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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

242.0. "Define RUGRAT" by MAXWEL::GERDE (Hear the light...) Wed Sep 17 1986 09:48

    What does "rugrat" mean?
    
    I've always called the scruffy little kids that hang around the
    playground 'rugrats.'  But this morning I heard the word used to
    refer to kittens.
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242.1At some point they become "vandals"MODEL::YARBROUGHWed Sep 17 1986 09:582
    "Rugrat" is slang for a child who is too young to walk. After that,
    they are known as "house apes".
242.2Hey, little kids are really nice -- honest!SUPER::KENAHO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!!Wed Sep 17 1986 10:445
    You may find it more recognizable as two words -- "rug rat".
    
    Rug rats are also known as "ankle biters".
    
					andrew
242.3Children are fun. Children are fun. Children ....NACHO::CONLIFFEWed Sep 17 1986 16:393
And a little older, they become "furniture monkeys".

	Nigel
242.4Curtain ClimbersPSGVAX::CICCOLINIThu Sep 18 1986 12:271
    
242.5Is this the 7 ages of humankind?TOPDOC::SLOANENotable notes from -bs- Thu Sep 18 1986 14:074
    And, as they get even older, they turn into *TEENAGERS*
    
    -bs
    
242.6mercyHUDSON::HAMERThu Sep 18 1986 15:265
    After reading this topic and the replies, I'm going home to gas my
    eight-year-old before it gets any worse. :-)

    John H.    

242.7A child-lover in the style of WC FieldsDRAGON::MCVAYPete McVay, VRO (Telecomm)Thu Sep 18 1986 22:084
    Robert Heinlein had "the bunghole theory" of child raising, as
    expressed thourhg his character Lazarus Long (The Senior).  All
    children should be put in a barrel when born and fed through the
    bunghole.  At age thirteen, you plug up the bung.
242.8Big rugrats?TMCUK2::BANKSRule BritanniaFri Sep 19 1986 06:2810
    
    re.6
    
    eight-year-old? That's not a rugrat, its a fully grown 'Cooking Fat'.

    Anyway, the nursery rhyme tells me you drown cooking fats in the
    well!.
    
    David (who_has_3_rugrats_and_2_cooking_fats_and_no_furniture) Banks
    
242.9Heinlein RevisitedLYMPH::LAMBERTMy karma ran over my dogmaFri Sep 19 1986 10:4112
re: .7

In the interest of maintaining this file's tradition of pedantry, the
actual Heinlein Bunghole Theory is stated:

	"At birth all male children should be put into a barrel and
	 fed through the bunghole.  At age 18 a concious descision
	 should be made either to open the barrel or to plug up the 
	 bung."

-- Sam

242.10much too good to be apocryphalHUDSON::HAMERFri Sep 19 1986 15:408
     Winston Churchill's mother, upon being shown infant Winston
     soon after birth:

               "That's nice, now bring him back when he has
                conversation."

     John H.
242.11Another term for youngsters:TLE::SAVAGENeil, @Spit BrookMon Sep 22 1986 10:202
    How about the term "crumb cruncher"?  That could be why every home
    with a child needs a good vacuum cleaner.
242.12Another OneZENSNI::TAVARESStay low and keep moving...Tue Sep 23 1986 11:152
    How about "Crackersnappers"?
    
242.13Swingin' in the trees...RT101A::ROGERSD'em atoms don't cost nothin'...Tue Sep 23 1986 17:523
    
    	Don't forget the `Yard Apes'.
    
242.14Kids Bah HumbugEUCLID::LEVASSEURLive Free or TryWed Oct 15 1986 11:263
    Linoleum Lizards
    
    Ray
242.15*CASAD3::NOBLEOne mans ceiling, Another mans floorThu Oct 30 1986 12:424
    When they first start to walk they become "knee knockers."
    
    - chuck