Weird.

[quislibet]

I just got comment notifications from the past several days, all at once.

---

The landlady asked us this morning if we knew where both cats were, since she could hear something she thought might be bigger than squirrel-sized in the attic. I think it's probably some sort of Master Squirrel, an 'Übereichhörnchen,' if you will, using our attic as a base of operations. Fortunately, the third floor is not part of our domain, so we don't have to hear him ourselves.

Or it could be big rats. There's a part of the basement where it seems an opening in the floor has been covered over; perhaps it's the entrance to a pre-human subterranean temple of some kind. But while the landlady's family has a reputation for eccentricity, there are no local tales of cannibal rites or anything. And the cats don't wig out so much. So I dunno.

But come to think of it, Big One does sit at the door to the forbidden basement and make plaintive sounds quite often...

Comments

[julishka.livejournal.com]

re: old comments - > yeah! me too.

as for your squirrel problem, i think there is some sort of squirrel infestation plague going around. as soon as people talk about the squirrels, they move in! (i had just had a conversation about squirrels the night before they started making noises!)

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

As I said, so far (knock on wood, so that THEY won't) I haven't heard any myself.

Of course in Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" only the scion of the old family could hear the spectral rats, and so far only our landlady, who inherited this house from her crazy uncle, has mentioned the squirrelly noises. But we had her over to dinner the other night without her attempting to cannibalize us, so it's *probably* okay...

[damiel.livejournal.com]

I find Eichhörnchen to be the absolutely most difficult word for me to pronounce in German. Whenever I'm in Germany, I avoid speaking about squirrels like the plague. You have no idea how tense and awkward it can be to keep changing the topic whenever the Germans keep bringing up the squirrels.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Shh! Just don't mention the squirrels!

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Hmm. When I was in the general area of Tübingen for a conference a couple of years ago no one really mentioned them. Either
the inhabitants of Baden-Württemberg don't get too worked up about squirrels or else it was just because I was inside all day for a week and so the topic never came up.

A big subject in Berlin, then, the squirrels?

[damiel.livejournal.com]

Yes. Squirrels and
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben. We were always talking about that.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously. Was Rinderwahnsinn a hot topic then?