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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: collective noun for lemurs? (Was: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late
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- References: <1993Jan12.235603.11077@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <0uZFXB3w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> <C10xxJ.FM6@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:02:02 GMT
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- In article <C10xxJ.FM6@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> wielinga@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Bruce Wielinga) writes:
- >In article <0uZFXB3w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz>, system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
- >|> franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin ) writes:
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- >|> > In article <1993Jan12.231222.10543@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.
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- >|> Look, lemurs are primates, related to monkeys, so we already have:
- >|> "a shrewdness of apes"
- >|> "a troop of monekys"
- >|>
- >|> but note that lemur is derived from the Latin "lemures" = ghosts.
- >|>
- >|> Therefore I respectfully submit that the only possible answer is:
- >|>
- >|> "a haunting of lemurs"
- >
- >Maybe a spook of lemurs.
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- How about:
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- More fun than a barrel (made by a cooper) of greased lemurs.
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- cj "lemur-cheese burgers taste like chicken?" l
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