Even for me and my odd schedule, its camel day for me too, as my kennel workweeks have been Tuesdays through Thursdays, my "other workweek" is Saturdays and Sundays (technically Sundays and Saturdays ... its a little odd to work two consecutive days every week, yet those two days are not consecutive on my timecard).
The bactrian is the one from central Asia, with two humps. The dromedary is from Asia Minor, I think, and has a single hump. Camels are one of the weirder animals in my opinion, right up there with those platypussie things you guys have down under. Not to mention the echidna...
It's like Dr. Seuss really did design some of the animals in the zoo.
We've got quite a few camels downunder :) I think camels are funny, but in a good way. Platypusses are so cute, kind of like what you get when you cross a duck with an otter :D
I've read that the platypus isn't a very cuddly thing though. Don't the males have poison spurs on their hind legs or something like that? Echidnas, now, are really weird, like something out of a cartoon.
Wombats and koalas are pretty cute, though I guess neither of them is very friendly either. And who can help but laugh at a bunch of wallabies? You get all the cool critters there. Well, except for lemurs. Madagascar got them when the continents all went their separate ways or whatever.
*tries to avoid being run over by a herd (flock? gang?) of wallabies*
Whoa! I had no idea there were so many kinds. I've seen and heard of maybe six of those. You're right, pademelons and quokkas are pretty cool-looking.
When I was at Michigan State University, they had a group of black-footed wallabies they had been doing some kind of behavioral study on. I think the project was over and done with, but the wallabies were still there, and people used to make special trips out to the university farms just to watch them.
I didn't know until recently that male kangaroos and wallabies have their bits on upside down. Blotch keeps making references to the fact in those "Dog Days" comics.
Optimism, muchacho! As tiny as our wet little nation is, it does at least officially have a 'north', and in this mysterious, ill-trodden land there's a curious expression that marks noon on W-day as something to look forward to.
That's when the Man With The Saw comes to visit.
I didn't hear the expression till a few years ago, and didn't understand it till recently. The creepy fellow they refer to is the guy who saws the working week in half; after wednesday noon, it's all sliding toward the weekend :)
Well, that's like the US expression "hump day" which doesn't mean what it may seem to mean, but rather that after Wednesday you're "over the hump" of the week.
Wednesday is just a very long day for me each week because it starts the same as any other at 5 am, but I go to work late and stay late. I have never been a night owl type. It's very hard for me to work into the evening hours, though not as bad in summer as in winter. The man with the saw doesn't visit me until midnight I think, when it finally becomes Thursday.
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:40 am (UTC)Even for me and my odd schedule, its camel day for me too, as my kennel workweeks have been Tuesdays through Thursdays, my "other workweek" is Saturdays and Sundays (technically Sundays and Saturdays ... its a little odd to work two consecutive days every week, yet those two days are not consecutive on my timecard).
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Date: 2008-08-16 01:14 pm (UTC)It's like Dr. Seuss really did design some of the animals in the zoo.
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Date: 2008-08-16 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-16 01:29 pm (UTC)Wombats and koalas are pretty cute, though I guess neither of them is very friendly either. And who can help but laugh at a bunch of wallabies? You get all the cool critters there. Well, except for lemurs. Madagascar got them when the continents all went their separate ways or whatever.
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Date: 2008-08-16 02:14 pm (UTC)http://www.ozanimals.com/wildlife/Mammal/Kangaroos,Wallabies.html
There are Pademelons too :D (Pronounced paddy melons) Funny fat little wallabies. I'd like to see a Quoka but they're only on the other side of the country.
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Date: 2008-08-16 02:26 pm (UTC)Whoa! I had no idea there were so many kinds. I've seen and heard of maybe six of those. You're right, pademelons and quokkas are pretty cool-looking.
When I was at Michigan State University, they had a group of black-footed wallabies they had been doing some kind of behavioral study on. I think the project was over and done with, but the wallabies were still there, and people used to make special trips out to the university farms just to watch them.
I didn't know until recently that male kangaroos and wallabies have their bits on upside down. Blotch keeps making references to the fact in those "Dog Days" comics.
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Date: 2008-08-16 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 09:14 am (UTC)Definitely, do not shave on a "W" day.
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Date: 2008-08-14 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 11:10 pm (UTC)That's when the Man With The Saw comes to visit.
I didn't hear the expression till a few years ago, and didn't understand it till recently. The creepy fellow they refer to is the guy who saws the working week in half; after wednesday noon, it's all sliding toward the weekend :)
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Date: 2008-08-14 11:41 pm (UTC)Wednesday is just a very long day for me each week because it starts the same as any other at 5 am, but I go to work late and stay late. I have never been a night owl type. It's very hard for me to work into the evening hours, though not as bad in summer as in winter. The man with the saw doesn't visit me until midnight I think, when it finally becomes Thursday.