# A rat. A giant F'ing rat. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417 "2007-12-18T02:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/41 "2007-12-19T15:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] The trap in question as large and the lizard was small. enjoy ![Venus](https://a4.pbase.com/g6/76/731076/3/82856560.4lKkeBBT.jpg) [/QUOTE] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t think that I will ever get tired of watching a plant eat insects, or lizards or small mammals. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/42 "2007-12-19T15:53:53Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t think that I will ever get tired of watching a plant eat insects, or lizards or small mammals. [/QUOTE] Move to the southeast. You can watch plants eat buildings. (kudzu) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/43 "2007-12-20T03:28:28Z")
You should see the giant flying cockroaches in Thailand. Really. They’re no fun when they land on your head. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/44 "2007-12-20T03:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] You should see the giant flying cockroaches in Thailand. Really. They’re no fun when they land on your head. :eek: [/QUOTE] Out of due deference to **Siam Sam** for such help rendered in reference to tourism in Cambodia, I shall make no jokes here. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/45 "2007-12-20T06:10:05Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Out of due deference to **Siam Sam** for such help rendered in reference to tourism in Cambodia, I shall make no jokes here. [/QUOTE] Oh fiddlesticks, Sam can handle it. Give us a joke. Imagine the jokes he’s heard just about being in Bangkok! ---
**Author:** ![Oliveritaly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oliveritaly/32/15233_2.png) [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/46 "2007-12-20T09:37:13Z")
That’s stupid why’d they put the noob yards way out in Indonesia for? Wonder if i can grind to level 5 on them? Sorry bad jokes I know … ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/47 "2007-12-20T13:30:30Z")
I have some invasive lizards in my condo you can take on, but they never drop any gold. ---
**Author:** ![puppygod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@puppygod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puppygod)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/48 "2007-12-20T13:42:51Z")
You’re gonna need a bigger cat :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/49 "2007-12-20T13:48:56Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Oh fiddlesticks, Sam can handle it. Give us a joke. Imagine the jokes he’s heard just about being in Bangkok! [/QUOTE] What’s so funny about Bangkok? ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/50 "2007-12-20T15:06:43Z")
Anyone else reminded of Templeton after the fair? That rat looks so sad and confused sitting in that guy’s hands. It’s almost cute–kind of makes me laugh and say “ew” at the same time. That possum is great, and I want one of those guys. Its face! So tiny! So cute! _head asplodes_ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/51 "2007-12-20T15:14:07Z")
[QUOTE=beanpod] That rat looks so sad and confused sitting in that guy’s hands. [/QUOTE] I 'spect the rat is dead. How do you thing John James Audubon got all those little birds to sit still? The 'possum is cool. I’d like to introduce them in my woods. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/52 "2007-12-20T16:00:25Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I 'spect the rat is dead. How do you thing John James Audubon got all those little birds to sit still? The 'possum is cool. I’d like to introduce them in my woods. [/QUOTE] ‘I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. Audobon.’ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/53 "2007-12-20T16:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] ‘I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. Audobon.’ [/QUOTE] **BLAM!** Aw, hell, we’re going to need another hummingbird. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/54 "2007-12-20T16:31:14Z")
Most people don’t know that the wonderful Mr. Audobon slaughtered thousands of wee feathered beasties, ripped out their innards, and mounted them in in macabre lifelike scenes of his own devising. Pyschopath. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/55 "2007-12-20T21:34:43Z")
I once had a pet possum. Well, sort of. When I lived in a house adjacent to the spring valley in Spring Valley, one possum liked to hide behind a tree in our yard. My roommate and I put out rice for her and gave her a name, though I can’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/56 "2007-12-20T21:54:56Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Mr. Audobon slaughtered thousands of wee feathered beasties, [/QUOTE] [THE TRVTH IS OUT THERE](http://www.blackbrookaudubon.org/audubon.jpg) One can only hope that the dog is napping. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/57 "2007-12-20T22:00:19Z")
I’m gonna buy one of those rats, one of [these](http://www.afrikhan.net/) cats, build a house that is proportionally too big, and star in a reality series titled Big People, Bigger World. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/58 "2007-12-20T22:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] [THE TRVTH IS OUT THERE](http://www.blackbrookaudubon.org/audubon.jpg) One can only hope that the dog is napping. [/QUOTE] Aha! another entry for the “come out of the closet” thread. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/59 "2007-12-21T01:21:27Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Aha! another entry for the “come out of the closet” thread. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Hey, I gave up on it long before they switched to the guy with the big ears. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417/60 "2007-12-21T02:07:09Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Out of due deference to **Siam Sam** for such help rendered in reference to tourism in Cambodia, I shall make no jokes here. [/QUOTE] And don’t forget: The Dead Fish Guesthouse in Siem Reap, Cambodia, proudly proclaims on its [website](http://talesofasia.com/cambodia-deadfish.htm) and a sign on premises: “We don’t serve dog, cat, rat or worm!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rat-a-giant-fing-rat/430417.md?page=4)