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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2007-07-17 10:43 am

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Whoa! The book is up on Amazon UK! The date is wrong, and stuff, but hey. GO RIGHT AHEAD AND ORDER.

It's also up on Amazon Japan, which I cannot explain.

Product of random phrase googling: Anti-American Taiwanese Children's Rhymes.

I would hire this attorney.



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[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Plutarch was right. Not just rivers, either.

[identity profile] sarah-prineas.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Really! I thought he made it up.

The things you learn reading blogs...

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Elephants have been known to swim long distances to islands in South and Southeast Asia, and off the coast of Africa, too. Apparently they go for the good fruit.

[identity profile] madam-silvertip.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
And they do use their trunks for snorkeling, in fact that was once proposed as an explanation for the Loch Ness Monster (though how it got in the loch was not explained).

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the theory was that it was an AWOL circus elephant or something. Which seems a bit of a stretch.

[identity profile] madam-silvertip.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. :)

You read the same book(s)!

[identity profile] madam-silvertip.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Not surprising that elephants should be good swimmers. They share a common ancestor with whales.