...what kind would you be?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Beverly, i feel this thread topic is a set-up. i will not be roped into another discussion of furries.
Wolf.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
i'd have to say liger.
Posted by StigLarson (Member # 5579) on :
A stoat.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Liger. ha ha. But then you couldn't have offspring.
or...is that the point?
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Not all ligers are sterile.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Really?
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
It's rare but still possible.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Hmmm... lemme think....
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
A dog, probably a Lab or Retriever.....
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I honestly don't know the answer to the question myself. I would love to be something that could run really fast, or fly, or swim well. Being able to change shape at will would be cool.
Edit: Reference to a "stoat" makes me think of "Watership Down". *shiver*
[ April 10, 2004, 05:46 PM: Message edited by: beverly ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
A nearly-hairless primate that walks upright and is barely smart enough to get on the internet and feed trolls. Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
cat
Posted by StigLarson (Member # 5579) on :
Beverly, I think thats enough of the anti-stoat propaganda.
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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I just read up about ligers. Awesome!
From what I read, all ligers are sterile, but not all tigons. FYI
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I just read some more, and people don't agree as to whether ligers are sterile or not.
Posted by Argèn†~ (Member # 4528) on :
A bear.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
What do I want to be, or what resembles me most?
Want to be: peregrine falcon Probably am: a rabbit
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Brinestone, I totally agree that those are two very different questions. I am asking both at the same time, I guess. Answer either or both. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
a rooster!
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I guess if we are hypothetically talking about being another species, being another gender is only a minor change. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Want to be: otter! Probably am: mule
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I wanna be an otter too!
Those guys do NOTHING but play around and have fun. My ideal life, swimming and messing around.
A sea lion would be cool for the same reason .
Also hawks have cool lives, and especially falcons.
But what I probably would be is a horse. I would rather be a wild one though, and anything domesticated is like slavery.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I would love to be an orca and eat seals. Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I'd be a dolphin.
There's a reason everyone wants to be smart and charming.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
*whispering* I'd love to be a unicorn myself, but I don't think I should say that too loud. Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Oooooh.
Good answer Toni.
To get to play and jump and swim and frolic and stuff...
AND be a super intelligent mammal...
AND have no natural predators (except sharks, but dolphins have been known to kill sharks frequently as well)...
AND be able to swim super fast and have an extensive long range communication system...
Well that would be even cooler than being a human almost .
As long as I don't end up in a tuna net...
So yeah, I am stealing your answer .
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
If we get to choose mythical beasts, I choose dragon.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
mph, I was sooo waiting for somebody to pick that ! What took you so long ?!
Also, any volunteers who'd like to help me with a head for a hydra ?
Beverly, why not a pegasus unicorn ? This way you get a pair of wings for free !
Posted by Dolphin (Member # 6439) on :
quote: Well that would be even cooler than being a human almost.
Xav, do you get to see naked chicks everyday ? Do you ?! (don't answer that here, though...)
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Heh, Corwin, I was worried I would be stigmatized enough for picking unicorn! Yeah, I dig the Pegicorns.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
What's that one that walks on its hind legs and communicates "intelligently"?
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
A parrot?
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Certainly not humans....
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
You know, if we are talking about mythological beasts, I would choose Centaur. I would retain many human advantages, like opposable thumbs and good articulators, but I would be able to "run like the wind".
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
and hung like a horse...
Well not you if you retained your sex (though I think all centaurs are male, I am sure theres a female equivalent). Your hubby would be though .
A dryad is cool too. Those are half human, half deer females.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I wrote a verse in high school about what it would be like to be an Eagle (that's what I would choose). It won an award.... I wonder if I can find it.
Farmgirl
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
So if all centaurs are male...oh, never mind.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
*cough*
Hobbes Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I'd like to be a butterfly.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
They do seem pretty rare in mythology though.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
If I couldn't be a tiger I think I'd like to be a York peppermint patty.
Hobbes Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Xav, haven't you seen Disney's original "Fantasia"? Talk about some hot Centaur chicks. Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Actually beverly, I found a really hot centaur chick myself upon my googling.
Probably can't show it on hatrack though cause she is topless. Very good drawing in my opinion. There are stars over her nipples, so she isn't exactly obsene, but still, nto suitable for hatrack.
Heres what you do though: google "centaur female"
Its the fourth link titled "deviantART: Female Centaur by ~angelbabe"
Or I suppose you can find it yourself with that title.
I would turn furry for her. *RAWR*
Or actually, *NEIGH*
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
An Ostrich for me
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
quote: A dryad is cool too. Those are half human, half deer females.
I always understood dryads to be tree spirits...
I think I'd be a winged cat...really big feathered wings...
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Today I feel like a hedgehog. Prickly and safe from all predators except for a really hungry gypsy, who I wouldn't mind feeding because they have it hard enough as it is.
p.S. I clicked on the google ad. I've never heard of Eliza Cuthbert, but I wanted to take a chance that it really was related somehow.
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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Oh sorry, forgot to mention that those are the dryads from the warcraft universe . I am very aware of what they are in normal mythology.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
FURRIES!! AHHHH!!! I thought I was escaping furries while I was here, but no! Help meeee!!
Anyhow, this is a topic of discussion at my lunch table. Invariably, though, I get named a sloth because of my affinity for green and my sleeping habits. This doesn't make me happy.
If I had to name myself something, I would be a cat. Because I can be lazy, but I can also be dangerous. And I sleep a lot. ._.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Seems like there are lots of cats on Hatrack.
*curls in a ball and promptly falls asleep for the next sixteen hours*
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I'll just stick to what I am. An Ass. Donkey for those who question.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
A Passenger Pigeon
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I would be a red-tailed hawk. I've always found them to be beautiful creatures, and I think flying would be a wonderful way to escape my parents telling me what to do with the rest of my life...
But that's another tangent. Posted by Furry (Member # 6441) on :
Hey, what's up with the bad rep? I'm really not so bad once you get to know me. Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
I'd be a mongoose. Fat, furry, ferociously fecund, and living it large after slaying those evil cobra's hiding in the family's john.
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*mmrrphle*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
sssSSSSssss
*ssilently purssuess fallow*
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*flicks lustrous tail and scampers away*
HISSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by slacker (Member # 2559) on :
I'd be a whoredog. Lusti knows why Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
I'd like to be a sea otter (didn't really think there'd be so many of us, heck maybe the others were thinking river otter, though I doubt it). But I'd probably be a beaver. I already build dams.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
CURIOSITY
may have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably.
Nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough. To distrust what is always said, what seems, to ask old questions, interfere in dreams, leave home, smell rats, have hunches do not endear cats to those doggy circles where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches are the order of things, and where prevails much wagging of incurious heads and tails.
Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die -- only lack of it will. Never to want to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living is an idyll (although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.
Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible, are changeable, marry too many wives, desert their children, chill all dinner tables with tales of their nine lives. Well, they are lucky. Let them be nine-lived and contradictory, curious enough to change, prepared to pay the cat price, which is to die and die again and again, each time with no less pain. A cat minority of one is all that can be counted on to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this that dying is what the living do. that dying is what the loving do and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. -Alastair Reid
[ April 11, 2004, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
If we can pick fictional things, then i'll be a gelatinous blob that can change its Dna and apperance to that of anything. HA, now i'm everything.
I wonder if all this furrie disscusions will affect the next hatrack get-together...
[ April 11, 2004, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: MEC ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I'd like to be a dolphin or some sort of travelling bird like a swallow (don't ask which kind).
I have no idea as to what I would be. Perhaps a lizard of somekind.
ps. I just read up on Tigons and Ligers and I must say they are very cool.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Here's some good info on big cats and hybrids.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I would sooo be a tiger. They're awesome. I would settle for a cat, though.
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
I think it would be cool to be a lion, but knowing my luck, I’d be one of those rogue bachelor lions that can’t beat out the alpha male to get any of the females and has to wander the savanna alone.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I think it'd also be pretty cool to be a human/animal chimera, actually, most chimeras would be cool.
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Posted by Salaam (Member # 5239) on :
definitely a penguin
being able to swim 60 miles per hour and then jump 10 feet out of the water
also, your stomach is like a sled, I'd so be using that
Posted by Kraid (Member # 6302) on :
I've always wanted to be a human/monkey hybrid. That way I could do a ton of martial art moves without hours and hours of falling on my butt. I could be like a real life Neo Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
ak,
*swoon*
fallow
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
ak,
*wraps self in double swaddling of poetry and... SWOONS again*
fallow
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
You can now officially take me off of the "single" list.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
*grin
ak, I have a copy of that above my desk. Took me years to find it again, but I never forgot it. Is there a better poem ever?
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
o-O Calvin? Are you complimenting ak's poem or ... uh... what are you saying?
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
Godd***. I was in the matchmaker thread and I accidentally pushed Next instead of the last page.
Posted by Sugar+Spice (Member # 5874) on :
Moth.
I naturally nocturnal, I'm attracted to lights and shiny, glittery things and I like to fly at people who have a phobia of me and get entangled in their hair.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Yeah, CalvinMaker is my little brother. His new lack of singleness is nothing to do with me.
But of course if I were an animal, I'd be the animal I am, a dragon. Ancient, deadly, and full of venom, as Slashy once said.
Yeah, that is a great poem, CT. I especially love "chill all dinnertables with tales of their nine lives" and "suitable wives" and "much wagging of incurious heads and tails".
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*shakes snake's limp form too and fro*
*wearies*
*drops snake and gaggingly spits out venom*
*reconsiders mongoose form and fantasizes about seafood*
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
My playful nature suggests that sea otter would be a natural choice. I've also considered the benefits of being a ferret, curiousity and a will to explore.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
I would be a leafy sea dragon. Saw one this weekend, and they are super cool.
space opera
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:If I couldn't be a tiger I think I'd like to be a York peppermint patty.
Hobbes
Hobbesy dear, I'd advise against this. It would only be a matter of time until I ate you.
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*does a leisurely backstroke and dives for shellfish*
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
a wolf (hence my username)
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
I'd want to be some kind of bird of prey.
Here's a related question: this seems to be what animal would you want to be. Now, based on your personality, what kind do you think you'd end up being?
Inn my angy-at-myself moments, I'd say a poisonous snake. Otherwise, probably some sort of spaniel.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
A ground hog... such a placid and peacable life.
And you're famous for one day each year.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
What animal I think I would in fact be, as opposed to wishing? One of those breeds of overly agreeable dog. Like a cocker spaniel.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I'm thinking a thoroughbred stallion. What a great life. The pampered childhood. The moments of glory on the racetrack (winning the triple crown, naturally enough).
But the best part would be the retirement. Oh, yeah.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I'd be a squid. Tentacles are cool!
Or maybe a puffin. They are so squishy cute!
[edit] But actually I think I'm a cat. I just lay around looking for people to pet me and give me food. Meow!
[ June 22, 2004, 03:16 PM: Message edited by: Telperion the Silver ]
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
I'd be a monkey. Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the rivers of british columbia, with my girl by my side... or perhaps I've always wanted to be a lumberjack. I don't know
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Want to be: a phoenix Probably am: something overly nervous....like a chihuahua. *shudder*
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