Tanya wrote about using kleenex boxes as toys - it's very, very cute.
Potpie stuffed herself into one the other day and spent a good long while
just turning around inside it, poking her head out occasionally to see what
we were giggling at.  She looked like a miniature Cardboard boxasaurus (a
little known dinosaur that went extinct not because of some highly contested
global calamity, but because it had no legs and was out-evolved by the sock,
its main prey, which DID develop a means of locomotion (the electric dryer -
and you thought nice Mr. GE was responsible for that).  The C.  boxasaurus
had a peculiar survival tactic - it was so cute that nesting mother
dinosaurs would snatch it up and carry it back to their nests, where the C.
boxasaurus could live under the relative protection of lots of dinosaur
mothers peering into the nest and going "Oooo!  EEEE!" (dinosaurian for 'Too
Damn Cute!') Certain scientific circles do exist that believe the C.
boxasaurus wasn't forced into extinction due to losing the evolutionary
predator-prey battle with socks, but that the C.  boxasaurus' tendency to
nip at the scaly toes of their host 'mothers' usually resulted in
catastrophic squashing of the C.  boxasaurus.  Why natural selection didnt
just result in a non-nippy population of C.  boxasaurii is uncertain - the
prevailing theory argues that the nipping behavior was just impossibly
wedged into their genetic makeup).
 
Melissaurus and the ferraptors
 
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      Melissa Litwicki                              "Is it ... atomic?"
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[Posted in FML issue 1769]