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Attention, Giant Gambian Rat

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:31 pm
by silvercamaro
You may not be so special, after all. Here's a story about one of your South American ancestors, "a rat as big as a car."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 193462.ece

Re: Attention, Giant Gambian Rat

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:05 pm
by Giant Gambian Rat
silvercamaro wrote:You may not be so special, after all. Here's a story about one of your South American ancestors, "a rat as big as a car."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 193462.ece
Oh, that just my great great grandfather Barry B. Ratt, He was a little too fond of "the juice"

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:51 pm
by andrewjackson
It's not even a rat. It's a giant rodent. Rodent does not necessarily equal rat.

Jeez. Might as well say it is a giant chipmunk or a giant porcupine. That would be as accurate as giant rat.

I guess giant pacarana, something which more accurately describes it, doesn't have the same ring.