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New Lemur Species Named After John Cleese
FruFox writes "A new species of wooly lemur has been named in honour of John Cleese in recognition of his work to protect lemurs in general. According to the article, the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly walks. Good show." From the article: "The avahi cleesei, which weights less than two pounds and eats leaves, was discovered in Western Madagascar in 1990 by a team led by anthropologist Urs Thalmann and his colleague Thomas Geissman of Zurich University."
any parrots named after him any time soon...
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Of course, no story even marginally associated with silly walks could avoid this page.
I can't believe how many webpages are dedicated to this episode.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
In fact, if you go to his site, the first thing you are invited to do is "click on the lemur".
A relative of the Norwegian Blue, I believe.
I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms about the news item which you have just poasted about the lemurs "walk silly". Some of my best friends are lemurs, and only a FEW of them are have silly walks.
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"Miss? Excuse me. Miss?"
"Excuse me?"
"Oh sorry, I have a cold"
"Now look, I bought this parrot not half n' hour ago, and when I got it home, i discovered that it was stone dead"
"no its resting... lovely bird...beautiful plumage"
"Look! the plumage don't enter into it! its stone dead!"
"nah it pining for the fiords"
"For the fiords!? Look i took the liberty to examine that parrot, and the only reason it had been standing up on its perch in the first place was because it had been nailed there!"
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What's sad is that entire populations of lemurs have been completely wiped out in the past due to human ignorance and superstition. Some of the lemurs of the past were the size of mountain gorillas, and they now exist no more.
Oh. I thought it was møøsë.
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FYI, his real name is John Cheese, he adopted the professional name John Cleese.
No. His father changed his family name from Cheese to Cleese in 1915, and so it already had been changed when John was born in 1939.
After many hours of tough trekking through the jungle during which he had fallen, hurt himself and obtained a frighteningly bad mood, I believe he said that "Lemurs can go fuck themselves".
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