Comments on: Fluffcation: Real names of prosimians

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:29:18 +0000

Any MSTies out there who remember Joey the Lemur? I’ve been thinking of him ever since the latest round of fluff started.

Cool! I’d misremembered him as “Larry the Lemur”, so this helps.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:16:19 +0000

What, nobody’s yet brought up pottoes in connection with the Aubrey-Maturin novels?

By: Nineveh_uk

Nineveh_uk — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:07:24 +0000

Best random lemur fact ever: the name of the Indri (Indri indri) or babacoote (Babakoto in Malagasy) was given because the European "discoverer", having it pointed out to him by a local guide, assumed that "Indri" was the local name for the animal. In fact it is a corruption of "indri", which means sort of ["there!"/"Look!"]. Which is of course what you shout when pointing out a small furry animal moving rapidly through the trees.

By: WindSparrow

WindSparrow — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:20:26 +0000

Well played, emmy, well played.

By: emmy

emmy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:18:05 +0000

Ferret in a guitar is nice, WindSparrow, but I still love Hamster on a Piano.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/1/Hamster-On-A-Piano-642314.html

By: WindSparrow

WindSparrow — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:55:38 +0000

I see your prosimians, and raise you a ferret in a guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q5J9Fwz58

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:08 +0000

You may not notice anything different for up to an hour, but man will you be glad you didn’t down three of them.

Having downed a sex-on-the-beach-and-indeterminate-drug-cocktail in Phnom Pehn, because I’d had half a pizza with the same weird gritty brown stuff on it and it hadn’t done anything after 20 minutes, MAN I WISH I’D KNOWN THAT.

I lost a day. On the plus side, when anyone around me is watching the news and it talks about someone taking “a cocktail of drug and alcohol”, and people are like “Lololol, where can I get one of those?” I’m like “PHNOM PEHN. BUT DON’T!” And their expression makes it all worthwhile.

Don’t take unknown drugs in Cambodia, y’all.

This thread is great. I am incoherent. Mmm fluff.

By: kootiepatra

kootiepatra — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:39:31 +0000

Any MSTies out there who remember Joey the Lemur? I've been thinking of him ever since the latest round of fluff started.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:49:09 +0000

Further fluffification. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcV-TL9mho

By: littlem

littlem — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:40:07 +0000

The pseudopotto martini is for those who like to do a lot of eavesdropping at parties and want to remember what they heard.

I think you have to have two.

First you have your glass of vodka with ice, with citrus garnish.
Then you have your glass of water with ice, with the same citrus garnish.

That way, even if you’re still sober, people whom you want to assume you’re drunk will do so, because they’ll assume the second glass is also vodka. So you’re not really potto, you’re pseudopotto.

(P.S. I like this picture better. Did anyone else think the lemurs in the other picture put one in mind of the hyenas from the Lion King? No? Just me then? Okay.)