ZhurnalyWiki: RatTales

Two memorable characters:

in The Core (a recent movie) --- "Rat", an �ber-hacker played by D. J. Qualls. His best line: "I'll need an unlimited supply of Xena (Xenia, if I'm not mistaken - RadRob) tapes and hot pockets." ...
in The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death and The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (by Daniel Pinkwater) --- "Rat", aka Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews, rich girl, automobile mechanic genius, fan of James Dean and beat poetry ...

And I shouldn't forget King Rat, James Clavell's first novel ...

(see also ReadAloud (20 Mar 2002), ...)

TopicLiterature - TopicArt - TopicHumor - Datetag20030510

I'd thought of seeing The Core just for the sfx, but on reflection I rather doubt I could stand the abyssmal level of scientific ignorance it is based on.

http://us.imdb.com/Reviews/344/34482 a telling review

OTOH, see the following suggested research project:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3021255.stm BBC, Plumbing the Earth's depths

(correlates: JohnDarnielle, SelfImprovement, ReadAloud, ...)