maxine wrote on Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:02:56 -0800 (PST):

> On Mar 1, 9:34 pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
>> cybercat > wrote:
> >> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>> 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?
>>
> >>> It's posts like these that really make me wonder if you're
> >>> actually of sound mind and body, Jim. I think you're
> >>> psycho.
>>
> >> I'll consider this strong evidence in favor of James'
> >> glowing mental health.
>>
>> So you don't know what a horn rat is either? Got it.
>>
>> Depending on where you look, its a series of books, a video
>> game, a kind of car, but nowhere can I find any mention of
>> "horned" or "horn" rat or deer outside of Jim's imagination.
>>
>> -sw

> Steve, there are sky rats (pigeons), tree rats (squirrels),
> and now horn(ed) rats, aka deer which will depradate the
> landscape of most suburbs given a winter of little natural
> foods. Seemed pretty obvious to me, but then, I've seen what
> deer can do.

Just in passing, given that I have blocked all but a selected list of
gmail sources as well as some specific posters, I rely on quotations to
see if there are any interesting posters that I should add to my
allowed list or unblock. The quotations that I see from some blocked
people often confirm my earlier decisions.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not