Re: Exercising a Cat and Wikipatents

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:09:39 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar wrote:
D from BC wrote:

While searching for IC's I came across this: http://www.wikipatents.com/

Looks like a site for the public to comment on patents. Maybe...
Comments like "You ***..you stole my idea!" :) Or....
You can ridicule patent 5443036: Using a laser pointer to exercise your
cat.
Geeeezz....
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5443036
&id=OfwkAAAAEBAJ&dq=5443036
One of the lamest patents I know of.

Why would somebody patent that?

I had a laser pointer experience recently that led me to consider the idea
of also filing a patent. There was this pimp with an extremely huge dog.
As big the gog was as lazy it was. Some fellows in our group got a laser
pointer as xmas present. These guys swapped the pointer amongst themselves
to make the dog move. The dog didn't move a milimeter, didn't roll an eye,
nothing, as if a marble cast, but owner god mader each minute, until he
finally came over and made his point clear in a tone and voice not really
fitting the expensive restaurant we were in.
Thus my patent idea : If the pointer doesn't make the dog move, it at
least make the dog owner move.


I made a cat move once - I was at my GF's house, and her kitten was
watching me take a leak. I farted, loudly. The cat leapt about 2 feet
sideways. I laughed.

This was the cat that would always sneak out at night and GF would
go chase after it. I told her, "let him go, he knows where the food
is." but, she insisted on playing "let the cat make a monkey out of
the human."

About two years after we broke up, we were talking on the phone, and
she commented, "Oh, yeah - you'll like to know this - the cat got out and
I didn't chase him, and the next morning he was meowing at the door. Gosh!"

;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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