"Is that a Big Kahuna Burger?"

People usually get the basic structure right which is, [Proper Noun] hadn't [Verbed] [Noun], let alone [Noun]. The problem is that they they reverse the significance order.

Correct usage would be, for example, "Sue had never left her home town, let alone the country!" The first point encompasses the second and emphasizes just how out of the question that second point is.

So you don't say, "they hadn't left the bedroom, let alone the bed." You can easily leave the bed without leaving the bedroom. This swapped usage makes "let alone" out to mean "or even" but it's actually the opposite.

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/boy-dies-of-rabies-after-bat-encounter-during-family-trip-ontario/507-f5b3e567-d458-4744-9767-8d44ef982467

Tragic story but a reminder to those of us in North America and other rabies endemic regions not to fuck around with bats. From the article :

Doctors emphasized that any direct contact with a bat — even without an obvious bite or scratch — should prompt a discussion with public health authorities about preventive treatment, since bat bites can be too small to notice.

"...by Rite of Conquest."

Nuzzles

Happy wheeking/purring

Cuddle

Enthusiastic acceptance of head pets and chin scritches

Hay burrowing

Things my Guinea pig does to show how safe and happy she feels with me :