New Lemur Species Named After John Cleese 115
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."
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Like his pet cat Eric, whose licence came from the Ministry Of Housinge and its' cat detector van.
And just you remember, Kamel Ataturk had a whole menagerie named Eric, and the late, great Marcel Proust, had an 'addock!
Proust in his bath
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Ahhh...Python free associating. Hours of good, clean fun.
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And, since there were no clear winners, the prize goes to the girl with the biggest tits.
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Lemur-Spotting (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes in only three years. Er, I tell a lie, four; be fair, five. I've been lemur spotting for just the seven years. Before that of course I was a Yeti spotter.
Ministry of Silly Walks (Score:5, Funny)
I can't believe how many webpages [google.com] are dedicated to this episode.
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He's a lemur fan (Score:5, Informative)
Re:He's a lemur fan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:He's a lemur fan (Score:1, Offtopic)
That's Nothing! (Score:2)
Enqiring minds want to know (Score:1)
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It's Llama not lamma.
Re:Enqiring minds want to know (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Enqiring minds want to know (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Enqiring minds want to know (Score:3, Funny)
Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA
Re:Enqiring minds want to know (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mod Parent Down (Score:3, Informative)
Re:And now for something totally different (Score:2)
There is already a Parrot named after Cleese (Score:5, Funny)
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is it a "fierce" creature? (Score:1, Funny)
Dear Sirs, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dear Sirs, (Score:3, Insightful)
Thank you for the eels. They were scrumptiously yummy and unmistakably regal.
Sorry to mensch, but if you're finished with the hairdryer, could you pop it in the post?
Yours fictionally,
Biggles
PS. See you at the Saxe-Coburg's canasta evening.
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Re:Dear Sirs, (Score:1)
Deposited on Madagascar (Score:2, Funny)
offtopic? That is a classic Monty Python skit... (Score:1)
Get it right (Score:2, Informative)
Should read:
"...the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly jumps."
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Re:Get it right (Score:1)
"...the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly jumps."
Should actually read:
"...the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have been known to do some very silly jumps."
obligatory comment (Score:4, Funny)
"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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A little off topic, but... (Score:2)
Lemurs the size of Mountain Gorillas (Score:3, Interesting)
Ook. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Lemurs the size of Mountain Gorillas (Score:1)
cause the same thing happened to a bunch of megafauna in Australia 'round the time humans showed up, and that might've been overhunting or any number of other causes; was this giant lemur extinction a prehistoric event, or something more recent?
Barvo Palin & Cleese (Score:2)
Two well-needed voices for conservation, preservation and great examples for treading about the world in a responsible (if a little "Silly") manner.
Bah, it's not even his real name... (Score:1)
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It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Re:Bah, it's not even his real name... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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Cleese is a comedic genius and deserves everything he gets.
Diet ? (Score:1)
(god...i feel so dirty inside...please move along)
Knowing simian behavior... (Score:2)
Clease a vegetarian? (Score:1)
w00t! (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:w00t! (Score:2)
Re:w00t! (Score:2)
Wrong Quote (Score:1)
It's not news... (Score:1)
The new logo will read: "It's not news, it's Slashdot.org"
Not the first time... (Score:2, Interesting)
A Møøse once bit my sister... (Score:2)
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nast (Score:2)
have been sacked.
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Zoboomafoo (Score:2)
I was doing a silly walk one day... leap... leap... leap...
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It's pretty much the only TV he gets to see regularly. Just wish PBS Kids Sprout would update the guide data for it. They used to do a good job before they changed to the "sprout" format, but now we can't tell which episode is which on our tivo.
New news? (Score:2)
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Pictures (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/article_08 192005.asp [weeklyreader.com]
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050813/fob3. asp [sciencenews.org]
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/14/new.lemu rs/ [cnn.com]
http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_monke ydaynews_archive.html [blogspot.com]
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They are so cute! I want one!!!!
Phew, I feel better now.
Did you see his program in Madagasca? (Score:4, Funny)
Unlike the people in the skit... (Score:3, Funny)
Madagascar (Score:2)
Re:Madagascar (Score:1)
Remember Joel Furr ? (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.furrs.org/FAQs/jffaq.htm [furrs.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Furr [wikipedia.org]
But of course... (Score:2)
Re:But of course... (Score:3, Funny)
There's a bald lemur?
First non-python python naming (Score:2)
Noims.
I'd like to buy a license... (Score:2, Funny)
Am I the only one? (Score:1)
I like to move it, move it!! (Score:2)
I just rented (cough) new release yesterday.
I vote to change all children's abc books the L for Lion to L for Lemur.
Thanks John Cleese!
Thanks Zaboo Mafooo!
Thanks Madagascar!
Thanks Gordian.
Thanks any-dvd!
Now move along freaks!
Uma Thurman (Score:1)
Nitpick on sub-title (Score:1)
C'mon editors! Keep yer Python dogma orthodox!
Thank you,
Rodney Citnadep
Re:getting ridiculous (Score:1)
And now for something completely different (Score:3, Interesting)
weights? maybe this is why people are paying more attention on digg.com
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It's time to cancel the misleadingly labelled "Science" section of slashduh. Rename it "k00l stuff about nanobots, DNA, and stoopid science type guys we found in mainstream media".
When was the last time you saw an accurate abstract together with a correct
Well, as long as we are picking nits... (Score:3, Interesting)