I've just remembered that my wise old grandmother used to say, "Speak when you're spoken to, respect your elders, don't take sweets from strangers, and never trust an aardvark!"
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Originally posted by Ms Diddles View Post
Come on Herlock!
Use your Holmesian powers of deduction here!!!
An aardvark can't have written the graffito.
They don't have opposable thumbs to hold the chalk......
I'm not disputing that the aardvark dropped the apron, but he clearly had a primate accomplice who wrote the message.
I'm not 100% certain but the smart money is on a bonobo.
They have quite advanced linguistic skills and, I dunno really, but they just look the type.
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Sir Herlock Sholmes.
“A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”
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Originally posted by Doctored Whatsit View PostI've just remembered that my wise old grandmother used to say, "Speak when you're spoken to, respect your elders, don't take sweets from strangers, and never trust an aardvark!"Regards
Sir Herlock Sholmes.
“A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”
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Originally posted by kjab3112 View PostLet’s not forget, London Zoo was founded from the Royal Menagerie only fifty years earlier.
Regards
Sir Herlock Sholmes.
“A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”
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Originally posted by Ms Diddles View Post
Come on Herlock!
Use your Holmesian powers of deduction here!!!
An aardvark can't have written the graffito.
They don't have opposable thumbs to hold the chalk......
I'm not disputing that the aardvark dropped the apron, but he clearly had a primate accomplice who wrote the message.
I'm not 100% certain but the smart money is on a bonobo.
They have quite advanced linguistic skills and, I dunno really, but they just look the type.
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Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
I never considered the bonobo Ms D, I was working on the theory that the aardvark held the chalk in its mouth. Not impossible.
I doubt that even the most cunning of aardvark could have achieved this effect with the chalk in its mouth.
This has bonobo / aardvark conspiracy theory all over it!
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Originally posted by Doctored Whatsit View PostI've just remembered that my wise old grandmother used to say, "Speak when you're spoken to, respect your elders, don't take sweets from strangers, and never trust an aardvark!"
Those are words to live by.
I recall being terrified by the old public service campaigns of my childhood;
The Green Cross Code
Stranger Danger
Don't fly your kite next to an electricity pylon
Always avoid aardvarks, even if they tip their hat at you.
Scary but enlightening stuff.
Last edited by Ms Diddles; 12-18-2022, 11:33 AM.
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Originally posted by Dickere View Post
Was it a Jewish bonobo disguised as a little dark foreigner who obviously looks the type ? He'd have hanged in Hartlepool. You can't be too careful.
I'm not insinuating anything about the bonobo being either Jewish or foreign looking.
By saying that they "look the type" I was merely referring to the cheeky glint in their eye and their dexterity with a writing implement.
You're quite right though.
The old monkey-hangers from Hartlepool would have strung the poor thing up in a heartbeat.
They have previous for such behaviour, don't they?
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Originally posted by Ms Diddles View Post
Whoah! Hold the bus there, Dickere!
I'm not insinuating anything about the bonobo being either Jewish or foreign looking.
By saying that they "look the type" I was merely referring to the cheeky glint in their eye and their dexterity with a writing implement.
You're quite right though.
The old monkey-hangers from Hartlepool would have strung the poor thing up in a heartbeat.
They have previous for such behaviour, don't they?
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Originally posted by Ms Diddles View Posthttps://newlearningonline.com/litera...earns-language
Facts, you see!
No mere idle speculation here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)
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Thank you to Herlock and all who contributed to what became an amusing and witty diversion from the usual discussions.Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
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