Rat lapping

My dog laps up little baby rabbits and birds and things -- I think he'd lap a rat right up.

Flat lapping is legitimate. Think microns, such as optical flats. Maybe Chinese?

ww

I did wonder if the word was flat. Here's the picture:

Chris

Well, there are lap dogs, and lab rats, and lab dogs, are there lap rats?

Cheers! Rich

Isn't that when you set up an automated machine, come back, and find a rat squished in the works?

Dave

Check out the failed rat:

The more I think about it, the more I think it is "Flat". After all "Fl" looks fairly close to "R" in some fonts. Thanks for the sensible suggestion!

Chris

My conjecture would be that this is an OCR merger of F and l. There is a machine in the shop like that for lapidary materials. But the concept of seeing how rodents would do turning through a maze built on a vibrating platform might have parallels to human behavior in earthquakes.

Regards,

EH

SWAG: Perhaps scraping/lapping with a rat-tail file which was ground into a scraper?

-- Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. -- Minna Thomas Antrim

The most common industrial venue for flat laps in my experience is in optical shops, so if your reference has any relevance to lens or glass working, that would implicate the process.

Regards,

EH

Likely an artifact of the OCR and a ligature of 'f' and 'l'. I know that "fi" used to be commonly printed as a ligature (squished together, so the dot of the 'i' merges with the ball on the top of the loop of a lower-case 'f' in certain type faces.

Check this web page on the subject:

Enjoy, DoN.

I had an encounter with one of those last week. The Kido came into the shop to do some speech homework with me for 15 minutes. I was eating peanuts and tossing the shells into some kind of round military can

The Kido said don't kill it, and since there where only peanut shells in the trash can we drove it down to the end of the road about 1/4 mile. I dumped out the can and it ran down the hill.

Twin mice with a genetic mistake in their tails? Lost pets that travel great distances to get back home? Time loops inside the military can that was once on the USS Eldridge ?

SW

An angry rat on a mission to tick you off? ;-)

For sure.

When I was 12, my dad bought a bike in an adjacent town and told me to ride it home, 6 miles away.

I paid more careful attention to our route on car rides, after that. Heh.

--Winston

Or an OCR spellcheck correction of 'frat lapping'?

I am new to this country stuff, kinda.

Cats and dogs must be really hard to get rid of. Just kidding pet lovers.

I'd love to figure out these ^*#!$ flys. How do they propagate? Out of the dirt? And they just stop for the winter. Soon as it gets warm they come back to life.

SW

Free meals.

Was the mouse wearing a little sombrero? ;-)

Thanks, Rich

Friend had a sqirrel problem He trapped squirrels by the dozen, relocating them several miles away in a different semi-forested area. Got to thinking there's an awfull lot of squirrels, and some of them are looking a bit familliar, so he decided to spray paint a few tails. Within a few hours the little beggars were back - so he decided to relocate them across the river, some 7 miles away. Painted tails were back within a day or two.

He figured he had 2 choices - baptize them or learn to live with them. They are still there.