Say you've never seen a dinosaur before. You see this animal. What do you call it?
Say you've never seen a dinosaur before. You see this animal. What do you call it?
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
What have I seen before? If I know birds, id call this a bladefoot or a killer quail.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bird.
ReplyDeletea dragonbird or something?
ReplyDeletelizard chicken
ReplyDeleteI can't think of anything non-lame, like ground eagle.
ReplyDeleteHooked Strider.
ReplyDeleteStunt-winged Murder Brizard.
ReplyDeleteThere was a Dragon magazine article 30+ years ago about flightless dragons. I think they called them dragons, but with a different latin scientific name.
ReplyDeleteNo-Armed Dumb Face.
ReplyDeleteTerror Runner, on account of it looks like a roadrunner that will eat you.
ReplyDeletemaybe it'd just get called a harpy or a hippogriff or something
ReplyDeleteA platygryff.
ReplyDeleteLand buzzard. Dragon harrier. Death grebe.
ReplyDeleteBeak Dog.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast.
ReplyDeleteKitty!
ReplyDeleteTo echo Kirt, there's a story about my uncle from when they were growing up. The house they lived in was along a dirt alley. For trash pick-up you just put your garbage cans over the fence into the alley. One day when my uncle was around three years old they caught him playing in the alley, trying to lure a cat from where it was hiding among the garbage cans. "Here kitty kitty!" It was an enormous rat.
ReplyDeleteDire-Moa?
ReplyDeleteDire-Columbidae :O)
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ReplyDeleteThink also of what people would think of its effect on the habitat.