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Why Aardvarks?
 
My freshman year of college, I was sitting around with a couple of guys on my floor, Damien and Sean. Damien decided we were going to come up with nicknames for each other. When it came to me, Sean said he was going to call me "armadillo" but then he suddenly changed his mind and said "aardvark."
So there you have it, I have no idea where it came from! (Of course, we called him "sunshine" that sort of came out of the blue too...) Sean was a good friend who I have, sadly, lost touch with despite my best efforts.
 
Anyway, the nickname sort of stuck for the rest of the year, but then Sean didn't come back to school the next year and I figured... well, I was wrong. As I was moving in the next year, I heard my RA, Liza, yelling from the third floor window - "AARDVARK!!!" Apparently I was stuck with it for another year. The guys on my new floor picked up on it and called me "varkie," and Liza and all my other suitemates all came up with animal nicknames for each other.
 
So then Liza graduated, but we have remained friends and remained in contact ever since, so I think I am pretty much stuck with "aardvark" for a while... Anyway, I started becoming interested in aardvarks, and I compiled all the cool stuff I found out about them into Aardvarkland!
 
The story behind the nickname...
 
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Why Platypi?
Jason and I somehow ended up with matching "Webber" stuffed Gund platypi. The first time I met Jason, I brought Webber (at that time I slept with him every night). Somehow it came about that Jason kept insisting that the Webbers were AARDVARKS, not platypi. (I guess he didn't know that I was well versed in the subject of aardvarks) He even emailed some poor girl who had Webbers on her web page and kept telling her they were aardvarks, and went in a Hallmark store and asked about the stuffed AARDVARKS to prove his point! The whole thing was just silly.
 
On another visit, I brought Jason a beanie aardvark (OK, so it was an anteater, I did the best I could - they don't MAKE a beanie aardvark!) to prove him wrong, but he STILL insisted that the Webbers were aardvarks. Now I have a real stuffed aardvark (a gift from Jason from the Philly Zoo), and once when we were on the phone I told Jason I was holding my stuffed aardvark and he said something like, "Why are you holding that old Webber when you could be holding that nice new stuffed platypus I got you?" (Get it?) Grrrrr. I can't win.
 
So... I guess I decided to include platypi on my web page just to try prove him wrong some more. Besides, platypi ARE very unique animals, as are aardvarks. So it makes sense that they are both here!
Cast your vote!
Here it is, the famous aardvark survey. Please vote! Which do you think is the real aardvark? Look at the three pictures, surf around Aardvarkland, and make an educated decision! Vote as many times as you want! Stuffing the ballot box is allowed and encouraged!