Crackrats!

From the wonderfully zany world of IM conversations…

Prairie: (okay, I shouldn’t think this is funny, but it’s cracking me up): Studies find rats can get hooked on drugs\
Prairie: they fed crack to rats

Me: :laughs

Prairie: what did they think would happen?

Me: it’s a little hard to picture a rat with a monkey on its back…

Prairie: giggles\
Prairie: that’s part of what I think it funny about it

Me: crackrats

Prairie: laughs!\
Prairie: “Until now, scientists have been able to prove that rats will take drugs, even eagerly, but not that they’re actually addicted.”\
Prairie: that sentence keeps giving me giggles\
Prairie: and how are the rats getting the drugs?\
Prairie: the conservative, lovely scientists are pushing them

Me: I liked this one –

Me: \” In the French study, rats poked their pointy noses through holes in their cages to trigger injections of cocaine.”\
Me: I think it’s the”pointy\” adjective that does it for me

Prairie: giggles

Me: apparently, the rats with stumpy, blunted noses were less susceptible?

Prairie: haha–no, but they couldn’t get their noses through the bars to get the drugs

Me: or, are they contrasting that to poking their pointy tails through?\
Me: or other pointy bits?\
Me: (kinkycrackrats)

Prairie: laughs even harder\
Prairie: (and EEEW!)

Me: :laughs

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