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Giant swamp rats invade a Texas park amid fears pests will damage local water supply and infect humans with parasites
2020-08-10
Ooh! Ooh! I seen dat movie!
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  tw, thanks, and blush, tho as usual your prose is much more poetic than my "poetry."
Posted by: Shaigum Bucket3334   2020-08-10 23:59  

#13  Read something once about raising cats and rats in seperate 'farms' next to each other. Feed the rat meat to the cats and the cat meat to the rats and sell the cat fur for profit or something like that.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-08-10 23:02  

#12  /\ Yes, James C. King Rat was the only book I've read by him...definitely a good one.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-10 21:41  

#11  ^ Great book - Clavell?
Posted by: Frank G   2020-08-10 20:55  

#10  Reminds me of the novel King Rat
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-08-10 18:48  

#9  Yeah in South America the raise them for meat and fur. ....If they could just get the varmints to lay eggs.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163   2020-08-10 16:10  

#8  You sure that's not the DNC convention?
Posted by: AlanC   2020-08-10 14:24  

#7  Good eating by the way, ed.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-08-10 13:58  

#6  Aah! Nutria stikes again! (A gift from Venezuela, by the way.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2020-08-10 12:15  

#5  We've got 8 inside cats and two outside cats and nary a mouse or rat around for a long time.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-08-10 10:30  

#4  I'm in Louisiana, but I have a cat.

She brings me dead rats.

I think she loves me.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2020-08-10 09:35  

#3  Charming and clever, Beldar Unimble4745.. I love the repeated hard st/ts , the progression of near rhymes at the end of each line -- pomp, swamp, chomp, Trump — and the smoothness of swarm your swamp. And the shock of the final image of monsters voting against Trump in the midst of all that innocently bucolic horror.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-10 09:12  

#2  Nature's own allegory of Antifa
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-10 07:59  

#1  Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!
Send me the rats who swarm your swamp,
Your potent rodents keen to chomp
On all that's green, and not vote Trump.
Posted by: Beldar Unimble4745   2020-08-10 07:18  

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