From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:02:58 GMT

kja2192@tamsun.tamu.edu (Kevin Alexander) writes:

>I'm not a religious reader of this group, but I try to read as 
>often as I can, so please no flames if this is old.  I have heard
>this same story from several people now at relatively distant
>locations.

>Here it goes.

>While working as a summer intern at a large computer company, a
>technician told me a story of a co-worker of his (FOAF) when he
>worked at another large computer firm.  Apparently this FOAF was
>making love to his wife (doggie style) and the cat was watching 
>on the bed from behind.  Watching the man's balls sway back &
>forth got the cat's attention and it swatted at his balls.  The
>man, startled -- obviously, thrust forward and put his wife's head
>through the headboard of the bed.

>I though this to be funny and plausable, I guess, but I heard the
>same thing from a friend of mine who worked at a Sam's here at
>college.  This time it was a friend of his (I doubt the same guy).

>----------------------------
>Kevin Alexander
>kja2192@tamsun.tamu.edu


I read a similar but not identical story that appeared in some
obscure publication called the Worland Senior Center Newsletter.
Actually I only have a photocopy of the article.  It is titled
"Irons, zippers, and broken arms".  See if you think it's the
same genre of UL:

     ...Our story is not complete without telling of a
   man who could not give a convincing explanation about
   his broken arm.  He kept muttering about trying to
   stick his arm through the car window that he thought
   was down.
     That's the public version.  In private he confesses
   that it happened when his wife brought some potted
   plants inside that had been out on the patio all day.
   A garter snake had hidden in one of the pots and later
   slithered out across the floor where his wife had
   spotted it.
     "I was in the bathtub when I heard her scream" he
   related.  "I thought she was being murdered, so I
   jumped out to go help her and didn't even grab a towel.
     "When I ran into the living room, she yelled that a
   snake was under the couch.  I got down on my hands and
   knees to look for it, and my dog came up behind me and
   cold-nosed me.  I guess I though it was the snake, and
   I fainted.
     "My wife thought I'd had a heart attack and called for
   an ambulance.  I was still groggy when it arrived, so
   the medics lifted me onto a stretcher.
     "When they were carrying me out, the snake came out
   from under the couch and frightened one of the medics.
   He dropped his end of the stretcher, and that's when I
   broke my arm."

The pet surprising a naked man from behind seems to be the
common thread between the two stories.  That's why I think
they are of the same genre.  By the way, the other two
stories in the article (the one about the iron and the one
about the zipper) were classic documented UL's.  The one
I quoted, I hadn't heard before but I figured it was a UL
also.  Guilt by association you might say.

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