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From the Celebrity Afterlife challenge. See all 173 entries (closed)
( , Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:20, archived)
From the Celebrity Afterlife challenge. See all 173 entries (closed)
( , Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:20, archived)
SIMBA - you have deliberately disobeyed me
more on that later... but now it's over to the woos rooms in your area for the local woos.
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:22,
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Damn!
Have hummus... can't extract.... no gimp!
*brain assplodes*
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:24,
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*brain assplodes*
Darn! I'm on barnesy and can't edit!
They're working alright on the newsgroup:
groups.msn.com/YodasEars/
Though i'm not the world's best photographer!
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:27,
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groups.msn.com/YodasEars/
Though i'm not the world's best photographer!
\o/
"Meerkat" is an English loan word from Afrikaans. The name came from Dutch but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat and German Meerkatze mean "guenon", a monkey of the Cercopithecus genus. The word "meerkat" looks like Dutch for "sea cat", but the suricata is not in the cat family, and neither suricatas nor guenons are attracted to lakes; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit markaþa मर्कट = "monkey", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor onboard a Dutch East India Company ship. The traders of the Dutch East India Company were likely familiar with monkeys, but the Dutch settlers attached the name to the wrong animal at the Cape. The suricata is called stokstaartje = "little stick-tail" in Dutch and Kleines Erdmännchen = "little earth-man" in German.
According to African popular belief (mainly in the Zambian/Zimbabwean region), the meerkat is also known as the sun angel, as it protects villages from the moon devil or the werewolf which is believed to attack stray cattle or lone tribesmen
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:32,
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According to African popular belief (mainly in the Zambian/Zimbabwean region), the meerkat is also known as the sun angel, as it protects villages from the moon devil or the werewolf which is believed to attack stray cattle or lone tribesmen
Wow!
Given their constant state of obvious alertness, you can see how they could have been adopted into local folklore!
I seem to extremely busy at work, this is terrible!
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:42,
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I seem to extremely busy at work, this is terrible!
those linkies be borked, me ol' china
but congrats on the new arrivals.
I had no idea you worked for L. Zoo
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:24,
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I had no idea you worked for L. Zoo
*honoured*
also ..... awwwwwww lookit the widdle fwuffy meercat baby darlings!
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:24,
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meerkats are one of best things ever
only second to Prairie Dogs.
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:30,
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NO!
Actual cats standing up on their hind legs looking like meerkats FTW!
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:31,
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WO!
Splendid stuff.
send it in as a b3ta newletter exclusive, we all love the fluff.
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:54,
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send it in as a b3ta newletter exclusive, we all love the fluff.
Very Appropriate...
He died a ruddy death on that 'News Knight' twaddle.
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Thu 16 Aug 2007, 11:26,
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