Comments on: Meanwhile, in species-naming news http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1377893 Ito Kagehisa Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1377893 Sigh.  Nobody reads the classics anymore... <i>Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well as on Earth: If it be wiser to kill mankind Before or after the birth- These are matters of high concern Where State-kept school men are; But Holy State (we have lived to learn) Endeth in Holy War. Whether The People be led by the Lord, Or lured by the loudest throat: If it be quicker to die by the sword Or cheaper to die by vote - These are the things we have dealt with once, (And they will not rise from their grave) For Holy People, however it runs, Endeth in wholly Slave. Whatsoever, for any cause, Seeketh to take or give, Power above or beyond the Laws, Suffer it not to live! Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing. Order the guns and kill!      Saying -- after -- me:-- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth. Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain! Once There was The People - it shall never be again! </i> Sigh.  Nobody reads the classics anymore…

Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth-
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept school men are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.

Whether The People be led by the Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote -
These are the things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.

Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give,
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King -
Or Holy People’s Will -
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!

     Saying — after — me:–

Once there was The People – Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth.
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain!
Once There was The People – it shall never be again!

]]> By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1377126 Ito Kagehisa Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1377126 It's the mugger of the ghat of Mugger-Ghat! <i>The blunt nosed mugger of Mugger-Ghat, older than any man in the village, who had given his name to the village, the demon of the ford before the railway bridge came - murderer, man-eater, and local fetish all in one.</i> It’s the mugger of the ghat of Mugger-Ghat!

The blunt nosed mugger of Mugger-Ghat, older than any man in the village, who had given his name to the village, the demon of the ford before the railway bridge came – murderer, man-eater, and local fetish all in one.

]]> By: aynrandspenismighty http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1377085 aynrandspenismighty Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1377085 Excuse me, can you tell me what it eats for dinner? Excuse me, can you tell me what it eats for dinner?

]]> By: Matthew Petty http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1377031 Matthew Petty Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1377031 Cool! Someone should do a "has a posse"-style flyer. Cool! Someone should do a “has a posse”-style flyer.

]]> By: แอ็ะปปี้ http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1377009 แอ็ะปปี้ Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1377009 homoalbus burdenii? homoalbus burdenii?

]]> By: Aaron Gilliland http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1376992 Aaron Gilliland Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1376992 You're a better man than I am, Goniopholis Kiplingi! You’re a better man than I am, Goniopholis Kiplingi!

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/meanwhile-in-species-naming-n.html#comment-1376981 Christopher Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=150771#comment-1376981 I can only hope they found it in the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River. I can only hope they found it in the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River.

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