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27 days ago chained_bear said:

(see also stinkpot)

2 months ago reesetee said:

A tiny flying albino turtle?

2 months ago chained_bear said:

I think... I think it's ... a flying albino turtle!

2 months ago reesetee said:

Hey! What's that on the back of that mouse?

2 months ago bilby said:

What we need is a close-up of the frog.

2 months ago reesetee said:

Maybe it's a heavenly turtle on its way home.

2 months ago bilby said:

You think the white stuff rubs off? *scratches head*

2 months ago reesetee said:

I wonder whether it knows any squirrels....

2 months ago bilby said:

Albino turtle to boot.

2 months ago reesetee said:

Thanks, c_b. Me too. It's among my favorite illustrations. :-)

2 months ago chained_bear said:

RT, that picture warms my heart. *weejies*

2 months ago reesetee said:

Yes, but they can fly--on the backs of turtles. :-)

2 months ago bilby said:

Awww, cute!

It's been a bad day for hyphens. See proto-frog.

2 months ago reesetee said:

Sez you.

Anyway, it's also an old nickname for petrels--the Giant-Petrel in particular. Also stinker, stinkard, and stinkpot (no hyphen).

Thanks, c_b--forgot about this one. :-)

2 months ago bilby said:

Turtles don't fly.

2 months ago reesetee said:

I thought it was the nickname of the musk turtle.

2 months ago bilby said:

Is it a bird?

8 months ago chained_bear said:

"'Perhaps all these mollymawks and albatrosses will be some comfort to him. I never saw so many all together. There's a whale-bird. Two nellies: and a stink-pot.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 160

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