When we pose a question, like the identity of the bizarre furry animal posted yesterday, we always answer it in an update. But you’re not reading, folks! It is a LION HEAD RABBIT.
Go see the update (at the bottom of the original post) for links to this bizarre excrescence of artificial selection.
I’m thinking it’s gotta be some kind of cat.
Now that has to be a spectacular achievement in the ‘didn’t read the post’ category! 😉
Try replacing the batteries in your sarcasm meter. :p
I’m betting the intelligent design that lineage was subjected to caused an entirely different species to arise spontaneously. In other words, I still think it’s a woodchuck.
Nu, nu…. 😉
As another wordpress blobsite owner, I might point out that people may be reading the posts on the home page, rather than clicking through to each individual post. You’d see your overall views increase, but not necessarily an increase in views for one particular post.
That’s what I do when I don’t have time to read all the comments.
(of course, the folks who continued to guess after the answer was revealed are not reading the entire post, but as I recall, there was a biology post that you thought people were ignoring because of lack of views/comments…anyhoo, I shall go mind my own business now)
“blobsite” owner??
Ummm, you specialise in jellyfish ichnofossils? Or slime moulds? Sputum ballistics?
The mind boggles!
Oh, I thought I’d try Coyning a neologism; a suitably respectable portmanteau that conveys both the professionalism of “website” and the true nature of this forum.
It’s super classy and I think it works.
I like it because this is where I come when I’m blobbing.
Oh, I *do* like it. “Blobsite” ; Googles ; 1010 results, which by the power of “police code numerology” tells me … something deeply profound and shallowly superficial.
Ah, nothing new under the sun.
The question is begged, perhaps for another quiz, of what is the most “bizarre excrescence of artificial selection” known to this blobsite’s readership?
Sphinx (hairless) cats has got to score highly.Would the nylon- (actually, nylon-precursor) eating bacteria count, as their selection was not deliberate?Anything like a Great Dane crossed with a Chihuahua dog, with or without a stool for balancing on?
Yes!
Let’s keep this this thing going! Blobsite FTW!
The Great Dane/Chihuahua cross (a Griduadua?) would presumably be just some fairly nondescript medium-sized dog, wouldn’t it, since there are probably several genes for dog-size?
At what point does breeding bizarre animals that can’t survive without a lot of human help become cruelty? But then, perhaps we should look at H. sapiens as an extreme example.
There’s logic there ; circular logic perhaps, but at least that isn’t likely to lead you further off the path of truth and light than you are already.
“But you’re not reading, folks! It is a LION HEAD RABBIT.”
No one believes that. It’s plainly the business end of a dust mop.