A fauxrca.
In all seriousness, it's a pseudorca. Which isn't all that useful as information goes, but how much do I love that that's its actual name?
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Apr 15, 2005 5:10:09 am PDT #5884 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Apr 15, 2005 5:13:30 am PDT #5885 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
juliana - Apr 15, 2005 5:13:59 am PDT #5886 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Laura - Apr 15, 2005 5:15:16 am PDT #5887 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
The OC has lost my love. I only watched the last 10 minutes last night and it reminded me why I don't bother anymore. A shame since Sandy, still cute.
Jesse - Apr 15, 2005 5:17:06 am PDT #5888 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
From that article:
False killer whales do not closely resemble killer whales.
So why the heck do they call them that? Weird.
Anne W. - Apr 15, 2005 5:18:31 am PDT #5889 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
So why the heck do they call them that?
They were originally named by someone with bad eyesight who'd read a description of a killer whale years and years and years ago.
Jesse - Apr 15, 2005 5:20:49 am PDT #5890 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Har. Is that true? Because I can totally see that: "Dude, did you see that? It looked just like a killer whale!" "Are you on crack? No it does not." "IT TOTALLY DOES! I know this from a survey I did."
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 5:22:08 am PDT #5891 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The lurkers emailed me to say it was a killer whale!!!!
tommyrot - Apr 15, 2005 5:22:23 am PDT #5892 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They were originally named by someone with bad eyesight who'd read a description of a killer whale years and years and years ago.
The person also had false teeth. In fact, his nick name was "False Teeth." So for a while the whales were called "False Teeth's Killer Whale." Eventually the name got shortened.
OK, I made that up.
Here's something I didn't make up: Colorado man resuscitates chicken
April 15, 2005 | COLLBRAN, Colo. (AP) -- First there was Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived for 18 months after having its head lopped off with an ax.
Now, western Colorado has a new chicken survival story, this one involving a man who claims he saved his fowl by giving it mouth-to-beak resuscitation.
Uegene Safken says one of the chickens in his young flock had gotten into a tub of water in the yard last week and appeared to have died.
Safken said he first swung the chicken by the feet to revive it. When that failed, he continued swinging and blowing into its beak.
"Then one eye opened. I thought it was an involuntary response," Safken said. The chicken's beak opened a little wider, and Safken started yelling at it: "You're too young to die!
"Every time I'd yell at him, he'd chirp," Safken said.
Mike the Headless Chicken survived a beheading in 1945 in Fruita, Colo. Afterward, Mike could go through the motions of pecking for food, and when he tried to crow, a gurgle came out. His owner put feed and water directly into Mike's gullet with an eyedropper.
Scientists examined the chicken and theorized Mike had enough of a brain stem left to live headless. He was a popular attraction until he choked to death on a corn kernel.
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 5:23:46 am PDT #5893 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Every time I'd yell at him, he'd chirp," Safken said.
Yeah, chicken-speak for "Shut up, you cliched motherfucker!"