Plummer has Rats

What's a plummer? Anything like a troll?

No, it is Middle German for "rat installer". To celebrate the summer soltice the Germans used to hire plummers to put rats in each other's houses. They never used to work on water heaters, but perhaps they have had to diversify.

Are you sure you're not just overreacting to an encounter with a plummer like this one, Margo Sweeney?

There was a young plummer named Lee, Who was plumming away on Sweeney. When she moaned, "Stop your plumming, There's somebody coming." He replied, while still plumming, "It's me!!"

Jeff

You're meter is running, Jeff. ;)

Germans bathe in cold water and would have had to import rats, which no German would do :o)

So far so good.

Yestraday the plummer called me and asks

That's what all you dirty people say.

so if a rat s*it is down there, the

That's what plumbers do: They run adds in the yellow pages to fix your pipes and what not so they can sneak in rats and rat crap when you don't expect it.

I just called my lawyer and there is going to be a

I would call an exterminator, but whatever, as long as he or she can kill rats.

This really has me upset and last night I had to get a hotel

That's wise: They will come and chew on you at night and give you rabies, then you'll die. Good for Usenet, bad for you.

This

Why? You were obviously pretty f***ed up before the rat problem you have in your dirty house.

I cant even sleep in my own home because of this filthy

Yes. Plumbers do this to dirty people who live in filthy houses who don't have rats yet. The plumbers brother is an exterminator or an extermameter, one or the other. Now he will make money killing the rats you have in your dirty house. Good for him. Bad for you.

or is there some other reason?