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>>>>>>>>>Well, there *is* a legally acceptable level of rat feces in packaged food so I always just assumed ...
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>>>>>>>>Peanut butter for sure. Another of my staples ;-)
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>>>>>>>mmmm - PB,RF & J
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>>>>>The lunchtime staple - Peanut butter, rat feces and jelly.
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>>>>>( doesn't translate well <g> jam? )
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>>>>>Often colloquialized here as PB&J ( sandwiches )
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>>>>After the revolution you'll be lucky to get RF in your PB :-)
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>>>"If ya don't eat your RF you can't have any pudding ! "
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>>Slight change of subject. My daughter used to keep pet rats. They are a really good pet. They are very clean and extremely intelligent.
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>Amazing what a bushy tail can do. If they had cute tails people would feed them in the park <bg>
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Squirrels truly have a reputation for cuteness they don't deserve. It's only their furry tails that save them.

Little known squirrel fact: they have to gnaw on things constantly or their teeth would be two inches long. You could look it up.

They are also responsible for a lot of the damage to free standing telephone lines.

Still, I'll take squirrels over rats. When I lived in Chicago we had an older house with a porous foundation. Mega mice. We had regular appointments with an exterminator we all amiably called George the Mouse Man. George took care of them, all right. He put goop stained white pads around the basement and near all piping, and you would find the mice there in the morning, stricken expressions on their faces. I asked him if there was some poison they ate. He said no, they have heart attacks. He said their internal systems are nothing to speak of and the second they realize they're stuck, that's it. Anyway, George the Mouse Man said I can deal with mice, they're no big deal. But I hate rats.