Every now and then, certain replies cause me to laugh maniacally.
This is one of them.
Are you from Sumatra?
Good call, TM.
By the way, I’m now fully sober, and this thread makes a little more sense.
But not much.
Good. 'Cos I’m confused by the
line. Would you or someone please explain the reference?
My Giant Dust Bunnies are clearly visible and, trust me, you do not want to talk to them!
Probably, “Where the fuck are you?”
screech – it’s a Hunter S. Thompson line from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
“Are you pink, like invisible unicorns?”
No, no, no. It’s the elephants that are pink, not the unicorns.
At least that’s what my international rat told me.
As Cervaise said, it’s a (slightly modified) Hunter S. Thompson line from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He and a friend were driving down what was apparently a two-lane highway in Nevada or somesuch, and Thompson noted mentally that “the drugs were starting to kick in” (I don’t remember which drugs, probably because I was really stoned when I saw the movie–but it was probably some combination involving LSD or mescaline). Thompson suddenly started seeing vicious bats flying around everywhere. His friend asked if they could stop the car for some reason or another, and Thompson replied, “We can’t stop here! This is bat country!”, swiping at the invisible bats in the air with his hand.
[short hijack]BTW, I don’t recommend watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas under the influence of anything unless you’re very familiar with both the movie and the stuff you’re taking. There are some movies you just shouldn’t watch high, and that’s one of them. It was a pretty freaky experience. (At one point, I just left the room and walked around the house where I couldn’t see or hear it, because it was too much for me to handle. It turned out that this point was about 15 minutes before the end. Oh well.)
Anyway, there are plenty of drugs in that movie to go around; you don’t need to bring any.[/hijack]
Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.
I knew it sounded familiar. Much thanked.
(Gonna have to get the book again. Read that in high school and enjoyed it way back then.)
Giant invisible rats?? I never thought of that - that explains why one of my dogs seems to bark for no reason - he’s trying to chase the rats away!!
What I would say to them - “Why me?? Go infest my neighbour’s house!!”
I wonder if you could catch them, and make a coat from their skins, could you make yourself invisible just by putting it on?
Yes, but no matter, because that ineffable dead-rat smell would give you away.
As tribute to this thread, I’m listening to Modest Mouse’s I Came as a Rat. Just thought you should know.
I still haven’t read that book. I’ve been meaning to.
I’ll go pick it up after I finish reading the 5 books or so that are next in line for me (sober! I learned my lesson from my F&LiLV movie experience–there are some things you should experience while under the influence, and Fear and Loathing isn’t one of them).
Ross so made me laugh.
Oh, and I’d probably tell the rats to avoid my workplace.
We have a giant, invisible vivisectionist on the premises.
Hi there. Haven’t I seen you somewhere?
Surely, with all this modern technology, there’d be a way to effectively deodorise it without losing the invisible quality.
Now that I think of it, maybe that’s why they haven’t captured Bin Laden yet - they can smell a rat OK, they just can’t see him!!
Rats.
I will tell my Giant Invisible Rats to take out the trash and fold the clothes.