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Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 09/05/2008 22:39:39: Me tickling its nose. Can you work out what it is without looking at my next post?

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Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 09/05/2008 22:42:13: (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi148.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs26%2FDoctorBeaver%2FDSCF3095.jpg&hash=33b566c72f5899c12640a3874dd538b4)

Isn't he magnificent!

I was driving along a little country lane when I saw him. I just couldn't resist stopping to say hello.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Karen W. on 09/05/2008 23:20:06: He is so cool! I would have guessed a lama but alas not at all!
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 09/05/2008 23:45:13: A lama? [???] (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.efluxmedia.com%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Fnews_17088.jpg&hash=bd9aaf9e5fb4c3f72ee5885951e5e107)
I wouldn't go up to him & tickle his nose!

I think you mean llama. The nose is a bit large for 1 of those.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 10/05/2008 03:52:19: Is this a yack or one of those mutant Scottish breeds that are shaggy?
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: blakestyger on 10/05/2008 13:55:53: Not many people know this - the double l is pronounced Y so it's a yama; from the Spanish, who came upon them in their New World conquests.
I'm trying to spread this message around the English-speaking world.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: rosalind dna on 10/05/2008 15:00:26: This is an Aberdeen Angus Bull, which is a nice Scottish Breed.
Tasty too.
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This is a Llama, which is a Peruvian Pack animal. No mutants here??
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Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Make it Lady on 10/05/2008 18:14:19: I knew it was a highland coo (this is how it is pronounced in Scotland.)
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 10/05/2008 20:25:15: I thought "coo" was pigeon talk.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Karen W. on 10/05/2008 20:46:55: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 09/05/2008 23:45:13
A lama? [???] (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.efluxmedia.com%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Fnews_17088.jpg&hash=bd9aaf9e5fb4c3f72ee5885951e5e107)
I wouldn't go up to him & tickle his nose!

I think you mean llama. The nose is a bit large for 1 of those.

Yes indeedy something looked wwrong but I couldn't get spell check to correct it correctly so I lazed out and did not pick up my dictionary! LOL You are right! LOL LLama!
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Karen W. on 10/05/2008 20:47:25: Quote from: blakestyger on 10/05/2008 13:55:53
Not many people know this - the double l is pronounced Y so it's a yama; from the Spanish, who came upon them in their New World conquests.
I'm trying to spread this message around the English-speaking world.

Thanks That is interesting!
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 11/05/2008 00:04:30: Quote from: blakestyger on 10/05/2008 13:55:53
Not many people know this - the double l is pronounced Y so it's a yama; from the Spanish, who came upon them in their New World conquests.
I'm trying to spread this message around the English-speaking world.

I knew that
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 11/05/2008 01:18:25: So did I. I live 60 miles from Llano, Texas, which is on the edge of the Llanos Esticados - the staked plains.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Karen W. on 11/05/2008 04:38:32: I did not know that! LOL
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 11/05/2008 04:49:03: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 09/05/2008 22:42:13

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Isn't he magnificent!

I was driving along a little country lane when I saw him. I just couldn't resist stopping to say hello.

Then you probably have already taken her to the pub on the first date.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 11/05/2008 12:10:02: He reckons JimBob is talking bullocks.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: rosalind dna on 11/05/2008 12:13:20: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 11/05/2008 12:10:02
He reckons JimBob is talking bullocks.

Or Bovine lannguage(s). Moooooo

LOL LOL
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 11/05/2008 12:15:19: He likes coffee. He drinks Moooocha Java!
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 11/05/2008 19:46:50: Oh, your dating within your own gender now. Very interesting, that.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 12/05/2008 08:19:09: Rodents aren't fussy; although we do prefer those who still have a vestige of breath in their bodies [:D]
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: ImTr0uble on 12/05/2008 13:18:12: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 12/05/2008 08:19:09
Rodents aren't fussy; although we do prefer those who still have a vestige of breath in their bodies [:D]
I Prefer NO rodants =)
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 12/05/2008 17:21:24: Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 12/05/2008 08:19:09
Rodents aren't fussy; although we do prefer those who still have a vestige of breath in their bodies [:D]

Let's have an "AMEN" to that.

(And the lack of fussiness extends to all parts of Doc's life from the evidence I have seen.)
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: Make it Lady on 12/05/2008 17:50:10: So Beaver and coo are making sweet moosic together.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 12/05/2008 21:22:00: Quote from: Make it Lady on 12/05/2008 17:50:10
So Beaver and coo are making sweet moosic together.

We're having a Hoedown (Aaron Copeland variety thereof)
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 12/05/2008 22:58:48: Aaron was just a musical hack - couldn't even come up with his own tunes needed to plagiarize the countryside for his musical melodies.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 12/05/2008 23:19:19: There are a finite number of variations on a theme of diddly-diddly-dee available to the 4 strings of a fiddle.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 13/05/2008 02:00:30: And Copeland used all of them before he finished his intermediate composition lessons. Of course these tunes came most from the English and Scotish settlers in the Appalachians. Not very bright these people - could have done much better for themselves.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 13/05/2008 07:42:13: Vaughan Williams is another who looked to traditional folk music for inspiration.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 13/05/2008 14:00:41: Same opinion of him - only his music is more insipid.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 13/05/2008 15:18:32: I must admit that I am not a fan of Vaughan Williams.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: neilep on 13/05/2008 16:05:48: Quote from: JimBob on 12/05/2008 22:58:48
Aaron was just a musical hack - couldn't even come up with his own tunes needed to plagiarize the countryside for his musical melodies.

Fanfare For A Common Man is ace !!.....and then Emerson Lake & Palmer improved it !!....which is nice ! [:)]
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: JimBob on 13/05/2008 20:15:26: But, my load - er, Lord - neither Copeland nor von Williams can hold a candle to even CPE Bach. These latter day musicologist are just composing hacks.
Title: I made a new friend today
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 13/05/2008 22:24:18: Quote from: JimBob on 13/05/2008 20:15:26
But, my load - er, Lord - neither Copeland nor von Williams can hold a candle to even CPE Bach. These latter day musicologist are just composing hacks.

Apart from me!