RATS

Thought this was a thread about Rovers Away Travel Service - those were the days!

OK, back to the norm.....

This proverbial phenomenon has been observed for centuries and led to the belief that rats possess some mystical power to anticipate disaster. A dread warning that a ship would be making its final voyage was foretold if rats were seen scurrying off the ship before it sailed. In The Tempest, Shakespeare described the boat on which the duke and his infant daughter had been set adrift as so unseaworthy that "the very rats instinctively have quite it."

It is not unusual for rats to leave a ship in great columns or masses if it is sinking. Therefore the sight of hordes of rats scurrying to upper decks of a ship might suggest to fellow passengers that the ship is on its way down. This has nothing to do with the rat's extrasensory perception or powers of prognostication but with its awareness of what is happening at that very moment.

Being burrow dwellers by nature, rats live in the deepest recesses of the ship, in the bilge. This area is so low as to be almost inaccessible to the sailors. Thus the rats become aware of water entering the ship some time before the crew is alerted. As their nesting places are flooded, the rodents are impelled to flee the ship. Their continuous shrill cries of alarm quickly summon the rest of the rats from the hold. They build up into a large, frightened mass of rodents making a panicky exodus. This is, of course, a final calamity for the rats, since they will try to swim to eternity and usually do.


As far as i know, and i am pretty clued up on these kind of things, we do not actually have any Rat's at the club, certainly not in Box 1 which i am led to believe is kept in a very clean state. I would also point out that it is almost unheard of that said rodents can operate a Computer Keyboard. Therefore the analogy of Keyboard Rat's is a mis-dinomer. If you were to ask me do they have and use Smart Phones i could not confirm either way.

Back to the subject in hand, It is quite natural that a sight such Rat's leaving a ship in distress would incite the passengers and crew to an equally hasty, harried departure but one that ends less disastrously. I would hope neither would be the case in our personal scenario.

Good question. i believe so, but it is often a trap,

should be a bloody police statement the way this club is run, criminal