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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sheesh check this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/coral-springs/fl-ne-coral-springs-snake-attack-20190528-togijbdkvvgspd2nfjptngzsh4-story.html">https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/coral-springs/fl-ne-coral-springs-snake-attack-20190528-togijbdkvvgspd2nfjptngzsh4-story.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK cool, so we know snakes can swim underwater, and they can go in pipes, either direction. And we know snakes can come up thru the toilet, since that S curve down there doesn’t discourage the slithery bastards one bit. It is almost like they evolved to swim up the toilet. We know people keep snakes for pets and we know how they tend to get rid of them when they get too big or the owner gets tired of buying them mice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We know how this thing could really break one’s concentration, ja? Sit there trying not to think about what might be coming up from below where you can’t really see, and how that thing might really like a nice fat… mouse and oh dear evolution have mercy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This gives me a great idea. I bet we could rig up a snake diode, a kind of one-way valve or something, that would allow the usual flow down but would not allow reverse. Oh we will make a buttload. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We would spawn an industry, retrofitting existing toilets: a 3D printed thing that would fit in the bottom of a standard toilet, just an insert that looks a little like the feathered nozzle on a fighter-jet engine, plastic, spreads open when stuff goes down, closes when a hungry goddam snake tries to come back up and eyeball your stuff from below. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>