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The bad cop from The Shield?? [Image Can Not Be Found]
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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Jen said:
Is that where cichlids come from?
Sorry 'bout delay. Some lovely women yelled at–I mean gently reminded me–me for leaving this hanging.
Jen's close enough and on the hook. [Image Can Not Be Found]
Cichlids are the second most diverse group of fresh water fish, with an estimated fifteen hundred species. 800 species are unique to Lake Malawi. Another 500 unique to a second African lake. There's never been a full catalog of either lake and the numbers are probably on the low side. Think Darwin's finches massively multiplied. Instead of beaks changing, it's fish from two inches to three feet. Malawi is a Great Lakes size place where all parts of the ecology have evolved from one base fish.
Take that whack-a-doodle creationists! [Image Can Not Be Found]
PS Jen, if you knew the answer without searching to move things along, color me even more impressed with your delightfully corpulent corpus
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I just watched Planet Earth 😛 and I had a fishtank once.
"Flim-Flam," "Gossima," and "Whiff Whaff" are all alternate names for a game whose trademark was first registered by Parker Bros and is now owned by another company. What's the game?
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Charades?
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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The Lake Malawi dive sequence in Planet Earth is swoon-worthy.
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I've never heard/read those names before. Whiff Whaff sounds like a game like badminton that uses something like a shuttlecock or birdie. But since you said trademark, I'm thinking it must be a board/table game, so I'll go think about it some more.
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Not charades.
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Twister?
Life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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It wouldn't be something like a precursor to Pong, would it? Whiff-Whaff, Flim-Flam...I sense back-and-forth of something.
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Not pong, but you're getting warmer. Very warmer.
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Someone suggested Badminton… how about Ping-Pong?*
*If this is right and anyone else responds within the next hour, I defer to them. I get emails saying when new posts have been added, which isn't fair. : )
Life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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What other games are like that? Tennis?
or maybe a farting game? Pong - Whiff Whaff....
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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Steerpike, you're right, it's Ping Pong. [Image Can Not Be Found] The name was originally trademarked by Parker Bros in 1902 and is now owned by Escalade Sports. I guess that's why they call it "table tennis" in the Olympics.
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Thanks Jen!
This is a picture of the asteroid Apophis:
Apophis became notable a while back for possibly hitting us in 2029, though it now looks like the chance of an actual impact are less than 1 in 250,000. However, on the day of our close shave, Apophis will be visible with the naked eye, possibly even during the daytime. That makes it significantly closer to earth than ________.
Life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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The moon?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Close, but not close enough.
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Svalbard? (You had enough dashes for Svalbard.) No? I'll think on it some more.
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Not Svalbard either, though I'm totally moving there once I find a job and a house with wireless internet.
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