Australian Politicians?

So this is why they try to win the Americas Cup and the Ashes?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100727...imalratscience

Seems like the good old Aussies had politicians before us? :lildevil:

Pretty big guys as it seems?

EDIT:

However, you Yanks needn't worry............I probably have the NYT cutting from 30 years ago, where they found this dead animal in the East River...........it weighed 96 pounds, and was identified as a sewer rat (rattus norvegicus?)

Not that I have anything against McDonalds...............:D

Quote:

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Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here.
Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.
Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

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Couldn't resist... :)