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Offline Bob

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Was Bach a Viking?
on: January 29, 2013, 12:50:02 PM
A rare asian unicorn passes through the forum... :o

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Re: sighting
Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 12:52:01 PM
It looks like a bicorn to me.

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Re: sighting
Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 01:10:25 PM
Looks like a Saola to me :)
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Re: sighting
Reply #3 on: January 29, 2013, 01:16:50 PM
Looks like a Saola to me :)

To me too, especially since the address of the image is:
materialisticboy.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/saola1.jpg?w=500 ;)

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Re: sighting
Reply #4 on: January 30, 2013, 01:06:27 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saola

AKA, Asian unicorn.


Vu Quang oxen rule...
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Re: sighting
Reply #5 on: January 30, 2013, 05:08:50 AM
I wonder why they it a unicorn.

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Re: sighting
Reply #6 on: January 30, 2013, 05:36:27 AM
I wonder why they it a unicorn.

I apparently has a gentle nature and is virtually impossible to catch sight of in the wild.  I suspect someone didn't quite get the uni-corn thing when they came up with the name.
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Re: sighting
Reply #7 on: January 30, 2013, 05:52:27 AM
OK, I'll bite. How and why does this thread keep moving?  :o

And no, no scotch on the cornflakes today.
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Re: sighting
Reply #8 on: January 30, 2013, 11:47:29 AM
Right, of course!
But what does this have to do with "repertoire"?! 

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Re: sighting
Reply #9 on: January 30, 2013, 12:13:12 PM
OK, I'll bite. How and why does this thread keep moving?  :o

But what does this have to do with "repertoire"?!

This species CANNOT live in captivity... ;D

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Re: sighting
Reply #10 on: January 30, 2013, 01:13:28 PM
Shh... You'll frighten it.
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Re: sighting
Reply #11 on: January 30, 2013, 01:20:32 PM
Of course!
this thread doesn't belong in "repertoire", it beongs in "instruments"...

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Re: sighting
Reply #12 on: January 30, 2013, 03:22:25 PM
Of course!
this thread doesn't belong in "repertoire", it belongs in "instruments"...

I'm afraid the animal's rather small incisors are no match for all that wood and metal here. I suggest scaring it off to yet another section of the forum.  8)
P.S.: On the other hand, since it has a browsing diet, it should be free to browse whatever forum section it likes, no?  ;D

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Re: sighting
Reply #13 on: January 31, 2013, 01:30:03 AM


*eating manuscript paper*

Oops.  Hmm.  Haha.  Still an ok picture....  It appears to be a male asian unicorn.  ::)
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Re: rarely seen repertoire
Reply #14 on: January 31, 2013, 01:47:17 AM
I bet it tastes good...

 :-[
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Re: rarely seen repertoire
Reply #15 on: January 31, 2013, 02:22:30 AM
I bet it tastes good...

 :-[

It's one of the worlds most critically endangered species.   For an animal this size, that's usually a sign they're yummy.

You rot in hell for testing that theory, of course.
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Re: rarely seen repertoire
Reply #16 on: January 31, 2013, 03:04:51 AM
Haha, i feel bad when i eat dear, but i just cant help it...if u were starving in the forest, and u saw it, would u try to eat it or pass?
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Re: rarely seen repertoire
Reply #17 on: January 31, 2013, 03:05:53 AM
I thought he meant the manuscript paper.
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Re: rarely seen repertoire
Reply #18 on: January 31, 2013, 03:07:40 AM


*hiding in the grassland*
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Re: Most difficult piece?
Reply #19 on: January 31, 2013, 03:11:41 AM
No wonder he looks nervous. If you "poll" a unicorn, it's nothing special.
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Re: Most difficult piece?
Reply #20 on: January 31, 2013, 03:12:25 AM


Uh oh...
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Re: Most difficult piece?
Reply #21 on: January 31, 2013, 03:26:55 AM
airasia.com/travel3sixty/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/4311.jpg

Uh oh...

 :o Time to try on one of those carnivore injury resistant jackets...

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Re: Most difficult piece?
Reply #22 on: January 31, 2013, 03:51:38 AM
Name changes, locatuion changes. This little beast is hard to track down. I'm a gonna need special equipment:

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Re: Most difficult piece?
Reply #23 on: February 01, 2013, 11:32:20 PM



That's not an Asian unicorn....
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Re: Am I ready for the Fantasie Impromptu?
Reply #24 on: February 02, 2013, 03:31:35 AM
You should call this the multiple personality thread since the title keeps changing. Bob is bored no? :)
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Re: Am I ready for the Fantasie Impromptu?
Reply #25 on: February 02, 2013, 04:10:23 AM
It's back!




I thought it would be interesting to release a rare Asian unicorn in the forum.   (As opposed to the common, everyday Asian unicorn.)
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Re: Am I ready for the Fantasie Impromptu?
Reply #26 on: February 02, 2013, 05:49:05 AM
worldzootoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ALeqM5hn9YSGov2rNROrvhox4lbQGja8YA.jpg

That's not an Asian unicorn....

That seems to be a Chinese pangolin, unfortunately on the brink of extinction...

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Re: Am I ready for the Fantasie Impromptu?
Reply #27 on: February 03, 2013, 12:08:45 AM
That seems to be a Chinese pangolin, unfortunately on the brink of extinction...

Paul

maybe we could write a song? like you know like a WE ARE THE WORLD type thing    what rhymes with pangolin? 

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Re: Am I ready for the Fantasie Impromptu?
Reply #28 on: February 03, 2013, 01:27:03 AM
Hmmm.  *Bob does not remember moving the topic back here.*
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Re: World of Warcarft
Reply #29 on: February 03, 2013, 02:10:04 AM


Also not an Asian unicorn....
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Re: World of Warcarft
Reply #30 on: February 03, 2013, 02:35:22 PM
ahhhh We Are the World of Warcraft...nice Bob 8) 

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Re: World of Warcarft
Reply #31 on: February 03, 2013, 02:46:42 PM
maybe we could write a song? like you know like a WE ARE THE WORLD type thing    what rhymes with pangolin?

Unfortunately, only near-rhyme words are possible.

P.S.: Do you remember the "Elephant song" by Kamahl?

The pangolin fits into the melody:

Tell me said the pangolin
Tell me brothers if you can
Why all the world is full of creatures
Yet we grow in fear of man... etc. ;D

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Re: World of Warcarft
Reply #32 on: February 03, 2013, 02:56:04 PM
Unfortunately, only near-rhyme words are possible.

P.S.: Do you remember the "Elephant song" by Kamahl?

The pangolin fits into the melody:

Tell me said the pangolin
Tell me brothers if you can
Why all the world is full of creatures
Yet we grow in fear of man... etc. ;D


Paul

"You are old Papa Pangolin," the young man said, "and your hair is exceedingly white
and yet you incessantly stand on your head--
at your age do you think this is right?"

"In my youth" said the Pangolin beast to his son  ;D
"I feared it might injure the brain,
but now that I'am perfectly sure I have none why I do it again and again...


I am thinking a Andrew Lloyd Webber type number...:)

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Re: Was Bach a Viking?
Reply #33 on: February 07, 2013, 04:42:00 AM




It's not an Asian unicorn and it's not Bach but it does come up from a Google image search of "Asian unicorn Bach."
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Re: Was Bach a Viking?
Reply #34 on: February 07, 2013, 04:44:00 AM



It's back!

No, no...




It's Bach!
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Re: Was Bach a Viking?
Reply #35 on: February 07, 2013, 05:43:42 AM
Was Bach a Viking?

Nope. He was black.



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