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Opossums* come from Ireland.
*opossa?
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Oh, possums.
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I watch things like this at 1.75x with subtitles, and it is my great pleasure to report that the phrase “and where wolves would” is rendered as “and werewolves would”.
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I haven’t watched yet but I have a hunch the answer lies within his job description.
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When Mark Zuckerberg escalated from killing a goat to wanting to see what it was like to personally kill a whole species, Diego bit his legs off. Mark’s done a good job covering up the injury but the Metaverse shows the truth.
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You could also read a book, such as Why Do Clocks Go Clockwise? Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? - David Feldman - Paperback
This is what I did for hours and hours as a youngling - before the interwebs.
By the way, the answer is because a clock was invented in the northern hemisphere and was made to imitate the movement of the sun.
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What is the difference between an Opossum and a Possum?
I mean, technically the possum is an Australian marsupial, and the opossum is the North American marsupial, but it’s also commonly known as a “possum,” which pedants will claim is “wrong,” but names for things are “correct” based on how people use them, otherwise there’s no such thing as a “fish” or “vegetable” and berries aren’t berries and…
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Paddy O’Possum
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With Antarctica being the land bridge, it’s too bad there aren’t any surviving super-floofy Ice Possums. (Of course, they might be bear sized, and live on penguins, because there’s not much else there to eat.)
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His one about zebras being violent felons is one of the most laugh until my stomach hurts things I’ve ever seen.
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