1.   Shorn of his rat tail, playing for minimum wages, Chapman had the night of his career.

2.   There was the grenadier fish, also known as a rat tail, a squat deep-water fish with a huge head, enormous eyes and a whiplike tail.

3.   A government in a remote northeastern Indian state is offering a cash reward to any one bringing a rat tail.

4.   A woman says she was sick for two days after biting into a rat tail in a jar of Indian garlic relish.

5.   Mrs. Di-Grazia was pregnant when she bit into the rat tail in July but has since given birth to a son with no ill effects.

6.   Mounds of rat tails were presented by the contestants, and the rat infestation in Monpon was contained, Sotomil said.

7.   Residents used traps, poison and brooms to kill thousands of rats and contributed the rat tails to their favorite contestants.

8.   Rat hunters will be rewarded for every rat tail they produce.