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Lustbunny Scrumptious
"That's no ordinary rabbit."
"That's no ordinary rabbit."
Two Gates the silent House of Sleep adorn; Of polish'd Iv'ry this, that of transparent Horn:
True Visions thro' transparent Horn arise; Thro' polish'd Iv'ry pass deluding Lies.
ZOMG! CYCLOPS!!
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Posts: 6783 (01/11/06 19:04:41) Congenial Succubus |
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The Wakkster |
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Posts: 4566 (01/11/06 19:12:08) God is Emo |
Without a nose, I'm guessing it has to breathe through it's mouth? So it walks around with its mouth open?
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Posts: 6783 (01/11/06 20:33:18) Congenial Succubus |
It wouldn't walk anywhere, dear, it's dead.
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The Wakkster |
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Posts: 4566 (01/11/06 21:44:52) God is Emo |
I apologize, whoever designed that website did not have firefox in mind. Ads and the related stories section cover over half of the article.
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Posts: 1071 (01/11/06 23:43:41) Dragons Rage Within |
lol@Crianca!
So, there may have been some truth to the Greek myths about Cyclops' after all. I have to say, that is one freaky lookin' kitty.  Television intends to keep you stupid. |
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Posts: 1614 (01/12/06 02:10:40) Walks in Legend |
Click here for pictures of cats born with no eyes, two faces, two tongues, multiple pairs of ears or a grotesque, fatal condition that was brought about by the inbreeding of the American Burmese. (the skull is domed to such an exaggerated extent that the bone doesn't close over the brain and the result is a kitten with a head that looks like a ball of crushed felt.) There's another cyclops right down the bottom.
------ Gaisberg's Tempting Leg.
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1inchpin |
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Posts: 11399 (01/12/06 03:03:00) dazed |
The pictures on that site are really freaky. I can't stand looking at morbidly deformed faces in human beings, so I'm glad it's only cats. x_x
By "can't stand", I don't mean it grosses me out, at all. I just get really, really scared. |
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umaeril |
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Posts: 36509 (01/12/06 07:16:21) «(1ik35 1uN4Ri5' Pi3)» |
Well, having studied fetal dysraphysism I can tell you that this does happen in humans. There are some very grotesque pictures of it out on the net (and in my textbooks) that we don't need to look at. Anyhow I bet that is where the Greek myths come from since I am sure down history babies have been produced like this over and over. It's a neural tube defect.
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CriancaBunnyears |
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Posts: 6783 (01/12/06 15:05:55) Congenial Succubus |
Well, it's cool to know where Cyclops come from, now, because I like little tidbits like that.
Lustbunny Scrumptious "That's no ordinary rabbit." |
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1inchpin |
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Posts: 11399 (01/13/06 15:13:27) dazed |
The only Cyclops I'd ever want to get near is the dude in X-men.. and he wasn't even one of my favourite X-men! He's so emo, god.
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umaeril |
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Posts: 36509 (01/13/06 16:00:33) «(1ik35 1uN4Ri5' Pi3)» |
Hehe, Cyclops is emo, somehow that struck my funny bone.
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Posts: 556 (01/13/06 22:49:41) Sea of Endless Fire |
Yeah, that is more than a bit bizarre. Too bad it is dead though, the world needs something to fill the void left when the 'worlds ugliest dog' died.
And, jut for your information, the leading theory to the orgin of the cyclops is none other than elephants. Their real eye sockets are on the side of their head, where most animal's eye sockets are place is where the elephants trunk is located, leave just one huge 'eye' hole in their skulls. So when they came across skulls of dead elephants, they saw a massive beast with apparently one eye |
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Posts: 36509 (01/14/06 19:40:52) «(1ik35 1uN4Ri5' Pi3)» |
Elephants have a proboscis and so do the cyclops babies sometimes.
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Posts: 6783 (01/14/06 23:48:48) Congenial Succubus |
Hmm, that would explain the usually massive size of the mythological cyclops, though the cat's face looks like the stereotypical cyclops face. Probably a mix. Like unicorns aren't JUST from narwhals, they're also from mutant goats bred to have only one horn(which is why real unicorn mythology (I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but I mean historical mythology) has unicorns as much more goatlike, with cloven hooves and beards).
Lustbunny Scrumptious "That's no ordinary rabbit." |
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The Gov |
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Posts: 1614 (01/15/06 02:32:10) Walks in Legend |
Wikipedia suggests that the cyclops myth might also have been influenced by the appearance of blacksmiths, who "wore an eyepatch over one eye to prevent them from becoming blind in both eyes from flying sparks." It points out that the cyclops of legend were often blacksmiths. "They fashioned lightning bolts for Zeus to use as a weapon ... Poseidon's trident, Artemis' bow and arrow, and the helmet that Hades gave to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa. ... The noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to their operations."
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Posts: 9653 (01/15/06 05:13:32) Will Rule for Food |
Cool.
The mythology stuff I mean. Little dead kitties is not cool, claro. |
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umaeril |
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Posts: 36509 (01/15/06 19:51:41) «(1ik35 1uN4Ri5' Pi3)» |
I love mythology stuffs and finding out where things come from. Fascinating!
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Posts: 6783 (01/16/06 11:49:38) Congenial Succubus |
Aw, you don't like the little dead kitties?
 Lustbunny Scrumptious "That's no ordinary rabbit." |
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DeathsBestFriend |
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Posts: 556 (01/16/06 12:37:08) Sea of Endless Fire |
I guess the blacksmith connection makes sense for the original ones, but I dont think it really is tied into the later ones. The later ones were just cannabalistic monsters bred by Posiedon (like the lovely chap we see in the Oddessey)
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The Gov |
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Posts: 1614 (01/17/06 17:09:34) Walks in Legend |
This is what puzzles me: if blacksmiths wore patches over one eye in order to save at least half their sight from flying sparks then the idea of a blacksmith who's one-eyed from birth seems nutty - a cyclops 'smith wouldn't have that important spare eye. I know that it's a bit silly asking myths to make sense (who decided to breed one-horned goats anyway? And why? Were they sitting in a meadow one day thinking, "You know, that goat there would be perfect if not for that extra fucking horn," and things went haywire from there?) but I'd love to see the cyclops / blacksmith connection explained more thoroughly.
------ Gaisberg's Tempting Leg.
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umaeril |
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Posts: 36509 (01/17/06 20:12:12) «(1ik35 1uN4Ri5' Pi3)» |
I don't believe the blacksmith hypothesis.
I still think that I am right. Without proper nutrition you get fetal dysraphism including cyclopean appearing fetusus and this is where it started. That is my hypothesis.As for unicorn goats, I have seen pictures of them, they are cute I guess.
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