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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Cocooned in Dylanesque or is Albert Einstein indeed God?
>> What's wrong with rabbits? Oh my ears and whiskers, such prejudice!
>>
>> best joanna
>
> Well, I may be generalising from a limited dataset, but my daughter's
> three-legged bunny had a habit of waiting till no one was looking, leaning
> forward and taking a really painful nip out of my wrist. (Bunnies can
> bite.)
>
> Then it would jump back and sit smuggly on its haunches and as I rose in
> fury, everyone would suddenly turn round and glare at me: "WHY are you
> looking at that harmless little floppsy in that way? How dare you!"
>
> It wasn't the pain (which could be bad enough) but the manipulative aspect
> of the thing.
>
> But then there's the myxomatosis time, so I suppose even bunny rabbit
> jokes
> can be offside. Martin and I both lived through this -- you and Roger
> too?
>
> The Stone Dormouse
Indeed we did -- we're older than you, remember. My sister actually marked
the bank where a particular corpse lay, so she could go back and determine
how long it took to 'skell', as she put it.
As for the manipulative aspects of bunnies, Roger's first mother-in-law had
a cat which behaved in a similar way. Under the circumstances, of course, I
never knew this animal.
best joanna
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