Horsedog or Horsemouse

[Louis85]

Sorry, the Horsemouse is gone now.

Unbelievable!

[Wheeljak]

Oh, geez. I can feel the vibration of 12,000,000 4th-grade girls saying "AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" at the same time.

[Louis85]

He's useless, poor thing.

[wendyful04]

Oh, geez. I can feel the vibration of 12,000,000 4th-grade girls saying "AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" at the same time.

more like "ewwwww"

[Wheeljak]

more like "ewwwww"

You didn't like My Little Pony?

[wendyful04]

You didn't like My Little Pony?

yea
sure

[Etherspin]

thats screwed up.. we have a free for all on these animals eh ? I guess we'll continue till they have as many defects as the multitude of dog breeds with all their painful and f***ed up conditions.

[Wheeljak]

thats screwed up.. we have a free for all on these animals eh ? I guess we'll continue till they have as many defects as the multitude of dog breeds with all their painful and f***ed up conditions.

What was that about breeding dogmatism?
Ohhh... you said dogs.
Nevermind.

[Hero1]

if you fuck with nature ...it will fuck with you..

[ElizabethX]

Ether and Hero are right.

[Wheeljak]

Do you like those nice big, juicy fruits and vegetables they sell at the market, and the fact that even poor people can afford bread? I sure do.
And I know that they would not be available for me to enjoy, but for the sum total of several thousands of years of cultivation, which is simply selective breeding and hybridization of plants to emphasize the qualities desired by the farmer, and to de-emphasize the qualities the farmer doesn't want. This technique is no different from animal husbandry. The ancestors of that horse likely looked nothing like the horsemouse, but they carried in their genes the information that makes the existence of such a tiny horse possible. All people did was to encourage those traits to manifest themselves. Just as some dog breeds require medical attention, so do food crops require constant tending by people in order to survive. Wild plants can survive on their own, but they can't feed a non-nomadic human population.
So, unless you eat wild berries and grasses every day for dinner like a deer, you are benefiting every day from the largesse which is the result of the human "tampering" which you vilify.

[ElizabethX]

Your difference with certain others will be in the how-different-are-plants-and-animals department.

In any case, some breeding with animals is done for human amusement, so get over it.

[Louis85]

Guys and Lady, is there ever a case or situation where "tampering" by man of fruits, vegetables, or animals would be acceptable to you all? I mean there are such things as mutations out there that man did not cause, n'est pas? Or are you all saying that none of the above should ever be tampered with?

[Harmeister]

I'm totally good with tampering.

[Wheeljak]

I like mutations. I would like to be able to use magnets like Magneto.

Gone? You mean the web page, or the horse?

[Louis85]

The web page. The original is probably still out there somewhere, but my provider moved the article it was piping in.

[ElizabethX]

Louis, re-read what I said and you'll have my answer.

[Bonkman]

Tampering is okay.

How do you think we got boysenberries?

Mmmmmm....boysenberry pie!!!

[ElizabethX]

fuck boysenberries and their pie.

Again, this started about tampering with SPECIES and became (read: was DERAILED into) plants. I never argued anything about plants. I'm just talking about our need to play god, particularly with the animal kingdom.

[Twisted.Mellow]

Oooohhhh... Liz said FUCK!

[Chief]

I just created a 3D image of the Hawaiian Island chain....

[Wheeljak]

fuck boysenberries and their pie.

Again, this started about tampering with SPECIES and became (read: was DERAILED into) plants. I never argued anything about plants. I'm just talking about our need to play god, particularly with the animal kingdom.

Don't play god at Animal Kingdom; I tried to, and Disney security was all over me like ink on Bombshell McGee. They gave me the boot, and told me that I was barred for five years.
But I'll have the last laugh; it will only take three years for my super-intelligent ligers to achieve sapience, fashion crude weapons and take over the park. Muwahahahaaaa!!!!!
<thunder effect>

And stop fucking boysenberries, Liz. That's gross. There are enough mutant freaks in Gainesville already without the threat of you creating some weirdo boysenhuman offspring to terrorize the people.
And I still don't get how breeding of animals is essentially different from cultivation of plants.


I just created a 3D image of the Hawaiian Island chain....
From ocean floor on up, or from sea level on up?

[Chief]

Marianas Trench...starts from there, but keeps shifting with way the damn display.... :)

[ElizabethX]

yeah, you know I mean business when I say "fuck".

But Wheelie Wheel, me and boysenberries make beautiful freaks.

[wendyful04]

What the fuck is a boysenberry? It sounds like a slimy berry syrup.
Only God can play God. To suggest otherwise woud be blasphemy,right.

[Wheeljak]

A boysenberry is a hybrid berry; I think it's like part raspberry and part blackberry, or something like that.
You may have gone to IHOP and noticed that boysenberry syrup was one of your options.

One of my favorite berries is a hybrid; she's known as the halleberry.

[Twisted.Mellow]

one of my favorite berries is a hybrid; she's known as the halleberry.

Love it :D :D :D

[wendyful04]

I've been to IHOP!













in theory, not in actuality

[Bonkman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysenberry

That's what a fuckin' boysenberry is.

...and don't be talking shit about my pies.

[ElizabethX]

Boysenberry pies.

[Louis85]

One of my favorite berries is a hybrid; she's known as the halleberry.

LOL! Yeah that was funny, Wheel

[Louis85]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysenberry

That's what a fuckin' boysenberry is.

...and don't be talking shit about my pies.

And the farm was converted later into a thriving amusement park.

[wendyful04]

dingleberries

[Bonkman]

dingleberries are a hybrid, too...

...they come from uranus.

[wendyful04]

U said hybrid.

[Wheeljak]

And the farm was converted later into a thriving amusement park.

Y'know, it took me YEARS to figure that out. When I was a kid, I heard a lot of talk on TV about how fun Knott's Berry Farm was. It confused me; y'know, I like berries too, but a berry farm didn't exactly rank among my top five places to go for a good time. My grandmother took me to the Huber apple orchard in Indiana when I was nine or ten, and even though they had some bomb apple butter, it was still not exactly my idea of a great way to spend the day.

[Bonkman]

Well, it started with the berry farm and Mrs. Knott's restaraunt. (The boysenberries became famous, as did the fried chicken dinners.)

Then, it later became the first theme park in the western U.S. (An old west theme with appropriately themed rides.)

Now, it's just a shadow of it's former self as an amusement park. (They went the way of most other parks...rides, rides and more rides.)

Still, it's better kept than some of the other amusement parks in California. (Six Flags Magic Mountain, I'm looking at you.)