Dale Dougherty These are electric muffins.

It's exactly the same construction, but no muffins, no mice, nothing moving at all.

The number of muffins that you'll receive will be inversely proportional to the number of times you talk on IRC.

There can be many mechanisms for this effect One possibility is that your friends say to you something like you know, they adopt a behavior that spreads to you like, they say, Let's go have muffins and beer, which is a terrible combination.