# Where the rabbits are. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194 "2005-04-13T22:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/1 "2005-04-13T22:25:10Z")
Niece: “We didn’t see any rabbits” Step-Dad: “They are probably all watching a film in their homes” Me: “Watership down” Brother: “Ah, a horror movie” ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/2 "2005-04-14T00:44:07Z")
Not a bad flick really, although it hasn’t aged too well…the bar for feature length animation has really been raised since it came out. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/3 "2005-04-14T00:53:28Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Not a bad flick really, although it hasn’t aged too well…the bar for feature length animation has really been raised since it came out. For me, it hasn’t ‘aged’ at all. There’s something about the art of animated cartoons that doesn’t age. (But there’s also plenty that does) I bet that film still has the power to make me cry (as it did when I was a kid) ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/4 "2005-04-14T00:53:58Z")
You want to know where the rabbits are? The rabbits are here. Mountain Home AFB is lousy with rabbits, I tell you what. During the summer you’ll see five or six of them just hanging out in one spot on the lawn. They’re like little, fuzzy, long-eared cows. Of course, compared to the surrounding area this place is Bunny Heaven: lots of grass and stuff to eat (as compared to dust and tumbleweeds elsewhere), no predators outside of the odd coyote or raven, and nobody’s shooting at them. I suppose there are worse animals to have infestations of. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/5 "2005-04-14T01:02:25Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > I suppose there are worse animals to have infestations of. Tell that to Australia… ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/6 "2005-04-14T02:44:11Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > Mountain Home AFB is lousy with rabbits Heh! I went to Nuclear Power training in the Idaho desert. We saw rabbits outside the fences all the time, but to us, they were beta bunnies. There were als a lot of alpha antelopes, though we never came up with any animals to identify with gamma or neutron radiation. [sub]end hijack :o [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/7 "2005-04-14T02:46:31Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > Heh! I went to Nuclear Power training in the Idaho desert. We saw rabbits outside the fences all the time, but to us, they were beta bunnies. There were als a lot of alpha antelopes, though we never came up with any animals to identify with gamma or neutron radiation. > > [sub]end hijack :o [/sub] Radioactive rabbits… Night of the Lepus!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/8 "2005-04-14T02:49:30Z")
There’s something that worries me about the title of this thread, the direction (radioactive leporids) that it went, and the fact that **Laughing Lagomorph** and **Tentacle Monster** were significant contributors to it. Something you folks aren’t telling us? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/9 "2005-04-14T02:50:42Z")
Oh, now I’m picturing radioactive tentacled bunnies. Scary. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/10 "2005-04-14T02:54:36Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Oh, now I’m picturing radioactive tentacled bunnies. Scary. o/` Here comes Cthulhu Cottontail, hopping down the Eldritch Horror Trail. o/` ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/11 "2005-04-14T02:56:37Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > o/` Here comes Cthulhu Cottontail, hopping down the Eldritch Horror Trail. o/` Time to add another phobia to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/12 "2005-04-14T12:05:19Z")
Probably need to create some mutant mega-carrots to fend them off… or buy their confidence. If one ear is straight up and the other is flat back it means they are angry but can be bought if the price is right. Unless they are lop-earred Cthulhu Bunnies… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/13 "2005-04-14T12:13:59Z")
> [@Terrorcotta](#): > > Unless they are lop-earred Cthulhu Bunnies… _shudder_ Kind of like if Cthulhu mated with Bun-Bun? :eek: _runs shrieking into the night_ ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/14 "2005-04-14T12:40:58Z")
Then we’d have some real Bunzillas!! Giant bunnies who could nose-butt you out of the way and make mega-bunnie balls you could fuel your house with for generations to come!! Eeeeeeeeeek!!! We’d all be dungbeetles to the lagomorphs! Run! Run! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/15 "2005-04-14T12:45:53Z")
Fudd mode on: Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting Great Old Ones… Fudd Mode Off ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/16 "2005-04-14T12:48:49Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Fudd mode on: > > Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting Great Old Ones… > > Fudd Mode Off Wouldn’t that be Gweat Owd Ones…? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/17 "2005-04-14T13:35:03Z")
I remember as a kid looking at the cover of Watership Down and thinking, “I wonder what rabbits have to do with sinking boats?” ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/18 "2005-04-14T13:42:39Z")
“You’ve read the book; you’ve seen the movie: now eat the pie”. Sorry:o ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/19 "2005-04-14T14:06:03Z")
> [@seosamh](#): > > “You’ve read the book; you’ve seen the movie: now eat the pie”. Sorry:o When come back, bring tentacular bunnies? :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194/20 "2005-04-14T14:12:34Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > When come back, bring tentacular bunnies? :: shudder :: The Conies of Chaos… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-rabbits-are/299194.md?page=2)