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Where's a photo of wombat poop!!?

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Here are some!

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=wombat+poop

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Yeah, I had to Google it too. You should just drop one in your essay though!

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No kidding, there are some incredible euphemisms for poop or pooping out there.

"Letting a dirty little secret slip through the crack?" Come on, people! That's brown gold.

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

It's been a while since I saw someone use LMGTFY. This made my day LOL

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It was super pedantic and made me think of the internet circa 15 years ago! but I also knew Mike would roll with it (as he did).

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

Michael's a good sport.

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I just spent 10 mins down a poop word origination wormhole...thanks for that.

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What was the word? Poop itself, or something scatologically tangent?

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Poop-late Middle English: from Old French pupe, from a variant of Latin puppis ‘stern’

Turd also has Middle English roots...

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You had me at etymology. I've written like 350 pieces so far, and I bet 20 of them are about word origins.

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I am the epitome of the "constantly looks up everything on the internet" while doing anything. Watching movies, tv, writing, reading. A near constant wikipedia search happening in real time with whatever else I am doing. I'd say I am fascinated by learning but that would be lying. I'm fascinated with the mundane. Ages of actors, word origin, when an album came out weighed against my surety...etc.

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I used to read Wikipedia every night before I fell asleep, just pick a random article and read it until I found another one to click on/to. Curiosity gets the better of me every single day.

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Truly showing us that humankind has a long way to evolve yet.

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Apparently, all we need is uneven squishing from inside our guts. Let's start training for a competition!

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True story: I did know that about the wombat poop, but mostly because I wrote a superhero character named the Wombat who had cube-shaped explosive devices he named wombombs. He's fun to write, let me tell you.

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That's awesome! Can you link to that story here? I bet a few folks would get a good chuckle.

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Sure! the wombombs themselves turned up in my longer novel, but the character is in a Wordpress story that now lives here:

https://indianamichael.substack.com/p/misfits

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Perfect! Thanks for sharing. I'm all about the intersection of my weird nonfiction and some good creative writing! One can easily inspire the other, too.

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Great article. Who would have thought reading about wombat poop could be so interesting?

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The world is full of stuff like this! I love it.

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Given how this week started, I needed the joy of reading about wombat poop.

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60% of the time, I have 100% of your scatological reading needs covered.

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

And I kind of want to google ducks corkscrew shaped penises, but fear of what future algorithms push my way is stopping me!

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Samesies.

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

The range of your topics is incredible, I can’t imagine what your ‘future possible topics’ notebook must look like. Many times the topics are so deep and thoughtful that I have a hard time wrapping my little brain around them. But poop, it’s one we all understand 🤣🤣. While I was impressed with learning about the ways cube poop has helped survival of wombats, I was also surprised they only poop one cube every three days or so. Some days you just never know what you’re gonna learn around here!

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Thanks so much, Laura!

I read that wombats can poop up to a hundred cubs in a day. I wonder what's up with the discrepancy, or if maybe there are some types of wombats that poop more than other types.

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

Ahhh, the many mysteries of the universe!

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Speaking of poop...

Why do we turn our noses up at the thought of eating poop? We consume it every single day. Do we not use fertilizer [poop] to feed and grow our vegetables, fruits, and other things?

I know... I think too much!

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Well... in fairness, it's stripped down to molecular elements, but it might be fair to say that vegetables absorb poop, in a manner of speaking!

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That will cut ya!

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Yikes!

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And how...

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

"Some folks communicate with words. Others communicate with poop."

I feel attacked.

Also, have you considered that wombats are simply huge fans of LEGO and use their poop to recreate it?

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That had not occurred to us, dude.

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Mar 12Liked by Andrew Smith

Forget it, Andy. You're out of your element,

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