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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: RE: Save the Guars
Message-ID: <271@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 20:00:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 20:00:09 1985
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	 > From: trudel@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jon)
	 > Newsgroups: net.bizarre
	 > Subject: Re: RE: Save the Guars
	 > Message-ID: <3313@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>

	> >Hey, folks, there really is a guar.

	> No, it's called a guar because the first person to see a guar
	> was trampled by one.  When the other prehistorics found him,
	> they asked what was it that did trampled him.  He clenched his
	> stomach and shouted "Guuuaaarrrrrrr!!!!!...", and promptly
	> died.  The prehistorics thus gave it the name 'guar', which is
	> the name it has today.

I heard a (supposedly true; sorry about that) story about when Captain
Cook was in Australia he asked some native aborigines what that bizarre
animal that he saw bouncing around was. The natives, who didn't
understand English, replied ``I don't understand.'' which, in
aborigine, is ``Kanga roo.''.

	> I say we adopt the Guar as the Net animal, much in the same
	> fashion that New York has a state insect.  What about it?

The Maryland State Insect is some type of butterfly (sorry, I don't
recall the name) which has the state colors in its wings.

The Maryland State ice-cream flavor (no, I'm NOT joking) is Chesapeake
Bay Berry Ripple, which also includes the state colors. I don't know
what it tastes like, probably crabs.
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