Topic: Muskrat Fun Facts (Read 19193 times)

Rockman · « **on:** 23 Oct 2012, 04:15 »

In light of this strip, 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.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 04:24 »

Muskrat tails are actually just solidified musk, which places them in an entirely different order than any other mammal.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 04:53 »

Muskrats are famous for their loving nature. There is even a song about it.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 05:06 »

If you see a muskrat today and the muskrat sees its own shadow at the same time, you will be rich tomorrow.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 05:55 »

Muskrat is an anagram for Ram tusk and that's how they're made.

LTK · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 07:45 »

The muskrat's wikipedia page has a mention of this strip already.

Rockman · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 08:07 »

Muskrat musk is one of KFC's eleven herbs and spices.

Spiff · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 08:36 »

Muskrats originate from the winter coat of a muskox.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 09:17 »

Muskrats do not actually exist and are a hoax perpetrate by fur trappers to get higher prices for rabbit fur.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #9 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 15:09 »

Quote from: Rockman on 23 Oct 2012, 08:07

Muskrat musk is one of KFC's eleven herbs and spices.

But, lesser known, the muskrat itself features prominently in most KFC recipes.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 15:30 »

Muskrats will tango if asked politely.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:05 »

Muskrat liver tastes good with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:32 »

Muskrats are responsible for 12.3% of the violent crime in the Gobi Desert.

jwhouk · « **Reply #13 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:38 »

Toni Tenille regrets singing that song.

Rockman · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 19:32 »

You only live once, but muskrats are immortal. They seek the Quickening.

Akima · « **Reply #15 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 19:33 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Oct 2012, 16:32

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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TheEvilDog · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 19:58 »

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.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 20:51 »

Muskrats are the only rodent that is allergic to peanut butter.

Carl-E · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 20:52 »

Muskrats mate for life.

Just try getting them apart...

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 21:15 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 Oct 2012, 19:33

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Oct 2012, 16:32
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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The Gobi Tween.

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.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 05:18 »

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.

nekowafer · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 05:29 »

I laughed way too hard at that.

snalin · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 15:17 »

Muskrat mating rituals involve 24 hours of moshpits.

Abyssalin · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 15:48 »

It's said that Muskrats can beat a Transformer in a game of Pokemon.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 15:49 »

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.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 16:55 »

Wouldn't that be 'Rat Pact'?

Rockman · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 20:04 »

A muskrat created the earth from some mud it found. True or false?!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 20:36 »

False...sort of. It was dirt until the oceans got it wet.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 21:10 »

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).

Method of Madness · « **Reply #29 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 21:21 »

You mean you believe the propaganda by the Groundhog Lobby? Phil stole credit for #63 and everyone knows it.

jwhouk · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 22:51 »

A muskrat stars in his very own webcomic based on RPGs and popular culture.

Seriously.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #31 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 00:52 »

Muskrats are violent, sociopathic, deranged and pathalogically murderous. Ever see Chuck Norris fight a Muskrat? That's because he's scared of them.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #32 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 01:53 »

Muskrats ate the word filter that used to exist on the QC forums.

Van donk III · « **Reply #33 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 02:54 »

When no crab's blood is available, muskrat musk in solid form can be used to buff up a mahogany table.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #34 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 04:01 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 24 Oct 2012, 22:51

A muskrat stars in his very own webcomic based on RPGs and popular culture.

Seriously.

It should be called "Mazes and Muskrats".

Rockman · « **Reply #35 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 04:04 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 24 Oct 2012, 20:36

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

Method of Madness · « **Reply #36 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 04:23 »

Jwhouk won't like that, since the badger fails and the muskrat has to do his job for him.

Rockman · « **Reply #37 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 05:00 »

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.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #38 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 06:44 »

He's from Wisconsin. The local uni's mascot is the badger.

Lines · « **Reply #39 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 08:40 »

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.

jwhouk · « **Reply #40 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 10:38 »

Quote from: Rockman on 25 Oct 2012, 05:00

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.

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.

Rockman · « **Reply #41 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 10:58 »

I did not know that about Wisconsin - that's pretty awesome.

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."

dr. nervioso · « **Reply #42 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 11:44 »

If you grind up a muskrat into a fine powder and ingest it you'll either die or achieve immortality.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #43 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 12:48 »

The same thing happens if you don't eat muskrat powder.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #44 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 12:48 »

... or both!

ackblom12 · « **Reply #45 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 12:54 »

Muskrats, the only surefire way to Lichdom.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #46 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 13:05 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Oct 2012, 12:48

... or both!

That comment is either very perceptive, or very trite.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #47 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 13:22 »

... or both!

(Seriously ... who did not see that coming?)

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #48 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 16:40 »

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.

Majicou83 · « **Reply #49 on:** 24 Dec 2012, 17:03 »

Chuck Norris has a pet muskrat. Which he uses as a beard.

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