Comments on: Possum Rescued From Toilet!

By: your_mum_goes_to_college

your_mum_goes_to_college — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:03:21 +0000

Also, even if it were spelled “opossum”, why should we have to spell it that way if “possum” was considered acceptable slang?
If there were a post about Tasmanian Tigers would you get all up on your high horse in the comments section and carry on about “ACTUALLY, it’s spelled THYLACINE!”.
Neatorama isn’t exactally a formal publication, you jackass.

By: your_mum_goes_to_college

your_mum_goes_to_college — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:59:47 +0000

By the way TT, Australians spell everything the same as the Brits do e.g., colour, aluminium, anything that ends in “ise” is spelled with an S, not a Z etc…
Also, it’s “Aussies”, not “Ozzies”. Maybe check YOUR OWN spelling before you make comments regarding other people’s spelling abilities.
And where are you getting off telling Americans and Australians how to spell the name of an animal that’s native to their own country but not yours?
I suppose we shouldn’t be giving assholes like you attention because that’s exactly what you want.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:28:59 +0000

Wow, TT — you’re a dick and an idiot. How do Brits (I assume you’re a Brit, because to my knowledge, no one else uses the word Yank to describe all Americans) get off telling people how to spell an animal that ISN’T NATIVE TO ENGLAND.

By: TT

TT — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:19:09 +0000

That’s because you Yanks and Ozzies misspell words all the time.

This is the same case of laziness for words such as COLOUR.

But for some reason when comes to GLAMOUR, you decide to keep it.

If you are going to say that you are speaking ENGLISH, then spell it correctly.

Possum is incorrect, this is simply a case of people not knowing what the correct spelling is. Hearing it spoken people have no idea that there is an “o” in it.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:28:02 +0000

@TT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum

“They are commonly also called “possums,” though that term is also applied to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes. The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named “opossum”. The word comes from Algonquian wapathemwa. Colloquially, the Virginia opossum is frequently called simply possum.”

In other words, in the U.S. you can spell it either way. In Australia, it’s always “possum,” and since this happened there, it’s definitely possum, not opossum.

By: mrmark

mrmark — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:16:52 +0000

if you click “we have a YouTube clip.” Youtube clip link doesn’t work

give me a t-shirt i love neatorama :]

By: TT

TT — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:25:30 +0000

Cassie – can you read?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:14:45 +0000

WOW! Ok this is one of those childhood fears I had of a rat swiming up the tube while I was doing my business. THANKS NEATORAMA NOW IM HUDDLING IN A CORNER CRYING!

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:24:00 +0000

Does any one actually ever say “opossum”? Pretty much every time I’ve heard it said the o- was left off.

Also, “It was like the toilet had given birth,” is a horrible mental image.

By: your_mum_goes_to_college

your_mum_goes_to_college — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:29:53 +0000

Yeah, another bullsh*t IQ test. Real IQ tests are legally only allowed to be run, accessed, and scored by registered psychologists.
And they cost a lot more than $1.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:13:22 +0000

so go pick up an IQ test from a book store, they cost about $1

By: your_mum_goes_to_college

your_mum_goes_to_college — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:02:49 +0000

Kind of off topic, but man I hate links (one of the ads to the right) to bullsh*t IQ tests.
THEY’RE BULLSH*T! All they do is give you an artificially high IQ score and then ask you for your credit card details so they can give you a detailed (bullsh*t) analysis of just HOW smart you are.

By: your_mum_goes_to_college

your_mum_goes_to_college — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:54:59 +0000

@TT

Actually dude, it’s Australian, so it’s a possum. Looks like a brushtail possum to me.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:51:42 +0000

Actually the story is from Australia so it would be “Possum” not Opossum.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:49:26 +0000

OMG call NASA!

By: TT

TT — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:30:24 +0000

Errrrrrrrrrr……….. that’s spelled

OPOSSUM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/opossum