I started thinking about what my sister said about her blog – that she gets more hits from her post that included a picture of a mountain goat than anything else, she says that goat should be her mascot.
So I thought I should put a picture of a gazelle here. And not just any gazelle, but a tiny little gazelle that marks its territory by poking sticks into its eye glands – I mean, of course!
The other thing I love about gazelles, or really I guess what I love about the English language, is that someone came up with a word to specifically describe that springy bit of locomotion we have all seen on a million documentaries about Africa. You know what I mean, that bouncy, high jumping, wild-eyed thing that gazelles do when the lion attacks.
This specific thing is not called anything as pedestrian as running. No, this needs its own word, this is called pronking.
Pronking – just spend a minute with that.
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This may add to your love of gazelles, Lisa. My first born daughter Tabitha's name means gazelle in Aramaic. Cute, right? Good thing, because Tabitha in Greek is "Dorcas". No lie. I dread the day she decides to look up the meaning of her name, or worse, the day some asshole in second grade does it for her. And my mother was worried about kids calling her "Tabby Cat" and meowing at her on the playground...oh it gets so much worse...
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