Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUDIENCE that can swallow the North American sasquatch will have little trouble digesting the relatively palatable giant rat of Sumatra...
...Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
...neat bit of story-line legerdemain Stones contrives that neither deserves the tube, and awards it to the rightful owner--the giant rat of sumatra, which for centuries has watched over the tube in the temple of Ampere-Watt. The English-man is very proper and aesthetically motivated. Class war is avoided, and Jonas Acme continues to grease the proletariat with Pig-oil beer--which doesn't make this record very revolutionary...
...Selver cut out. Some of the digressions are extremely funny--for instance, Animal World magazine's ex-editor's description of the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Artful Prosperian, the Edible Ox ("the ancient prototype of the cow") and the Sepia Infusorian ("which I characterized as a sort of sewer rat")--and others are hardly funny at all. The new translation has more good stuff in it and it's probably more accurate, and the old one is more manageable: You pays your money and you takes your choice...
...budding hockey fan, I used to take in the classic confrontation between the Ivy rivals in the ancient Arena. It was always a rout for the good guys. Probably the only thing Yale came away with was a few cases of rat bite from the Arena locker rooms...