# How to deal with unwanted gift of a cougar painting?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-unwanted-gift-of-a-cougar-painting/631668 "2012-08-16T14:11:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-unwanted-gift-of-a-cougar-painting/631668/81 "2012-08-22T14:31:58Z")

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That really needs to be on the hood of a Trans Am.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-unwanted-gift-of-a-cougar-painting/631668/82 "2012-08-22T14:35:30Z")

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> Naw. A “momento” is a word for an unwanted gift kept as a keepsake.
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> I’d rather coin a neologism than admit to a typo. 😃

Those are called _pongos_. From the Spanish “_¿y ahora yo esto dónde [insert favorite expletive] lo pongo?_”, “now where do I put this?”

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