The porcupine would probably spend too much on the defense budget project to add spines around the nation. We wouldn’t want another War hawk. The moose seems a bit too likely to take over as the “Bull Moose” party. The bird behind the moose horn doesn’t have enough visibility. I’d choose the Tapir too.
On the other hand, the one time a tapir escaped, it immediately ripped a woman’s arm off. I’d advise her to pick a predator, since herbivores tend to be more highly strung.
On a related note, should you ever see an escaped panda, do NOT approach and snuggle it. A number of conservation workers have been badly mauled when they let cuteness override caution.
I was thinking more in terms of distinguishing between sapient and non-sapient: in the Skin Horseverse, recognition of the hallucinatory nature of reality is simply common sense.
Which does beg* the worrying question of what happened to the OTHER eye…
(* Yes, this is technically not the “correct” meaning of “begging the question”. But (a) it’s the more intuitive/obvious from the phrase meaning, and (b) I need this meaning WAY more often. Like, if you are in an argument with someone where they commit the fallacy of assuming their point is true to prove their point, more often than you think “now this statement makes me wonder about THIS follow-up question”, then you have way more problems than language.)
What the heck is wrong with “this raises the question”?
This is one of my pet peeves but I can’t stand it when people use “beg the question” incorrectly. As to your points a) “beg the question” doesn’t *have* an intuitive meaning. What the heck does “begging” have to do with anything? The average person *shouldn’t* ever use the phrase “beg the question” or even have *heard* the phrase as it very obscure and abstract.
b) Then you use the phrase “this *raises* the question”. That’s obvious and intuitive and was universal until the late 80s when some idiotic TV writer (probably the same one who thought “penultimate” sounds cooler than simply … ultimate…. Thank god that trend has finally phased out) came across it and thought it sound sophisticated.
Just repeat to yourself “that *raises* the question; that *raises* the question”. Just because it is easy to understand, is clear, and sounds right doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it.
I’d pick the tapir
But I would not pick the porcupine
I’d pick the tapir
Yes I’d swear it was vice president
All around the white house we’re trying to track him down
They say they want a cabinet opinion
For my choices of reality
For picking a vice president
But I say
I’d pick the tapir
I know that’s not a very good defense
I’d pick the tapir
Who has had an uplift experience
Hmmm! The current Uplift program seems to have had mixed results. @_@
The porcupine would probably spend too much on the defense budget project to add spines around the nation. We wouldn’t want another War hawk. The moose seems a bit too likely to take over as the “Bull Moose” party. The bird behind the moose horn doesn’t have enough visibility. I’d choose the Tapir too.
On the other hand, the one time a tapir escaped, it immediately ripped a woman’s arm off. I’d advise her to pick a predator, since herbivores tend to be more highly strung.
On a related note, should you ever see an escaped panda, do NOT approach and snuggle it. A number of conservation workers have been badly mauled when they let cuteness override caution.
Yeah, they have the jaws of a carnivore and the weight you’d expect of them.
Unless you are Unity, who has two Panda Incidents worth of enjoy- uh, “experience”, behind her…
“On the other hand” … “ripped a woman’s arm off”
Nice job 🙂
Looks like mirror Sweetheart has a touch of Reality Blindness of her own.
Nah, she’s just realized the world actually IS absurd enough that distinguishing hallucinations from reality is a difficult task.
I was thinking more in terms of distinguishing between sapient and non-sapient: in the Skin Horseverse, recognition of the hallucinatory nature of reality is simply common sense.
Narboniverse.
“Does which happen often? Mirror universes or hallucinations?”
“Yes.”
Perhaps between comics there was this exchange:
“So. Clone, shape-shifter, [1] or alternate universe?”
“The third.”
[1] She could smell the difference if it was a robot duplicate.
And getting a closeup of President!Unity… yikes. Those can’t be good stressed-out crazy eyes.
…pardon me, “that,” “an” and “eye.”
Which does beg* the worrying question of what happened to the OTHER eye…
(* Yes, this is technically not the “correct” meaning of “begging the question”. But (a) it’s the more intuitive/obvious from the phrase meaning, and (b) I need this meaning WAY more often. Like, if you are in an argument with someone where they commit the fallacy of assuming their point is true to prove their point, more often than you think “now this statement makes me wonder about THIS follow-up question”, then you have way more problems than language.)
What the heck is wrong with “this raises the question”?
This is one of my pet peeves but I can’t stand it when people use “beg the question” incorrectly. As to your points a) “beg the question” doesn’t *have* an intuitive meaning. What the heck does “begging” have to do with anything? The average person *shouldn’t* ever use the phrase “beg the question” or even have *heard* the phrase as it very obscure and abstract.
b) Then you use the phrase “this *raises* the question”. That’s obvious and intuitive and was universal until the late 80s when some idiotic TV writer (probably the same one who thought “penultimate” sounds cooler than simply … ultimate…. Thank god that trend has finally phased out) came across it and thought it sound sophisticated.
Just repeat to yourself “that *raises* the question; that *raises* the question”. Just because it is easy to understand, is clear, and sounds right doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it.
I’ve use “beg the question” about twelve times in my entire life and only two or three times I wasn’t talking about Bishop Anselm.
It’s not a common phrase and it *shouldn’t* be a common phrase.
Just because one knows what catechism means doesn’t mean that’s what ones daughter’s third grade teacher uses.
Probably recruited from the Acting Congress…
I’d pick the tapir
But I would not pick the porcupine
I’d pick the tapir
Yes I’d swear it was vice president
All around the white house we’re trying to track him down
They say they want a cabinet opinion
For my choices of reality
For picking a vice president
But I say
I’d pick the tapir
I know that’s not a very good defense
I’d pick the tapir
Who has had an uplift experience
Bob Marely?
“I Shot the Sherriff”?
President Sweetheart is taking Our Sweetheart up to see her Cabinet. What’s next, her etchings?
In President Fancy’s defense, I’ve had days like that sometimes.