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8:47am on Tuesday, 12th December, 2023:
Outburst
I went to the local co-op to buy some replacement cards for the ones I bought that masqueraded as Christmas cards but were actually New Year cards. These were among the few boxes on offer:
I'm sure there are plenty of zoos that contain both polar bears and penguins, but they're not going to be in the samew compound.
Polar bears are from the arctic (which literally means "bear" in proto-Indo European) and the latter are from the Antarctic (which literally means "no bears here folks" in proto-Indo European).
I expect the artist knew that but didn't want to turn down the commission.
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