On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:07:37 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

> 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

it means james is a breaking new ground here.

your pal,
blake