Pop 'em between the eyes: they charge when wounded

[xl_target]

Frankly, I couldn't give a rats ar5e about the scientific name.

In India, big rats are refered to as bandicoots or bandis for short.

Same here.LOL.

They are commonly called bandicoots in our parts too and in Telugu "Pandikokkus"-literal translation pig-rats. Huge SoBs.

BTW, When I typed "Pandikokku" in google, it automatically translated it into "Was assembled" in Estonian! Funny world.


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Vikram

To expand on Vikrams post:

Here a Wikipedia reference

The word itself is often used as a common name for any of them, and is an anglicised form of the Telugu word పందికొక్కు (pandi-kukka), loosely, pig-dog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot


Also here is the Merriam Webster dictionary reference to "Bandicoot"
1: any of several very large rats (genera Bandicota and Nesokia) of southern Asia destructive to crops.

2: any of various small chiefly insectivorous and herbivorous marsupial mammals (family Peramelidae or family Peroryctidae) of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.

So when we talk of Bandicoot's, in this case, we are not merely talking about Antipodean Marsupials.


Other references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot_Rat

[hamiclar01]

Frankly, I couldn't give a rats ar5e about the scientific name.

I see. And I thought you were always the resident mr pedant

[Mack The Knife]

I still am but not to the extent of pointing at a big rat and saying, "Look, Anand, there goes a (insert the poxy Latin name for it), pop the bu99er!

P.S.: XL, stop giving me a headache early in the morning. Go to bed!