And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Back in my Coast Guard days, we had shore leave in Port Au Prince and there was this small restaurant at a hotel/casino which was the nicest place in town and that's not saying much; but one of the guys, not me, decided to eat at the restaurant because he wanted to sit at a table with a tablecloth on it and eat with acutal silverware. He ordered lapa; I think because it was the most expensive dish they served, he said it tasted pretty good but none of us knew what it was. It turns out it's a capybara like critter; we never let him live down his delightful tournados de rat steak. Or should that have been rat-at-touille? It is to laugh.
Durn, that is a very large carpincho (capybara). Raised from birth they do become attached to the owner (hand that feeds them) but I would not have gone so far as to bring em indoors. High pitched chittering sound when excited. Place near where I used to live down in S. Am. had one out front of the restaurant as a welcome alarm. Anyone approaching the door got a good chittering.
A lap rat.
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ReplyDeleteWow
Deletecapybara.....the most AWESOME rodent of all! :)
ReplyDeleteUsing your average field mouse turds as a benchmark imagine the size of its poop pellets.
ReplyDeleteA rodent, by any other metric, is still a rodent.
ReplyDeleteThe original ROUS......................................
ReplyDeleteInconceivable!
DeleteBack in my Coast Guard days, we had shore leave in Port Au Prince and there was this small restaurant at a hotel/casino which was the nicest place in town and that's not saying much; but one of the guys, not me, decided to eat at the restaurant because he wanted to sit at a table with a tablecloth on it and eat with acutal silverware. He ordered lapa; I think because it was the most expensive dish they served, he said it tasted pretty good but none of us knew what it was. It turns out it's a capybara like critter; we never let him live down his delightful tournados de rat steak. Or should that have been rat-at-touille? It is to laugh.
ReplyDeleteGuinea pigs are a popular dish in Ecuador and Peru. That capybara would feed a whole village for a week!
DeleteDo NOT over feed your hamster.
ReplyDeleteDurn, that is a very large carpincho (capybara). Raised from birth they do become attached to the owner (hand that feeds them) but I would not have gone so far as to bring em indoors. High pitched chittering sound when excited. Place near where I used to live down in S. Am. had one out front of the restaurant as a welcome alarm. Anyone approaching the door got a good chittering.
ReplyDeleteHouse broken?
ReplyDeleteIt's a fish. (For purposes of Lenten observences. Realio trulio.)
ReplyDeleteI bet her house smells great.
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