#4935 - 08/03/00 01:14 PM
animal adjectives
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enthusiast
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i'm not sure if this is the right place to start this one,
but i'm really interested in animal adjectives in english.
words like ursine, bovine, aquiline.
i'd really love to hear from the resident geniuses - geniii? - who can add to my quotidian knowledge.
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#4936 - 08/03/00 01:49 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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enthusiast
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Equine, feline...
I don't know how usual they sound in English...
An American man - trying to speak Italian - once said to me that English is two parallel languages; for a word there are often two forms - for example, speed and velocity - and the less usual form is that coming from latin...
Do you agree?
Ciao
Emanuela
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#4939 - 08/04/00 11:38 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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enthusiast
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you have a resource book?
you ARE a resource book!
wish i was one tsu.
without throwing me in the YCLIP basket (cos i tried), is there one for giraffe?
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#4941 - 08/04/00 07:00 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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enthusiast
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thanks tsuwm!
and i was hoping for something i couldn't pronounce, let alone remember!
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#4942 - 08/06/00 04:16 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Leslie Dunkling's "Guiness Book of Curious Words" gives a list of -ine adjectives. He doesn't mention anything for giraffes, but does give lots of others, e.g.:
bombycine, didelphine, soricine, trochilidine, and turdine (which seems most unfair, somehow).
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#4944 - 08/07/00 01:01 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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but not perhaps to thrush.  or boom boom as a certain vulpine used to say. My apologies to non-British readers who will have no idea what I'm talking about. Bingley
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#4946 - 11/25/00 06:36 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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newbie
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Rats! I was stuck on squirrely, weaselly, and mousy
Carpe rutila
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#4947 - 12/11/00 07:24 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Well,ducky, there is also swinish, cocky, foxy, and, of course, fishy.
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#4948 - 12/18/00 10:54 AM
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#4949 - 12/19/00 12:56 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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camelopardine, anyone?
Trying to give them up, thanks.
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#4950 - 12/23/00 02:02 AM
bovine
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enthusiast
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About today's word:
[Late Latin bovinus, from Latin bos, cow.]
(Here is another word that refers to cows: vaccine. It comes from
vacca, Latin for cow, after inoculation prepared from cows. -Anu)
There is a difference: bos is a MALE cow, vacca a FEMALE one.
Emanuela
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#4951 - 12/23/00 12:35 PM
Re: bovine
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Carpal Tunnel
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>bos is a MALE cow, vacca a FEMALE one no bull? But seriously, this is all kind of odd. the major sense of cow in English is "the female of any bovine animal (as the ox, bison, or buffalo); most commonly applied to the female of the domestic species (Bos Taurus)". Bull is most commonly applied to the male of Bos Taurus. cow and bull are also used in the same manner for other large animals (elephant, whale, etc.) In the U.S. cow is used for either sex of Bos Taurus (and the plural is cattle); and, interestingly, 'bossy' is dialect for cow (female) and toro is the Spanish word for bull. ole!
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#4953 - 03/16/01 07:35 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Pooh-Bah
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pugnacious - characteristic of a pug (by extension, tough, compact or, oddly, acrobatic)
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#4954 - 04/07/01 01:06 AM
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#4959 - 04/09/01 07:50 AM
Re: Bully good topic!!
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I won't badger you about forgetting .... er, ... badger. And when someone has been soundly defeated in a game of cribbage, he has been skunked. An easy, close-in shot in basketball is a bunny. I shall doggedly pursue more animal terms. Release the hounds! The cat's out of the bag. Buy a pig in a poke. Cat got your tongue? My friend is hen-pecked, but he doesn't crow about it. Quit monkeying around. Quit horsing around. Lookout! Catfight! One of them will be eating crow soon enough. The other will be the scapegoat. Well, I've layed enough eggs, and milked this long enough. What a ham... [and I've segued into the inevitable food thread  ]
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#4960 - 04/14/01 10:55 AM
Re: Bully good topic!!
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journeyman
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Loc: Oregon, USA
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Does anyone else suspect Sparteye's getting a little squirrelly?
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#4961 - 06/28/01 09:00 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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stranger
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hi
can anyone tell me the origin of the phrase full monty please
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#4963 - 06/28/01 10:12 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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enthusiast
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hmmmm..... one doesn't know who anyone is, if someone is signing up repeatedly.
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#4965 - 06/28/01 03:07 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Archie: Since the old timers are so lacking in courtesy to a newcomer, I will send you a private message giving a URL about "full monty".
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#4967 - 06/28/01 06:17 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Since archie joined us two days ago, and this was his first post, he can fairly be described as a newcomer.
And accordingly entitled to courtesy, which he did not get.
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#4970 - 06/29/01 11:18 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Sparteye: You may be quite correct. However it seems a bit infra dig to register a phony name for the purpose of having a corny joke. That could lead to nastiness in the wrong hands, such as addressing insulting remarks to other board members from behind a false front.
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#4972 - 06/29/01 01:27 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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stranger
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thank you for the welcome, doc. i am sure the others don't mean to be nasty, they can't help it
maverick, why do you use so many little silly faces, those yellow things? do you think know one will understand you or something.
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#4974 - 06/29/01 04:53 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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#4975 - 06/29/01 06:10 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Goody. Let's you and him fight. That should fun to watch.
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#4976 - 06/29/01 06:40 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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...why do you use so many little silly faces, those yellow things? do you think know one will understand you or something. Welcome abroad, archie. 'll bet you intended to capit'lize your name... do it now... befoe it's to late... Mav may not no this, but those 'ittle 'ellow things reelie help to clarifie.  ...all others may reem me at will, peemly...
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#4977 - 06/29/01 07:55 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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This now sounds like the Irish Culture Society Newsgroup at its best.Very cultured, refined, lofty intellectual discussions.
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#4979 - 06/30/01 09:48 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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So the bookmakers should make out like bandits.
by the way, archie, how is mehitabel these days?
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#4981 - 06/30/01 04:35 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Speaking of cockroaches, fearsome ones came up out of drains in both colleges I attended. Some of them were big as crayfish, and their legs were so rugged I was afraid to step on them with my bare feet. One of those guys would not be intimidated by the shift key. They could stand with hind legs on it and with front legs throw back carriage return lever. None of the ones I saw showed any sign of language capability, more's the pity.
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#4983 - 07/01/01 06:30 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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I can count three AWADers who have logged on again recently under different handles.
Call me oblivious, but who? I can only count one, unless this archie character is indeed an alter ego.
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#4984 - 07/02/01 07:53 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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OK, *guys (and you-all know who you are) let's have a rousing chorus, after 1-2-3:
"Me, myself and I
Have just one point of view:
We all think you're wonderful,
Anuuuu!"
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#4985 - 07/03/01 08:48 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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AS asks: What's the adjectival form of cockroach?
As a group they are referred to as the "Blattidae" . So perhaps the adjective form coul be "blattidine".
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#4988 - 07/06/01 01:05 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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multiple Full Monty threads So I guess we could say that this board is full of monty, profuse with montification, overflowing with monty fullness. By the way, my alter-ego on this board is blank. I think it's been seen a few times lately. Problem is, I just can't get a handle on it. And let's adjectivize an animal while we're here... waspish. Dunno why, perhaps because of the stinging quips on this thread. And welcome to the Board, Archie... pay no attention to that man behind the maverick curtain...he's quite harmless once he leaves Oz in his hot-air balloon! hi, mav And, by the way, Archie...how's Edith and Meathead doing? The only roach adjective I know is roach clip.
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#4989 - 07/06/01 10:50 AM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Since we are using more or less scientific names. "vespid" is the adjective for wasps.
Of all life's surprises, there is none that compare with stepping on a ground wasp nest you didn't know was there.
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#4990 - 07/06/01 01:41 PM
Re: animal adjectives
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Carpal Tunnel
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Of all life's surprises, there is none that compare with stepping on a ground wasp nest you didn't know was there
Thank heaven for the silver lining ... meeting all those nice EMTs and ER doctors and nurses ... and living to tell the tale!
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#4991 - 08/12/01 02:09 PM
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#4992 - 08/12/01 02:39 PM
Re: animal adjectives/animal nouns
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Carpal Tunnel
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What about nouns, instead of adjectives, for a particular animal species of a particular age and/or gender? For example, "horse" includes mare, stallion, colt, filly, and foal. There must be numerous others, beyond the obvious ones.
The subject inevitably involves animal husbandry, and so may prove stimulating.
(edit) My spouse points out that the above example notes only two genders; it ignores a third gender, exemplified by the term "gelding". (Draw no implications from the fact that it was my spouse who noted this.)
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#4995 - 08/13/01 10:00 AM
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#4997 - 08/31/01 08:39 AM
Re: cucarachas
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Consuelo: there used to be a song about the cockroach being unable to walk because he had no marijuana to smoke. Did you try ripping off their bag?
La Cucaracha, la Cucaracha
Ya no quiere caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Limonada que tomar. (the last line has been changed from "marijuana que fumar."
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#4998 - 09/01/01 09:15 AM
Re: cucarachas
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That song was a marching song, sung by the revolutionaries during the last Mexican Revolution. The last time I sang it was in Costa Rica the last 1 1/2 miles of a 5 mile walk on the beach, by the light of the full moon, after imbibing waaaaaaay to much scotch. It really helped! I accidently spell-checked this and it didn't recognise imbibing. Must belong to the temperence league  !
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#4999 - 09/01/01 05:26 PM
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#5000 - 09/01/01 06:31 PM
temperance --
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Carpal Tunnel
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Ah--temperance as Max points out, a very politically charged word!
the US abound in them.. a hundred years ago, women were espousing Free Love, not the license of the sixties, but rather free love was a code word for reforming divorce laws -- divorce was such a taboo, they didn't want to even use the word!
One Temperance group came down a street filled with pubs, and tried to rally the drinkers with in to halt their evil ways.
an old cow, a bit worse for wear, staggered out, and seeing the uniforms, and musical instruments was moved to hand over a 5 quid!
the Temperance leader was thrilled, and asked, "which hymn would you like?"
the old cow looked over the motly crew, and announced, "(H)im there, the one with the big drum!"
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#5001 - 09/01/01 07:27 PM
Re: temperance --
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear of troy: Your evaluation of "free love" was rather narrow. For a more complete description see the URL: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/03/12feature.htmlMy favorite anecdote about free love is the legend that Isadora Duncan suggested to George Bernard Shaw that they have a love child. "Just think it might have your brains and my beauty!" GBS is alleged to have declined on the grounds that it might happen the other way around.
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#5002 - 09/02/01 11:57 AM
Free Love
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Carpal Tunnel
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the review of the book on Woodhull spoke of her many interest, sufferage, spiritualism and free love. it is hard sometimes to look at one movement with out being influenced by another. the free love movement uses the term free love, to promote the idea that love should be free and unshackled by law.
150 years ago, a woman, had no means to find cause (adultry) and even if she found it, no money or right to hire a lawyer on her own behalf, to sue for divorce. she was shackled to a man. (the further west you go in the US, the less this was true. Several of the western states had much more liberal laws) Divorce was so unspeakable, they used free love as code words. No one was then, and almost no one is now "In favor" of divorce. but we have come to see that it should be allowed. It is a rare thing to find someone who is happy about the idea of divorce. we might dislike our ex spouse, but feel sad that we ended up divorced.. divorce is unpleasant, (even if the thought of live with out our spouse is pleasant!)
just as, in this day and age, no one is Pro or anti abortion. the two sides have aligned themselves as "Pro choice" and "Pro life". abortion still has enough of a stigma, no one want to call them selves "Pro Abortion". and the other side, want to come across as positive, too, so they are not Anti anything, but Pro life.
It a good arguement. who wants want to come out and say they are anti life? Language is, and always has been used politically.
those of us, who have been members of "the fairer sex", the weaker sex, the better half, all know these terms (and others) are used to define women as different, less complete than men. they can, and are, used intimitately affactionately, (just as SWMBO can be), but the same words have been used to restrict women. we could do pages of them.. only some times, the users of the words are so sure, the words are OK-- and that women(or others) are just being hysterical.. they brush the whole thing off as being hyper Politically correct.
shade of what tsuwm said in another thread.. the words can mean what ever you want them too..
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#5003 - 09/02/01 11:01 PM
Re: Free Love
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Carpal Tunnel
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Bien non, Of Troy, twas Humpty Dumpty said that... click http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maxq/ and scroll down. (thanks MaxieQ)
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#5004 - 10/14/01 02:14 PM
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#5006 - 10/14/01 08:46 PM
Re: WARNING: BAD POETRY USAGE
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Or a chamberpotamus. Yuck.
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#5007 - 10/15/01 08:16 AM
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#5009 - 10/15/01 01:21 PM
Re: in praise of hippopotami
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We have shamefully failed to give the praise due to this noble species, which has hippopotamultiplied to dominate large parts of the globe.
It is particularly prominent on the continent of Asia. In the Arab world, the hippopotamullahs rule the population of hippopotamuslims, who, travelling vast distances, pass through the capital city of HippopotaMuscat in the course of their annual pilgramage, or haaj, to HippopotaMecca. To the north in Asia, in Russia, the urbanized Hippopotamuscovites govern the rural Hippopotamujiks. To the south, the the Hindipotami rule the Indian subcontinent.
Their influence in Africa has waned since their glory days there, but that glory can still be seen in the massive, pyramidal tombs in which the most prominent Hippopotamummies were laid to rest.
In Europe, their cities of HippopotaMunich and HippopotaMuenster are key centers of the German economy, much like their Italian industrial cernter at HippopotaModena.
North America, of course, is dominated by the mighty muddy HippopotaMississippi River. A subttribe, travelling west to the Hawaiin Islands, established themselves as the HiloPotami and the HonoHippoluluPotami.
Moving up to Australia, it is of course well known that Oz is inhabited principally by HippopotaMunchkins, who settled along the mighty HippopotaMurrey River and its tributary, the HippopotaMurrumbidgee.
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#5010 - 10/15/01 03:08 PM
hippopotamus virus is spreading...
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a number of bulliten boards have been infected with the hippopotimus virus. as virus's go, it not to destructive, but it does cause every thread to contain HIPPO in some form. an other infect thread recorded what happens when the virus spreads to humans.. http://www.darwinawards.com/ See Hippo Hop for complete details, and active links. 2001 Honorable Mention Confirmed True by Darwin 31 July 2001, Ukraine | Before I retire this category forever, here's one last free spirit who learned a painful lesson while frolicking with large zoo animals. A Ukrainian woman hopped the fence at Kharkiv Zoo to swim with Masha the hippopotamus. The woman's playtime was cut short when the three-ton herbivore abruptly changed its dietary habit and mauled the intruder, in defense of its offspring. The sinking swimmer was rescued from the irate mammal by irate zoo workers, who sent her to the hospital where she was listed in serious but stable condition. Zoo officials said the woman's action was far from unusual: visitors commonly ignore warning signs and fences to cavort with the animals. Because this happens so often -- with polar bears, tigers, whales, and now a hippopotamus -- I am hereby adding it to the list of mental lapses which, while dangerous, occur too regularly to be amusing. Past winners include: Polar Bear Lesson Playing With Cats Killer Whale Rodeo DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2001
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#5011 - 10/15/01 03:40 PM
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#5012 - 10/15/01 04:06 PM
Re: the omnipresent hippopotami
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Certainly, Max. I believe the species has pushed as far south as HippopotoMurray Island and McHippopoMcMurdo Station, thus expanding its range to a sixth continent, Antarctica. To date, however, I have been unable to establish any hippohabitation on the South American continent.
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#5013 - 10/15/01 04:14 PM
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#5015 - 10/15/01 07:00 PM
Re: hippopotamus virus is spreading...
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'Mid Fantasi-astic images of terpsichorean beauties
en jete-ing and plie-ing in their hippopotatuti,
Many further inspirations I am tempted to educe
For the hippopoamusement of the hippopostaMuse,
But I fear 'twould be excessive, and that any further scrutiny
Would constitute incitement to a hippopotamutiny.
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#5018 - 10/16/01 08:14 AM
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and no-one yet has mentioned the theme song of hippopotami: -- "Mud, mud, glorious mud".
With acknowledgement to Flanders and Swann.
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#5019 - 11/17/01 04:03 PM
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I read somewhere this week that a hippopotamus is more closely related to a pig than to a horse, which isn't electrifying news or surprising.
However, and more to the point, in reading over this thread and coming to Paulb's "Mud, mud, glorious mud" post above, I thought of a hippopotamud, which sounds like a hippodrome-sized pot of mud, say, one for the convivial pleasure of mud bathing with the thousands.
And what is the name of that now extinct cow in the cave drawings==the auroch something or other?
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#5020 - 11/18/01 02:58 AM
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#5021 - 11/18/01 09:36 AM
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Max, I just tried the link, but the page is down. Hope it is, indeed, "temporarily unavailable." I'd like to read Caesar's description if it's there...
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#5022 - 11/18/01 12:44 PM
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I just tried the link Max gave and it worked. In case you are still having trouble, here is Caesar's desceription from that site
"They are but a little less than Elephants in size, and are of the species, color, and form of a bull. Their strength is very great, and also their speed. They spare neither man nor beast that they see. They cannot be brought to endure the sight of men, nor be tamed, even when taken young. The people who take them in pitfalls assiduously destroy them; and young men harden themselves in this labour, and exercise themselves in this kind of chase; and those who have killed a great number - the horns being publicly exhibited in evidence of the fact - obtain great honour. The horns, in amplitude, shape and species, differ much from the horns of our oxen. They are much sought after; and after having been edged with silver at their mouths they are used for drinking vessels at great feasts."
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#5023 - 11/18/01 12:52 PM
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Thanks, Vernon...
It was worth the read to imagine those mouths of silver at the great feasts.
Best regards,
WW
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#5024 - 11/18/01 01:04 PM
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Dear MaxQ: I enjoyed the link, thank you. I wonder what the aurochs could find to graze on in the deep forests of ancient Germany. And it wasn't clear whether the aurochs were being killed for food, or because they were so dangerous. I wonder when sport first began. Of course it could have been a rite de passage before it degenerated into sport.
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