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As others have said above, the 'flame' option is a reasonable one. Just do your work after the sun has gone down and they will all be inside the nest.
I've had some experience with this on several occasions. A propane torch is now my preferred weapon of choice.
Let us all know the outcome. If possible. 
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
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I dunno, made me smile at least. 
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having used his shark goblet many times one day the stark broke off, taking a large swig it traveled only half way down his throat before fatally choking him.
this is just one more example that demonstrates sharks are not toys.
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At least they're not IOT.
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Needs freakin' laser beams, attached to their heads.
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is there a baby shark one?
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A possible series that asks questions you almost surely never thought to ask. Often with a tad of research to spur you on to greater understand and enhance your curiosity.
Today: Why Is Toilet Paper (Rolls) The Width It Is?
Perhaps running out out the wrong time, most of us have, at one time or another, wished a roll was longer. But what about the width? Haven't you ever wished it was wider? More interestingly, why is it the width it is?
Now I don't look for the simple answer that it's sized to fit the various dispensers; many are built into the wall tile and they their options are limited. But, again, why this particular width?
Checking out the Wikipedia, I discovered it's been around, in some form or another, for over two thousand years and an industrial commodity in ancient China for most of that period. As for it's sizing, no . . . it's neither an illusion nor are our backside openings getting wider . . . it's been shrinking:
Quote: Manufactured toilet paper sheet in the United States was sized 41/2" × 41/2".[12] Since 1999 the size of a sheet has been shrinking; Kimberly-Clark reduced the length of a sheet to 4.1".[13] Scott, in 2006, reduced the length of their product to 3.7". The width of sheets was later reduced giving a general sheet size of 3.7" long and 4.1" wide. Larger sizes remain available.
Even the patents drawings show a roll apparently of the current size - and are quite specific, by the way, that the paper should unwind over the top and NOT from underneath.
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underneath if you have cats. Otherwise they can unroll it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Greg Utas wrote: Also toddlers.
Why would anyone want to unroll a toddler? 
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You don't have any siblings do you?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You don't have any siblings do you?
Only an older brother. And as far as I can recall, he never unrolled me. As far as I can recall.
/ravi
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Why Is Toilet Paper (Rolls) The Width It Is?
I think it has something to do with either "why is the sky blue", and/or "why are manhole covers round?"
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There is a good reason that manhole covers are round!
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Actually, triangular would have served as well.
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Not at all , q.v.[^]
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Sky is blue, if I recall correctly, do to Raleigh scattering of sunlight. Oxygen, a ground-state triplet, is polarize and is probably responsible form much of aforesaid upper-atmosphere interaction. There's also ozone.
Manhole covers are round to make them easy to (re)place as they don't have to have corners/sides aligned with the hole. Others believe they are so shaped to fool hobbits into thinking it's a doorway to someone's home.
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The current shrinking size phenomenon is associated with the "less for for" style of profit. They give you less, and charge the same/more. They now get to charge even more for the "larger size" because it's a "larger size", irregardless of that fact that a few years ago, it was the standard size.
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Not only are you correct but it's done with great imagination. One I remember, in particular, is the "Charmin" commercials - "Please don't squeeze the Charmin".
It was based upon the now softer rolls which were puffed up because some realized the technology to minutely wrinkle the paper would make the sheets stay further apart: less paper in the same volume. This was actually continued to the point where a roll was something like 160 sheets (vs. the ever reliable Scotties rolls of 1000 sheets at the other end). It's no accident that, thanks to this technology, ordinary supermarkets sell wipes in packages of 20 rolls - for Charmin user's, about a weeks worth.
Now, of course, there's the new 'larger rolls' - fitting in exactly as you described.
My favorite TV ad was the one that held the wipes up to a candle and noted you could see through the competitor's sheets. A certain time of genius is involved and I admire it.
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The width should be at least > than ***hole diameter.
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To be on the safe side I think there is a need to define a minimal "ɛ" which garantues (width > a**h_diam + ɛ)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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Hmmm,
can't recall ever being in the toilet with a measuring device and using it on the toilet paper.
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You need not trouble yourself - the dimensions of each sheet are written on the package, and if the roll is wrapped in its own wrapper, often on there, as well, along with the ply-count.
(ditto for nose-wipes, paper towels, etc.).
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Reading this thread, I'm pretty sure we're doomed...  
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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