A little older, there are the Lord Darcy mysteries by Randall Garrett. Richard the Lionheart and his descendants managed to hold the Angevin kingdom together, and magic was discovered and codified. The stories are about a detective and a sorcerer solving crimes and defeating enemy agents.
I took an optional philosophy class in high school. On the day the teachers did a little presentation of their optional classes, the philosophy teacher talked about Carl Sagan's dragon thought experiment. This resulted in 4 of the students taking the class being very disappointed when they found out the class was not in fact about mythical creatures.Freshman year of college. Western Humanities course studying the friezes of the Acropolis of Athens, in particular Athena's Temple. A fellow student raised their hand and asked the professor if centaurs ever really existed. Private Catholic college, very hard to get into.
Don't tell me there's no such thing as a stupid question.
Hi all, been a bit
And the Prof replied ... ???Freshman year of college. Western Humanities course studying the friezes of the Acropolis of Athens, in particular Athena's Temple. A fellow student raised their hand and asked the professor if centaurs ever really existed. Private Catholic college, very hard to get into.
Don't tell me there's no such thing as a stupid question.
Hi all, been a bit
Freshman year of college. Western Humanities course studying the friezes of the Acropolis of Athens, in particular Athena's Temple. A fellow student raised their hand and asked the professor if centaurs ever really existed. Private Catholic college, very hard to get into.
Don't tell me there's no such thing as a stupid question.
Hi all, been a bit
I have to admit, I read Simon's response as being to Heel's question. I'm stuck trying to imagine saying that to a group of first year college students.
Can't remember. He hem hawed, other people in the class were just 'Really?' think someone brought up genetics and the impossibility. The prof did try to not make the person asking feel stupid, which mostly I'm for, but that's a bit much
You had to see the South Park episode to get the reference.
I have to admit, I have managed to mostly avoid watching much South Park.
Let's just leave it at 'tastes vary'
Figured he'd go into an Ark story about how they missed it while splashing around with the Unicorns.
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They'd wear kilts, or tunics with leather skirts.
That would imply doing a horse's worth of pissing through a human's worth of dick.
Well, in most of the artwork of Chiron, he has both. But then his front legs are also always depicted as being far more human-like. So he's just weird.
Neither. A normal centaur doesn't have a super long neck or torso, so why would the giraffe equivalent?
They only introduced a limit after the South Africa-England test in Durban, in 1939, was abandoned after nine days because the tourists had to catch their boat home. Geoffrey Boycott was still at the wicket several days later.
IIRC it is because the Chicago World newspaper sponsored the first tournament.
Because it would die out pretty quickly (blame Darwin).
Yes, but the human portion would still be enormous, so it would make much more sense to have long spindly arms than to put so much extra mass into the already massive torso. Especially since they aren't going to be using their mouth like a hand like an actual giraffe would.
