The second mouse attempting to retrieve the cheese after the trap has been triggered would probably be successful. In the common mousetrap design shown above the first mouse attempting to take the cheese out of the trap would probably be injured or killed. *- Blessed is the Second mouse for he shall inherit the Cheese. (Google Groups Search Accessed January 24, 2013) link The handle “Ernst Berg” was listed as the sender of the message: 1994 December 14, Usenet discussion message, Newsgroup: .guy, From: Ernst Berg at, Subject: Thinking Out Loud. The phrasing employed alluded to ethical precepts. The saying was freestanding without attribution, and it was surrounded by ornamental text. Quote Investigator: The earliest dated instance of this type of joke located by QI appeared in December 1994 in a message posted to the Usenet distributed discussion system in a newsgroup called .guy. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Sometimes this phrase appears as part of a longer saying: Dear Quote Investigator: I am trying to discover where the following maxim comes from:
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