This begs the question of Mr. ABOC and any other interested readers; if you were frontiersman and folk-hero, what animal-hybrid abomination would you be?
I’m going to go with the back half of a babirusa and the front half of a banana slug.
If I were an animal hybrid I’d be a chimerical mix of weird, poorly known animals, notably mimic octopus, stopligjt loosejaw, Golden mole, Giant Weta, wrinkled face bat, hooded pitohui, pebble toad, and horned lizard
“Behind it stood our little force,
None wished it to be greater,
For ev’ry man was half a horse,
And half an alligator.”
It was from a song that commemorated Kentucky’s involvement in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was actually a wildly popular song for awhile.
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I mean, is it like a fearsome critter or like Darrel the Doggigator?
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It’s a folk song critter that Davy Crockett described himself as
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Davy Crockett described himself as Alligator Horse? Also, yes you should include it!
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Yes he did!
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This begs the question of Mr. ABOC and any other interested readers; if you were frontiersman and folk-hero, what animal-hybrid abomination would you be?
I’m going to go with the back half of a babirusa and the front half of a banana slug.
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Half tortoise and half thornbush
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Duck and Hellgramite hybrid.
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If I were an animal hybrid I’d be a chimerical mix of weird, poorly known animals, notably mimic octopus, stopligjt loosejaw, Golden mole, Giant Weta, wrinkled face bat, hooded pitohui, pebble toad, and horned lizard
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“Behind it stood our little force,
None wished it to be greater,
For ev’ry man was half a horse,
And half an alligator.”
It was from a song that commemorated Kentucky’s involvement in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was actually a wildly popular song for awhile.
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