[Coco] Etiquette Question

[Frank Pittel]

As a much more important note then top or bottom posting, has anyone
looked into the reason why cats find unrolling toilet paper, shredding it
so no single piece is bigger then a quarter and spreading the pieces all
around the house is so much fun for them??

The Other Frank


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:10:11PM +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> > From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> 
> > > From: Paulo Lindoso
> 
> > > eventually the conversation reached "toilet paper" and hence the
> > > philosophical question: do you place the paper roll with the end
> > > going down or up? Some people like sliding the top of the roll
> > > to get the paper while others prefer to slide the bottom of it... :P
> 
> > The cats decided that question. If it unrolls over the top to hang off
> > the front they would play with it until the whole roll was unwound on
> > the floor. If it rolls over the top toward the back they would give
> > the roll a spin and lose interest.
> 
> That's the way it is here.  Cats.  The aesthetics of how it looks on the wall are no contest compared to the anti-aesthetics of toilet paper all over the floor.
> 
> And after many decades using email and usenet, my standards are remarkably similar to Dennis's.
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