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Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:58 pm
by _Mercury
http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/newsandevents/namecomp.aspxIn celebration of the laughable apologetic reaching DCP has made in the past I suggest we flood the requests to name the baby Tapir "Dannyboy".
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:08 pm
by _Daniel Peterson
I'm always amused when critics mock
me for the proposal that the Book of Mormon was actually referring to a kind of tapir when it mentions "horses." They seem to think it was my idea.
If so, that simply reveals their ignorance.
Which (even if, in some cases, it's pretty redundant) is fine by
me.
Incidentally,
Dannyboy might have a fairly good
chance at the Belfast Zoo, and I encourage all here to devote their lives 24/7, for the next while, to ensuring that the new little baby tapir does indeed receive that name. What a crushing humiliation it will be to me!
Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:19 pm
by _JohnStuartMill
Human beings and gibbons are more closely related than tapirs and horses. Sorry, Dan.
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:34 pm
by _EAllusion
This is one of the if not the closest living relative of the elephant:
Yet if someone proposed this is the animal that was referred to in tales of Hannibal's assault on the Roman Republic I've read in English, I'd raise an eyebrow. Just sayin'
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:43 pm
by _Mercury
Daniel Peterson wrote:
Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"
Seriously?
Come on now Dannyboy. Seriously?
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:46 pm
by _TAK
DB:Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"
OMG!!!
Yet another slame dunk proof the Book of Mormon is true!!!
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:49 pm
by _William Schryver
I prefer this relative of the elephant, of which western-hemisphere specimens survived until at least 400 C.E.:
Gomphotheres
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:54 pm
by _William Schryver
TAK wrote:DB:Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"
OMG!!!
Yet another slame dunk proof the Book of Mormon is true!!!
OMG!!!
Yet another slam dunk proof that LDS apostates in general, and denizens of
The Great and Spacious Trailer Park™ in particular, are among the most obtuse creatures currently burdening the surface of this planet.
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:57 pm
by _Eric
William Schryver wrote:... the most obtuse creatures currently burdening the surface of this planet.
Re: Name the baby Tapir!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:00 pm
by _JohnStuartMill
Will Schryver has murdered at least 50 people.
The article Schryver linked to says that gomphotheres didn't go extinct in South America until, "possibly", 400 CE. It's also possible that Schryver could have murdered 50 people over the course of his life so far, so, applying his error consistently, we arrive at the conclusion that he is a serial killer.
Illogic is neat, huh?