BEHEMOTH
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:36,
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The Russian for hippo
is "begemot" (except in Cyrillic) from the name "behemoth".
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Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38,
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I knew that.
But it's more likely a protoceratops, by my reckoning, based on the same fossils found in Mongolian gold mines that inspired gryphons. Although in Hebrew it simply means "ox" (curiously, feminine plural).
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:45,
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I always read that as if Michael Jackson was saying it.
BE-HEEEE moth
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Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39,
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