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- From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer)
- Subject: lemurs!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.232800.29720@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:28:00 GMT
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- <article crossposted from alt.folklore.urban>
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- From: C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
- Subject: Re: lemurs!
- Date: 22 Nov 92 20:33:37 GMT
-
- Lemurs! I used to be a volunteer at the zoo in Memphis. They had an
- island there (well, a small hillock surrounded by water) on which
- a number of monkeys were kept--hence, Monkey Island.
-
- The monkeys had a tendency to escape, however; at one point numerous
- ones did so and fled the zoo. Most were caught climbing up the side
- of a tall apartment complex across the street.
-
- After this, the zoo replaced the monkeys with Lemurs, who were
- much less inclined to escape.
-
- As a volunteer, I and my co-workers spent many lunch breaks watching
- the lemurs running about the little island in their trademark
- loping gait.
-
- We coined a simple verb to describe their action : "leeming", or
- "to leem," which is to run about like a lemur.
-
- FYI.
-
- Rev "they leem better when you give them alka-seltzer" John
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