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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:04 pm
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What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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earendel
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by earendel » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:06 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
Possum (Pogo)
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:15 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
A. An opossum (like Pogo)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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wintergreen48
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by wintergreen48 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:05 pm
Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:17 pm
wintergreen48 wrote:Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
hee hee.
But I try to be as correct as possible -- otherwise the nitpickers come out, with their frumious claws. The NA marsupial is an opossum. The Aussie kind is just possum.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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earendel
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by earendel » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:20 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:wintergreen48 wrote:Opossum-- is that a possum owned by an egomaniacal talk show host?
hee hee.
But I try to be as correct as possible -- otherwise the nitpickers come out, with their frumious claws. The NA marsupial is an opossum. The Aussie kind is just possum.
Sez who?? Back home we called 'em "possums" and that's what I hear them called here in Kentucky. Anyone who says "opossum" is just puttin' on airs.
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by silvercamaro » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:26 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$64000
What creature is known as Didelphis Virginiana to scientists, although many Americans know it by another name as a comic strip character?
A. An opossum
B. A rabbit
C. A duck
D. A cat
I've already gone home, but I suspect that it's
A. opossum.
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by ladysoleil » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:32 pm
earendel wrote:
Sez who?? Back home we called 'em "possums" and that's what I hear them called here in Kentucky. Anyone who says "opossum" is just puttin' on airs.
I dunno, but I call them far worse things when I find them by my trash cans. Funny about the Pogo connection- it was a question about Pogo that got me into the Hot Seat at Play It! for the last time. BAM and possums seem to just go together for me.
