From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15949 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New series; new name Date: 10 Aug 1998 19:22:53 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87hfzlgq50.fsf@pobox.com> <87hfzkal5l.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154900 24970 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Zander Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA12184 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:28:23 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09713 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAS28586; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:23:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01522 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:23:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ljz.asfast.net (gnus@ljz.asfast.net [205.230.75.82]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07669 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from gnus@localhost) by ljz.asfast.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27207; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:22:54 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: ljz.asfast.net: gnus set sender to asfast using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stephen Zander's message of "10 Aug 1998 08:53:10 -0700" Original-Lines: 39 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.27/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15949 Stephen Zander writes: > >>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Zusman writes: > Lloyd> Something called the "[o]possum" also inhabits the > Lloyd> U.S. ... the animal is also a marsupial, but it's larger, > > Are you sure it's marsupial? I wasn't aware that there were any > marsupials outside Australia. On of the interesting quirks about its > (Australia's) fauna. Marsupials do indeed exist in the Americas, but not in the same abundance or variety as Australia. I looked this up: Hypertext Webster Gateway: "opossum" From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Opossum \O*pos"sum\, n. [Of N. American Indian origin.] (Zool.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana. From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn) opossum n 1: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails [syn: {phalanger}, {possum}] 2: nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America [syn: {possum}] The variety described in number 2 of the WordNet definition is the one that I was referring to in my previous message. I suppose I should just email this privately, but since Lars requested names of "P" animals, I guess this is sort-of on topic ... :) -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com