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Discover The Gympie-Gympie, The ‘Suicide Plant’ Hidden In The Australian Rainforest
All That's Interesting ^ | November 7, 2023 | Leah Silverman

Posted on 12/18/2024 1:06:33 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: lee martell

Yes,until I read it was named after the town, I thought the Ozzies had named it that because it left you gympy/gimpy.


21 posted on 12/18/2024 2:21:35 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Red Badger
There is also a fungus that is poisonous to the touch. Poison fire coral fungus, also known as Podostroma cornu-damae.
22 posted on 12/18/2024 2:34:14 PM PST by Fungi
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To: z3n

Looks like a hairless tarantula. (Those have somehow garnered a reputation far exceeding their actual danger...)


23 posted on 12/18/2024 4:39:14 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger; Fred Nerks
[snip] Surprisingly, there are creatures that are able to eat the toxic bush. These include the nocturnal leaf-eating chrysomelid beetle and even a small marsupial known as the red-legged pademelon. [/snip]

24 posted on 12/18/2024 6:38:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-legged_pademelon


25 posted on 12/19/2024 5:24:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think Australia fell from Outer Space.


26 posted on 12/19/2024 7:11:12 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Technically, it did!.................


27 posted on 12/19/2024 7:13:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Didn George Bernard Shaw write a play about Pademelon? /rimshot


28 posted on 12/19/2024 9:54:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It was a PIGmaleon................


29 posted on 12/19/2024 9:59:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Well, he did write it with a *pen*.


30 posted on 12/19/2024 10:02:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I like that idea.


31 posted on 12/19/2024 10:12:22 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: SunkenCiv

And she changed like a chameleon!...........


32 posted on 12/19/2024 10:40:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: mmichaels1970
LOL!

*Hesitantly raises hand*

33 posted on 12/19/2024 10:44:31 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Red Badger
O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating.

34 posted on 12/19/2024 11:03:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8qZ4qzDICg


35 posted on 12/19/2024 11:23:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Pygmalion and Galatea
Jean-Léon Gérôme French
ca. 1890
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436483
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/436483/1728751/main-image
https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DP-14201-005.jpg


36 posted on 12/19/2024 11:40:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger

Heh... Ed’s audience must love dogs. :^)


37 posted on 12/19/2024 11:42:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pretty good special effects for 1967!...................


38 posted on 12/19/2024 11:44:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

It was amusing how they were nailing the lyp-sinc, uh, lip-sync, but were also poking fun at it.


39 posted on 12/19/2024 11:47:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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If it weren’t for the hot supermodel babes and the weird, tall bouncy deer dogs, I would never want to go to Australia.


40 posted on 12/19/2024 11:50:12 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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