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What do you get when you combine a whale and a gorilla?

Posted: November 30, 2010 in destroying tokyo, linguistic wanking, man in a rubber suit (not batman), mozilla, the portmanteau of a bastardization of a portmantea
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Godzilla. Known as Gojira in Japan, the name is actually a portmanteau of gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale). This makes me want to combine more random animals and then set them loose on Tokyo. But wait! There’s more. Since Mozilla is just a portmanteau (mosaic + godzilla) of the bastardization (godzilla) of an existing portmanteau [...]