[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Blackout

[bettedavisgreen at aol.com]

Dans un e-mail daté du 16/08/2003 04:21:59 Paris, Madrid, 
psychic_serpent at yahoo.com a écrit :

> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Anne" <anneu53714 at y...> 
> wrote:
> >Haha... in Alabama, at least at the University of Alabama in 
> >Tuscaloosa, it is believed that the number one cause of power 
> >outages at that university is squirrels. Apparently they enjoy 
> >chewing their way through the electrical wiring, especially the 
> >lines that go into and out of the University's computer hub.
> 
> Well, I'm in Philadelphia, not Alabama, but we've had an awful time 
> at our church keeping squirrels out of the lofts in the sanctuary, 
> where the pipe organ works are, including the wiring that lets the 
> console communicate with the pipes.  These animals will chew through 
> any kind of wire they can sink their teeth into!  Our poor organ has 
> been out of use more than in use in the last eight years.  Some 
> folks in the congregation who are recent additions didn't even KNOW 
> we had a real pipe organ--they never noticed the console behind the 
> decorative wood screen and hadn't looked up and noticed the enormous 
> pipes at one end of each loft (and we have some 32 footers, too, big 
> square wooden pipes which bend in the middle to accomodate the slope 
> of the roof).
> 
> Of course, our church is involved in a lot of peace missions, so 
> we've struggled over how to deal with the squirrel problem without 
> any KILLING actually being involved....which means, I think, that we 
> will continued to not have an organ for quite a while longer....
> 
> --Barb
> 
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> 

OH! :) That reminds me of a joke I got in my Catholicism forum:



There were three country churches in a small Texas town: The Presbyterian 
church, the Lutheran church and the Catholic church. 

Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels. 

One day, the Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about 
the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they determined that the 
squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's 
divine will. 

The Catholic group got together and decided that they were not in a 
position to harm any of God's creations. So, they humanely trapped 
the squirrels and set them free a few miles outside of town. Three days 
later, the squirrels were back. 

It was only the Lutherans who were able to come up with the best and 
most effective solution. They baptized the squirrels and registered 
them as members of the church. 

Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter. 


Cristina (who thinks she has never actually seen a real live squirrell... 
other than road dead)


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