Comments on: Famous ambiguous rabbitduck recreated as taxidermy http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 02:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-908322 Cowicide Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-908322 I wonder how we'd feel about aliens ever coming to our planet and doing the same with us? Maybe for fun that can use their technology to keep us alive while they do it? <a href="http://data-allocine.blogomaniac.fr/mdata/9/5/8/Z20050330143003463641859/img/ma_509.jpg">Like this?</a> I wonder how we’d feel about aliens ever coming to our planet and doing the same with us? Maybe for fun that can use their technology to keep us alive while they do it?

Like this?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-909347 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-909347 With respect to duck/rabbit seasons: a while ago my wife and I have gone to great pain in scientifically tracking the periodic (circumannual) interchange from duck to rabbit and back again: P.Brugger and S.Brugger, "The Easter bunny in October: is it disguised as a duck?", Perceptual and Motor Skills 76/1993:577-578 - reprint available on request by peter.bruggeratusz.ch With respect to duck/rabbit seasons: a while ago my wife and I have gone to great pain in scientifically tracking the periodic (circumannual) interchange from duck to rabbit and back again: P.Brugger and S.Brugger, “The Easter bunny in October: is it disguised as a duck?”, Perceptual and Motor Skills 76/1993:577-578 – reprint available on request by peter.bruggeratusz.ch

]]> By: Elliott C. 'Eeyore' Evans http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907352 Elliott C. 'Eeyore' Evans Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907352 Better than 3D, behold the duckrabbit in 12oz. http://www.duckrabbitbrewery.com/ :) Better than 3D, behold the duckrabbit in 12oz. http://www.duckrabbitbrewery.com/ :)

]]> By: icastico http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907364 icastico Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907364 Nice. Wonder how well the illusion works in the flesh. Nice. Wonder how well the illusion works in the flesh.

]]> By: ZippySpincycle http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907366 ZippySpincycle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907366 "Ah, good old-fashioned nightmare fuel!" “Ah, good old-fashioned nightmare fuel!”

]]> By: calvert4096 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907379 calvert4096 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907379 @ Evans Couldn't help but notice the Duck-Rabbit Brewery is in Farmville, NC. @ Evans
Couldn’t help but notice the Duck-Rabbit Brewery is in Farmville, NC.

]]> By: Cheqyr http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907381 Cheqyr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907381 <b>Duck/Wabbit</b> (with apologies to Billy Collins -- http://blog.lib.umn.edu/hans1995/pants/048447.html ) The coyote may chase the roadrunner But they will never be as close as this pair Who share the very lines Of their dialogue, whose contradictions confound me, predator and pawn How deep the animosities must run That make one rejoice Whenever the other is hunted. Flash a sign for DUCK SEASON And I blow the mallard sideways with my blunderbuss. Tell me now that it's RABBIT SEASON And powder burns the grey hare black; a lonely curl of smoke ascends. Say, here's an unanticipated twist: For suddenly it's ELMER SEASON And I am fleeing fast away in terror... Duck/Wabbit
(with apologies to Billy Collins — http://blog.lib.umn.edu/hans1995/pants/048447.html )

The coyote may chase the roadrunner
But they will never be as close as this pair
Who share the very lines
Of their dialogue, whose contradictions confound me, predator and pawn

How deep the animosities must run
That make one rejoice
Whenever the other is hunted.

Flash a sign for DUCK SEASON
And I blow the mallard sideways with my blunderbuss.
Tell me now that it’s RABBIT SEASON
And powder burns the grey hare black; a lonely curl of smoke ascends.

Say, here’s an unanticipated twist:
For suddenly it’s ELMER SEASON
And I am fleeing fast away in terror…

]]> By: Gemma http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907383 Gemma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907383 This was right above <a href="http://dailybunny.org/">The Daily Bunny</a> in my RSS feed. :/ This was right above The Daily Bunny in my RSS feed.

:/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907409 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907409 indeed, but as Farmville, NC was incorporated in 1872, i doubt it has any connection to the online game. http://www.farmville-nc.com/About.htm disclaimer: i've neither been to Farmville nor played FarmVille. i have tasted DuckRabbit beer. indeed, but as Farmville, NC was incorporated in 1872, i doubt it has any connection to the online game. http://www.farmville-nc.com/About.htm

disclaimer: i’ve neither been to Farmville nor played FarmVille. i have tasted DuckRabbit beer.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907427 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907427 "DUCK, RABBIT, DUCK!" (With apologies to Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones) “DUCK, RABBIT, DUCK!”

(With apologies to Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones)

]]> By: prh99 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907683 prh99 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907683 What a hobby, mutilating dead animals to create grotesque sculptures. What a hobby, mutilating dead animals to create grotesque sculptures.

]]> By: Hools Verne http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907440 Hools Verne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907440 That is beautiful. That is beautiful.

]]> By: Suds http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907454 Suds Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907454 In the wild they tend to have antlers, must have been poached for 'em. In the wild they tend to have antlers, must have been poached for ‘em.

]]> By: Felixs http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907471 Felixs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907471 I can recommend my local taxidermist, http://web.me.com/d.frampton/D_Frampton/Art.html who has these for sale. I can recommend my local taxidermist,
http://web.me.com/d.frampton/D_Frampton/Art.html
who has these for sale.

]]> By: Narmitaj http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907476 Narmitaj Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907476 I think the drawing is better, for the purposes of the sight gag, as it still jumps between duck and rabbit and back again. The taxidermy exhibit - though more realistic - always looks like a rabbit, just with a bill where its ears ought to be (the head is too furry and the nose is too prominent, probably). I think the drawing is better, for the purposes of the sight gag, as it still jumps between duck and rabbit and back again. The taxidermy exhibit – though more realistic – always looks like a rabbit, just with a bill where its ears ought to be (the head is too furry and the nose is too prominent, probably).

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907478 Donald Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907478 Still... ideal quarry for your all-season hunter. Still… ideal quarry for your all-season hunter.

]]> By: Hools Verne http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907479 Hools Verne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907479 I agree with you for the one that Felixs linked to, but the one from this article works really well in all three possibilities. I agree with you for the one that Felixs linked to, but the one from this article works really well in all three possibilities.

]]> By: kagemeister http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907500 kagemeister Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907500 Just behold it. Just behold it.

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907504 Gilbert Wham Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907504 Ssssshh! Im huntin' wabbits! Wait, what? Ssssshh! Im huntin’ wabbits! Wait, what?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907508 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907508 Must be full of hops. Must be full of hops.

]]> By: amused http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907516 amused Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907516 It's a transitional creature! Evolution is now proven! It’s a transitional creature!

Evolution is now proven!

]]> By: Anon, he must http://boingboing.net/2010/10/10/famous-ambiguous-rab.html#comment-907518 Anon, he must Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-907518 Put your hand over the bunny nose. Put your hand over the bunny nose.

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