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2003-09-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-23 10:03:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 send em to NK. We'll just see who eats who

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-23 10:10:08 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:10:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps Exterminators Without Frontiers could look into the matter...

Posted by Seafarious 2003-9-23 10:12:34 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:12:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Y'know, I won't be surprised to see some of our articles in Weekly World News, rubbing elbows with Bat Boy sometime soon...

Posted by Fred 2003-9-23 10:57:08 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:57:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Willard, call 'em off! Please, Willard. No, Willard, no! Aieeeeeee . . . .

Posted by Mike 2003-9-23 11:06:15 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:06:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 They aren't giant mutant rats!

They're merely rodents of unusual size...

Posted by Crescend 2003-9-23 11:17:52 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:17:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Seafarious

LOL!
On further review such an organization might do a hell of a lot of good. I can just see the boxes... a gift of love from your friends at Orkin.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-23 11:23:33 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:23:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Giant Chinese Gerbils vs. Mutant Kyrgyzstan Rats!
Liiiiiiiiiive... on Pay Per View!!!

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-23 11:31:03 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:31:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 The rats "are killing numerous farm birds, are damaging grape and corn crops, and have destroyed 14 hectares of grain in one of the districts. These rats can climb trees and are destroying apples, pears and other fruit. The rat invasion may also give rise to different epidemics,"

Isn't this about the spot where Godzilla rises from his ocean slumber?

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-9-23 11:50:07 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:50:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 So some Interfax hack stumbled on to the backset of the sequel to Night of the Lepus. And those things bred like, uh, lepi.

Posted by (lowercase) matt 2003-9-23 11:51:15 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:51:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Do not worry Godzirra will defeat the monsta!

Posted by wills 2003-9-23 11:54:04 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:54:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 We must first try to understand why it is the the rats hate us, we ust look at the root causes of their anger.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-9-23 12:05:32 PM|| 2003-9-23 12:05:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 An Uzbek specialist bred the species by crossing an ordinary rat with a muskrat

Hmmm...a Mu-Rat.

Posted by Seafarious 2003-9-23 12:10:25 PM|| 2003-9-23 12:10:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It sounds like Murat's family is on vacation.

Wait...

Strike that, I owe a heartfelt apology to plague-bearing vermin everywhere for that horrible libel.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-9-23 12:32:39 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-9-23 12:32:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Seafarious---I just about choked on my Yogi Tea after reading your ditty....ROTFLMAO! good show.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-23 1:31:35 PM|| 2003-9-23 1:31:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Winston Smith's worst nightmare.

Posted by Katz 2003-9-23 1:41:35 PM|| 2003-9-23 1:41:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I don't think that these rats are resistant to napalm. I'm sure some scientist will go back to the drawing board and work on that fault.

Has anywone prancing about the town in green colored pantyhose playing a reeded instrument?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-23 2:09:02 PM|| 2003-9-23 2:09:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't care how mean the rats are, all you have to do is step on them.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-23 2:19:20 PM|| 2003-9-23 2:19:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 "I don't care how mean the rats are, all you have to do is step on them."

Hope you get your leg back, Charles. They crossed a ordinary rat with a muskrat, remember? Muskrats weigh from 2 to 4 pounds. They measure 10-14 inches in length, excluding their 8-11 inch tails.
Of course, I've seen Norway rats as big or bigger. Me, I'm packing heat.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-23 3:02:50 PM|| 2003-9-23 3:02:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Meanwhile, in other news, reports of large "humanoid" amphibians in the sewers of New York City still persist.

City maintinance worker Joe Schlmoe stated to this reporter: "Yep! Ah sawed 'em, alrite! They wuz TURTLES! Really! Wif' arms an' legs an' shells an' everythin'! An' dey had swords, too!"

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-9-23 3:48:04 PM|| 2003-9-23 3:48:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Must be imported from Sumatra, eh what?

The world is not yet prepared...

Posted by mojo 2003-9-23 4:14:47 PM|| 2003-9-23 4:14:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Oh, "Mutant Rats?" My mistake, I thought this thread was titled "Strange Murat Rants"

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2003-9-23 4:21:53 PM|| 2003-9-23 4:21:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Me, I'm packing heat.

These rats wouldn't be a problem in Texas.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-23 4:25:28 PM|| 2003-9-23 4:25:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Rafael, you're right about Texas. The damm fire ants down here would have those rats for lunch.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-23 4:46:22 PM|| 2003-9-23 4:46:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 These rats wouldn't be a problem in Texas.

Shoot where I live this would be an opportunity to add a little protein to our clay.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-23 6:42:05 PM|| 2003-9-23 6:42:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Seafarious..whitecollar

way to show your superior intellect

am impressed.
really

Posted by Dcreeper 2003-9-23 11:18:59 PM|| 2003-9-23 11:18:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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