Microsoft Emails OT

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:30:17 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



Bev wrote:

I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as
Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server.
Is anyone else having this problem? I rang my server but they said
there was nothing they could do about spam emails and wanted to know if
I had subscribed to anything or had anyone else been near the computer
(ye gods, Bonnie was hanging around the keyboard yesterday). I said no
on both counts.

The problem started yesterday and this morning there were 150 of these
emails to delete. Today I have got rid of another fifty or so.
Fortunately I have Mailwasher so I can delete them without downloading
them. I have heard on the news here that people are having problems
with computers crashing from some virus which is attacking microsoft and
am wondering if this is somehow connected. Scream!!!!

I know it's small consolation, but it appears to be worldwide, so
perhaps someone, SOMEWHERE can do something about it! (We can but
pray.)


Fortunately cyclamen plants do not appear to be poisonous as Bonnie has
neatly snapped off all the lovely red flowers on one I was given for a
present. She has eaten several of them and seems to find them tasty.
I have brought in some of my flowering cymbidium orchids and I suspect
they will be the next items on her diet list. She has been sleeping
amongst the daffodils but doesn't eat them, just as well, as I know they
are poisonous.

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.)

The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes the
throat if eaten --

On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.)

The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the
plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up
and can't talk for a while.

--
When the fog came in on little cat feet last night, it left these little
muddy paw prints on the hood of my car.

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:50:57 -0600, m. L. Briggs
wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but
when someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete
snacked it down to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She
succumbed to feline lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure
the two were not related.)

The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes
the throat if eaten --

As I recall, the plant contains crystals of oxalic acid, strong
enough to cause a chemical burn in the throat of any human eating it.
This makes it difficult to talk until your throat recovers. I don't
think that the acid is strong enough to be life-threatening.

If Paraclete didn't suffer any ill effects, this might mean that cats
have a greater tolerance to acid than humans do. She probably didn't
eat very much of it at a time.

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"m. L. Briggs" wrote:


The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes the
throat if eaten --

Well, there was never anything wrong with her voice-box (she often
reminded me that her grandmother was an albino Siamese).

"William Hamblen" wrote in message
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On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.)

The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the
plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up
and can't talk for a while.

How do you prouncounce "deifenbachia"? It reminds me of a certain deaf wolf
from the TV show Due South. And anything that reminds me of Due South is a
Good Thing drool

Yowie

in article , Yowie at
wrote on 9/20/03 4:33 PM:

"William Hamblen" wrote in message
link.net...
On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.)

The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the
plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up
and can't talk for a while.

How do you prouncounce "deifenbachia"? It reminds me of a certain deaf wolf
from the TV show Due South. And anything that reminds me of Due South is a
Good Thing drool

Yowie


Deef-en-bach-ee-ya

"Karen" wrote in message
...
in article , Yowie at
wrote on 9/20/03 4:33 PM:

"William Hamblen" wrote in message
link.net...
On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it
down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not
related.)

The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the
plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up
and can't talk for a while.

How do you prouncounce "deifenbachia"? It reminds me of a certain deaf
wolf
from the TV show Due South. And anything that reminds me of Due South is
a
Good Thing drool

Yowie


Deef-en-bach-ee-ya

So the wolf was named after a flower (as pronounced with a Canadian accent)
??????? Deef-n-baker (or that show my Aussie ears heard the wolf's name)

Yowie

in article , Yowie at
wrote on 9/21/03 1:34 AM:

"Karen" wrote in message
...
in article , Yowie at
wrote on 9/20/03 4:33 PM:

"William Hamblen" wrote in message
link.net...
On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
wrote:

Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when
someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it
down
to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline
lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not
related.)

The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the
plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up
and can't talk for a while.

How do you prouncounce "deifenbachia"? It reminds me of a certain deaf
wolf
from the TV show Due South. And anything that reminds me of Due South is
a
Good Thing drool

Yowie


Deef-en-bach-ee-ya

So the wolf was named after a flower (as pronounced with a Canadian accent)
??????? Deef-n-baker (or that show my Aussie ears heard the wolf's name)

Yowie


I don't know! I've never heard of that wolf.

Karen

I haven't gotten any MS emails or worm mails or anything... although today I
did get an MSN email in French, I just deleted it!

Stacey

"Bev" wrote in message
...
I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as
Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server.
Is anyone else having this problem? I rang my server but they said
there was nothing they could do about spam emails and wanted to know if
I had subscribed to anything or had anyone else been near the computer
(ye gods, Bonnie was hanging around the keyboard yesterday). I said no
on both counts.

The problem started yesterday and this morning there were 150 of these
emails to delete. Today I have got rid of another fifty or so.
Fortunately I have Mailwasher so I can delete them without downloading
them. I have heard on the news here that people are having problems
with computers crashing from some virus which is attacking microsoft and
am wondering if this is somehow connected. Scream!!!!

Fortunately cyclamen plants do not appear to be poisonous as Bonnie has
neatly snapped off all the lovely red flowers on one I was given for a
present. She has eaten several of them and seems to find them tasty.
I have brought in some of my flowering cymbidium orchids and I suspect
they will be the next items on her diet list. She has been sleeping
amongst the daffodils but doesn't eat them, just as well, as I know they
are poisonous.

Bev
--
God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft
before the masterpiece.