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Edits duly noted. Tim Send a noteboard - 26/07/2010 10:43:59 AM
I see your 10,000 simoleans and raise you a gross of gold doubloons.

1. The wrong nest? As opposed to the right nest? This isn't how swans take care of their young! Not only are you using an incorrect title, you're misrepresenting an entire species!


Swans nest. Ducks nest. One time, a swan egg accidentally found its way into a duck's nest. This is clearly depicted as being an abnormal occurrence, so no swan but the cygnet's mother has title to sue.

2. Do swans even eat the same things as ducks?


WIKIPEDIA SEZ:

Ducks exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects, small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs.

Swans feed in the water and on land. They are almost entirely herbivorous, although small numbers of aquatic animals may be eaten. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.


So basically yes. They both eat stuff you find in rivers.

3a. Protoswans


If our protagonist was the proto-swan, where did the flock of other swans come from?

3b. METAPHOR


What are the analogues for science and religion? I don't see any.

(Is it sad that I'm finding this kinda fun? )
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.

—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.

—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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"It's like the ugly duckling, but with swans." nossy - 25/07/2010 09:40:32 PM 861 Views
Ooh, brownie points snoopcester - 25/07/2010 09:54:34 PM 573 Views
In fairness, it should properly be cygnet and not duckling. *NM* Ghavrel - 25/07/2010 10:00:09 PM 221 Views
Is there a story called "The Ugly Cygnet?" nossy - 25/07/2010 10:50:45 PM 571 Views
Point being the title is technically incorrect *NM* Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 01:27:48 AM 214 Views
Then I must conclude that our points are different. nossy - 26/07/2010 01:35:01 AM 548 Views
I vaguely remember the story. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 07:56:09 AM 670 Views
The cygnet is raised in a family of ducks. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:14:20 AM 526 Views
I looked it up, but Wikipedia was unclear. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:20:39 AM 603 Views
Surely you have a wikipedia quicksearch option, or a bookmark? Tim - 26/07/2010 10:25:24 AM 500 Views
I refer you to my title. And then my edits. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:30:54 AM 494 Views
Edits duly noted. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:43:59 AM 485 Views
Re: Edits duly noted. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 08:08:23 PM 512 Views
Thank you for being my lawyer. Spriteling - 26/07/2010 11:30:45 AM 572 Views
Perhaps we should do a Book Club on The Ugly Duckling. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 12:41:49 PM 570 Views
Basically it's a metaphor for being gay Mark - 26/07/2010 05:17:29 PM 525 Views
I never knew Andersen was gay. Makes a lot of sense, though. *NM* Legolas - 26/07/2010 06:24:05 PM 273 Views
I always took it as a metaphor for being a nerd *NM* Camilla - 28/07/2010 10:44:18 AM 216 Views
I always took it as a blatant lie told to comfort ugly children. *NM* Ghavrel - 28/07/2010 10:52:05 AM 279 Views
This thread was much more fun than I anticipated. nossy - 26/07/2010 05:48:15 PM 558 Views
yes the best indepth discussion of the Ugly Ducking and the word cygnet I have seen in weeks random thoughts - 26/07/2010 07:01:18 PM 542 Views
Never know what you'll learn around this place. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:17:42 PM 260 Views
Never know what you'll learn around this place. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:20:00 PM 277 Views
Twice, even. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:21:32 PM 281 Views
the knowledge grows *NM* random thoughts - 26/07/2010 08:23:14 PM 301 Views
She's so adorable. Rebekah - 25/07/2010 11:11:59 PM 669 Views
I'm going to leap to her defence here. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:19:22 AM 582 Views
Your argument holds no water. nossy - 26/07/2010 07:54:58 PM 539 Views
I'll let you win if I get to see the bootie shake *NM* Tim - 26/07/2010 08:17:17 PM 311 Views
... Rebekah - 26/07/2010 08:32:56 PM 656 Views
*NM* Avendesora - 26/07/2010 08:36:59 PM 325 Views
*dies laughing* nossy - 26/07/2010 09:09:53 PM 641 Views
Well. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 09:11:21 PM 653 Views
I won anyway, so I'm not sure you've got a good bargaining position. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 09:10:57 PM 326 Views
I can't even remember the context in which I said that. Spriteling - 26/07/2010 09:12:58 PM 526 Views
We were on that pier thingie nossy - 26/07/2010 09:17:14 PM 550 Views
Oh yeah Spriteling - 26/07/2010 09:23:18 PM 533 Views
I understand why you said it nossy - 26/07/2010 09:25:43 PM 521 Views
Mary? *NM* Camilla - 26/07/2010 10:04:18 PM 224 Views
I was once asked "How many seven dwarves were there?" Colonel Logain - 27/07/2010 01:25:55 PM 534 Views
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