# Jimmy Carter's rodent fight...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 30, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192 "2008-05-30T21:06:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![proudmommy777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@proudmommy777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/proudmommy777)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192/21 "2008-06-03T14:40:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]  
It WASN’T a rodent!

Rabbits belong to the order Lagomorpha.  
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I forgot to mention before… I understand that rabbits aren’t rodents, but are nutria? I’d said “rodent fight” because I assumed that a nutria rat was a rodent.

And hold on… I don’t get the part about my kids having developmental problems. Do you say that because they have night terrors? If so, night terrors aren’t a developmental problem. And they ARE children.

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192/22 "2008-06-03T21:45:20Z")

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According to [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu) it’s a rodent.

They’re teasing about the kids because you bit when they teased about hubby. Just wait till the spelling nazis get hold of dear/deer and their/they’re in post 16! And, because I’ve written that, my next three posts will almost certainly contain spelling errors. I apologise in advance.

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**Author:** ![proudmommy777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@proudmommy777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/proudmommy777)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192/23 "2008-06-03T21:56:00Z")

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[QUOTE=guizot]  
I apologize. It wasn’t a nice thing to say. (That word just drives me crazy. To me it’s like saying wifey.) Go ahead and use it. You won’t really lose any respect for it.  
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It’s alright. I guess I’m just overly sensitive? Where I’m from, (Smalltown, South USA), we’re just super polite… I’m not used to the way people talk to each other on this forum.

I suppose it’ll take some getting used to… I still am not sure about the “raised 2 children with developmental problems” though… Maybe I should stick to reading the articles in the archives.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carters-rodent-fight/451192/24 "2008-06-03T22:30:41Z")

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> [@](#):
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> My husband comes flying around the corner, nothing on except the television, of course! And the damned “rat” is sitting in there with my children!
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> We hustle the kids out of the room, my hubby went down the road to my grandma’s house and borrowed my grandfather’s trap (he hated stray neighborhood cats, lmao!), came home and set it.

I notice that you didn’t mention anything about him getting dressed in between ;).

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