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Our cuddly orange cat decided he wanted to explore the outdoors (again) and made a run for it a couple days ago (both cats are indoors.) He's had outdoor experience before, being a stray that we adopted a few years back.
Still, we'd like him to come back inside, and have had several sightings of him on the property but he still wants to stay out.
Never-the-less, I set up a Have-A-Heart trap with some cat food in it. Wife checked it this morning and said, well, there's something in the trap, with very light orange fur, but also a lot of black.
SKUNK!
So I went to take a look, and of course it sprayed. Missed me, as I was to the side, but now the whole neighborhood smells of skunk, and being right by the house, it even smells of skunk inside!
Skunk was freed -- I put a towel over the trap, of course the skunk sprayed more, but at least into the towel. Opened the door, and the guy (gal?) was too freaked out to run away. So I had to pick up the trap and shake it out. Is there a song for that? But skunk is free, looked a bit stunned just sitting there outside the trap for a few seconds, then took off. Well, I didn't see it take off -- we both took off in opposite directions. 
Still, no cat. 
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Good times at the Cliftons. 
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The cat is probably waiting for the smell to die down ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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indoor cats: bad for the cat, good for the environment.
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I feel (smell?) your pain 
We used to have a dog who wanted nothing more than to make friends with a local skunk. Sadly her overtures of friendship were unrequited. She must have been sprayed a dozen times over the course of her life...never did learn.
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"When you are a skunk, you learn how to hold your breath for a long time", Le Pew, P.
The cat is probably hiding until the stripe of paint wears off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We had a mama skunk and her litter in a den under our garage last year. One of the kits wandered into our yard, and my two greyhounds brought it in and dropped it onto the wife's heirloom rug. I scooped it up into a dust pan and tossed it outside toward the den.
The fun part was taking the 7'x9' rug outside, spraying it with water, shampooing it, rinsing it several times, and then lifting it over the fence to dry over the next several days. The rug probably weighs close to 75 pounds dry. Getting it thoroughly wet converts it to woven neutronium. Heaving it up and over the fence was... difficult.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Presumably your municipality has some sort of pest control services. While it was still trapped, you should've called them to pick it up and take care of it.
If you just freed it, don't be surprised if it comes back.
This last week we woke up to a squished skunk right in front of our mailbox. The less of them I know are around, the better it is IMO.
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Oh gawd. Another one ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present BRITA Infinity[^] - the WiFi water jug?
Yes, that's right, all you have to do is give it full access to your network, hand it your Amazon login and purchase details, and it will order water filters whenever it feels like it! What could possibly go wrong? 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Right
And since you bought filters we thought you might be interested in fur lined electric socks so we've included a pair in this delivery.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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"... And thanks to our Special Partnership with DeBeers, we ordered you an Eternity Ring at 13% off!"
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Isn't that special...
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Ohk. And do you want this[^] to be added to your order as well? It can count brush strokes and measure the force applied to the hair and the scalp when brushing..!!!
Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.
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Has a microphone that listens while you brush for such things as; whether you're cheating on your spouse, refer to extortion department and whether you're using the product appropriately, nagagator comes to mind.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Aren't all IoT (Internet Of sh*tty Things) devices useless? Open barn doors for all kinds of nasty misuse/abuse...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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I have one that is useful, and can think of one other.
You can tell your Sky recorder to record a program from your phone via an app, which could be useful - if there was enough worth watching to actually record something...
I have a WiFi Sous Vide, so in theory I could set it going on my way home, and have food ready when I walked in. Which is good, and useful. But ... the software is a pile of sheep poo. Basically for me it only works if I am in the same room, as soon as the phone sleeps - which it does often - the WiFi link breaks and you have to reestablish it via Bluetooth to get it working again. Which means pressing a button on the actual unit, negating the whole sodding idea.
They are apparently working on this. But then, they have been for months so I'm not expecting results at all soon ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They missed out the most important part of the whole process - disposing of the old filter and replacing it with the new.
Adding one more item to my supermarket shopping list isn't exactly difficult; remembering to replace the filter at the right time, OTOH...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I had an image with text on, and I thought "that's a nice font - I wonder what it is?"
So I googled for "identify font from image" and this came up: Identify Fonts - The Font Squirrel Matcherator[^] - you drop an image on it, it finds the text, and it says "could be one of these..." complete with download links.
And right at the top was what I was looking for. Impressive work, chaps - your site is now on my uBlock whitelist.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There was another called "What The Font", but it got renamed/taken over. I think Google could still find it. Very useful for identifying venue slogan/logo fonts for ticket printing.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Tomahawk[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think someone who invents a new cancer scalpel should name it the "TumorHawk".
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I had a discussion with my wife about band names that involved berries. We came up with a few and then we opened it up a little to names involving fruits and vegetables too. Here are the ones we came up with :
The Cranberries
The Raspberries
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Wild Cherry
Blackberry Smoke
Buckcherry
The Cherry Poppin Daddies
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tangerine Dream
Does anyone have additions to the list?
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I/we purposefully avoid Google in trying to think of them but what ever.
Damn, I should have thought of Moby Grape because my former band opened up for them once.
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