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Rodents of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist …

December 23rd, 2007 · 7 Comments
Science · Weirdness

But they do! … although they’re not in the Fire Swamp.

A new species of rat the size of a large cat has been found in the remote Foja Mountains of the island of New Guinea by a team of scientists supported by Conservation International. Several other new species were identified as well.

Hat Tip: Retrospectacle.



7 responses so far ↓

  • 1    Anon E. Mouse // Dec 23, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    V – You’ve heard of Plato? Artistotle? Socrates?
    DPR – yes
    V – Morons

  • 2    Kevin Lowe // Dec 24, 2007 at 12:05 am

    INCONCEIVABLE!

  • 3    C. J. Summers // Dec 24, 2007 at 2:14 am

    They were both poisoned. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.

  • 4    Jonathan Ahl // Dec 24, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Miracle Max: Beat it or I’ll call the Brute Squad.
    Fezzik: I’m on the Brute Squad.
    Miracle Max: You are the Brute Squad.

  • 5    Knight in Dragonland // Dec 25, 2007 at 2:53 am

    PH: Surrender!

    MiB: You wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

    ……

    V: No more rhymes now, I mean it!

    F: Anybody got a peanut?

    V: Ahhhhhhh!!!

    ……

    Westley: Give us the gate key.

    Yellin: I have no gate key.

    Inigo: Fezzik … tear his arms off.

    Yellin: Oh, you mean this gate key?

    ……

    PH: First things first, to the death.

    Westley: NO! To the pain.

    PH: I don’t think I’m quite familiar with that phrase.

    Westley: I’ll explain, and I’ll use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

    ……

    (And, of course …)

    Mmmaaawidge … that bwessed awwangement …

  • 6    mortonmalaise // Dec 28, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    “Have fun storming the castle!”

    “You’ve been mostly dead all day.”

    “I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
    “STOP SAYING THAT!!!”
    “I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

  • 7    Anon E. Mouse // Dec 29, 2007 at 12:54 am

    “Murdered by pirates is good.”

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