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Re: Edits duly noted. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 26/07/2010 08:08:23 PM
I see your 10,000 simoleans and raise you a gross of gold doubloons.

No problem; they throw doubloons everywhere during Mardi Gras.

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.

Eggs don't walk. How do you posit this egg "found" its way into the nest? Obviously nefarious external factors--representing society at large--were at work here.


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.

Except one is omnivorous and the other herbivorous! There's no way the ugly putative duckling could have subsisted on a diet of grubs!

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

Budding. Which represents the emergence of the self in a totalitarian society.

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

The evolution of the protoswan represents the emergence of science amongst a hostile religious environment (the cult of duck).

(Is it sad that I'm finding this kinda fun? :P)

Probably. It's okay; you're among friends. :P
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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"It's like the ugly duckling, but with swans." nossy - 25/07/2010 09:40:32 PM 859 Views
Ooh, brownie points snoopcester - 25/07/2010 09:54:34 PM 572 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 570 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 547 Views
I vaguely remember the story. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 07:56:09 AM 669 Views
The cygnet is raised in a family of ducks. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:14:20 AM 523 Views
I looked it up, but Wikipedia was unclear. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:20:39 AM 602 Views
Surely you have a wikipedia quicksearch option, or a bookmark? Tim - 26/07/2010 10:25:24 AM 498 Views
I refer you to my title. And then my edits. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:30:54 AM 493 Views
Edits duly noted. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:43:59 AM 484 Views
Re: Edits duly noted. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 08:08:23 PM 511 Views
Thank you for being my lawyer. Spriteling - 26/07/2010 11:30:45 AM 571 Views
Perhaps we should do a Book Club on The Ugly Duckling. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 12:41:49 PM 568 Views
Basically it's a metaphor for being gay Mark - 26/07/2010 05:17:29 PM 523 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 557 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 541 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 666 Views
I'm going to leap to her defence here. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:19:22 AM 581 Views
Your argument holds no water. nossy - 26/07/2010 07:54:58 PM 537 Views
I'll let you win if I get to see the bootie shake *NM* Tim - 26/07/2010 08:17:17 PM 310 Views
... Rebekah - 26/07/2010 08:32:56 PM 655 Views
*NM* Avendesora - 26/07/2010 08:36:59 PM 324 Views
*dies laughing* nossy - 26/07/2010 09:09:53 PM 640 Views
Well. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 09:11:21 PM 651 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 524 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 532 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 532 Views
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