D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
eeewwww, animal control officer!
DH called animal control this morning to save an opossum that had plopped itself down in the middle of a busy street. cars were coming to a complete stop in rush hour to avoid hitting the little (big) guy. clearly, the animal was sickly - it had plenty of opportunity to cross the street, but there it sat. and what was it doing out in the middle of the street in broad daylight!?
AC shows up, picks the animal up by his tail, with his bare hands, puts it in a cage, then gets in his truck and drives off. there was no time for him to have cleaned his hands before he started driving.
i'm beyond disgusted.
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Re: eeewwww, animal control officer!
I bet they touch much worse things than a live possum.
Also, is it possum or opossum? Are they interchangable? I've always known it as possum.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
I do believe the O is silent.
Maybe he has hand sanitizer handy and used that before driving off.
I think the 2 are interchangeable spellings
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I just googled this out of curiosity. Apparently "opossums" are in the US, and "possums" are a different animal found in Australia and New Zealand. Who knew?
http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/expert/Possums.html
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i hope he used sanitizer, but seriously, he got in the car and it was moving before he'd even had time to fully close the door, much less put on a seat belt!
Ha. Weird. I always wondered.
Jitterbug - I googled "is the o silent in opossum" and found this via answers.com
"The word opossum derives from the Algonquian "aposoum." Its initial vowel became silent in informal speech ( and disappeared from informal spelling ) in the 19th Century, but is always pronounced in formal speech."
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
I'm trying to imagine when possum/opossum would come up in an occasion to use formal speech. Meeting the Queen perhaps?
LOL.