***A guest blog by Ben, the Rat Blogger. Original post date 2/3/2011***
Human scum is no doubt cursing Jack Frost and old man Winter right about now. The blustery hands of glacial malaise are reaching their icicled fingertips all around the country as I blog this and stay warm and I couldn't be happier. You see, I'm a rat. I hate humans. In fact I hate you all so much that I am tickled gray with a slightest touch of pink by everything that I shall tell you here. This winter has garnered some stupid pet names. "Snowmageddon" being the most ridiculous of the bunch. When the going gets tough and things go wrong human scum try to lighten the load by applying affectionate monikers to their misery. I have never understood this but I have never understood humans..... so there you go.
It's confession time for me and tones of enlightenment shall ring in the ears of all you sacks of meat filling that disguise yourself with a superficial pie crust called flesh. Heavy emphasis on the word crust there by the way. You can all disperse with the silly pet names that you are compiling to cuddle what is really happening. Your shrubbery is dying and your nobby pea parts are recoiling from shrinkage because this is the year of the Rat.
On February second of each year the vain and veiny population gets all excited with the appearence of a great prophet who will supposedly be the missing link between whether the winter will soon end or drag on for much longer than considered necessary to races besides Eskimos. What many of you may or may not know is that these prophets are actually of the rodent family. The rodent family is very large and includes the usual suspects Rats and mice, along with such pussyfied little wanna-be's as squirrels and chipmunks and.... yes, your beloved groundhog.
You can cease gasping and rest easy though as besides some genetic similarities that garner a text book definition, these grossly overweight prophets of yours have nothing to do with the filth and the majesty that is Rattus Maximus. Rats are truest and purest filth at its most magnificent. Whereas groundhogs are merely fat slobs that drink way too much wood cider and stuff their faces with bugs,nuts and berries. They have been hailed as celebrities and glorified by idiotic human waste of life that has taken to giving them names like Woody the woodchuck, Balzac Billy, Buckeye Chuck, and the silliest and most pathetic of all.... Gus.
Human existence is empty and they desperately scramble to fill this void of soul by clinging to tales both short and tall for comfort. It started with that filthy hippie of the pre-Woodstock sandal and stone era. But as humans evolved and inbreeding became more relevant to the survival and duration of the species the natural order of things grew far more deranged. This was where legend leaned heavier onto the mythology of beasts. The Easter bunny and shit like that. Even creature/human cross breeds like leprechauns seem to be very popular in drinking areas and these days film and the internet seem to be overrun with trolls and ass goblins.
But of the animal lore celebrated by all of you wasteful want-it-alls, my distant relatives the groundhogs have been hailed as saviors of season and despite the fact that surprisingly nobody has been stupid enough to adopt one and attempt domesticating these embarassments to my race they have become somewhat of a pop culture icon. Make no mistake about it, I nor any of my sensible vermin assemblage would ever wish to be associated with something as utterly putrescent as pop culture. Where normally that which can be considered of putrescence might be held near and dear and therefore enormously appealing to a Rats tastes and tendencies, when I say that pop culture is vile this is not said with affection or revelry. In the most palpable of terms I would like to say that pop culture can lick the bung from my filthy Rat asshole.
Still, pop culture seems to have an annoying lifespan like that of a cockroach and Gus and Chuck and Woody and Billy and company are yearly heralded as being the true kings of the moment when you people wish to get your hopes up and juggle prayers to that dirty hippie with "ooohhs" and "ahhhhs" of affection driven by the stupidity of your lenient standards for cuteness.
Each year all around the country, armies of morons who feel that it's okay to be drunk as fuck in the immature hours of the day act upon their most callow whims by cheering on a slovenly hog that steps from his hole simply because he wishes to pass gas. Yes it is true folks. That is all that these creatures whom you all seem to adore so deeply are doing when their every move is being recorded and broadcasted all around your airwaves. Clouds. Sunshine. Shadows. These are all myths created by storytellers with otherwise fading memories and wilting dingleberries between their legs. When the land pig retreats from his lair all that he is hoping to accomplish is sparing his brood from the spoils of his smelly rectum. It is actually rather amusing to us all in knowing that humans are so nit-witted in believing this act of expulsion and relief is about something so absurd as the conditions of their atmosphere. You truly are the most pitiful and self-centered race of beings on this compost pile of a planet and the hullabaloo surrounding an animal fart is but one drop of confirmation in the great big toilet bowl of our existence.
The true warriors of the weather are the rats of the world. Our genetic stylings have been constructed like a filthy machine that is able to trek through climates of all extremes. Polar bears might elicit more of that "ooohh-ing" and "ahhhh-ing" thing, but we rock the cold weather like its nobodies business. In fact, to speak for a moment about polar bears, while these animals do tend to live and breed in regions far frostier than what us rats usually have to bother with, their primary method of thermal employment is a microwaved secretion that is composed from eating Eskimos and shitting them out. The technical term of usage is freezues ignitous, or as it is more commonly referred to as, "freezer burn".
Eskimos are world renowned for eating copious amounts of fish sticks as well as consuming their own feces on several occasions. The proteins that have been broken down in their waste have been converted to ice-o-topes due to the crisp temperatures of their blood and along with all of the mercury that is found in fish sticks, when a polar bear eats one of these human popsicles it coats the inner walls of their bodies with a plasmic shell that only could only thaw itself should a polar bear ever fall into a lava bath within the caverns of a volcano. Since polar bears are not normally known to inbreed and usually not found to be retarded, they are smart enough to never climb a volcano and jump into a vat of magma so this greatly aids in their freeze protected conditioning. Always so eagerly charmed by the cuteness of animals overall, and particularly these polar bears, now you can know the truth the next time you see one of these creatures and envy its adaptation to frosty conditions.
So, where was I?
Me-me-me. The Rat. This is all about me. The winter. You see, while the polar bears are hailed for their cuteness and the winter spell is thought to be made or broken by the groundhog, the truth is that it is us Rats who are the real champions of the season here. Just because we are filth ridden with disease and therefore generally frowned upon, we have long been deprived of our rightful place in the past and modern day folklore of Winter legend.
It is not the groundhog who knows whether you will soon be basking in the rays of effervescent light or cowering in the dark as furious storms ravage your electrical sensibilities. These corpulent scoundrels have actually been polluting your air with their stinky farts. Ozone depletion. Global warming. You can save your studies and theories right now. The real culprit is the very same critter fuck that you ogle on that second day in February. Your cute and cuddly little foretelling winter beast has destroyed your atmosphere with their rabid flatulence. Meanwhile you, the moronic race of sheep shifters, screech and holler and seem rather impressed by an animal that not only means nothing to your puny lives and goose-bump ridden skin but the irony of all irony is that these animals are in fact of rodent descent and they hate you. So there.
Rats actually do know the weather though. None of you would ever realize this because you have never once thought to ask. Do keep your panties on there big boys and girls because if you did ask any of us for so much as the time or type of day we would probably lie to your face and spit at your backs. That is how we roll.
But do know this, Rats have one of the highest senses of perception known to all kind. These groundhogs you hold dear to your hearts? They will keep farting and ruining your mother earth until father time rolls off the bed and the air will reek of plague and by then it will be too late to save yourselves. In fact it is already too late, so fuck off.
If you do not believe anything that I am telling you I do have one form of proof that I can offer you techno-babies and wire tappers. The myth of the groundhog predicting Winter was actually proven false in 1997 when a man named Rasputin Bieber tried to capture video of one of your precious prairie sows named Porky Pine-nut. He held court for hours awaiting the appearance of this fat tub of furry lard and when the porkster did manage to crawl from his hole, it snuck behind a tree to hide from all of the idiots heckling him from lawn chairs and not only did he pass gas but he took a gigantic shit that resembled a mutant chinchilla. Bieber managed to film the entire movement, both vapor and solid, and he posted it on the internet before disappearing. Still, history has a way of rearing its ugly snout even if you try to smother it with an Oriental rug and so I am certain that if you search hard enough you will be able to find either the video or a rumored audio of Porky grunting before, during and afterwards.
So in case you are wondering, the score is Rats won and humans frozen. The Winter is going to cripple your feeble species this year and if you think it is ever going to get better rather than worse, just know that I have actually befriended a few of the groundhogs and me and the boys now bring them beans every February first. Snowmageddon? How about blowmageddon? As in blow it out your ass like it's groundhog day. Oooooh-zone and global wahhhhhhrming indeed you motherfuckers. Go ahead and try and stay warm by rubbing your frosty flesh and brittle bones together. I'm going to have myself a great big laugh and then take a shit and wipe it with some green toilet paper that is decorated with images of more puny humans that your kind likes to call presidents or something.