The crap they're teaching your kids!

[ThryllSeekyr]

Scientists have determined that stress can now be measured by a simple test. If you are happy, unstressed and fulfilled in your job, you will see two porpoises.

Looking at this picture and reading that question like it is...Suddenly allows me to realise how much I have known the words Porpoise, Dolphin and Cow. what they are without knowing exactly how the words Porpoise and Dolphin really relate to each other. Only after just refreshinng my memory at Wikipedeia do I now realsie that Porpoise is the generic term for the particular family of marine mammals that dolphins as well as whales belong to

I know Dolphins well, because of Seaworld. A dolphin marine park on the Gold Coast spit, Surfers Paradice, Queensland. Be sure to drop in there if your ever on the east coast of Australia.


 

you will see two porpoises .

Why not two Ungulates?. Which is how I reckon is the same difference to a Cow that Porpoise is to a Dolphin.

Ungulates, yeah, I wouldn't never have known that word if not for bolsting my knowledge of farm animals on the Wikipedeia just last night..

Here comes my Slaine reference....

 I was just using Spore : Creature Creator last night to recreate the Bicorne ( A Horse like beast known for it's wide girth and to feed on hen pecked husbands.) and the Chichevanche ( A cow like creature that is starved, skinny, because it needs to feed on faithful wives to survive.). This is ukko's idea of entertainment.Well, I merely wanted to know how Horses and cattle were related. Because these two creatures were supposed to be co-existant.

 I wonder if Wikipedia is frequently usedon school computers. Probably not, although it's handy to have and might eliminate the need for school books.

Looking at that picture, without reading the qestion has me wondering what was the artist thinking.

What is it like to be a cow forced to swim with a dolphin?.  

Is that love, or what?

Have you ever been placed in situation that you knew you had no hope of dealing with and yet still made your way through it.

As for picture, here is my comprimise.



It is supposed to a whale with legs, now long extinct.Rodcetus thought to be discended from this....



Mesonychid, which is cat or dog like carnivore with hoofed feet.

I think it's weird that Ceteceans. Dolphins and whale kind were once land dwellers that evolved to the marine envIroment

it seemed backward when I first thought about it..

Anyway, looking at that picture of Dolphin and the Cow armed with thsi new perspective.. I would agree that they are both Porpoises, but I still feel really stressed and not really satisfied with my current condition of employment.

Catch 22" liked it but still dont understand why i like the main character as he should be shot for treason or being an effing coward

Knowing my father has this book, hearing how much I have heard the name 'Catch 22' crop up. I was wondering if I should be urged to read this atleast once?

It's supposed to be classic.

I'm surpirised that Thrill hasn't been here contrasting and comparing Macbeth with Slaine!

Actuallely, I might have done this in my mind and kept to it myself. Unitl now. Although I have'nt much of comparing the two works apart from  the stuff about three witch and the use of the Crone, the Mid wife and the Maiden in Slaine. There's a few Shakesperean passages that Pat Mills has used in some of the Slaine narratives. Something about comapring the Celtic warrior wivess fighting skill likend to that of a catapult being fired. Stuff like that.

Macbeth was part of my english education at school. We were allowed to watch one of the most recent televised versions of that play which was in 1987 or 88.The one with Martin Shaw playing the hero. Who I thought would have made a interesting Slaine just from his appaerance alone.

Another Slaine reference.

I really couldn't much more out of comparing the two pieces of work.Without watching that show again, re-reading Slaine entirely and also perhaps reading Macbeth properly. The settings is very simoilaer. Well it's the same place while not being the exact same place as Slaine's more northern and from a earlier age or two. The stuff witchs and knights.

 Yes!!!!!.

contrasting

Unless your kidding.

Thats very easy to do.

Thats like asking how many things could I find in other mediums of entertainment that have nothing what so ever to do with Slaine.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I made a mistake before, Implying that a Dolphin is a type of Porpoise, when it really is a surprising similer but a distinctly different marine mammal.

The most notable diffrence is that the Porpoise is shorter, but stouter.

There are differences, to be found if you care to consult the Wikipedia.

I would suggest that they are to Dolphins as dwarf is to Elve. Except for the beard.

Porpoise is french or latin for Pig-fish

is that because of the snout or it's pig like ancestors?

Dolphin is latin for "Fish with a womb"

Can't really say wether or not thats a Dolphin in that other picture, because the angle of it's body is very decpetive to my eyes.

Dolphins do have a more bulbous head, and the dorsal fin  is curved rather than triangular.

 Dolphin would be my first guess though.

[TordelBack]

Dare I admit I found some of that pretty interesting?  Only on 2000ADonline.com, folks!

[ThryllSeekyr]

contrasting

Unless your kidding.

Thats very easy to do.

Thats like asking how many things could I find in other mediums of entertainment that have nothing what so ever to do with Slaine.

I think I really took that out of context before. You see Contrating IU think we all understand that this is when one thing is held up next to each pother to show how different they are or more importantly how one stands out from the other.

It's probably not so much a mistake on my part than a misunderstading.

As long as we all understand what it means in the context it was originally stated in.

[ThryllSeekyr]

It is supposed to a whale with legs, now long extinct.Rodcetus thought to be discended from this....
 

I just thought change that to Rodhocetus, in casr any of you want to look that up.

[SuperSurfer]

Dolphin is latin for "Fish with a womb"

Apologies to those who wish to discuss Shakespeare but I beg to differ with the above.

The name is originally from Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphís; "dolphin"), which was related to the Greek δελφύς (delphys; "womb"). The animal's name can therefore be interpreted as meaning "a 'fish' with a womb".[1] The name was transmitted via the Latin delphinus, Middle Latin dolfinus and the Old French daulphin, which reintroduced the ph into the word.

That'll learn 'em!

[Bouwel]

That'll learn 'em!

I bet they mis-interpreted it on porpoise.

I'll get me coat.

-Bouwel-

[TordelBack]

[ThryllSeekyr]

Being neither Professor or studnet, but something of one that likes to read alot of comics and dabble in Wikipedian.

While the accuracy of the wikipedian isn't absolute, it will always be here for the computer user like me who's too lazy to go the libary and reserach through those huge Excyclopdeia Britainica's...

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin

By the way, what does --WHALE-- mean in one of those ancient languges ?

The full extent of my latin knowledge is what I learnt from playing 'Crusaders of the Shattered Lands' ( Ignius Portence) and watching a old Disney movie called 'Dragonslayer' ( Adeptus Magi.)

[M.I.K.]

By the way, what does --WHALE-- mean in one of those ancient languges ?

Apparently it means "whale".

In Saxon.

[Dandontdare]

Jim Campbell wrote:
WTF? You don't need to know what a porpoise is, because the other thing in the picture is a fucking cow. It is clearly not native to a marine environment. There are two things, they are not the same and one is comically incongruous.

There is no part of this joke that requires you to know what a porpoise is in order to understand it.

Nah. sorry Jim that's absolute tosh. The joke doesn't work at all if you don't know what a porpoise is. If you've never heard the word, or wrongly think it means something completely different, then the joke makes no sense - the 'other' thing may obviously be a cow, but the other other thing is obviously a dolphin, so why would you see two thingamajigs? Try imagining seeing the joke for the first time (almost impossible in reality, as humour is a weird spontaneous reaction) but replacing porpoises with a random made up word, or a word like giraffes - meaningless!

(the fact that it didn't occur to her to look the damn word up so she would GET the joke and forever increase her knowledge however....   )

[TordelBack]

Wit great respect DanDD, unless the person in question doesn't have English as a first language you have to expect a certain level of familiarity with the common names of the limited numbers of cute mammals in your own country...  and thus my not-yet-3-year-old son would find that joke funny.  Not hilarious (sorry, Jim), but he'd certainly understand that a cow wasn't the same as a porpoise.  In fact, I think I'll try him out tomorrow. I might get bemusement, but I'm damn sure he knows roughly what a cow and a porpoise look like.  Lord knows he's quick enough to take me to task on the chimp/monkey divide.

[GordonR]

Some top quality gibberish going on here, TS.  Excellent stuff.  Keep it up!

[Leigh S]

Some top quality gibberish going on here, TS.  Excellent stuff.  Keep it up!

I totally agree, only not in a sarcastic way.  TS always raises a smile, even if you have to translate it a bit - keep on keeping on TS!

[Kerrin]

Jesus, I thought I was a bit warped, what the hell have they done to that poor cow's digestive tract to propel it with such force from the pelagic deeps. They must have been feeding it spacedust and diet-cola the evil little preverts. At least the unfortunate beast was allowed to keep it's bell, which by the way will be even more effective underwater as sound travels more efficiently in a liquid. A fully grown dolphin or porpoise can kill a sea cucumber at thirty metres underwater simply by directing a concentrated barrage of squeaks and clicks.