I was getting ready for bed. Going around closing all the windows and I realized I had left the side door to the garage open, so I went to close it. My cat slipped into the garage with me. He was being rather bold, usually the garage kind of scares him. So I let him explore. I followed him over to a corner, he was looking pretty spooked. Then I saw a round pipe thing on the garage floor just move. The cat startled and I thought, "Hmmmm, there's no possible way that could move by itself." I was looking for something that might've fallen and pushed it... nothing. So I peered over the laundry hamper and came face to face with an ROUS! Actually, it was an oppossum, but I immediately thought of ROUS! I gave a little scream, hurried the cat out of the garage and started working on getting the courage, and tools to rid the fire-swamp.. er, garage, of the thing. I got a little broom and a squirt bottle of water.

So I went back in, half scared, half laughing because of the ROUS thing. It charged me! Well, ok, it had come out of its corner and was closer to me. So I opened the garage door and it scuttled the wrong way! I tried to spray it, but it just kept going in the wrong direction. Finally, I kind of cornered it and it hissed at me! Was very scary looking. I kept patting it on it's back-end with the broom until it figure out the enormous gapping hole called the garage door was a good escape route. So it scurried off finally, I closed the garage door.

Anyway, was laughing really hard and just had to share that with you. :)

Lol... ROUS... took me a couple watchings of that movie before I figured out what that was about hehe...

Funny story Pan! That sort of thing always creeps me out hehe... one time I had to chase a bat out of the house that had somehow flown inside... yeeaach!

Tia

What's a Rous?

A Rodent Of Unusual Size !

One of the 3 dangers of the fire swamp!

:)

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That is the number of the shrink you guys should go see.
You're all nuts! :P

It's from The Princess Bride, a movie that has become a cult-hit I think. Do they even explain what an ROUS is in the movie? I got the book too and in there they explained it.

Geez... what a Humperdink! ;)

INconSHIEVABLE!

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Yes. Princess Buttercup mentions ROUS's and Wesley says "Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they even exist" and then they are promptly attacked by one

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"You keep saying that. I do not tink it means wat you tink."

:)

No more rhymes now, I mean it!

Anybody want a peanut?

Ok, there's quite a lot of differences in the book from the movie. First and foremost is how the relationship between Buttercup and Westley starts and exactly how beautiful Buttercup is.

She starts out as a rather dishelveled young girl. No where near the most beautiful woman because she doesn't like to brush her hair and hates to take baths. But, she's got a lot of potential. In fact, one day a Nobleman is riding by and sees her. He brings out the Count and Countess Rugen (i.e. the 6-fingered man and his wife). The Count is oogling her while pretending to inquire after her father's cows and how does he manage to have such good milk?

eanwhile, the Countess spies Westley, the farm-boy, who is shirtless and doing heavy labor. The countess fawns all over him.

That night, Buttercup doesn't sleep well because all she do is think of how the Countess is looking at Westley. And then she thinks about how all the girls in the village get all silly around him. Then it sort of dawns on her that he's a stud-muffin. Then next, she's madly in-love with him. She runs out to his little hovel behind the farm-house and confesses her love to him. He doesn't say a word to her. He just shuts the door in her face. She goes back to her room, cries all night, rages, fumes...

She gets up next morning and tells him it was all a practical joke. But he says to her that he is leaving. After a long scene where she tries to regain her shredded dignity he explains that he has been madly in love with her and saying it every time he said "As you wish". Then he says he must leave and make some money so they can marry. He prepares very matter of factly to depart... only pausing to shake her hand goodbye.

She says, "Without even a kiss goodbye?". And then that's where they have the kiss that blows the top 5 kisses out of the water. There's no huggies and smoochies and fawning over each other like the movie would have you think.

Then he leaves and Buttercup vows to take better care of herself and starts bathing more frequently, combing her hair, exercising the baby fat off her left elbow and she quickly goes up the scale of most beautiful women until she's in the top 10.

Then she hears that Westley was killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts. She shuts herself away and the mourning for him intensifies her beauty until she emerges from her room, not eating or drinking, as the most beautiful woman in the world. Because her suffering has given her depth. Her baby fat went away and her too skinny wrist apparently fleshed out some. Of course, the book tells what happened to the former "most beautiful women" and it's quite funny.

Then... there's the bit with Prince Humperdink having to find a wife. At first he was checking out the Princess of Guilder who has the most magnificent hat collection. But a very strong breeze revealed her to be bald and the Prince sent her away in a huff. That's when the Count takes Humperdink to check out Buttercup.

Basically the Prince says to Buttercup, "marry me or I'll kill you painfully".

Anyway, the book is a fun story. I think Morgenstern, the supposed author, is made up though. I suspect the script writer wrote the book, but I haven't really researched it.

Nothing like a good MLT.

Oh dear... that's like Granny of the Clampets. She was always looking to go shoot a possum.

Actually, that reusing and recycling everything sounds like what my own mother does. She lived through the depression and they were pretty poor. Although she doesn't hoard stuff she is a nut-case about washing plastic utensils and reusing them.

sporks rule. /nod nod

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wow. if you get bored, google "spork" and kiss your afternoon goodbye.