You know that spray expanding foam in a can?

I feel a bit better today because i have a ratcheting adjustable wrench now.

Lesley wrote: I'm almost afraid to tell you guys about the time my cat got stuck to the freshly-varnished wood floor...

Have yiou ever had to take a cat to the vet with a glue-trap stuck to the side of his face?

Or, have you ever have a Siamese land with all-fours onto a cookie sheet with freshly-poured 415 degree peanut brittle?

To the OP, just man-up and D/A that E36 M3 off.

Freaking siamese... one of mine swiped a half-rack of pork rib out of a boiling pot of water – it hit the wall and he took off at a run. They're demented creatures.

My cat (part siamese) enjoys hitting things off tables/counters. I had to stop setting cups next to the edge of the counter because she would sit up there, swat them over the edge, and watch them fall and shatter on the floor.

Lesley wrote: Ugh, I'm with you. Dunno if it's OCD or something, but I go ballistic with stuff like that. Crazy glue is the worst.

Do you shave yourself bald?

Because hair is dead stuff hanging off your body. Gross, isn't it? If you arm was dead, you'd cut it off, not find stylishly new ways of folding it.

Lesley wrote: Freaking siamese... one of mine swiped a half-rack of pork rib out of a boiling pot of water – it hit the wall and he took off at a run. They're demented creatures.

When i was a kid, my family bred Chocolate and Seal-Points, so we always had several of the damn things patrolling the neighborhood. All the neighbors had German Shephards and Dobermans, but a couple of those dogs learned the hard way not to come into our yard... Damn little cats ripped the Hell out of more than one big-ass dog.

There was also a poultry farm two miles from our house, which was owned by friuends of ours.. At least once a week, they'd call about a missing chicken, because one of our cats would go out there and drag one all the way back to the house. Siamese, FTMFW!!!!

914Driver wrote: I was clearing the back of our yard, having a beer, cutting and digging. Had to pee. Got poison ivy on the hootus. I was Persona NonGrata with SWMBO for a while.

Learned that the hard way when I was 18. I got in with some landscapers who wanted cheap indentured slaves, and we cleared out a drainage ditch in December with 18" of snow on the ground. I didn't know poison ivy was viable that late into the year, but the thumb and forefinger print on Stanley sure met with reality. Thankfully I was single.

92CHT: I rebuilt a $500 '93 Legacy wagon that had lived in upstate NY and Central NH(read: no steel left) entirely with Great Stuff and Bondo, in the hopes that police might look past the perma-expired inspection sticker. Two things worked for me: Dykem remover, which I'd imagine is basically straight acetone, and going to work. A good hour soak in lightweight petroleum-based machine oil ate that stuff right up. That, and my credit cards, and my jeans, and the inside of my nostrils, and...

EvanB wrote: My cat (part siamese) enjoys hitting things off tables/counters. I had to stop setting cups next to the edge of the counter because she would sit up there, swat them over the edge, and watch them fall and shatter on the floor.

My budgey will do that. Soda cans are not allowed because she learned to tip them over for the sweet fizzy goodness inside.

I have 98% of this stuff off now. The secret? Brillo pad and about half a jug of GOJO.

Oh, and very raw hands.

Won't be using Brillo on the hootus, thankyaverramuch.

Curmudgeon wrote: Won't be using Brillo on the hootus, thankyaverramuch.

Don't knock it 'til you try it. Some folks like that sort of thing.

Serious note about the expanding foam: There are different kinds, and some expand with more enthusiasm than others. It can distort a plywood canoe floation chamber, I know that. Lesson learned - give it room to expand, and sneak up on full.

MEK? That E36 M3s crazy.

A buddy of mine had a new kitten and was drinking a glass of milk. He turned around a found the kitten on the table drinking his milk. He removed the cat and spent the next 15 minutes placing 1" long pieces of scotch tape sticky side up covering the table with the glass of milk in the center. He went to bed. In the morning the cat was passed out on the table with tape all over it and full glass of warm milk sitting in the center of the table.

tapecat reminds me of the blender defender...

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drats...cannot figure out how to embed his video on this forum...

ThePhranc wrote:

EvanB wrote: My cat (part siamese) enjoys hitting things off tables/counters. I had to stop setting cups next to the edge of the counter because she would sit up there, swat them over the edge, and watch them fall and shatter on the floor.

My budgey will do that. Soda cans are not allowed because she learned to tip them over for the sweet fizzy goodness inside.

Birds can be the most destructice force ever. More so than any dog or cat. Mine has been slowly munching on the paneling the PO installed in the living room. Guess it is her way to get me off of my ass to replace it with wallboard

I keep a scalpel with a #16 blade around for removing crap like crazy glue and Big Gap foam from my body.