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SNIPS AND SNAILS AND KITTY-CAT TAILS
by Laura Fredericks
queenofcyberspace.com
Last updated May 22, 2011 10:21:15AM CDT
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I read an article online about a Japanese company named Rakuten that sells USB cat tail flash drives. Not real cat. Some other animal. Supposedly. ;-) I thought it was hilarious and e-mailed the link to all of my friends. The more I thought about it, though, the more I liked the idea -- albeit in a sick and twisted way.
Since I no longer have my cat's tail -- or any other part of her, for that matter -- I decided to make my own. I figured that if I didn't want to use the drive to store data, I could always use the tail to sweep the keyboard.
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ME-OWWWWWWWWCH!!!
Photo: ©Rakuten
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LYNX TAILS
Photo: ©Maine-Line Leather
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Spare USB flash drive? Check! BUT WHERE CAN I GET A TAIL??!!
I found a company online called Maine-Line Leather that sells fur tails. And guess what? Lynx tails look EXACTLY like regular pussycat tails! Even though the website says "Tails may vary" (LOL) I added the following note to my order, anyway:
TAIL COLOR PREFERENCE: (haha) preferably similar to the one that's on the far left in your lynx tail photo. That one looks like my dearly-departed kitty's tail! :-) Thanks!
I got a reply back, which said:
Hi, I tried to match as close as I could.
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A week later the tail arrived, packaged in a very small padded envelope. The tail was kinda stubby and shorter than I thought it would be. I imagined lynx were larger, like ocelots. Perhaps this was a lynx kitten? (This is all so wrong, I know.) So, I surfed on over to the lynx entry on that be-all end-all SOURCE OF ALL THINGS EVERYWHERE, Wikipedia! ;-)
And whattaya know! The first sentence under "Appearance" says, "Lynx have short tails..." Whoops. Guess I picked the wrong cat!
So, here it is, my very own USB (stubby) cat tail flash drive, plugged into my laptop!
MY USB CAT TAIL FLASH DRIVE, MADE WITH LOVE BY ME!!!
Photo: ©L. Fredericks
Ain't it purrrrrty?!
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