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Help Starlooker Solve an Argument

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:03 pm
by starlooker
My friend and I are having a very drawn out argument about what sort of animal this looks like. I brought up the idea that the unbiased observer would say it looks like the animal I say it looks like. Thus, pweb, we are turning to you as unbiased observers to say what you think it is.

He stipulated I not put in a poll, in order not to have order effects or suggest anything inadvertantly. So. Just your first response. What is this?

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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:04 pm
by Janus%TheDoorman
A goat would be my first answer, based mostly on the head. The body is definitely closer to a wolf, or maybe a moose.

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:18 pm
by locke
from the first picture I thought, "mule" from the second picture I thought "Goat"

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:21 pm
by mr_thebrain
it's a female moose

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duh.

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:01 pm
by Wind Swept
How is it anything but a moose?

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:44 am
by Mich
Moose, for sure. Even before the helper picture.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:45 am
by Bean_wannabe
Legs are too short for a moose - it's a goat

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:14 am
by Wil
The base is actually the top of a lake or pond. You can see lily pads. So, half its legs are submerged. Also, moose.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:10 am
by BonitoDeMadrid
Mule, or goat.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:36 am
by daPyr0x
Before reading Wil's post, I was convinced it was a Moosekey; or a creature with the head of a moose and the body of a donkey.

But now the small legs are explained, and even though the body seems too small for the head, I'll stick with moose.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:57 am
by Jayelle
That is clearly a moose.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:31 am
by Olhado_
I would believe it is a moose, just not to scale, which is why his legs are seem shorter.


But if you had a choice to put a goat, a mule, or a moose in front of your business what would you choose. I am guessing a moose since people tend to admire moose more.

Does the name or type of business have any say in this?

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:05 am
by Rei
It's a female moose. Take off the horns and that's what a moose looks like.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:13 am
by Luet
My first thought, before reading the responses, was moose. And it seems that's the consensus as well.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:31 am
by powerfulcheese04
Baby moose.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:28 am
by locke
you know those wierd semi-documentary, semi-movie-with-a-plot narrated animal movies that Disney made for TV way back when? well one of my favorites is an obscure gem called Mister, The Lovesick Moose. and it followed our hero moose from being a baby Moose to being a grown adolescent Moose that is tamed by a kindly, portly old farmer. except Mister breaks down the fence keeping him in and then follows the old man, who pushes a vegetable cart, into town and eats most of the vegetables, causing ruination for the old man (well at least for one day). I don't think it's even on imdb, that's how obscure it is.

Mooses are awesomes.

Adam

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:51 am
by Petra456
Moose! It doesn't even look like a goat.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:36 pm
by Jayelle
So.... do you lose or win your arguement?

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:17 pm
by VelvetElvis
it doesn't look like anything but a moose.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:48 pm
by Caspian
That is either a moose calf or an undersized moose cow. But either way, it is a moose.

You can tell by the moose-shape. Also the gross neck beard. Mooses like that. Also a guy I went to high school with. But this isn't him. It's a moose.

ETA: And Rei, on a moose those things on the side of its head are called "antlers".

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:01 pm
by Rei
I've always thought antlers were stick-like. Those things are more like massive plates with spikes.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:30 pm
by powerfulcheese04
It's actually kind of the opposite.. horns tend to be single kind of spiky things (like on rhinos or unicorns)... more elaborate horns are antlers (like on buck deer or moose).

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:19 am
by wigginboy
I can tell you for sure that it is a moose. I am a Canadian who sees one of those at least three times in a sumer npo matter where I am, plus I hunt, so I see those a lot more than other people. It is definitely a cow moose. (cow meaning female).

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:29 am
by Olhado_
So.... do you lose or win your arguement?
So, starlooker, do we deserve an answer to this question yet or are you still trying to collect more opinions?

It really does appear most people believe it is a moose. :)

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:28 am
by Boothby
Moose all the way.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:55 pm
by LilBee91
It's a moose--obviously.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:24 pm
by locke
when do we find out who won the argument?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:15 pm
by ratesjul
Without seeing a picture of a moose (I'd never seen a moose before. Except perhaps at the bottom of the CN tower), I'd have said goat. But there are a LOT of resemblances to the moose.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:56 pm
by shadow-petra
I'd say it's a baby moose...

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:04 pm
by ender1
Its a Pegasus :P

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:11 pm
by shadow-petra
Pegasus is a horse with wings!!!

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:40 pm
by Seiryu
I also think it's a female moose.

I don't see how it could be a goat. This looks nothing like it:
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Ears aren't the right shape.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:59 am
by Dr. Mobius
More importantly, why is it blue?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:07 pm
by daPyr0x
I figure for the same reason any of these moose exist...

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:30 pm
by LilBee91
More importantly, why is it blue?
Once Upon a Blue Moose is a store in Alaska...that's my first thought.
But why not blue?