"Balls!" said the Queen. "If I had to I could be King."

In other news about our wonderful experiment in life force versus the material spacetime continuum, the following good news about a better crop season in the Vietnam Delta zone:

Rats Back on the Menu HANOI (Reuters) -

Rats are back in season in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, with tonnes being brought to the market daily by rice farmers for sale to bars and restaurants.

The Tuoi Tre Chu Nhat (Youth Sunday) Magazine said at least three tonnes of rats were being brought to market daily in the southern province of Bac Lieu.

They are destined to be served up as rat sour soup, fried rat, curried rat and grilled rat, all popular dishes in the rice farming Delta, where the rodents are a scourge for crops.

Rat meat is sold at $1.70 per kg for top cuts down to $0.80 for the lowest grade, the paper said.

Regards,

A.