While at Oak Island, we visited the North Carolina Aquarium. It was decent, nothing on the Baltimore Aquarium, but it had some cool stuff. In the southeastern swampland exhibit, there was a very specific sign (below) about what not to do on the plants. When I trundled on the venus flytrap three feet away, I had the perfect excuse, but they didn’t buy it…
There was also an outdoor pond with a bale of baby turtles and some carp.
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Guess they didn’t have room for the 128 unique lexical units in FrameNet “Self Motion” frame:
amble, back, barge, bop, bound, burrow, bustle, canter, caper, clamber, climb, clomp, coast, crawl, creep, cruise, dance, dart, dash, drive, edge, flit, flounce, fly, frolic, gallivant, gambol, goose-step, hasten, head, hike, hitchhike, hobble, hop, hurry, jaunt, jog, jump, leap, limp, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, make a beeline, make, march, meander, mince, mosey, nance, pace, pad, parade, plod, pounce, prance, proceed, promenade, prowl, repair, roam, romp, rove, run, rush, sail, sashay, saunter, scamper, scoot, scramble, scurry, scuttle, shoulder, shuffle, sidle, skim, skip, skulk, slalom, sleepwalk, slink, slither, slog, slop, slosh, sneak, spring, sprint, stagger, stalk, stamp, steal, step, stomp, storm, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, swagger, swim, swing, tack, taxi, tiptoe, toddle, totter, traipse, tramp, tread, trek, trip, troop, trot, trudge, trundle, vault, venture, waddle, wade, walk, waltz, wander, way, wriggle
See now if they had only referenced the FrameNet entry, we’d have no problems. Or well, I guess then there might still be issues with forcing others into motion onto the plants… :)
Ah, you see trundling can easily be mistaken for tramping. You should’ve just peed on them. That is not mentioned on the sign at all.
I was about to then the guard hit me from behind with a billy club and everything went south from there.
This has quickly degenerated into a scene from a Hunter Thompson article…