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		madeofpalk on June 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My God, it's full of yaks Maybe I'm showing my age (or rather, lack of), but what on earth is a 'yak' and why would you shave one?

PeCaN on June 25, 2016 [–]

This is a yak: http://www.springbrook.com/Tibetan-yak/Tibetan-yak-picture-f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak

This is “yak shaving”: http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2005/03/05/yak-shaving.html http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...

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