Kat, I have another idea ... off to check a different database.
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Sparky1 - Oct 08, 2007 9:09:54 am PDT #5640 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2007 9:10:12 am PDT #5641 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.
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
P.Z. Meyers says that if you do, you'll get no scantily-clad women.....
Somebody has found their way to the inner sanctum of the cephalopod lords, and returned with pictures. Yes, it's true: cephalopod worship, for some reason, involves scantily clad women.
Wait a minute…eating cephalopods? No scantily clad ladies for you, Rick.
Sparky1 - Oct 08, 2007 9:14:11 am PDT #5642 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Kat, I have it and will send it to the email address I've used for you before...
Kat - Oct 08, 2007 9:15:29 am PDT #5643 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sparky, you ROCK! you're like the super sleuth librarian! THANK YOU!
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2007 9:26:08 am PDT #5644 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a national institute for play.
Which I found by tracking down this instance of wild and domesticated animals playing.
Connie Neil - Oct 08, 2007 9:29:18 am PDT #5645 of 10001
brillig
How is "play" defined? Activity that is not immediately beneficial to the creature doing the action? One that's not related to food/shelter/survival?
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2007 9:32:48 am PDT #5646 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From the snopes page:
We note that although these photographs are genuine, the interpretation of what they depict is somewhat subjective. Although most lay observers would characterize the activity shown in these images as "play," animal behavioralists differ as to whether it truly constitutes play (i.e., activity engaged in purely for pleasure) or whether that description is an anthropomorphization of more instinctive, survival-based behaviors.
Scrappy - Oct 08, 2007 9:35:25 am PDT #5647 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It sure looks like play when my dog does it at the dog park.
Lee - Oct 08, 2007 9:52:27 am PDT #5648 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Sparky, you ROCK! you're like the super sleuth librarian! THANK YOU!
She really is, and has all the best databases as well.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2007 9:52:33 am PDT #5649 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
play (i.e., activity engaged in purely for pleasure) or whether that description is an anthropomorphization of more instinctive, survival-based behaviors.
I call false dichotomy. Surely activites engaged in purely for pleasure can also be instinctive and/or survival-based. (Otherwise, why have orgasms?)