>>>>>>>It can be true? I can't believe in if it's true...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=46730&in_page_id=34
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Makes me glad we own cats. <s>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yeah, I'm definately not a cat person. Wait - I have three cats now. Hmmm... How did that happen? I know that I'm not a cat person, because I've always said it, and have always owned dogs. I "inherited" 3 kittens about 2 years ago, and know now that I am cat person. They have much more personality than I ever thought cats could have. They run to greet us in the morning and evenings. They love to be petted. They're really just like dogs, except they're smarter and I don't have to walk them... <g>
>>>>>
>>>>>Just don't try to sell them as poodles. ;) I'm a cat person myself. I have 4. I didn't intend it that way, I wanted just 1, but somewhere along the way...
>>>>>
>>>>>You know, I realise the story said that the Japanese haven't really seen many poodles, but honestly, did they really think a poodle is a type of dog that has hooves?
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, the whole hoof thing should have tipped them off. Americans may be crass, but you really can't call us naive.
>>>
>>>No, not like the guy who bought London Bridge:
>>>
>>>http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm
>>>
>>>and thought he was getting Tower Bridge:
>>>
>>>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-39,GGLR:en&q=tower+bridge+london
>>>
>>>> still find it funny that there was an entire town in Romania who ran away (literally) because they thought the lights from a carnival in another town were invading aliens. That's what happens when you have a potato box for a TV...
>>>
>>>Totally unlike the thousands of Americans who panicked at Awful Wells's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
>>>
>>>http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm
>>
>>I actually thought of mentioning that as I wrote the post, but then that happened back before any real technology was around other than radio. Our TVs were still potato boxes, but not now. Couldn't happen here now; we have Snopes!
>
>So if they sound the 4 minute warning, all hands are going to rush to their computers, power up, log on to the web, and check out Snopes. No, wait a minute, you all leave everything on all the time anyway - what am I saying?
>
>And there is some evidence for that last sentence. Just think how VT decided to warn students of Cho - emails!!!
>That assumed 1) all hands were logged on, 2) they were in their dorms, 3) they had email on 4) they were attentive to the pc.

Don't be silly, Terry. They'd all run into their homes to grab their firearms and then dare the Martians to try something.