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dead mouse walking

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said that way back in the 19th century. Emerson may be disappointed to know that mousetraps have actually taken a turn for the worse.

A mousetrap should have a ferocious metal bar to despatch the rodent instantly. Traps in Spain have a wire noose in keeping with that nation's preference for the garrotte as the method of capital punishment.