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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Rockman on 23 Oct 2012, 04:15
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In light of this strip (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2302), I'm starting this thread for people to share fun facts about muskrats. Why? Because I'm a big ol' nerd and fun facts are fun. We'll see if this actually goes anywhere. And just to make things a little more interesting? Your muskrat fun fact doesn't have to be true.
Fun fact: Muskrats are named for their musky scent, which is emitted from glands at the base of their tail.
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Muskrat tails are actually just solidified musk, which places them in an entirely different order than any other mammal.
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Muskrats are famous for their loving nature. There is even a song about it.
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If you see a muskrat today and the muskrat sees its own shadow at the same time, you will be rich tomorrow.
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Muskrat is an anagram for Ram tusk and that's how they're made.
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The muskrat's wikipedia page has a mention of this strip already.
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Muskrat musk is one of KFC's eleven herbs and spices.
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Muskrats originate from the winter coat of a muskox.
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Muskrats do not actually exist and are a hoax perpetrate by fur trappers to get higher prices for rabbit fur.
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Muskrat musk is one of KFC's eleven herbs and spices.
But, lesser known, the muskrat itself features prominently in most KFC recipes.
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Muskrats will tango if asked politely.
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Muskrat liver tastes good with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Muskrats are responsible for 12.3% of the violent crime in the Gobi Desert.
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Toni Tenille regrets singing that song.
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You only live once, but muskrats are immortal. They seek the Quickening.
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Muskrats are responsible for 12.3% of the violent crime in the Gobi Desert.
This is true! While on the subject, I was reading about a new Mongolian-language film that's coming out. The protagonist is an eleven-year-old boy who carries messages between a lonely goatherd and his love, a beautiful yak-milk churner, set in a world of ruthless Muskrat gang-rivalry. Its English title is to be:
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Muskrats are constantly evolving. Scientists believe that by the 23rd century they will no longer have limbs and will be capable of reproduction from birth. They'll seemingly be called Tribbles.
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Muskrats are the only rodent that is allergic to peanut butter.
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Muskrats mate for life.
Just try getting them apart...
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Muskrats are responsible for 12.3% of the violent crime in the Gobi Desert.
This is true! While on the subject, I was reading about a new Mongolian-language film that's coming out. The protagonist is an eleven-year-old boy who carries messages between a lonely goatherd and his love, a beautiful yak-milk churner, set in a world of ruthless Muskrat gang-rivalry. Its English title is to be:
I'm glad my wife was out of the house when I read that. She tends to run in with alarm to check on me when I make loud howl/groan sounds.
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If you look into a mirror at 1:23AM on the sixteenth Thursday of a leap year and yell "muskrat" three times, you'll probably wake somebody up.
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I laughed way too hard at that.
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Muskrat mating rituals involve 24 hours of moshpits.
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It's said that Muskrats can beat a Transformer in a game of Pokemon.
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Its a little known fact that Muskrats are in an aeons old feud with the cousins the Packrats and that when both clash, volcanoes erupt. The Rat Pack was founded as a means of mediating between these old enemies.
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Wouldn't that be 'Rat Pact'? :-D
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A muskrat created the earth from some mud it found. True or false?!
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False...sort of. It was dirt until the oceans got it wet.
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A muskrat once developed rabies and went on a rampage. It was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and the sinking of Atlantis. In its last ravening moments, it also designed 73 out of the 74 most frustrating government files to fill in. (The 63rd was designed by a guy named Phil, under duress by another muskrat).
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You mean you believe the propaganda by the Groundhog Lobby? Phil stole credit for #63 and everyone knows it.
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A muskrat stars in his very own webcomic based on RPGs and popular culture.
Seriously. (http://www.dorktower.com)
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Muskrats are violent, sociopathic, deranged and pathalogically murderous. Ever see Chuck Norris fight a Muskrat? That's because he's scared of them.
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Muskrats ate the word filter that used to exist on the QC forums.
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When no crab's blood is available, muskrat musk in solid form can be used to buff up a mahogany table.
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A muskrat stars in his very own webcomic based on RPGs and popular culture.
Seriously. (http://www.dorktower.com)
It should be called "Mazes and Muskrats".
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False...sort of. It was dirt until the oceans got it wet.
Aha, I didn't think about that. For everyone else,
How Muskrat Created the World (http://www.muskrat.com/index.htm#MuskratLegends)
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Jwhouk won't like that, since the badger fails and the muskrat has to do his job for him.
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I saw another version where all of them died in the process, but the duck had mud on its feet that the Old Man used to create the earth. But I think a badger is among the animals that die.
What's this about jwhouk and badgers? Either I haven't been here nearly long enough or I'm missing something obvious.
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He's from Wisconsin. The local uni's mascot is the badger.
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The X-Files DO exist and they were both written and covered up by muskrats. However, those X-Files are not what you think they are and actually just contain explicit photos of the senior muskrat's mother.
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I saw another version where all of them died in the process, but the duck had mud on its feet that the Old Man used to create the earth. But I think a badger is among the animals that die.
What's this about jwhouk and badgers? Either I haven't been here nearly long enough or I'm missing something obvious.
You haven't been here long enough. :laugh:
Wisconsin is the Badger State, so named for the visages of old lead miners in SW Wisconsin, who basically dug homes out of the hillsides by the lead mines around Mineral Point and the surrounding areas.
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I did not know that about Wisconsin - that's pretty awesome. :-D
Chris Carter is an elaborate puppet operated by a team of muskrats. These puppeteers' true identities are unknown, but in the intelligence community they are commonly referred to as "The Lone Gunmen."
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If you grind up a muskrat into a fine powder and ingest it you'll either die or achieve immortality.
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The same thing happens if you don't eat muskrat powder.
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... or both!
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Muskrats, the only surefire way to Lichdom.
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... or both!
That comment is either very perceptive, or very trite.
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... or both!
(Seriously ... who did not see that coming?)
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Blind Pete saw that one coming. And he's been blind since the unfortunate window blind incident at the Blinkers school for blind where the blind kids stumbled into Pete and he fell into the blinds and earned his nickname.
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Chuck Norris has a pet muskrat. Which he uses as a beard.
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The kick of a muskrat can take a person's head clean off
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Muskrats are actually the basis for at least half of all Pokémon.
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No-one has ever beaten a muskrat at fizzbin.
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Muskrats are the only other mammal that celebrates boxing day.
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Besides the platypus?
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This is muskrat fun facts not platypus fun facts JEEZ
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Muskrats can, and will, enforce the second amendment if cornered.
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...that explais the muskrat I saw carrying those bear's arms around.
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...that explais the muskrat I saw carrying those bear's arms around.
And that explains why I'm filled with admiration and envy. Such punnery 'snout for the faint of heart. It would give a lesser person paws.
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You guys. :psyduck:
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If ever a muskrat perchances across a beaver dam, it will not only proceed to destroy the dam, it will erect a strip mall in its place.