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The wireless mouse does not look like a mouse any more. Sooner like a midget space shuttle or midget racing car without wheels. High time for a name change. Ever seen a mouse without a tail?
Last edited by BranShea; 02/21/07 06:35 PM.
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Bran: As a former prescriptivist I might have agreed. However, as a student of Zen and for what it's worth on purely intuitive grounds I would endorse retention of the name in spite of the loss of tail
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Dale: A mouse without a tail is no mouse. Just a midget form of a guinea pig. In fact , my mouse still has a wire and yet he looks like a guinea pig. I still call him mouse on a daily basis because of that wire , but in private Mouse and I know that he is a Guinea Pig. 
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Don't know who wrote this one,
Noah, sailing o'er the seas,
Ran high and dry on Ararat.
His dog then made a spring, and took
The tail from off a pussy cat.
Puss through the window quick did fly,
And bravely through the waters swam,
Nor ever stopped, till, high and dry,
She landed on the Isle of Man.
Thus tailless puss earned Mona's thanks,
And ever after was called Manx.
Maybe a cat got the mouses tail?
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Quote:
is a Manx not a cat?
Yes!Etaoin, maybe manx is the perfect word for the wireless mouse.
Good, better! much better!Because they look so spacy and flashy.
And Olly's poem confirms the flying capacity of the manx.
(a smile as big as the moon for that one) 
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As the tailless mouse said, "I just cannot see it!"
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I just read the def. of pigsney, and was surprised to find:
1. A sweetheart.
2. An eye, especially a small one.
[From Middle English piggesnye (pig's eye).]
Now, the phrase 'in a pig's eye' is completely derogatory! How did that happen? I only found one "reference" to the origin, which said: The derisive retort IN A PIG’S EYE!, is chiefly U.S. and Australian (according to the OED), and is a vehement denial expressing scornful disbelief ... . Whether that's correct or not I have no idea, and I'm not going to put the source because a.) it was a person posting on another board, and (chiefly) b.) it's an "authority" that I don't recognize as such.
Aside: technically, I guess this post belongs in Weekly Themes, but since nightotter (hi!) started this thread on change in meaning, it just seemed to fit here.
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Quote:
Ever seen a mouse without a tail?
Three blind mice. 
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