Q: "lanechtskipt"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's 2013, Joel. "Cool" is acceptably formal. I might add "Sweet!" however.

JL


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> On 11/13/13 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> >> Why can't "black & whight bare" be a panda bear?
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> >> >---Amy West
> > I do not know anyone who writes about exotic animals in America who
> > mentions a panda bear being in Boston in 1735.
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> > Wikipedia, "Giant panda: / Western discovery":  "The West first
> > learned of the giant panda on 11 March 1869, when the French
> > missionary Armand David[42] received a skin from a hunter. The first
> > Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German
> > zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916. Kermit and
> > Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., became the first Westerners to shoot a
> > panda, on an expedition funded by the Field Museum of Natural History
> > in the 1920s. In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner to
> > bring back a live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin[55] which went to
> > live at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago."
> Fair enough. How about a moon bear? It has a white patch on its neck/chest.
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> ---Amy West
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