Think of yourself as a writer for Letterman or Stewart. Given these two stories, which one is a basis for comedy, as opposed to the basis for a CSI episode? While I'm no subscriber to "Cat Fancy" magazine, doing that to any animal is creepy, disturbing and vile. And though the subject matter of cases being heard during pumping may have injected an unfortunate solemn element to the judge's case, the juvenile sense of humor within me simply can't get past giggling about it.

BTW, Greg, I assume "self-abusement" is an intentional Freudian play on words. In which case, I must say "well done." Trying to weave the yarn with references to foxes and onesself might have been overreaching.

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