All this Venn diagram is missing is the human/owl overlap that gives us the Mothman, referenced in Sam’s AI today and also the subject of this Monday’s Boston Skeptics in the Pub event!
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All this Venn diagram is missing is the human/owl overlap that gives us the Mothman, referenced in Sam’s AI today and also the subject of this Monday’s Boston Skeptics in the Pub event!
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Ha! I think my favorite part is the intersection of Dog, Dog, and Dog.
As a primate, I would like to lodge a formal protest. Big Foot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Abonimable Snowman was left out. As a proponent of primates, I deplore this abomination in the form of Bird Bias in the Monkey v Bird battle.
Everyone knows that Big Foot would rip off a harpies wings, then beak-flip it, leaving it to count it’s numbered feather…
PRIMATE POWER!
Huh..I don’t see god/deity on here.
@infinitemonkey: This, in the name of man who first recognized the superiority of monkeys versus birds, our dearly departed skeptical friend, Mr. Perry DeAngelis.
I don’t know about that narwhal. Unicorns _and_ mermaids _and_ Camahueto?
And what’s a mermanhuataur?
Sounds fishy to me. Or maybe Cetaceany .
Shows a distinct lack of imagination on the part of those creating the myths….
@QuestionAuthority: How so?
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The diagram is vastly incomplete. The diagram should have included a section for the
“goat,” which should be included as a part of the unicorn, and would allowed for satyrs.
Echidna?
*internet search*
ohhh…
but…but why would you name the echidna after a nymph-snake hybrid?
@Rabscuttle:
*more internetting*
aah, it’s actually from ‘echinos’: hedgehog in Greek and Latin
yay, etymology!
@nightfall: There’s that, of course. But what I mean is that all of the mythical creatures are combinations of known, Earthly, mundane creatures. One would think that true “supernatural” creatures, if they existed, would be totally unlike anything we know – i.e. aliens to our natural world.
However, I love the Venn diagram. As some have pointed out, it can stand some “expansion modules.” :-)
All I see is “The photo is currently unavailable” :(
Ha! They couldn’t do a Gryphon, therefore REAL!
PS – I hope this means I can sit on my ass at BSitP and just enjoy the night. :)