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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 798 Views
Ooh, brownie points snoopcester - 25/07/2010 09:54:34 PM 519 Views
In fairness, it should properly be cygnet and not duckling. *NM* Ghavrel - 25/07/2010 10:00:09 PM 199 Views
Is there a story called "The Ugly Cygnet?" nossy - 25/07/2010 10:50:45 PM 507 Views
Point being the title is technically incorrect *NM* Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 01:27:48 AM 189 Views
Then I must conclude that our points are different. nossy - 26/07/2010 01:35:01 AM 479 Views
I vaguely remember the story. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 07:56:09 AM 592 Views
The cygnet is raised in a family of ducks. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:14:20 AM 455 Views
I looked it up, but Wikipedia was unclear. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:20:39 AM 537 Views
Surely you have a wikipedia quicksearch option, or a bookmark? Tim - 26/07/2010 10:25:24 AM 442 Views
I refer you to my title. And then my edits. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 10:30:54 AM 433 Views
Edits duly noted. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:43:59 AM 425 Views
Re: Edits duly noted. Ghavrel - 26/07/2010 08:08:23 PM 446 Views
Thank you for being my lawyer. Spriteling - 26/07/2010 11:30:45 AM 509 Views
Perhaps we should do a Book Club on The Ugly Duckling. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 12:41:49 PM 497 Views
Basically it's a metaphor for being gay Mark - 26/07/2010 05:17:29 PM 469 Views
I never knew Andersen was gay. Makes a lot of sense, though. *NM* Legolas - 26/07/2010 06:24:05 PM 247 Views
I always took it as a metaphor for being a nerd *NM* Camilla - 28/07/2010 10:44:18 AM 196 Views
I always took it as a blatant lie told to comfort ugly children. *NM* Ghavrel - 28/07/2010 10:52:05 AM 260 Views
This thread was much more fun than I anticipated. nossy - 26/07/2010 05:48:15 PM 498 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 470 Views
Never know what you'll learn around this place. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:17:42 PM 241 Views
Never know what you'll learn around this place. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:20:00 PM 253 Views
Twice, even. *NM* nossy - 26/07/2010 07:21:32 PM 256 Views
the knowledge grows *NM* random thoughts - 26/07/2010 08:23:14 PM 280 Views
She's so adorable. Rebekah - 25/07/2010 11:11:59 PM 596 Views
I'm going to leap to her defence here. Tim - 26/07/2010 10:19:22 AM 509 Views
Your argument holds no water. nossy - 26/07/2010 07:54:58 PM 472 Views
I'll let you win if I get to see the bootie shake *NM* Tim - 26/07/2010 08:17:17 PM 289 Views
... Rebekah - 26/07/2010 08:32:56 PM 594 Views
*NM* Avendesora - 26/07/2010 08:36:59 PM 300 Views
*dies laughing* nossy - 26/07/2010 09:09:53 PM 579 Views
Well. Rebekah - 26/07/2010 09:11:21 PM 595 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 308 Views
I can't even remember the context in which I said that. Spriteling - 26/07/2010 09:12:58 PM 467 Views
We were on that pier thingie nossy - 26/07/2010 09:17:14 PM 515 Views
Oh yeah Spriteling - 26/07/2010 09:23:18 PM 476 Views
I understand why you said it nossy - 26/07/2010 09:25:43 PM 457 Views
Mary? *NM* Camilla - 26/07/2010 10:04:18 PM 198 Views
I was once asked "How many seven dwarves were there?" Colonel Logain - 27/07/2010 01:25:55 PM 466 Views
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