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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 6:47 pm
OG, you posted this: Rosie, I too would think Ophie would act spooked like she was when the raccoons got into the living room into the cat food last summer. She's cool as a cucumber. is the house/living room you mentioned above the same house you are living in now? if so, i think the raccoons are back. lol
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 7:08 pm
OG, the only rational conclusion is that the vent was disturbed during your furnace replacement and you just now noticed it. As you said, the dust and dirt wasn't disturbed! Unless there is some new species like a flying snake or flying racoon, and one who flew directly in the center of the ductwork (as to not knock the dust around), and smacked full-force into the vent cover hard enough to knock out the floor vent... Rest easy tonight! It's a wierd thing for sure, but I know when we had our boiler replaced a bit over a year ago, the pounding that went on down in the basement was crazy!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 7:16 pm
I walk over that vent getting in and out of bed, so I know it happened sometime yesterday. Good news! My extra smart DS who works with 50 buildings at the University Of Oregon Medical Center said that buildings do the strangest things. He thinks a variety of things came together, the house shifted/settled a bit, new better sealed furnace with a more powerful fan and torqued in a way that popped that tight fitting vent right out of the hole. The way he explained it made it seem fully possible.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 7:20 pm
yes, his explanation does seem fully possible. a flying raccoon would be much more fun though. lol
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 8:01 pm
Maybe, just maybe you've been sleep-walking Ophiliasgrandma..and not remembering in the morning. You have any funny dreams before all this started??
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 5:40 am
leprechauns with tiny ray guns did it. just ask adven. LOL
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 9:32 am
Thank you all for your input and ideas, the good, the bad, and the downright silly. You all are true blue!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 9:38 am
Or maybe your little kitty kat is a lot stronger than you think!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 10:06 am
Ophie is declawedso she couldn't get any purchase in order to pull the vent from the floor. Plus, she is over 12 and has pretty much left 'kitten acts' far behind long ago. Not much adventure left in her. She's a mature lady who would much rather sleep than explore.
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 12:20 pm
If you ever figure this one out....please let us know. 'Cause I for one, am very, very curious!!!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 1:08 pm
Y2, refer to my post last night at 7:16. I truly believe that to be a completely acceptable scientific explanation.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 11:40 am
It makes sense, OG! And less unsettling than my first thought, since I'd just recently watched Close Encounter of the Third Kind and remember when the house was being entered by the alien mist..
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:20 pm
Sea, that's one of my all time favorite movies.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:59 pm
Thank you very kindly, but I'll pass on the 'Third Kind' of encounters. I love science!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:23 pm
let me ask my pet peeve question - why do so many American TV people pronounce the extremely useful French word 'VOILA" ( an exclamation often used to mean "there" or "there it is" ) as 'WALA" ??? French words pronounce the V so it is pronounced VWALA not WALA. It is the German's who have silent V's. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:34 pm
I have only heard it pronounced in English as Wa-lah. I don't speak or understand French, so I would have never picked up that pronunciation.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:40 pm
I have always said it as "vwala" if and when I say it, but I think the V was dropped because it's easier to say WALA. Like slang. It's like saying aint' for is not.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:47 pm
LOL only in America . We use the word all the time here and it is definitely Vwahla!!!! It doesn't exist as an english word - here it was picked up from the French canadians It would be like starting to say Eck instead of heck From the site Common Errors in English
The expression which means “behold!” is voila. It comes from a French expression literally meaning “look there!” In French it is spelled with a grave accent over the A, as voilà, but when it was adopted into English, it lost its accent. Such barbarous misspellings as “vwala” are even worse, caused by the reluctance of English speakers to believe that OI can represent the sound “wah,” as it usually does in French.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 3:03 pm
Oh, well, the 'v' is almost silent any way you pronounce it. I guess I'm more annoyed by the way people who have only heard the word and never seen it spelled, spell it 'walla'.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 3:37 pm
"alot" is a grammar mistake that really jumps out at me a lot!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 3:58 pm
I've learned to cut people a lot of slack. After all, I'm the person who until I was about 50 thought 'dollop' was pronounced 'drollop'.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:09 pm
Don't even get me started on grammatical pet peeves... Double negatives are the worst. And people who say "I seen something". And people who misuse 'lay' and 'lie' - no, the two words are not interchangeable. And then there's the word 'got', which really has no place in the English language... Man, I could go on. Bad grammar drives me positively batty. (Please don't call me on the fact that I started THREE sentences with "and" during a rant on bad grammar, LOL.)
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:37 pm
karen, the ones that get me are; affect and effect.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:40 pm
I know alot is wrong but I like it alot I took French at the univertity so I always pronounceit vwala.. and the v is definitely sounded completely. Bothers me when someone mis pronounces it viola ..lol.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:55 pm
Like, vy-oh-lah, like the musical instrument? Took Frech all through public school, and spent six months in Montréal. It is most definitely pronounced "vwahla". (ou, si vous preferez... J'ai étudié Francais à l'école toute ma vie, et j'ai passé six mois à Montréal. Il est le plus certainement prononcé comme "voila".)
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