Sunday, November 21, 2010

You'd look unhappy too

if you had somehow wedged yourself between two trees and a gang of Mexican jumping beans came along and attacked you from behind.

The Gulo, or Gorbelly hath the name from greedineſſe. Scaliger calls him a fourfooted vulture; Corllius an Ox-eater; the Germans Vielfraſe. Found they are in Lithuania, Moſcovy, and other Northern Regions. They feed on carcaſſes, and so cram themſelves, that they ſtrut like a drum. They ſqueeze out their excrements between two trees by force, and then return to their carcaſſe, and cram themſelves again.
There are people out there with interesting fantasy lives but I can't see the role of the Gulo appealing even to the furries --

UPDATE:
mikey speculates in comments about the possibility of Gulo-poop coffee. I'm sure WOLVERINES!! there would be WOLVERINES!! a market for it WOLVERINES!!.


UPDATE²
Did we ever decide on the correct term for the aquatic equivalent of a Furry?

18 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

My own research leads me to chant Hÿæna.
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Smut Clyde said...

ITTDGY is a Siouxsie-&-Banshees fan?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

I like them.

But this was my research.
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mikey said...

God damn. I'm going to have to spend the next several days walking around the neighborhood in search of those two perfectly aligned trees.

ckc (not kc) said...

...it they just had plastic bag dispensers on those cathartic trees, all would be right with the world

Smut Clyde said...

Ah, what you have there is the 1655 edition, while I'm looking at the 1678 edition. The 1655 Latin version was printed in Frankfurt and illustrations are credited to Matthaus Merian d.J.; the 1678 version is the English translation, printed in London by some shady outfit who found some hack to copy Merian's originals.

I like the walking-on-water aquatic wolf.

Also Ombudsmoose Fail.

Smut Clyde said...

plastic bag dispensers on those cathartic trees

Indeed, but we also need more responsible owners who pick up the p00p when they take their wolverines for walkies.

mikey said...

Hey, Smut!

You don't suppose we could teach Gulo there to eat coffee beans, could we? Maybe put some Alpo or dead Haitians on them?

W/V suggests they be unbledd

Substance McGravitas said...

Somehow my image search had set itself to safe searching and I just could not see what the big deal was. Until I turned it off of course.

Hamish Mack said...

It does seem a bit too lucky that gulo found squeezing trees right near the bones of a previous meal.And the Jesus wolf looks a little "sheepish" about the water walking hoax. Were these pictures in the Daily Mail?

fish said...

There are people out there with interesting fantasy lives but I can't see the role of the Gulo appealing even to the furries --

There is a small but enthusiastic Gulo/Cleveland Steamer crossover group. Some forests should simply be avoided.

Smut Clyde said...

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...
I like them.


In Gesner's book and Topsell's pirated version, that picture is identified as a Crucigeran fox. Jonston changed it to a Hÿæna and added the terrified people fleeing in the background, so you know, total FRAME-UP.

fish said...

Did we ever decide on the correct term for the aquatic equivalent of a Furry?

A slurry?

mikey said...

I believe that if one were to follow the previously approved format for name creation, an aquatic furry would be a scalie.

I once got scabies from a really hot babe at a nude swimming hole in west marin.

But I digress

Butch Pansy said...

I was thinking "slimy," because I had envisioned tentacles. Ichthy?

Smut Clyde said...

I think it's safe to assume that no-one could possibly progress (or deteriorate) from sexual fantasies that involve fur-suiting to those that cannot be gratified without dressing up as a hagfish OH FECK.

fish said...

Disturbing hagfish is disturbing.

Hamish Mack said...

Wouldn't it scare the jebus out of one if one found it in ones living room?