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Lamat18 · Postby **Lamat18** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:33 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Octan @ Nov 11 2004, 01:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> ...You own the entire set of the "Land before Time" movies.  </td></tr></table>  That's actually kind of funny due to the fact that my nine year old little sister does own the entire series and boy have they gotten bad. Why would the Land Before Time be considered furry if there are no anthropromorphic animal characters in the movie?

Septimius Severus · Postby **Septimius Severus** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:57 am

THat's the one with the talking dinosaurs, no? Anthropomorphism (n) -- Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. They talk, ergo they are anthropomorphic.

Kles · Postby **Kles** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:01 am

Yeah. Furries ARE Anthromorphic. Might I add I own the whole set too. Well, assuming they didn't make any past nine.

ShadOtterdan · Postby **ShadOtterdan** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:59 am

The watching cartoons more than most children and growling instead of swearing fit for me. On a side note, growling is really effective in telling people you aren't in a good mood.

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:27 am

Some of that applies to me. And I don't think Harold did badly to defeat Harald at Stamford Bridge and then march all the way down the country to do battle with William the Bastard.

Lamat18 · Postby **Lamat18** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:35 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Septimius Severus @ Nov 11 2004, 05:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> THat's the one with the talking dinosaurs, no? Anthropomorphism (n) -- Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. They talk, ergo they are anthropomorphic. </td></tr></table>  Yeah, i guess you got me there. I didn't consider the ability to talk factor, yet thats really the only thing that is anthropromorphic about them. You can also argue that they have the ability to use tools, which is a charcterisitic of a furry animal. Def. furry- an anthropomorphic animal, that is an animal having some of the characteristics of a human like being able to walk on two legs, speak human languages, use tools etc. But (and this is only my opinion) I think that the term "furry" has become to broad a term that can classify just about anything. Not saying that i am against furries or anything. I guess when it comes right down to it, its all a matter of opinion.

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:41 pm

Actually, the use of tools isn't exclusive to humans, so that's not a furry trait.

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:02 am

Okay, maybe there's something in us that just can't not over examine stuff...

rf` · Postby **rf`** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:50 am

Septimius Severus · Postby **Septimius Severus** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:08 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Burning Sheep Productions @ Nov 12 2004, 07:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Okay, maybe there's something in us that just can't not over examine stuff...  </td></tr></table>  It's an evil alein entity. Or maybe it's nanobots. Haven't you ever read Prey?

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:55 pm

On the whole tools think...these Japanese crows rock at it - they use cars to smash nuts open and bend wire to make like hook-y thingys. But not the thingy. But I'm dragging this off topic in two directions at once.

Septimius Severus · Postby **Septimius Severus** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:14 pm

Remember the hoopla about the 3-foot-high men in Indonesia? Considering how much smaller their brains were than ours, their tool use seems to suggest that when it comes to grey matter, it's not the size that counts, but what you do with it. Of course, that in turn makes me wonder why humans would have developed their unwieldy and expensive big brains to begin with. Perhaps tool use for the "hobbitses" Had become an inhereted trait, with big-brained ancestors having come up with tools, they taught their increasingly small-brained progeny the techniques, until eventually it was a case analogous to one cat teaching another to use a litter box. I'm not enturely sure how I got here, but I like it nonetheless.

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:38 pm

Were these "hobbits" (I can't believe that name actually stuck) pre or post homo habilis?

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:18 pm

On the grey matter issue, I know we only use a small proportion of our brains

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:21 pm

I thought that was just a myth?

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