Dunno about rat kings, but King Rat is a proven phenomenon.
Excellent film. Brief appearance by Richard Dawson, from Hogan’s Heros and Family Feud at the end of the movie.
If anything, it’s much more (small r) republican. It’s more of a Rat Senate than anything.
I am immensely proud of my restraint in not going there in this thread.
You guys do know my reference was to a gerbil going into and getting lost in an anus, although it’s a SuperGay, not Gere. He meets the souls of the other animals who died in there. Family Guy did Gere.
The whole story of the Rat King reminds me of the grotesqueries of the Cats of Kilkenny.
It has to have been Gere, otherwise the joke about gerbils having difficulty with manual transmissions doesn’t work. I mean, how you gonna make the joke work with Brad Pitt?
And please tell me South Park has at least made a clear reference to Cats of Kilkenny. That one writes itself.
I really doubt it’s real because according to Wikipedia:
“The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported.”
Why would this happen especially in one country? I think a good analogy is crop circles. They started in England and are mostly found in the English speaking world.
My google fu is proving inadequate…care to share the manual transmission joke
The book was an awesome read as well. I liked it AND the movie. How weird is that?
It’s not “one country.” It’s Germany. Europe’s Florida.
But also, Cecil’s current column is on guys freaking out and imaging their penis is disappearing. It only occurs (probably unrelated) in parts of (Western?) Africa and some of the Pacific Islands and small parts of China. Something happens and quickly spreads through the community as hysteria/a meme.
I’m guessing a punch line about “getting into gear”.
I don’t know how authentic rat kings are, but I’ve seen an example of what is claimed to be an authentic specimen, in the Otago Museum in Dunedin in New Zealand.
chuckles Good memories sir! Good memories.