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(Slate)   Thomas Jefferson used a moose to prove to Europe that North America was not a "degenerate continent." Unfortunately, that moose went on to bite the King's sister   (slate.com) divider line 62
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2012-09-12 09:39:16 AM
Mind you, møøse bites can be pretty nasti.
 
2012-09-12 09:51:04 AM
UberDave: Mind you, møøse bites can be pretty nasti.

I see I am not needed here.
 
2012-09-12 10:06:21 AM
The King of Europe's sister?
 
2012-09-12 10:48:02 AM
UberDave: Mind you, møøse bites can be pretty nasti.

I have heard that.
 
2012-09-12 10:49:40 AM
She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".
 
2012-09-12 10:50:18 AM
Without bothering to scan every page I wonder if the author bothered to credit Scientific American which basically did the exact same article last year....
 
2012-09-12 10:51:25 AM
SlothB77: The King of Europe's sister?

Once I was the King of Spain. I don't have a sister, though.
 
2012-09-12 10:55:03 AM
Perducci: Once I was the King of Spain.

And now you work at the Pizza-pizza?
 
2012-09-12 10:55:25 AM
Møøse trained by TUTTE HERMSGERVORDENBROTBORDA
Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT
Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL
Møøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III
Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME
Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG
Møøses' noses wiped by BJORN IRKESTOM-SLATER WALKER

Large møøse on the left half side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by BO BENN

Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER
Antler-care by LIV THAT
 
2012-09-12 10:55:35 AM
Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

www.bcadventure.com
"Beg pardon?"
 
2012-09-12 10:55:42 AM
Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

This reminds me of the David Duke book that states blacks are lazy because Africa is a warm, idyllic paradise where life is easy and whites are tough and strong because Europe is cold in the winter.

People believe this kind of stuff because they are hungry for evidence of their own superiority. You still see it all the time. I'm smarter because I'm from New York and everyone here agrees that we're smarter than other people. I'm nicer because I'm from Alabama and everyone here agrees that we're nicer than other people.

The worst example is "X has the hottest women in the world and all of my friends that live in X agree with me." I've heard this for so many states and cities. I've even heard that "Nebraska women are the hottest in the world."
 
2012-09-12 10:56:28 AM
MooseUpNorth: Perducci: Once I was the King of Spain.

And now you work at the Pizza-pizza?


Slow-cooked pizza's more luscious.
 
2012-09-12 10:58:27 AM
Madison also enclosed a table with measurements on everything from the "width of the ears horizontally" to a more delicate measure of the "distance between the anus and the vulva."

giggity
 
2012-09-12 10:59:21 AM
SlothB77: The King of Europe's sister?

I didn't vote for her.
 
2012-09-12 11:01:17 AM
Son of Thunder: Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

[www.bcadventure.com image 400x271]
"Beg pardon?"



Want to know something funny? We've only started to recognize that 13,000 after the mass extinction here on the North American continent, we still have forests that are geared up for giants?
 
2012-09-12 11:01:22 AM
I thought moose was his sister.
 
2012-09-12 11:01:34 AM
Rapmaster2000: I've even heard that "Nebraska women are the hottest in the world."

Yeah baby, you're the hottest. Much hotter than that other chick. 'Cause you're here now!
 
2012-09-12 11:01:43 AM
Yeah, but did the moose pull a rabbit out of his hat?
 
2012-09-12 11:01:43 AM
www.bcadventure.com: DERP
 
2012-09-12 11:01:56 AM
MBooda: SlothB77: The King of Europe's sister?

I didn't vote for her.


That's probably why that moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at you.
/you don't *vote* for King's sister
 
2012-09-12 11:02:14 AM
"Degenerate Moose"

Sounds like a Canadian porno.
 
2012-09-12 11:03:42 AM
Son of Thunder: MooseUpNorth: Perducci: Once I was the King of Spain.

And now you work at the Pizza-pizza?

Slow-cooked pizza's more luscious.


The King of Spain never rushes.
 
2012-09-12 11:07:48 AM
Jefferson was a cool dude. He threw a massive beer bust after England surrendered.
 
2012-09-12 11:08:07 AM
files-cdn.formspring.me

Harken to me, gentle denizens of Europe, and witness here this most degenerate of all carnivores from America, the shriveled pansy bear. Verily, it is the most fearsome predator to roam that distant swampland, though it still appears a clumsy and daft creature on its own.
 
2012-09-12 11:09:30 AM
Perducci: SlothB77: The King of Europe's sister?

Once I was the King of Spain. I don't have a sister, though.


Do you have an unspeakable wife?
 
2012-09-12 11:11:48 AM
UberDave: Mind you, møøse bites can be pretty nasti.

And we're done in one.
 
2012-09-12 11:13:06 AM
Park's closed, the Moose out front should have told you.
 
2012-09-12 11:13:51 AM
files-cdn.formspring.me

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
 
2012-09-12 11:14:09 AM
Emracool the Aeons Hip:
files-cdn.formspring.me
Harken to me, gentle denizens of Europe, and witness here this most degenerate of all carnivores from America, the shriveled pansy bear. Verily, it is the most fearsome predator to roam that distant swampland, though it still appears a clumsy and daft creature on its own.

Yeesh. That thing should be crouched on a cathedral somewhere in France.
 
2012-09-12 11:15:07 AM
Emracool the Aeons Hip: Harken to me, gentle denizens of Europe, and witness here this most degenerate of all carnivores from America, the shriveled pansy bear. Verily, it is the most fearsome predator to roam that distant swampland, though it still appears a clumsy and daft creature on its own.

That is one ugly sumbiotch
 
2012-09-12 11:15:14 AM
I'd have liked to see this guys response if he wound up in a Louisiana swamp in summer
 
2012-09-12 11:15:26 AM
justadadX3: She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".


The Farker responsible for sacking those who have just been sacked, has just been sacked.
 
2012-09-12 11:16:45 AM
Emracool the Aeons Hip: [files-cdn.formspring.me image 575x400]



so, this is what happens when you feed one of those hairless cats after midnight
 
2012-09-12 11:20:01 AM
Rapmaster2000: I've even heard that "Nebraska women are the hottest in the world."

no, no, no. Nebraska is where the girls are the fairest. (and the boys are the squarest.)
 
2012-09-12 11:20:31 AM
Tax Boy: [files-cdn.formspring.me image 575x400]

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?


Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?
 
2012-09-12 11:21:37 AM
That moose would later be partnered with a squirrel to defend us from the Soviet Union.
 
2012-09-12 11:30:35 AM
"Buffon proclaimed that North America was a land of swamps, where life putrefied and rotted."

Clearly, Buffon was only familiar with North Jersey or he was a mystic who foresaw the rise of Florida.
 
2012-09-12 11:31:45 AM
kiwimoogle84: justadadX3: She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".

The Farker responsible for sacking those who have just been sacked, has just been sacked.


We apologise again for the fault in this post. Those responsible for the sacking the people who just been sacked, have been sacked.

\Llama!
 
2012-09-12 11:32:30 AM
Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

The hell he say?
a-z-animals.com
 
2012-09-12 11:34:08 AM
We want to know what happened to this country ? well we went from people of science running the country to salesmen doing so.

/nuff said

but also this

t3.gstatic.com
 
2012-09-12 11:34:41 AM
the.squid: That moose would later be partnered with a squirrel to defend us from the Soviet Union.

R&B protected the U.S. of A.from Pottsylvania. Mr. Big, Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.were the enemy spies.
 
2012-09-12 11:35:44 AM
Rapmaster2000: This reminds me of the David Duke book that states blacks are lazy because Africa is a warm, idyllic paradise where life is easy and whites are tough and strong because Europe is cold in the winter.

Actually, while that has very little to do with physical traits or mental aptitude, it may very well have a lot to do with why Europeans developed metal-based technology and sub-Saharan Africans not so much.

Nearly all technology past the stone age pretty much requires metal. Before a people can have even the concept of metal, how would they find out that such a thing even exists? You don′t just find metal lying around on the ground ― not before some other humans have extracted and processed the ore, anyway. Metal ores tend to look just like any ol′ rock (a bit more colorful than most in the case of copper ores, perhaps, but no shiny stuff).

So how did metal get discovered? The usual hypothesis is that in northern climes where the winters were cold, the primitive tribes needed to build hotter fires for survival and comfort. Since it became obvious early on that air was needed for fire (if they didn′ know why, or about oxygen being part of air), eventually someone got the idea that if you lifted the burning wood off the ground so that air could come in from underneath, it would burn hotter. So, they built stone hearths that did precisely that.

In a place where the winters were cold and there were copper ores around, someone built a hearth using some pretty blue-and-green rocks they found. After the fire went out, surprise surprise, there was this hard, smooth, shiny reddish stuff coating some of the rocks, a substance totally unlike any they had ever seen before!

This would be much less likely to happen in a warmer equatorial climate without discrete winters.
 
2012-09-12 11:37:28 AM
rustypouch: Son of Thunder: MooseUpNorth: Perducci: Once I was the King of Spain.

And now you work at the Pizza-pizza?

Slow-cooked pizza's more luscious.

The King of Spain never rushes.


(Once, he was the King of Spain!)
 
2012-09-12 11:39:53 AM
FTFA": "In late 1785, Jefferson dined with Buffon in the count's summer mansion outside Paris. Jefferson found that Buffon was "absolutely unacquainted" with the American moose and thought it was simply a miscategorized reindeer. Jefferson told the count "that the rein deer could walk under the belly of our moose.""

The wording here implies that Buffon, a renown naturalist, was unaware of the European Moose (though the people there call it an Elk). Jefferson's claim was probably that the American Moose was larger than the European one and thus American animals were not automatically degenerate - a claim that is hard to tell given that the author is stupid.
 
2012-09-12 12:01:08 PM
Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

www.nps.gov

Da fuq?
 
2012-09-12 12:02:36 PM
Rapmaster2000: Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

This reminds me of the David Duke book that states blacks are lazy because Africa is a warm, idyllic paradise where life is easy and whites are tough and strong because Europe is cold in the winter.

People believe this kind of stuff because they are hungry for evidence of their own superiority. You still see it all the time. I'm smarter because I'm from New York and everyone here agrees that we're smarter than other people. I'm nicer because I'm from Alabama and everyone here agrees that we're nicer than other people.

The worst example is "X has the hottest women in the world and all of my friends that live in X agree with me." I've heard this for so many states and cities. I've even heard that "Nebraska women are the hottest in the world."


Corn fed.
 
2012-09-12 12:21:00 PM
Buffon argued that because North America was a cold and wet clime, all species found there were weak, shriveled, and diminished-they were degenerate.

upload.wikimedia.org

Who're you calling shriveled?
 
2012-09-12 12:24:11 PM
This is mentioned in Bill Byson's excellent book A Short History of Nearly Everything, in the chapter 'Science Red in Tooth and Claw'.

What the article doesn't mention, is that the drive to prove Buffon wrong by discovering specimens that showed the virility of American wildlife led accidentally to the discovery of prehistoric mega-fauna such as Mastodons and Mammoths.
 
2012-09-12 12:32:35 PM
Emracool the Aeons Hip: [files-cdn.formspring.me image 575x400]

Harken to me, gentle denizens of Europe, and witness here this most degenerate of all carnivores from America, the shriveled pansy bear. Verily, it is the most fearsome predator to roam that distant swampland, though it still appears a clumsy and daft creature on its own.


Didn't Boston Dynamics debut this thing last week?
 
2012-09-12 12:40:35 PM
3.bp.blogspot.com
 
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