Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:10:58 -0600, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
>>James Silverton > wrote:
>>
>>> ...and the deer have just
>>> eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground. I'd thought ivy was poisonous
>>> but not to horn-rats it seems.
>>
>>You just said the deer ate your ivy, not horn rats.
>>
>>WTF is a horn rat, anyway?
>
> horn-rat = deer

Yeah - I thought that might be what was referring to. But there's
not one mention of it on google. Not to mention deer have antlers;
unicorns and rhinos have horns.

Sheesh. Has anybody heard that term before? It makes no sense as
there's nothing in common between deer and rats, horns and antlers
included.

-sw