{"id":313,"date":"2003-03-21T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=313"},"modified":"2003-03-21T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T22:55:00","slug":"the-legend-of-xooz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-03\/313-the-legend-of-xooz","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of &#8220;Xooz&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font COLOR=\"#FF0000\" SIZE=+2>Xooz<\/font> <font COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=+2> = <\/font> <font COLOR=\"#008800\" SIZE=+2>Zoos!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Just in case you didn&#8217;t know the history\/legend of how I came up with my name&#8230; I was chatting on IRC one day, and we were talking about zoos. I made a typo, and instead of typing <font COLOR=\"#008800\"><b>&#8220;Zoos&#8221;<\/b><\/font>, I accidentally typed <font COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><b>&#8220;Xooz&#8221;<\/b><\/font>. I looked at it for a bit, and then thought &#8220;Hey! That would make a great nick!&#8221; And so it did! (It was certainly better than the nick I had been using.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/elexa\/393091.html\">Weekly Wrap-Up #47<\/a> &#151; Going to the Zoo!<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Do you like going to the zoo? Why or why not?<\/b> Yes, because I love animals. Mind you, I think the humans should be in cages and the other animals should be able to go free. But an animal in captivity is better than an extinct animal.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. How many zoos have you visited? Where? <\/b> 8: Metro Toronto Zoo, Bunya Park (Australia&#8230; I fed a kanga with a joey, and I got to hold a real, live koala bear!), Marineland Niagara, Bowmanville Zoo, the &#8220;Zoo&#8221; in High Park, the &#8220;Zoo&#8221; in Kitchener-Waterloo, Harry J. Clarke Public School Mini Zoo (it had mice and rabbits and rats and other small animals!), and I ALMOST made it to the Indianapolis Zoo (but I ended up picking up a strange woman in a bar and spent the weekend with her instead!).<\/p>\n<p><b>3. What&#8217;s your favorite animal to see at the zoo? Why?<\/b> The big cats. We stare at each other. It&#8217;s also fun to watch the masturbating monkeys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xooz = Zoos! Just in case you didn&#8217;t know the history\/legend of how I came up with my name&#8230; I was chatting on IRC one day, and we were talking about zoos. I made a typo, and instead of typing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-03\/313-the-legend-of-xooz\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}