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Do unicorns get worms?

 
 
dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 01:54 am
littlek wrote:
They aren't? Why not? Your unicorns are cloven-hooved and sport lions tails.


Well, yes, but a unicorn is a far more complex in form animal than a worm.


I suspect worms look like worms, pretty much...though some sea worms are pretty spectacular.

I googled for some examples, but got too grossed out to keep looking. As I said, some of the marine worms are out there.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 06:30 am
Heartworms look like vermicelli.

Whipworms look like whips.

Pinworms look like worms.

Hookworms look like worms.

Flukes look like big, fat, brown, gooey gum leaves.

Tapeworms look like tapeworms.





Unicorns, I thought it was decided, don't get worms.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 06:39 am
patiodog wrote:
Heartworms look like vermicelli.

Whipworms look like whips.

Pinworms look like worms.

Hookworms look like worms.

Flukes look like big, fat, brown, gooey gum leaves.

Tapeworms look like tapeworms.




Well, yes, in one sense....but not one of them looks like the creature/s upon whom it preys....and all of them are identifiably worms to the knowing eye. You would not see a fluke and think "there goes a liver".




patiodog wrote:
Unicorns, I thought it was decided, don't get worms.



It was not thusly decided by me.....it may have been so decided by you, although I am inclined to think you to be taking a position for the orneriness of it.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 06:44 am
Look, rabbit, don't make the doggy angry (though mad he may be).





And I certainly made no claim that worms take on the characteristics of their hosts. Though perhaps, like keepers of carnivorean pets, the host eventually takes on some of the outward traits of its inward parasites. What think you? Dust to dust, surely, but, without contraction, dust to carrot to horse to strongyle to wheeze to humus to dust.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 06:51 am
patiodog wrote:
Look, rabbit, don't make the doggy angry (though mad he may be).





And I certainly made no claim that worms take on the characteristics of their hosts. Though perhaps, like keepers of carnivorean pets, the host eventually takes on some of the outward traits of its inward parasites. What think you? Dust to dust, surely, but, without contraction, dust to carrot to horse to strongyle to wheeze to humus to dust.


Why on earth should a dg be made angry by open debate?


Hmmmm....frankly, if your thesis be true, could wish I looked more like a worm and less like an apple.


I had to look up strongyle, you know.

How does wheeze turn to humus, exactly?


Do you resemble your worms? I had never thought of you as a dachshund....
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 06:57 am
I take a wormer. It doesn't affect me.

As for open debate -- can't abide it. He who bites best barks last.

P'rhaps you should look up humus, as well. If it still doesn't make sense, maybe I should look it up.







I wonder if gryphons pick up worms from eating unicorns?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Jul, 2006 07:08 am
I don't think magical creatures prey on each other, do they?
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marycat
 
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Reply Tue 1 Aug, 2006 06:53 pm
From the infrequency that we see actual gryphons, I would bet that they regularly feed on equally-hard-to-find mythical critters.
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margo
 
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Reply Tue 1 Aug, 2006 09:05 pm
good point, Marycat!

Do worms get unicorns?

Do worms beget unicorns?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 2 Aug, 2006 04:14 pm
marycat wrote:
From the infrequency that we see actual gryphons, I would bet that they regularly feed on equally-hard-to-find mythical critters.


Hmmmm....your thesis being that their rarity is due to the scarcity of their food? That many of them starve to death? How sad...


margo wrote:
good point, Marycat!

Do worms get unicorns?

Do worms beget unicorns?




I would NOT say that in front of a unicorn, Margo!
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margo
 
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Reply Wed 2 Aug, 2006 08:23 pm
Well - I found out last night where unicorns come from!

Stay watchful and you'll see!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 12:42 am
Oy. So...where DO they come from?

Now please!
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 12:55 am
"The unicorns"

From the album 'Unicorns are people too'

I Was Born (A Unicorn)

...lena horne is not a unicorn
(but she's got a great voice)...

we're paper scissors rock (we're crackle pop!)
we want one-ups (not bran flakes!)
we don't got stirrups (we got the shakes!)

i was born a unicorn
and we'll die with wings

we're the unicorns and we read eunuch porn
we're the unicorns and we're people too

don't you stop believing in me!

(quartz crystals put 'em under your pillow)
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 12:58 am
Well, Ms Horne certainly does have a great voice.


But I so do not believe unicorns are people.

Nyuh huh.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 01:03 am
I do believe some people are unicorns, in a metaphoric way...

Then life take care of them, they get worms...
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 01:15 am
Francis wrote:
I do believe some people are unicorns, in a metaphoric way...

Then life take care of them, they get worms...


How are some people metaphorically like unicorns?
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 01:34 am
The unicorn's innocence and trust in virgins is a metaphor for what people can be artless or naive.

Thereafter, experiences of life make them cynical...
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 01:48 am
Francis wrote:
The unicorn's innocence and trust in virgins is a metaphor for what people can be artless or naive.

Thereafter, experiences of life make them cynical...


Necessarily cynical?


I am neither unicorn nor cynical......sceptical to some degree perhaps, but not cynical. Generally.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 01:54 am
Nitpicker, then?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Aug, 2006 02:09 am
Francis wrote:
Nitpicker, then?



Grrrrrrrrr.
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