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swallow
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posted 08 April 2005 02:04 PM
quote: Turkey Renames "Foreign" Animals Mar 4, 2005ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has renamed some animal species, saying foreign scientists opposed to its territorial integrity had chosen their former names with ill intent, the Environment Ministry has said. A sheep species previously known as Ovis Armeniana was renamed Ovis Orientalis Anatolicus. A species of red fox(A fox in Kurdistan area) was renamed as Vulpes Vulpes rather than Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica. "Unfortunately there are many other species in Turkey which were named this way with ill intentions. This ill intent is so obvious that even species only found in our country were given names against Turkey's unity," the statement said.
Satire is dead.
From: fast-tracked for excommunication | Registered: May 2002
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Hephaestion
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posted 08 April 2005 08:40 PM
quote: Originally posted by Cueball: Facism is notoriously anti-satyrical.
This is why, under Jebediah Caesar, third of his line, blessed be their names and may they ever reign, the heretic and blasphemer Jon Stewart will be stoned to death, in the Old Testament manner. So it is written; so it shall be done. [ 08 April 2005: Message edited by: Hephaestion ]
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Cueball
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posted 09 April 2005 07:22 AM
quote: Originally posted by skdadl: Slight tangent, but it seems likely that the Linnaean system of taxonomy is going to be revised anyway. The Turks could argue that they're on the cutting edge; or, if some of those major categories turn out to be wrong, they could find their new terms outdated very quickly. Taxonomy fascinates me. It is so ... imaginary.
Ataturk was also big on rewriting history, so as establish a creation myth for the new state, very much in the vein of some of the craziness going on with the Goths up north at roughly the same time. Psychobabble mixed with sociobiology. A great modinizer he insisted that the 'new' Turks should don European style hats as opposed to the traditional Fez -- the Fez being brimless was a hat that you could prey in, and Atatruk was not big on Islam at all. An example of his anti-islamic Turkification can be seen in his law making it unlawful to make the "call to prayer," in the traditonal Arabic. [ 09 April 2005: Message edited by: Cueball ]
From: Out from under the bridge and out for a stroll | Registered: Dec 2003
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