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Pied Piper (blame bamboo blossoms)
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Pied Piper (blame bamboo blossoms) |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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Blame it on bamboo blossoms. A 50 year cycle repeats itself in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh, as rats are overpowering the people. Ironically, this is the Chinese Year of the Rat, and coincides with an overabundance of rats in Bangladesh, where the prolific flowering bamboo has nourished them so well the rats will breed eight litters instead of the usual four this year. Time to build a better trap or hire a Pied Piper? |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Having seen recently the fantastic Walt Disney movie "Ratatouille" starring rats, I have some difficulty in changing the perception ... but it is no doubt frightening to be outnumbered by rats!! They say also in Rome this has happened! Balance in all things is of greatest importance I would say, but men do not seem specialized in reaching this ideal state of things. Thank you for this dear Kacy! love Margherita  |
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Bobby Jordan Member
since 2007-08-13
Posts 491Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Midnitesun, Rats are no good at all. One bit my sister-in-law when she was six years old while she slept--blood all over the place. My wife killed the damned thing. I hate rats. Bobby |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
With propagation results such as that from ingesting the "prolific flowering bamboo" ~ may it be banned for human consumption! lol  Linda |
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effjayel Senior Member
since 2007-09-30
Posts 1474At the Crossroads of Infinity |
Perhaps they should fill the stems of the plants with rice wine and the rats would get bamboozled??? |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
Love this one, my dear lady! Have a nice day and a very good weekend!!! |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
lol the name is a tongue twister a bit ARCTIC WIND |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Sorry 'bout the tongue twisting, Arctic Wind. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
blatant bamboo blossom blame blankets Bangladesh?!... now there is a good old fashioned newspaper headline if I ever saw one?! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I'm sure rats must have been put here for a reason but I don't think we need so many of them. You write beautifully about anything and everything Kacy. Ida |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Interesting the fifty year cycle of bamboo and the flowering...I recently heard that due to the scare of birdflu, the citizens in Vietnam were increasingly turning to eating rats, and consider them quite tasty...not sure if the citizens of Bandladesh favor this practice...but if they do seems like they will have no lack of this delicacy...James |
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DennisTheMenace Member
since 2005-09-04
Posts 240 |
"Rats!" says Charlie Brown He says it in flustration. The abundance of rats there surely has a purpose and perhaps it was to feed the people, but it might be that those people don't eat rats. A waste of food source? I'm sure the snakes population will grow for it, for they have no religous beliefs to stop their feast. Your words provoke thoughts |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Good points, James and Dennis. One being's rat problem is another's epicurean delight, or at least, survival fare? |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
RATS!...this 'write' is 'disappearing' down the "P.I.P.-land" queue! |
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