I've never heard of that. Wouldn't have thought of that. And, as a matter of fact, being a good Catholic kid for years, there is an "Exit Only" sense about that place. And apparently gerbils have been safe from that fate anyway.

AND, unless I'm starving in a pet shop for a couple of weeks, there isn't going to be a gerbil hitting that spot the more normal way, either.

I've heard of Orientals putting rats on someone's abdomen in a cage with an open bottom, don't know if it's true. The idea is that the rat will get hungry and chew his or her way through the person.

And I'm glad Rush endorses gerbils for liberals. Kinda helps my opinion of him along. I was running out of low things of which I thought him capable.