1. Non stick Cellotape

2. Solar Powered Flash Light

3. A black highlighter pen

4. Glow in the dark sunglasses

5. Inflatable Anchor

6. Smooth Sandpaper

7. Waterproof sponge

8. Waterproof Teabags

9. AC adapter for Solar powered calculators

10. Fireproof Matches

11. Fireproof Cigarettes

12. Battery powered Battery Charger

13. Seatbelts for Motorbikes

14. Hand powered Chainsaw

15. Inflatable Dartboard

16. Silent Alarm Clock

17. A Pedal powered wheelchair

18. Braille Drivers Manual

19. Double sided playing cards

20. Ejector seats for Helicopters

* Have a torrid one- night stand with a street mutt.

* Try to understand that the cat is from Venus, and I am from Mars.

* I will no longer be beholden to the sound of the can opener.

* Circulate petition that Leg Humping be a juried competition in major dog shows.

* Call PETA and tell them what that surgical mask- wearing freak does to us when no one is around.

* Take time from busy schedule to stop and smell the behinds.

* Always scoot before licking.

* Grow opposable thumb; break into pantry; decide for MYSELF how much food is *too* much.

* January 1st: Kill the sock! Must kill the sock! January 2nd – December 31st: Re- live victory over the sock.

* I will NOT chase the damned stick unless I see it LEAVE HIS HAND.

* Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

* Roseanne Barr: Urrrrrp. What chicken?

* George Bush: To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.

* Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.

* Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

* Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

* Bob Dylan: How many roads must one chicken cross?

* Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn’t cross the road; it transcended it.

* Gerald R. Ford: It probably fell from an airplane and couldn’t stop its forward Momentum.

* Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by.

* Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen- principle made it do it.

* Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

* Lee Iacocca: It found a better car, which was on the other side of the road.

* John Paul Jones: It has not yet begun to cross!

* James Joyce: Once upon a time a nice little chicken named baby tuckoo crossed the road and met a moocow coming down…

* Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail – the chicken would be lost. The chicken would be lost!

* Immanuel Kant: Because it was a duty.

* Martin Luther King: It had a dream.

* Capt. James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

* Mr. Scott: ‘Cos ma wee transporter beam was na functioning properly. Ah canna work miracles, Captain!

* Stan Laurel: I’m sorry, Ollie. It escaped when I opened the run.

* Gottfried Von Leibniz: In this best possible world, the road was made for it to cross.

* Groucho Marx: Chicken? What’s all this talk about chicken? Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the eggs.

* Karl Marx: To escape the bourgeois middle- class struggle.

* Moses: Know ye that it is unclean to eat the chicken that has crossed the road and that the chicken that crosseth the road doth so for its own preservation.

* Alfred E. Neumann: What? Me worry?

* Sir Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

* Thomas Paine: Out of common sense.

* Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

* Ayn Rand: It was crossing the road because of its own rational choice to do so. There cannot be a collective unconscious; desires are unique to each individual.

* Ronald Reagan: I forget.

* John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

* William Shakespeare: I don’t know why, but methinks I could rattle off a hundred- line soliloquy without much ado.

* Socrates: To pick up some hemlock at the corner druggist.

* Mr. T: If you saw me coming you’d cross the road too!

* Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

* Mae West: I invited it to come up and see me sometime.

* Walt Whitman: To cluck the song of itself.

* William Wordsworth: To have something to recollect in tranquility.

* Henny Youngman: Take this chicken … please.

1. If it itches, you can reach it. And no matter where it itches, no one will be offended if you scratch it in public.

2. No one notices if you have hair growing in weird places as you get older.

3. Personal hygiene is a blast: No one expects you to take a bath every day, and you don’t even have to comb your own hair.

4. Having a wet nose is considered a sign of good health.

5. No one thinks less of you for passing gas. Some people might actually think you’re cute.

6. Who needs a big home entertainment system? A bone or an old shoe can entertain you for hours.

7. You can spend hours just smelling stuff.

8. No one ever expects you to pay for lunch or dinner. You never have to worry about table manners, and if you gain weight, it’s someone else’s fault.

9. It doesn’t take much to make you happy. You’re always excited to see the same old people. All they have to do is leave the room for five minutes and come back.

10. Every garbage can looks like a cold buffet to you.

Cats that live with writers have to be especially creative to run the household they allow the writer to share. There are two methods that will get you the attention you deserve, you can use either plan:

1. Be the cutest cat in the world (not difficult but slightly humiliating).
2. Be the baddest cat in the world (easier and much more satisfying).

I suggest a combination of the two. Get your writer involved in your day first thing in the morning; otherwise, you could starve if they get to the computer first.

1. Set the time you wish to rise and if treading lightly over the body of the sleeping writer does not wake them, proceed to CUTE by giving them a wet cat kiss on the face. They do not like it, but will never get mad because it is such an honour. (This is you at your cutest: use sparingly).
If cute doesn’t get the writer out of bed you’ll have to revert to plan B and more drastic measures. Proceed to BAD by first running heavily over the writer and finally launching yourself off the body with your FULL weight concentrated on ONE paw in a vital area of the dozing body.

2. Establish an early feeding time, so you can get to the computer to check your email while your writer is busy getting your food. Once it has been served, do not worry about it unless there are (god forbid) other animals in your house. Do your computer stuff while you have the chance, if there is nothing happening on the net, now would be the time to curl up on the computer chair and start your first nap of the day.

3. If you have trained your writer properly, they will hesitate before removing your sleeping body from the chair. They may, however, want to get started on the computer, and if you’ve trained them right, will gently carry you over to your food dish.

4. As they are setting you down, do a quick inspection of your eating area, making sure your placemat is clean, and your water dish is full. If not, insert a paw into the water dish and QUICKLY dump all the water out onto the floor. Try to do this right away before your writer gets back to the computer. Look VERY cute as you do it.

5. Try to look sorry. Lowering the ears and looking up with neck held back usually works here. If they just step over the water on the way back to the computer, proceed to plan B and throw a hissy fit. This involves meowing sorrowfully and LOUDLY, you cannot stop until the writer returns and cleans your eating area. Any creative hissies that you have used in the past can come into play here.

6 Once your writer is preoccupied with the computer, you have the run of the house to do whatever you need to. They will never notice as long as you don’t knock anything over too loudly. Have fun.

7 When you decide the weather is just right and you want to go outside, if your writer is ignoring you, go over and do the cute attention getters: patting the thigh with a sheathed paw. Meow pitifully next to the chair without let- up if the thigh pat doesn’t work. Proceed to plan B only when all your cutest attempts have failed.
This could be ACCIDENTALLY releasing a claw or two with the thigh pat, staring threateningly at the writer with a low growl or jumping up on their lap and typing on the keyboard. This is a surefire let- me- outside- NOW attention grabber.

8 Once you are outdoors, you may feel bored or lonely, and want your writer to come out to sit and watch you or even to play with you. This is a very difficult problem. First, you have to get their attention. Cute does not work here at all.
You have to resort to instinctive behaviour here and hang out at the bird feeder. As soon as you have stirred up all the birds, making them chirp noisily to attract your writers attention, you can proceed to plan B and either grab a bird to play with, (this GUARANTEES the swift arrival of your writer) or just sit looking cute now. Either way, you have their attention and can proceed to the next step.

9 Getting back into the house is something you want to do very quickly. If there is no bird feeder and no birds around you’ll have to skip cute and go right to plan B here: scratching on the door. Due to heavy concentration on your writers part though, it may take several attempts to train your writer. If scratching doesn’t do it you’ll have to rip the screen.
They will act very quickly to let you in once you have ruined a screen or two. After a drastic measure like this you must be at your CUTEST for at least half an hour. It’s a hardship, but they’ll get over the damage quicker if you become irresistible.
There are some writers who don’t care about a ripped screen, in this case you will have to jump up and hang on the screen on the window nearest their computer, yowling like you can’t get down. The writer will finally come out and get you off if you can keep it up long enough.

10 This is VERY important, on those rare occasions that you can get rid of your writer, (most of them at least have to mail out all that writing), be sure you make yourself unavailable when they are leaving. Find the highest perch in the house and get up there. If you lay there quietly they may not see you and will leave without bothering you or putting you outside. If they do see you, refuse to come down.
They will give up, they always leave everything to the last minute, so won’t have time to climb up to get you. On the rare occasions if they do climb up, jump down just as they get there and head out FAST to your secure hiding place – Good luck!