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Recyclost – 18

by Philippa Rice on July 25, 2012 at 5:00 am
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  1. idk
    July 25, 2012, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    love the atmosphere :o

  2. Laura
    July 25, 2012, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    LOL are we in new zealand?

  3. Llama
    July 25, 2012, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    No Colin you are in Old Zealand….lol

    • Erika
      July 25, 2012, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      OZ, for short. (That’s what happens when your house is carried away by a strong wind.)

      • :D
        July 25, 2012, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

        ‘oz’ is another term for ‘australia’
        since we are often shortened to ‘aus’
        which is pronounced the same XD

        • Erika
          July 27, 2012, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

          Wow, I didn’t know that! Layers upon layers of meaning in this discussion… I love it…

  4. :)
    July 25, 2012, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

    the animal reminds of ‘grouwn-up puppy’ now..

    • mike.i.am
      July 25, 2012, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      oooh Old Zealand = OZ .. very clever!!

      *applauds*

      Did you know that there is a great deal of mystery surrounding just exactly how and when L. Frank Baum came up with the name Oz?

      One of Baum’s great stories is that as he was orally relating the magical and wonderful stories taking place in his invented enchanted land he was interrupted by a young girl, a friend of his daughter. The girl, Baum says, asked him what the name of this wonderfully magical place was. Stumped, Baum look around the room until his vision fell upon a filing cabinet with three drawers. The third drawer contained papers filed under O-Z and, voila, that is where the land of Oz came from. It’s a great story and one that Baum told well and often. Except that when Baum first submitted his story to publishers it was titled The Emerald City and that was the only name given to the setting of his story. During the long publishing process that title was changed several times, including The City of the Great Oz. But that particular Oz was merely the name of the great and powerful leader and not the land itself. Finally, Baum came up with a title that pleased both himself and his publishers, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and in the original manuscript can be found scribbles that place the Emerald City “in the land of Oz.”

      Several other notably reasonable explanations have been offered as to the origin of the name of Oz. The least interesting is that L. Frank Baum invented the Oz as a tribute to his favorite author Charles Dickens who was famous for writing under the pseudonym Boz. A more interesting idea is that Oz Baum’s bastardization of Uz, which was the Biblical land of Job. And finally, and one that seems to make the most sense, is that Oz was derived from the oohs and ahhs that Baum’s storytelling engendered amongst his young crowd of fans before he finally set the stories to paper.

  5. mike.i.am
    July 25, 2012, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    He Obviously is in New Zealand. He must be on the set of The Hobbit.

    Gandalf enters the last frame “YOU SHALL NOT NAP!”

    • talavania
      July 25, 2012, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Colin: Aw, but why not?

    • :D
      July 25, 2012, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

      new zealand would have waaaaaaaaaay more sheep in my opinion XD

  6. Me
    July 25, 2012, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

    I’m so glad that Colin is feeling better!

  7. Harold
    July 25, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

    I expect Colin naps a lot anyway. Why? Because he’s card-bored.

  8. inkee
    July 26, 2012, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if any of those plants are monsters waiting to jump out and eat Colin?! Run, Colin! RUN!!!

  9. :>
    July 26, 2012, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    I love Colin looking upwards! I don’t remember seeing that before!

  10. Completely Ambiguous
    March 30, 2013, 6:07 am | # | Reply

    I’m from New Zealand…and I confirm this…except there aren’t enough sheep >.>

  11. Ruby
    April 11, 2013, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    New Zealand=Middle Earth? Colin is in Middle Earth! :D

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