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At the end of the 19th century London telegraph wires were run underground through big pipes that carried gas and sewage. When they pulled the wire wrong, they employed an interesting technique to fix it:
One of these lateral wires was hauled out to be repaired. The men doing this work failed to attach to it a leading line, by which the wire could be drawn through again. The means employed to correct the error were very unique.
A large rat, with a fine steel wire, was put in the pipe. Behind there was thrust a ferret. The rat ran from the ferret a short distance and stopped. It was feared that he would show fight and be killed. But he started on again.
He ran through the whole length of the pipe, and brought out the wire in good style, though closely pushed by the ferret.
Huh! I always assumed they used leprechauns.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 28 2018, @05:55PM (5 children)
Ferrets are stupid enough for the job.
A cat would have been interested in that string rushing by, stepped on it, blocking the rat, and probably repeated the process multiple times until actually caught the rat directly. Per Murphy's law, the cat would have eaten the rat about halfway down the pipe, freaked out, and refused to move for a day or two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @06:02PM (4 children)
Unless it was Schrodinger's cat.
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Wednesday November 28 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)
Blinking between the world of the living and the dead, Schrodinger's cat only cares about Ethernet connections.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @09:21PM
Aethernet, not just for ghosts anymore!
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 28 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
Or Schrödinger's rat.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @03:24AM
You just made all cheesee enter temporal liquidity you bastard!