Here Is A Brief News Item I Ran Across This Week ...

Here is a brief news item I ran across this week on the internet:

“In July, the town council in Peru, Vt., ordered Roland Williams out of his house for a month while authorities cleaned the place up. Williams had been purchasing large quantities of dog food and cola every day to feed the hundreds of rats that had been gathering on his property. And in New York City, officials reported in May that a woman feeding cereal to rats in her apartment and singing to them had also relinquished her bed to them while she slept in a chair.”

Does anyone here know what ‘higida’ means?

That comes from the cartoons you watched as a kid, where the cartoon character saw something he just couldn’t fathom, and he’d shake his head to clear it, and as he did, you’d hear the sound, ‘higida, higida, higida..’. Recognize it now?

Stories like the one I just read make us go ‘higida, higida’, don’t they?