Comments on: If bunnies ruled the world http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/ Guru = Pahlawan Tanpa Tanda Jasa Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:27:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Nikolaos http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-5111 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:18:19 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-5111 interesting interesting

]]> by: Kalinikos http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-4551 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:24:57 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-4551 Nice Nice

]]> by: Don Wigan http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-36 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:47:11 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-36 My apologies. You've given me a new word to look up with 'lagamorphs' . I'd always bracketed bunnies and hares as 'rodents', as I did guinea pigs, mice and rats. I suppose the next question (me being a bit tired to look it up at present) is where does that leave bats, which I'd also assumed were in the same species. My apologies. You’ve given me a new word to look up with ‘lagamorphs’ .

I’d always bracketed bunnies and hares as ‘rodents’, as I did guinea pigs, mice and rats.

I suppose the next question (me being a bit tired to look it up at present) is where does that leave bats, which I’d also assumed were in the same species.

]]> by: Administrator http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-35 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:14:52 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-35 Don I'm appalled that you would call bunnies 'rodents'. They're lagomorphs. Different thing entirely. Lagomorphs have one strange habit: they eat their own shit. Let's hope our favourite rodent has to do the same some time. Don I’m appalled that you would call bunnies ‘rodents’. They’re lagomorphs. Different thing entirely.

Lagomorphs have one strange habit: they eat their own shit. Let’s hope our favourite rodent has to do the same some time.

]]> by: Don Wigan http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-30 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:41:59 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-30 One final irrelevant and irreverant postscript. Don't know if you do literature in your discipline but the story reminded me of George Moore in Tom Stoppard's play 'Jumpers'. Among his collection of rather hopeless lecture props, George had a rabbit named Thumper and a tortoise named Pat (which he thought solved the problem neatly of what gender it might be). I better not tell you their fate in case you have not read or seen 'Jumpers'. And another thing about George, as a philosphy lecturer, was his aim was to set back the course of philosophy about 50 years, 'which is approximately when it went off the rails.' Sounds frighteningly like someone else's attitude to political philosophy. If only he would be as unsuccessful as George was. One final irrelevant and irreverant postscript. Don’t know if you do literature in your discipline but the story reminded me of George Moore in Tom Stoppard’s play ‘Jumpers’.

Among his collection of rather hopeless lecture props, George had a rabbit named Thumper and a tortoise named Pat (which he thought solved the problem neatly of what gender it might be). I better not tell you their fate in case you have not read or seen ‘Jumpers’.

And another thing about George, as a philosphy lecturer, was his aim was to set back the course of philosophy about 50 years, ‘which is approximately when it went off the rails.’

Sounds frighteningly like someone else’s attitude to political philosophy. If only he would be as unsuccessful as George was.

]]> by: Don Wigan http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-29 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:27:27 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2006/11/17/if-bunnies-ruled-the-world/#comment-29 A very warming story, Ken. It convinces me more than ever that Peacock got it badly wrong when he first christened you-know-who 'The Rodent'. This was apparently on the ground that "Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go." Poor old Andrew would never have got a gig with Attenborough. He was really referring to the Weasel family, who are notorious for that tenacity. Rodents are not like that. Even rats, despite Browning's poem to the contrary are not as tenacious as that. But alas, especially after that Senator's outburst on 'The Lying Rodent', the description is fixed in Australians minds and all rodents are defamed by it. A very warming story, Ken.

It convinces me more than ever that Peacock got it badly wrong when he first christened you-know-who ‘The Rodent’. This was apparently on the ground that “Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.”

Poor old Andrew would never have got a gig with Attenborough. He was really referring to the Weasel family, who are notorious for that tenacity. Rodents are not like that.

Even rats, despite Browning’s poem to the contrary are not as tenacious as that.

But alas, especially after that Senator’s outburst on ‘The Lying Rodent’, the description is fixed in Australians minds and all rodents are defamed by it.

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