Mike Dawson (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mikedawsoncomic) wrote,@ 2008-04-10 23:50:00 |
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Help! Circle of Rats
At dinner tonight we saw a rat run past - a few feet away from our table. It's OK, we were eating outside - so this isn't a story about a restaurant failing their health inspection.
Afterwards, we were talking about rats, and I brought up something that I remembered reading in Bryan Talbot's "The Tale of One Bad Rat", about rats doing this weird thing where a bunch of them form a circle with their backs to each other and tie their tails together. I vaguely recall in the comic that people didn't know why rats did this, and sometimes they'd die this way, and their skeletons would be discovered in this strange formation.
Everyone assumed I was making this up*, which annoyed me because I remember it from the comic. I've been looking online though, and am having trouble finding any reference to this.
Does anyone know if this is a real thing? Or was it made up for the comic? Or, is it not even in the comic, and I imagined it? I can't seem to find my copy of the book, so now I'm getting worried that maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing.
* For some reason I have an undeserved reputation amongst certain friends for being someone who makes things up, and all of my amusing stories and claims have to be met with skepticism and distrust. I don't think this is right or fair.
At dinner tonight we saw a rat run past - a few feet away from our table. It's OK, we were eating outside - so this isn't a story about a restaurant failing their health inspection.
Afterwards, we were talking about rats, and I brought up something that I remembered reading in Bryan Talbot's "The Tale of One Bad Rat", about rats doing this weird thing where a bunch of them form a circle with their backs to each other and tie their tails together. I vaguely recall in the comic that people didn't know why rats did this, and sometimes they'd die this way, and their skeletons would be discovered in this strange formation.
Everyone assumed I was making this up*, which annoyed me because I remember it from the comic. I've been looking online though, and am having trouble finding any reference to this.
Does anyone know if this is a real thing? Or was it made up for the comic? Or, is it not even in the comic, and I imagined it? I can't seem to find my copy of the book, so now I'm getting worried that maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing.
* For some reason I have an undeserved reputation amongst certain friends for being someone who makes things up, and all of my amusing stories and claims have to be met with skepticism and distrust. I don't think this is right or fair.
