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The headline at Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_sc/sci_kangaroo_rats_4)! says it all, "Scientists to count kangaroo rats from outer space", we're doomed.

I haven't run into one of these creatures, yet. Terrifying as they are, I'm still pretty sure the baseball bat I keep in the truck will be effective.

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But more to the point, isn't there a better way to word that headline? Maybe something like "Scientists to count kangaroo rats with with satellite imagery"? Or maybe "Scientists use satellites to count kangaroo rats"?

I for one welcome our new... wait a minute! That's tricksy! Yes they really ought rephrase that.

The headline at Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_sc/sci_kangaroo_rats_4)! says it all, "Scientists to count kangaroo rats from outer space", we're doomed.
Maybe not. Scientists haven't counted them yet, so there might just be one, or there could be trillions.
But more to the point, isn't there a better way to word that headline?
No. No, there isn't.
Maybe something like "Scientists to count kangaroo rats with with satellite imagery"? Or maybe "Scientists use satellites to count kangaroo rats"?
That's boring. I'm bored. You're boring, Myrmidonisia.

I'm not sure you can put the words 'kangaroo rats', 'scientists' and 'space' together into a sentence that won't invoke fear in someone.

Add 'mutant' into the mix and I don't care what you're reporting, I don't want to hear it.

Well yes but it is typical of the media, to misrepresent the story in order to sell it.

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It doesn't look like a rat. It looks like a hamster... a giant miniature space hamster...

"Go for the eyes Boo! The EYES!"

:p

The headline at Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_sc/sci_kangaroo_rats_4)! says it all, "Scientists to count kangaroo rats from outer space", we're doomed.

I haven't run into one of these creatures, yet. Terrifying as they are, I'm still pretty sure the baseball bat I keep in the truck will be effective.

Clearly this is Plan 10.

It doesn't look like a rat. It looks like a hamster... a giant miniature space hamster...

"Go for the eyes Boo! The EYES!"

:p
I don't want to know where it has been hiding all this time :p.

Clearly this is Plan 10.
Is that the more advanced version of Plan 9?

Better get out the Holy Hand Grenades, just in case.

I don't want to know where it has been hiding all this time :p.


Why, with Minsc of course, up amongst the stars where hamsters are giants and men become legends, dispensing: "Butt-kicking! For goodness!" and giving squeaky wheels the kick.

:p

Better get out the Holy Hand Grenades, just in case.

Does anybody know where I can find a copy of the Book of Armaments? I seem to have misplaced my old copy, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to count to five or three.

what on earth were they on when they made then name. as it don't look like any thing like a Kangaroo or a Rat

what on earth were they on when they made then name. as it don't look like any thing like a Kangaroo or a Rat
They're from Australia, so the guy who first discovered them was probably a criminally insane Englishman, and just as probably he was drunk when he thought up the name.

They're from Australia, so the guy who first discovered them was probably a criminally insane Englishman, and just as probably he was drunk when he thought up the name.

most likely it be true But we call them Hopping mouse which having seen one they are more like

Does anybody know where I can find a copy of the Book of Armaments? I seem to have misplaced my old copy, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to count to five or three.

Perhaps it was burnt with the witches by mistake?

Is that the more advanced version of Plan 9?

Precisely. Raising the dead to take over the earth clearly ran into some snags, but with the addition of kangaroo rats from space, the plan is foolproof. Foolproof!

But more to the point, isn't there a better way to word that headline? Maybe something like "Scientists to count kangaroo rats with with satellite imagery"? Or maybe "Scientists use satellites to count kangaroo rats"?
"scientists waste money to count rodents."
"Scientists to shoot whomprats from hight altitude"

"Scientists to shoot whomprats from hight altitude"
^This :p

"scientists waste money to count rodents."
"Scientists to shoot whomprats from hight altitude"

I remember shooting whomprats, back in Beggars Canyon. They are about the size of an exhaust port on a Death Star, so they are rather easy to target.

Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a planet near Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSBX4r1TqE)

Perhaps it was burnt with the witches by mistake?

Sh@t. You know, the damn thing probably weighed the same as a duck. This is the last time that I trust Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot with anything.

*turns to Sir Bedevere*

"I need another copy of the Book of Armaments!"

Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a planet near Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSBX4r1TqE)

I, for one, welcome our new radioactive-hamster overlords.

Precisely. Raising the dead to take over the earth clearly ran into some snags, but with the addition of kangaroo rats from space, the plan is foolproof. Foolproof!

Finally they'll be able to stop human research into Solanite; we can't have it because we're too Stupid!

Clearly this is Plan 10.

So rats come after bunnies?

(+5 geek points for anyone who understood that)