rat's tale

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/5/2010 06:51 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>rgh:
>
>"rat-tale" -"rat's tale" -cody -zapper -"suite life"
>(with exclusions for a couple of obvious multi-hit irrelevancies in the
>first 50)
>14,500
>Where I could tell from the snippets, the first snippets all seem to be
>"tales", i.e. stories, of one kind or other.
>
>"rat tail"
>376,000
>
>The tails have it.

The rat's tale is "Ratatouille".

Joel

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