On Tue, 9 May 1995, William T. Graham wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 1995, Dan Drazen wrote:
>
> > We now return you to your regularly scheduled rodent.
>
> Mobian taxonomy must be different.
>
> Robuttnik refers to Sonic as a "rodent" fairly often, but
> (on Earth at least) hedgehogs are insectovores, not rodents.
> Maybe he means that Sonic gnaws at him in a more metaphorical way.
> Maybe he really is referring to Sally, since squirrels _are_ rodents.
> Or maybe saying "insectovore" would just confuse half the audience,
> and disgust the rest.
Robuttnik is an enemy, so he's probably teasing him. Like calling a Korean
person "Chinaman".
But good observation.
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