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Nope, closer, closer.
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Satillites??
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Yes, Jarrod wins it! [Image Can Not Be Found] Apophis - during its transition - will pass far inside the orbit of many of our communications satellites, making it among the closest objects to earth. Astronomers say it will still miss us by a long shot, but in cosmic terms, that's darned close.
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Jarrod said:
Satillites??
Good guess Jarrod. I wasn't thinking man-made.
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Who-what now? Ok, I'll come up with a question and shoot it through soon...
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terribly sorry for the delay, chaps and chapettes.
I don't know how common this knowledge is, but I'll ask anyways:
What is a currawong?
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Is it the "down under" name for bigfoot/yeti/abominable snowman?
Edit about 10 minutes after posting: when I was finished here I went over to another web site (which I won't mention for obvious reasons) to look something up. Damned if I didn't come across the answer without any intention of doing so. Therefore, I won't be guessing on this question anymore. Have at it, folks. And just so you know, the answer isn't any of the ones I've guessed above.
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A small, flightless bird with violet plumage?
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Haha, I was lazy Spike, and in a rush!
Close enough Jen, it is a bird! But flies ok as far as I know. And the three types are Black, Pied, and Grey.
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Jarrod said:
Haha, I was lazy Spike, and in a rush!
Do you mean that you got your question from the Wikipedia home page, which is where I saw the answer? If so, not laziness. I've gotten many a trivia question from the home page of Wikipedia. Now, having said that, I guess I can't do that anymore. [Image Can Not Be Found]
And good on Jen. I'd never have gotten the answer.
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Really I had no idea. I was just trying to make a funny. Imagine my surprise!
And now for some anatomy trivia: Where on a body might you find an eponychium or a pterygium?
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Never heard/read those terms before, but I'll guess it has something to do with our "missing" tail, which is to say, are we talking about the very end of our spinal column?
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Nope. Isn't that the coccyx?
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Jen said:
Nope. Isn't that the coccyx?
Yep, that's the bone, though. I was thinking that there might be other vestigial bits there...muscles, tendons, nerves, etc.
So now I'll move to the ear. Are those less well-known bits of the ear? (Not hammer, anvil, stirrup, but if eponychium and pterygium are the proper names of a couple of those I'll feel like an idiot.)
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Not the ear, either.
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Well, I've heard the word "eponimous" (sp) before, but can't remember what it means... and a pterodactyl is a flying dinosaur, so maybe there's a hint in it for the second word. So, what does a pterodactyl have that they might make a name from? Long fingers/hands that are wings? Or a large beak/nose?
I'm going to say nose.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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No worries, Spike, the Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup in the ear are officially the malleus, incus, and stapes.
Yet again I get to apply my $100,000 university education! That makes three times!
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With the same weak reasoning as Jarrod, I'm gonna guess bits of the shoulder.
@Steerpike: I'm sure you're one of those who agree with me that Latin is not dead, and a good thing, too.
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Eponymous is when something is named after someone, so your reasoning may be slightly flawed [Image Can Not Be Found]
Anyway, you are all wrong. I start with the hints now: it's somehow related to one or more of the extremities.
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Since Jarrod already covered the hands and fingers, do those terms concern web-footedness (footedness isn't really a word, I know)?
If it walks like a duck....
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