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March 2001

IWMC
World Conservation Trust

Something refreshing!
Mice and Rats and Popularity!

While trying to assist one of our friends with access to our Web site, IWMC received the following message:

"Thanks for guiding me through cyberspace, your links worked perfectly. Of course, I know I would have figured it out eventually.....(if I live so long!). As for your suggestion, it has merit. Anything that brings in moolah has merit.

However, why would anyone want to put a mouse in a computer. I have been advised by an expensive consultant that I should stop eating sandwiches at my keyboard, as the crumbs will mess up the mechanism. Surely mouse poop will do the same? I can see putting a mouse in a clock (traditional knowledge tells me that), but a mouse in a computer? (I smell a rat).

If you can raise, say a $100,000 ($200,000 would do a better job) I'll design an international feasibility study. After all, we must insure that management is based on science, and leave no room for this emotional stuff. I know you stand in awe of President Lapointe -- as I do, of course -- but we must practice what we preach (oops! no preaching, too extreme).

Keep working on these innovative solutions to our collective problems. If the price is right, I'll be right behind you."

Can you guess who the author is? Let us have your answer. Aware that the author is susceptible to flattery, IWMC will do its best to obtain one of his books, with a special dedication, to the first good response received.