Why is a mouse when it spins?

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This is an all too common thread.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas…

You’ll have to feed it and clean up after it yourself. :dubious:

In Russia, they say yo mama.

Russian House.
Doctor House.
Doctor Doolittle.
Jimmy Doolittle.
Jimmy Dean
Dizzy Dean
Dizzy Spells
Mighty Mouse

I’m curious about what the OP means by “spin”.

We all know mice don’t spin in their natural habitat, so I guess that means the mouse is being spun by an outside force. Of course, the OP could be referring to the spinning we all do by being on a rotating planet, but that would discount the “when” in the question as all mice would all be spinning all the time, just like the rest of us.

Now as far as I can tell, there are only two other ways a mouse could be spinning.

  1. The mouse could be on something spinning relevant to its background. I imagine an old-fashioned turntable, with our mouse set upon and turning at 33rpm. In such a case, the mouse is itself not spinning alone, but is part of a greater whole that is spinning.

or

  1. Here I visualize a mouth in the jaws of a cat, being held by the tail (the mouse, not the cat). As the playful cat rotates its head, the dangling mouth would either spin clockwise or counterclockwise. In this case it is solely the mouse that is spinning, the cat’s head not withstanding.

I think before the main question can be definitively decided, this matter must be cleared up.

Variable speed corn muffins.

But only on the Frabjus day, when the sun is moving from snud to qeast, and in the time of the red queen.

Waltzingmice.

…and therefore a WITCH!

Okay. I don’t know what to make of that. If the question had been “who is a mouse when it spins?” then I think Jackie would have been the answer and this thread would have been over and done.

But the question was a “why?” question, which is the beginning word to all of the great questions. It seems this mouse Jackie is possessed by the devil, and is not a typical mouse referred to by the OP.

“If we know who, we know why, Watson!”
-Sherlock Holmes, *The Affair of the Waltzing Mouse.
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“It wasn’t the whistle of a steamboat I heard, but instead the absurdly loud tittering of a mouse running back and forth, and back and forth.”

-Mark Twain, Week on the Tittibawassee.

I may have cracked the code…

How many mice could a mouse spin spin, if a mouse spin could spin mice?

…and I think we all know the answer to that…

My uncle always claims the answer is “The higher, the fewer.”

The internet posits this explanation:
A ‘mouse’ is a name given to a centrifugal governor on a steam engine. The speed of the engine could be set by sliding the mouse up or down - the higher it was set, the slower the engine would run (and thus, the fewer revolutions per minute).

Well, I’m glad we cleared that up.

The score at the half is Indianapolis Colts 24

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