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What mythical animal would you most like to keep as a pet and why?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 24 June 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Psammead, obv.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 24 June 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

A centaur, who could provide both transportation and companionship, and also would be easy to potty-train, I imagine.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 June 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A chimera might be good for seeing off burglars, speshly a gang of burglars. It could deal with 3 at once. The lion's head could roar at one and give him a scare, the snake's head could bite one and the goat's head could butt one. It might be a bit temperamental tho, with a split personality. And I would forever be wondering what to feed it - would I keep a load of dead mice in my chest freezer to deforst and feed through the snake bit, feed raw steak to the lion's head or grass to the goat?

A pegasus, tho pretty, would be tricky to catch.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A pegasus, f'sure. I was obsessed w/them as a kid, actually. Iget to ride a horse AND fly! Mint!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Cerberus.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've not had a dog for ages and we used to have three when I was a kid = ideal solution, three-headed dog.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Conor Smedley

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Good fucking answer.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Charybdis. I'd never need to buy a jacuzzi.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I quite fancy the

Eight-forked Serpent of Koshi:

The Eight-Forked Serpent of Koshi is an enormous Japanese serpent with eight heads and eight tails, each head having two red eyes. It was large enough to cover eight hills and valleys. Trees, moss and other vegetation grew on its head and back, and it liked to eat young maidens. It would eat one princess every year for seven years. When it tried to eat the eighth princess, it was slaughtered by a knight. The knight built a huge circular enclosure with eight gates and at each gate a platform. At each gate he placed a tub of rice beer. The serpent drank the beer and soon became drunk and fell asleep. While asleep, the knight cut off each of the serpent's nine heads. In the serpent's tail the knight found a sword that is still on display in the temple of Atsuta. Japanese currency commemorates the killing of this serpent.

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/monsters.htm

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Wyverns, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Eight-Forked Serpent of Koshi could be an expensive one to feed.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Manticore!

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/IMAGES/mantico.gif

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The mythical Loralax, with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now there's someone Dog Latin doesn't look like.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

dziwozony

The Dziwozony are a race of tall, athletic women from Poland. These wild women live in the forests and will attack lone humans, and will sometimes force young men to be their lovers. They are also known to throw their breasts over their shoulders, so as to move quickly and comfortably. Like færies, they will sometimes steal human babis and leave changelings behind. In Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, this race of women is described as Russian and not Polish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

mermecolion

The mermecolion is a lion. The special feature that sets him apart from other lions is the fact that his genitalia are backwards.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

MAYBE THAT'S WHY THEY DIED OUT

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen a couple of those Dziwozony in Greenpoint.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, me too

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

A phoenix, cos I like fire. To destroy all you've got.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus a phoenix sounds like the name of a sports car, so you could tell girls you've got a phoenix and they'd probably think it's some shit-hot sports car and they'd come over and be disappointed it was just a mythical animal, but hey, by that point they'd at least be in your house.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

but what use is a roasted girl?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd be surprised.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking hell I can't beleive I did that.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm such a dunce.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

A roc, because it's flying transportation, and it can pick up and throw elephants. (If it wishes). Or a centaur, so it can teach me to fight like Achilles.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

if Andrew Blood Thames has his pegasus and Jocelyn has a roc, then all we need is for someone to nab the flying ram out of Jason and the argonauts and we have a race on our hands.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What bout thee peryton?

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/IMAGES/Peryton.jpg

Supposedly from Atlantis, the Peryton is a creature that is half-deer and half-bird. The have the head and legs of a deer and the plumage, wings and hindquarters of a bird. Perytons so not cast their own shadows, but rather, the shadows of humans. because of this, they are thought to be the spirits of travelers who have died far away from their homes, and therefor their gods. It is said that these creatures are the mortal enemies of men, and that they are responsible for the fall of Rome.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Achilles mentored by a centaur?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, he was a centaur-mentor fool. Chiron, as for Hercules (except before the big lunk shot him accidentally). It was the fashion for Zeus' bastard half-human sons.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, except Achilles was not Zeus-spawn. Carry on, nothing to see here.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post For a while, before they made him dress up like a girl.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"accidentally"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe there was some Kill Bill-style student rivalry going on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

He tutored Theseus too, so I think you're onto something there Jordan.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/popup/images/chiron&achilles.jpg

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.harrypotter.sk/skola/hagrid.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

REVIVE!

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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