Now that was funny!
Thank goodness it is a fake! I think it would be cruel to make children learn to fear the tingle of lady electricity just like it is cruel to use “hot saucing” as a disciplinarian tactic. Imagine turning children away from spicy foods! What next? Forcing them to listen to classical music?
“hot saucing”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52899-2004Aug9.html
When I was a kid, my mom tried to do this with the family cat. She had a spider plant, and the cat would nibble at the tips of the long, thin fronds. So, she started putting a dab of hot sauce on them, to encourage the cat to find something else to nibble on.
After a week or so of “training”, the cat began sitting at the base of the plant, howling until we applied some hot sauce for it to lick off!
I’ll keep my eyes open for the black helicopter.
And nobody wants to hear my story about the whale? Shame. It’s a great tale.
Okay, for all intents and purposes this thread is off the rails anyway.
Whale? Did someone say something about a whale? Gee, Flyingcursor, why don’t you tell us about it?
Roger
Is it a whale of a tail? 
Thanks for the offer Roger but it’s not really that important.
I’ve often joked that I need electro-shock collars on my kids. You know, with a remote, so that when you call them and they do that selective hearing thing you can give them a zap! 
I’ve often threatened to “cage train” my kids, just like my dogs are.
I had one dog that used to put HIMSELF in the cage when he did something wrong. I’d come home, find Ernie in the cage, then have to go look throughout the house to figure out what he had done. I couldn’t understand why if he KNEW it was wrong enough to “punish” himself, why did he DO it?!
Missy
Sometimes it just feels sooooo good. 