Mouse Solution, Dirty Dishes, T.A. Training, New Classes, Mifflin Co-Op, Date Mix-ups & Projector

[nikitangel]

::narrows eyes at Mouse::

That's it, bucko.  No more Ms. Nice Person.  Out with the catch & release traps, in with the poison.

I'm sorry, guys.  I know you were all so hopeful for the compassion and stuff, but this is just too much.  Look!  Just look at my kitchen sink.

Comments

[nikitangel]

Well, I wouldn't say I'm very good at keeping dishes clean, but I actually had a pretty good rhythm going for awhile when I first got here! Darn mouse ruined everything!

[harmonyfb]

It's something called DECON, which was actually invented right here at the university. It works with the same drug used on humans for thinning blood (some name I can't remember, but my landlord is a doctor, so he felt compelled to tell me all about it).

Wafarin (or Coumadin). Yep, people take it as a blood thinner. Fatal (surprise, surprise) in large doses. In high use as rodent poison, because it won't poison any animals who eat the rat. Be very careful to secure it so that no children or pets can get into it, though.

Yes, I am a font of completely useless information. Go ahead, ask me about medieval prostitution!

[nikitangel]

That's the one! The Wafarin name is actually based on an acronym involving University of Wisconsin something-or-other. There are no kids in my building (and I haven't seen any in the area) and no pets, so I think I should be okay with leaving the poison out.

By the way, what were the foundations of medieval prostitution?

[harmonyfb]

By the way, what were the foundations of medieval prostitution?

Well, believe it or not, financial concerns were secondary (though important). Prostitution was considered to provide a very important public service by giving young men an outlet for their baser urges so that they didn't commit adultery or lure marriageable virgins into sin. Fornication was a sin, but a lesser one, after all.

In some towns, the Prostitutes' guild held the same rights as other guilds, and took part in town festitivies for holy days (like...running footraces against other guilds, that sort of thing.)

In 15th Century France, prostitutes often grew so wealthy that statutes were enacted to require them to wear an indentifying mark (in one province, a braided shoulder cord) in order to distinguish their dress from that of "good and noble ladies".

In England, a stewholder (ie, brothel keeper) could require the prostitutes to spin wool or flax for them if the women were not otherwise engaged.

Yeah, I'm a geek. ;)