A Conversation for New English Words Quiz: Winter 2010
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Started conversation Dec 20, 2010
Oops. Guess two out of twenty doesn't put me in the top flight here!
MMF
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Icy North Posted Dec 20, 2010
Look at it this way - you've learned 18 new words. Others won't get as much out of it as you have 
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Dec 20, 2010
Just have to find a good convo I can slip them in, so to speak!
MMF
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Icy North Posted Dec 20, 2010
I challenge you to get Frogpondian into your next h2g2 University Project
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Icy North Posted Dec 20, 2010
Not to my knowledge, Shagbark. Is it the sort of thing you might be considering? 
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shagbark Posted Dec 20, 2010
It seems this tribe has a history connected to UFO's from
Sirius-C
The last time I put a paragraph on UFO's in one of my articles I had to label it as 'belief' rather than fact because certain curators do not believe in UFO's
I rather doubt I could get enough info on the tribe to make an article.
And I do not plan to travel to Africa to get more info.
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Icy North Posted Dec 20, 2010
I'll have a rummage around and let you know if I unearth anything
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 20, 2010
I wondered if those Dogon were the star people. 
Weren't they the ones who knew about the Pleiades, or some such?
Say what you like about unsubstantiated folk beliefs, but one theory of the cult of Mithras was that it explained the precession of the equinoxes. Which is more than I can do...
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shagbark Posted Dec 20, 2010
the Dogon do not claim to be extraterestrial but to have gotten info from extra-terrestrials
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc118.htm
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 20, 2010
Fascinating. 
In the Bible, there is reference to the Philistine worship of Dagon, the fish god.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bible-history.com/sketches/ancient/dagon-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bible-history.com/past/dagon.html&h=433&w=452&sz=65&tbnid=e6HAGX0M4m4l2M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDagon%2Bfish%2Bgod&zoom=1&q=Dagon+fish+god&hl=en&usg=__DZeNzSwhr5HIG--nNKUg2VNW02g=&sa=X&ei=OK0PTdikJcL48AbW6eGgDg&ved=0CCQQ9QEwAw
Now, I'm not one to jump on the alien bandwagon (as is well known ), but what I wonder is...
...what kind of spaceship does a merman build? 
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Icy North Posted Dec 20, 2010
Hi Shagbark. If you drop me an e-mail at icy (underscore) north (at) hotmail (dot) com, I have some Dogon information I can share.
Icy
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- 1: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Dec 20, 2010)
- 2: Icy North (Dec 20, 2010)
- 3: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Dec 20, 2010)
- 4: Icy North (Dec 20, 2010)
- 5: shagbark (Dec 20, 2010)
- 6: Icy North (Dec 20, 2010)
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- 8: Icy North (Dec 20, 2010)
- 9: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Dec 20, 2010)
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