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To: MtnClimber

Camelopardalis...sounds like a hybrid animal, like a Jackalope.


6 posted on 02/11/2022 2:54:17 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: rfp1234

It’s a GIraffe.


8 posted on 02/11/2022 3:17:56 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: rfp1234

It’s an STD one gets from sleeping with Kamala Harris.


10 posted on 02/11/2022 3:21:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rfp1234

Actually, you’re right - Camel and Leopard, The spots on the giraffe evoked the leopard, and the long neck evoked the camel. — So the Greeks called it the kamelopardalis (in Greek letters of course)...borrowed into Latin it became camelopardalis.


12 posted on 02/11/2022 5:47:12 PM PST by scrabblehack
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