Image Challenge suggestionsWe think a good challenge idea is like the opening line of a joke, say "If ads told the truth... Guinness would say 'It makes you fat, and your shit turn black.'"
Maybe you have other ideas.
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chthonic, Thu 21 Oct 2004, 13:55)
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One word challenge: NUMBATSBecause they're fucking awesome.
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Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 21:50,
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Who, or what, are "numbats"?Edit: Oh, it's one of those.
When I was learning French at Secondary School, the text book had a list of miscellaneous French animal names, some of them untranslated. One of the untranslated animals was "Watusi". No French, or indeed English, dictionary could tell me what kind of animal this was. My dad told me it's a kind of dance. Now, thanks to the internet, I'm able to find out that in addition to being a dance it is also a breed of longhorned African cattle. Why the writers of the text book thought it useful for us to know this particular word (albeit without translation) is a mystery, although my best theory is that some waggish subeditor had a fondness for that particular beast and/or word, and managed to sneak it in.
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Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 20:06,
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