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Post 1761

Researcher 1300304

the camels in australia are not indigenous in case that wasn't clear. they came over with afghan workers in the 19th century.


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Post 1762

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

... and Australia is now a leading exporter of live camels to Saudi Arabia.

Now if we can work out how to sell ice to the Inuit .....


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Post 1763

pffffft

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Deductive logic. They do not sell snorkels to fit a camel, therefore ergo facto ipso badumschk

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"Hey Tarka! Wanna buy some ice? Two free salmon with every tray of ice cubes bought!"


It is also physically impossible for an eskimo wearing camel skin flippers to vomit underwater.


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Post 1764

Goat_Starer AKA Das Boot

apparently you can keep a live carp in a damp sack for up to 12 hours

working the logic back you could keep a live camel in slightly moist bucket of water for a similar period.


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Post 1765

Baron Grim

Fish yawn.


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Post 1766

pffffft

not underwater they don't


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Post 1767

Baron Grim

Yes... they do!


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Post 1768

pffffft

nope, physically impossible.


*thinks again*

well, for a really tired and bored fish, perhaps it may be possible.

But only once mind. I reckon if he mutiple yawned, he'd be in serious trouble.


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Post 1769

Baron Grim

All vertabrate species yawn. It has nothing to do with oxygen. It may have more to do with blood flow. Yawning is most common during changes in levels in body activity, but for what specific purpose no one knows. Yawning is apparently contagious only in humans it seems.


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Post 1770

Cheerful Dragon

Reading that post about yawning made me yawn! smiley - yawn

Now I can't stop!


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Post 1771

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

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Ah, yes, of course...


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Post 1772

Baron Grim

My online latin translator is having a bit of trouble with "badumschk".


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Post 1773

Researcher 1300304

the word for stretching and yawning is pandiculation.


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Post 1774

pffffft

the word for a big cuddly black and white bear stretching and yawning is pandaculation

*a rat ta ta ta tats*


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Post 1775

liekki

Eh!

The national language of Vanuatu, Bislama, is forbidden in the country's schools.


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Post 1776

Baron Grim

On 4 July the year of this post... Some folks signed a piece a paper.


Most of people in the US have never read the whole thing.


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Post 1777

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

Was it a birthday card?


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Post 1778

Baron Grim

Nah... just a long list of complaints.


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Post 1779

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

Bloody whingers.


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Post 1780

Baron Grim

Here's something useless... in the news... (here in the states)...

the Smuckers company is trying to patent their version of a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich!

What is their big technological breakthrough they are trying to protect?

They put peanut butter on both slices of bread so that the jelly (jam) is sealed inside and doesn't make the bread soggy.


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