{"id":3049,"date":"2005-01-03T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T20:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/moose-or-mouse\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:55:13","slug":"moose-or-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/03\/moose-or-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Moose or Mouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9380,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.news24.com\\\/News24\\\/Backpage\\\/AnimalAntics\\\/0,,2-1343-1348_1641159,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090108180058\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.news24.com\\\/News24\\\/Backpage\\\/AnimalAntics\\\/0%2C%2C2-1343-1348_1641159%2C00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 19:51:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 19:51:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9381,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forums.fark.com\\\/cgi\\\/fark\\\/comments.pl?IDLink=1287006&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/forums.fark.com\\\/cgi\\\/fark\\\/comments.pl?IDLink=1287006&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The actual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/Backpage\/AnimalAntics\/0,,2-1343-1348_1641159,00.html\" title=\"Mouse blamed for car crash\">story itself<\/a> is mildly amusing, but what really made me laugh was that when I read the summary on Fark &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=1287006\" title=\"Mouse causes auto accident by climbing inside the driver's pants\">Mouse causes auto accident by climbing inside the driver&#8217;s pants<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; I actually read it as &#8220;<strong>Moose<\/strong> causes auto accident by climbing inside the driver&#8217;s pants&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Big pants. Or tiny moose. Either way, wouldn&#8217;t the antlers get rather uncomfortable?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%2526albumTerm=From Here You'll Watch the World Go By%2526songTerm=This One-Eyed Man is King%26partnerId%3D30\">This One-Eyed Man is King<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Legendary Pink Dots, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLegendary Pink Dots, The%2526albumTerm=From Here You'll Watch the World Go By%26partnerId%3D30\">From Here You&#8217;ll Watch the World Go By<\/a><\/em> (1995, 5:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moose causes auto accident by climbing inside the driver&#8217;s pants. Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}