Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 August 2026

From Anguish Languish to English Language: Trains-lading debt Furry Tail avowed Beers into a Fairy Tale about Bears

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 It's been decades since I first posted Furry Tails to this blog, and since most of my readers are from countries other than the one in ...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Pangur Bán: An indoor cat made immortal by writer's block

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This Old Irish poem was found at the bottom of a manuscript in the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau, situated on an island in the lake borderi...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

The wolf-child phenomenon: a modern view

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Anyone familiar with Mowgli of Kipling's Jungle Book has heard of such a thing as a wolf-child. The idea of a child being raised by wol...
Thursday, 18 February 2010

Dolphins are fish

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I have before me two cans of Bumble Bee brand Dolphin Safe Premium Chunk Light Tuna. Each bears a logo reading, "FISH TALES: See Inside...
Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Children: Cheaper than Chimps

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It's not easy to direct a Primate Testing Laboratory these days. Never mind that it's almost impossible to come up with a new anti-v...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009

"Sea Kitten" Fetuses: A new name for caviar

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PETA, which I think stands for Practitioners of the Esteemed Tradition of Animism, has launched a campaign against the killing (none dare ca...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Obituary for the English Language

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Modern English passed away recently, following a steady decline in health that took a sudden turn for the worse a few years ago. The chief ...