so that it feels no pain during its fairly quick death from alcohol poisoning and/or asphyxiation. (We did not idly test this: the subject had contracted an incurable and painful fish disease of some kind.)MarcWPhotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065637738819949604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9457805.post-42084262252730954822008-09-09T19:56:00.000-07:002008-09-09T19:56:00.000-07:00Interesting. Well, your secret's safe with me - my...Interesting. Well, your secret's safe with me - my mental database has far too inflexible a design to pull that off.zielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669293146969638930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9457805.post-33741984487982756522008-09-08T19:08:00.000-07:002008-09-08T19:08:00.000-07:00I read the animal rights story and the quote above...I read the animal rights story and the quote above made me laugh. Imagining various ways to humanely knock out or kill a goldfish (garrotte made of thread? Tiny toy hammer?) triggered (sorry) a memory of the minature revolver, which was in the news a while back. I didn't recall the gun being made in Switzerland until I looked it up again, I'm guessing the Swiss connection is why my brain remembered it.<BR/> <BR/>In the past I've had items, though I can't remember which ones at the moment, where odd thoughts occured to me, then using the power of google searched up actual events which fit the concept. Another trick is to leverage one amusing story by finding multiple examples of it (Oldie Crime Wave!).C. Van Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09918883799053031223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9457805.post-51196852892062217572008-09-08T17:17:00.000-07:002008-09-08T17:17:00.000-07:00How do you make these connections? Did you first c...How do you make these connections? Did you first come upon the tiny gun made in Switzerland then went off in search of a suitable target? Or did you first read about the ban on flushing fish down the toilet and then hunted down a site for a suitably sized firearm manufactured in Switzerland? Or is it a trade secret?zielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669293146969638930noreply@blogger.com