5 thoughts on “380 – Rat In The Hole”

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   Mattexian

   06/13/2018, 7:24 am

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   Would’ve been funnier if it was nicknamed “Mike Mike” (as a nod to Mickey Mouse), but that would bring down the wrath of the Disney.

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   Anonymous

   06/13/2018, 8:54 am

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   That is just the funniest thing, and something a grunt would come up with. Except I think the military uses green duct tape. (Aside: I heard somewhere that duct tape as we know it is actually not very good for sealing ducts. I think the metal tape is better.)

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   Clint

   06/13/2018, 11:29 am

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   Hm, you might be right, Anonymous! Then again I can easily just say they ran out of the milspec stuff or didn’t want to waste it on a securing a standard-issue rodent. 😀

   As for “Mike Mike” isn’t that what they already use for minute or millimeter? Could be confusing. “Willard Pete” is my more obscure joke on both “Willy Pete” and a certain old horror film about rats…

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   Honzinator

   06/13/2018, 12:41 pm

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   I like Willard Pete, and while I feel for the rats, I strongly suspect rat populations had an easier time of it once troops culled the zombie herd, as it were. Rats, like racoons, do really where where LIVING people are about.
   A rat Brookings Institution or RAND Corporation might be as bloodless about sacrificing inividuals of murine-kind as we have been in the past about using troops as bullet absorbers for a greater good. Plus, rats tret eah other a lot worse than people do, even in a state of nature. They’re a lot less susceptible to prion diseases for a reason.

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   normzone

   06/15/2018, 10:00 pm

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   Carry on, as you were. Or as you wish to be, I know I am trying.

   Very good, by the way …