"If a pie-eyed piper can do it, maybe I can get 'em sober!"
—Curly, "Termites Of 1938"
The New York Times explains rat behavior in great detail—
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25rats.html?ex=1154059200&en=9be4e9d3d4475d9b&ei=5087%0A...and if that doesn't work, there's always the late Professor Stanley Unwin to explainey all the rattage and how the Piper blew a tune on his little pipe,
"Toot-toot!!"Personally, I'd rather be related to chimps than to rats, and to
either one of them before I'd admit any kinship— however distant— to Western or Eastern (or any other) fundamentalist religious types, of whatever screwball "creeds" they might believe in.
Those lower mammals like monkeys and rodents at least aren't throwing bombs and missiles at one another over a load of complete, childish nonsense out of a midden heap of musty old books, which puts them at least one I.Q. point ahead of
us, Homo
Non-Sapiens.
And, most of the basic Middle East problem (that is, Sunni vs. Shi'ite) is the result of a 600-year-old religious succession dispute among the early Muslims that still hasn't been settled to this day. Which means that both sides there are hopeless, clueless
losers!"Human, walking through the Zoo,
What do your cousins think of you?"—Don Marquis (1878-1937)
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