If you tie two cats' tails together and throw them over a clothesline they will claw each other to shreds. If you want this explained, see "A Guide to Teaching High School" under "Education."

If you pick a cat up by the scruff of the neck, it will hang there, for a moment, passively, as it once did as a kitten being transported by its mother. Before long, however, the cat, remembering it need no longer submit to such indignities, will struggle insistently, to be freed.

If you place an active baby into a plastic shopping bag and lift it by the handles, the baby will immediately curl up and become inert.

During the filming of Shōgun, the actress Yoko Shimada fell in love with the technician whose job it was to clip the microphone to the collar of her kimono.

Math was one subject where if you got the right teacher you could do well.

Alice had a kitten, and we know about the cat that hovers like a low moon, and we know there are dogs (as well as bats and rabbits and flamingos) in Wonderland:

`She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen. `Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife -- what's the answer to that?'

`I suppose -- ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. `Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?'