What is ...?

[limbo]

What is WebmasterWorld [solvalou.com]?
What is Google [solvalou.com]?
What is FOO [solvalou.com]?
What is What is [solvalou.com]?

[rocknbil]

Hrrrm pretty cool but there's some weirdness . . . .

Google is that. (what?)
Google is a privately-owned US company that has a policy of collecting as. (yes . . YES . . .?)
Google is likely to. (WHAT!)
Google is god here.?
Google is not God.
Google is looking into.
Google is going to.
Google is in some way.
Google is a great.
Google is faced with.

My favorite,

Google is proposing is.

:-)

Definately a work in progress, but can see the potential. Try "sugar gliders." My wife had two, they fell in love, now we have four. :-) Sugar gliders are small furry squirrel-looking marsupial critters from AU, NZ, and parts of Indonesia that have the ability to glide like a flying squirrel. This turns up some odd "descriptions" though.

[olwen]

Sugar gliders are small furry squirrel-looking marsupial critters from AU, NZ, and parts of Indonesia that have the ability to glide like a flying squirrel.

Sorry about taking this conversation off-course, but I've never heard of sugar gliders in NZ, and I've lived here for 50+ years.

[Syzygy]

Webmasterworld is basically this.

Google is three.

FOO is a guaranteed tear jerking.

It's almost... philosophical... almost...

HAL?

Syzygy

[rocknbil]

olwen, you mean they are not actually indigenous to NZ or you've just never heard of them? I could be in error, but this is the info I received. They're the coolest little critters, wife carries at least one with her all the time in her shirt pocket. :D

[TheDoctor]

Definately a work in progress

But it is honest [solvalou.com].

[olwen]

olwen, you mean they are not actually indigenous to NZ or you've just never heard of them? I could be in error, but this is the info I received. They're the coolest little critters, wife carries at least one with her all the time in her shirt pocket. :D

This turned up and I realised I missed this question.

There are very few mammals indigenous to NZ. A very few bats I think, and sea mammals. Anything else was introduced. But I never heard of sugar gliders at all which seem to be an Australian marsupial. Some marsupials were introduced notably opossums which are everywhere and cause a lot of damage in forests, and wallabies which are in a few areas. I wouldn't say sugar gliders don't exist here, but I've not hear od them. If they were here it would very likely be on Kawau Island.

[rocknbil]

Ahh. It's my understanding that they were indeed introduced to NZ, not indigenous. In fact, I read an excerpt from a book the other night that explored the evolution of marsupials in general, including some theories about separating land masses etc. etc. . . . did they migrate north, or south . . . their origin was indeed AU and parts of Indonesia, but were introduced to NZ as early as the 1700's? 1800's? Wasn't paying that much attention. :-) They are supposedly more commonly known as flying squirrels there, although they're not rodents at all.

In the late 40's AU banned all exports of sugar gliders and many other exotics, so if you own a sugar glider today it most certainly did not come from AU. The first (recorded) S.G.'s to be born outside of their natural habitat was in (1922? C.R.S. again), in a London zoo.

Funny you mention bats though, they have a lot of bat-like characteristics. Coolest little guys, I think Speiberg got his idea for Gremlins from them.