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"Oh-ho-ho, I hope your mom wasn't the hummingbird! Ha-HAAA!!"NOTDilbert wrote:Wow, that must have been some party!Catawampus wrote:Did anybody ever specify that it was just one species of animal, though? She could have human and rhinoceros and hummingbird DNA, for all that we know.
I believe that Nudge provided the drinks for it. . .NOTDilbert wrote:Wow, that must have been some party!Catawampus wrote:
Did anybody ever specify that it was just one species of animal, though? She could have human and rhinoceros and hummingbird DNA, for all that we know.
Heh. I'd bet my ex-wife would have it.NOTDilbert wrote:I have a cassette of SCA filk music called Time Winds Tavern - It contains a song about a young - er, lady - who exhibits - er, possesses - features of several - uh, MANY - different supernats. Apparently her mom went to a party back in the day....Wish I could find the cassette, or on YouTube.....funny stuff.
*edit* The song is "Miss-Conception" - and the few sites on the web that mention the album I couldn't get a download from....but considering it's about thirty years old I'm not really surprised.
....it's like a Piers Anthony novel set to music.Fairportfan wrote:Here ya go
Thanks! Other people always seem to have more luck with YouTube searches than I do - possibly something to do with my short attention span/easy frustration level.....BTW, that's a slightly different version than I have on the Time winds Tavern cassette, but still full of awesome after all this time!Fairportfan wrote:Hmmm. Looking at the track list - i once knew Leslie Fish slightly, many years ago, and Bill Sutton is/was a friend, though i haven't seen him in over twenty years.
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Love that album cover by ten-(or more)-time Hugo winner Kelly Freas... Specific title is "Mis-Conceptions", apparently.
Hmmm ... Misty Lackey wrote the song? I thought Leslie did.
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Or ya could buy the CD for $25...
My Google Fu is strong, grasshopper.NOTDilbert wrote:Thanks! Other people always seem to have more luck with YouTube searches than I do - possibly something to do with my short attention span/easy frustration level.....BTW, that's a slightly different version than I have on the Time winds Tavern cassette, but still full of awesome after all this time!Fairportfan wrote:Hmmm. Looking at the track list - i once knew Leslie Fish slightly, many years ago, and Bill Sutton is/was a friend, though i haven't seen him in over twenty years.
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Here ya go
Love that album cover by ten-(or more)-time Hugo winner Kelly Freas... Specific title is "Mis-Conceptions", apparently.
Hmmm ... Misty Lackey wrote the song? I thought Leslie did.
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Or ya could buy the CD for $25...
So that's the magic phrase. I tried "mis-conceptions leslie fish mercedes lackey" and got a lot of book/album covers but no fanart.Sidhekin wrote:Ooh. Image search for "MY MOTHER NEVER TALKS ABOUT THAT ORGY" gives a few interpretations.
That's one of the two I posted; did you miss it, or did you mean to post another?illiad wrote:well I'm amazed you didn't get worse!though I guess the qoutes helped..
is this the sorta thing??
cant have seen it... in a bit of a dash... :\She should meet Grace Sciuridae from El Goonish Shive. That girl is part human, part squirrel, and part two different species of alien both of which are natural shape-shifters (at least one of them has reproductive arrangements that easily allow for such multi-way hybrids).Catawampus wrote:Did anybody ever specify that it was just one species of animal, though? She could have human and rhinoceros and hummingbird DNA, for all that we know.
Of course, mitochondria and chloroplasts are also (apparently) bacteria and cyanobacteria that moved into cells to take over tricky jobs, both likely being endosymbionts....Dave wrote: [Weird factoid of the week: the protozoa which cause malaria have an unusual organelle called the "apicoplast". Without it, they cannot reproduce successfully... it manufactures lipids without which the young protozoa can't survive. The apicoplast is actually descended from algae that were "digested" by the ancestral protozoa... so, in a sense, these protozoa are plant/animal hybrids just as Castela is!
She shouldn't be ashamed of this, though... they're very distant cousins, from a thoroughly disreputable side of the family that nobody will invite over for Christmas dinner.
And where do the fungi come into it? They are animals' closest relatives.bmonk wrote:Of course, mitochondria and chloroplasts are also (apparently) bacteria and cyanobacteria that moved into cells to take over tricky jobs, both likely being endosymbionts....Dave wrote: [Weird factoid of the week: the protozoa which cause malaria have an unusual organelle called the "apicoplast". Without it, they cannot reproduce successfully... it manufactures lipids without which the young protozoa can't survive. The apicoplast is actually descended from algae that were "digested" by the ancestral protozoa... so, in a sense, these protozoa are plant/animal hybrids just as Castela is!
She shouldn't be ashamed of this, though... they're very distant cousins, from a thoroughly disreputable side of the family that nobody will invite over for Christmas dinner.
Yuggoth?Warrl wrote:And where do the fungi come into it?
