Mice

[happycarrot]

Just saw one on TV. They're a bit rubbish. A bit like lettuce and French people.

[Orbs]

Mousehunt is pretty good.

[happycarrot]

Mousetrap. Rubbish game

[JonesInAMillion]

Why do people say "as dead as a dormouse"?

Are all dormice dead?

Are they particularly good at being dead?

Are they more dead than other dead things?

[RickyFullerBeer]

It's an old Albanian saying relating back to the great Albanian Dormouse cull of 1877

[Campervan Von Bigglesworth]

A door mouse used to be a large lump of pig iron used to prop doors open in Victorian times. The most popular variety were fashioned in the crude likeness of a mouse and hence the whole door stop industry came to refer to them generically as "doormice". Obviously being designed not to move, the simile "dead as a door-mouse (sic)" entered the popular lexicon.



























































































Bluff

[Pretty Little Boother]

It should be "doornail" (Dickens).

[happycarrot]

Chilean mad man Salvador Allende had a great fear of bagels and the common dormouse so has them all rounded up and destroyed in 1973 in what became know as Naughty Tuesday in Santiago. Locals still celebrate it by dressing up as cheese and eating Spam.

[Nonington.]

Cheesy bollocks.

[Northy]

Nov 10, 2014 0:15:13 GMT JonesInAMillion said:

Why do people say "as dead as a dormouse"?

Are all dormice dead?

Are they particularly good at being dead?

Are they more dead than other dead things?

they sleep for ages, months on end so they appear dead

romans liked to eat them, something like a doormouse sarnie for lunch before massacring thousands of locals and raping the women

[JonesInAMillion]

Dec 8, 2017 9:59:20 GMT Northy said:

Nov 10, 2014 0:15:13 GMT JonesInAMillion said:

Why do people say "as dead as a dormouse"?

Are all dormice dead?

Are they particularly good at being dead?

Are they more dead than other dead things?

they sleep for ages, months on end so they appear dead

romans liked to eat them, something like a doormouse sarnie for lunch before massacring thousands of locals and raping the women

a bit like having a full English before embarking on an all dayer...