Told you they were dildos...

I just discovered the mystery of www.greatpointedarcher.com (a PR site for rats) has been solved for quite some time. Yes, they were trying to sell their marketing services by rehabilitating the rat. Dildos. Here's a recap of what happened last October:

As everyone has prob'ly noticed by now, I love rodents. And that includes rats. I had two rats when I was younger, Ben & Lucy, and they were terrific pets. Smart, clean, friendly animals. But now I live in Alberta - a rat-free province! Back in the '50s, a Rat Patrol eradicated every rat in the province. This accomplished zilch, 'cause the province is now teeming with mice (mice carry just as many diseases as rats and can be just as destructive in large numbers, but people don't find them as "icky" as rats, so they've become socially accepted).
Rats got a bad rap. You always hear, "They carry diseases! They were responsible for the spread of the Black Plague! They'll chew your face off while you're sleeping!" Etc. Well, here's an FYI: Sure, rats carried the Black Plague, but the fact that people just dumped their putrid sewage and rotten garbage any ol' place they felt like it didn't exactly help!!As for the "chewing your face off" thing, I'm sure that occasionally applies to lepers and people who sleep in alleys, but the average rat is not going to hop onto the average person's face in the middle of the night and begin chomping on his ear. There's much tastier fare at the local landfill. Anyway, the reason I'm mentioning all this rat stuff is because of an article Richard clipped out of the paper for me. It's about a new website, http://www.greatpointedarcher.com/, that defends the noble rat and suggests renaming it "great pointed archer". A PR site for rats. I'd love to believe that the anonymous person behind the site is a true rat-lover, but of course it's far more likely that some dildo is trying to prove he can re-package and market anything. So, if that's the case: I hope a rat chews on his face.

Shortly after posting this, I received an email from the Great Pointed Archer Society:

"Hello...I was recently forwarded your site and I must say, you have a lot of great input for the Great Pointed Archer effort. We have had a great deal of success with our petition to the change the name of the rat, and we do appreciate all the help we've gotten from friends of rodents all over the world. If you send me an address I'll ship a couple t-shirts to you asap...just tell me what size. Also...you mentioned that you received an article on our cause? We were not aware of any articles written recently and this was very intriguing. Please tell me what paper/date you're referring to.

-GPA Society.

P.S. It's ok you referred to our society as "dildos." We understand it's hard to believe we're doing what we're doing."

BTW, I sent them the article, but I didn't go for the free tee.

Dildos.