Homunculi!

[BlasTech]

Ahh yup. that would be where i remember it from ... i knew id heard it before ^^

[Labrusca]

Actually, Det. Gelarid states that homunculi were released by Ookami Lobo in the first frame of this strip.....he also states that "They're not truely alive!" This one survived, or might have been a "resident" at the manor before Ben and Lily got the place.

http://utlt.keenspace.com/d/20040703.html

S'aaruuk

Ok. But we still don't KNOW that there isn't more than one survivor, do we?

[Sharuuk]

Actually, Det. Gelarid states that homunculi were released by Ookami Lobo in the first frame of this strip.....he also states that "They're not truely alive!" This one survived, or might have been a "resident" at the manor before Ben and Lily got the place.

http://utlt.keenspace.com/d/20040703.html

S'aaruuk

Ok. But we still don't KNOW that there isn't more than one survivor, do we?

OK....point taken....we DON'T actually know for a fact that "Ibbitty-Gibbitty" is the only survivor of the battle......hmmph.....as if Ben a Lily don't have enough headaches with the posse.....

S'aaruuk

[DragonMasterHawk]

It's a typo. It's meant to be homunculus.

[SirBob]

Ok. But we still don't KNOW that there isn't more than one survivor, do we?

Unless the plural is a typo, it does suggest that there's more than one of them down there, yes.

[DragonMasterHawk]

Unless the plural is a typo

It is. Ralph himself told me. A simple mistake.

[BlasTech]

I think it sounds better, even if its a typo

After all, people sometimes pluralise when they're doing the same thing with their pet.

[Narnian]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies. That could have been an interesting storyline unto itself.

For some reason the song "Finiculi Finicula" came to mind as "Homonculi Homonculus".

[Wallaroo_Blacke]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies.

Considering that it is the embodiment of mindless idiocy,
I'd say there's a MASSIVE amount of
those darned things, wouldn't you say?

[Shyal_malkes]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies.

Considering that it is the embodiment of mindless idiocy,
I'd say there's a MASSIVE amount of
those darned things, wouldn't you say?

akkkkk!

attack of the tribbles!!!

[Squeaky Bunny]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies.

Considering that it is the embodiment of mindless idiocy,
I'd say there's a MASSIVE amount of
those darned things, wouldn't you say?

Enough to fill the DNC's ranks.

[Labrusca]

Then, that means that tulpa's name is actually John Dean!!

[Mrz80]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies. That could have been an interesting storyline unto itself.

For some reason the song "Finiculi Finicula" came to mind as "Homonculi Homonculus".

That's it. The Authorities will be along presently to take away your Young Life Songbook.

[BlasTech]

Welcome to the nuthous- i mean forums mrz80

[The JAM]

[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.


You added that correction at the last moment, didn't you, Ralph?

[Narnian]

I thought maybe the little sucker was breeding (asexually, of course), budding off little copies. That could have been an interesting storyline unto itself.

For some reason the song "Finiculi Finicula" came to mind as "Homonculi Homonculus".

That's it. The Authorities will be along presently to take away your Young Life Songbook.

Actually it is the Doris Day sings the the "Westminster Larger Catechism" songbook ...

[Skip Sanders]

Well, 'officially', the definition of 'species' includes being able to interbreed.

As in, if you're different species, you can't 'get her into trouble'.

This might be a bit overstated, as some 'species' can interbreed, like lions (panthera leo) and tigers (panthera tigris)... so one might limit this to 'same genus' can interbreed sucessfully.

Of course, this would preclude the famous 'ZigZag' from existing, and we certainly can't have that, can we?

[Kerry Skydancer]

Welcome to the wonderfully fuzzy world of biological definitions. Some species, especially among plants, can interbreed from different genuses - others within the same genus can't - and in the case of ring species, individuals from the opposite extremes of the same species can't interbreed. The classification boundaries are arbitrary and made up by humans.

[Mwalimu]

Well, 'officially', the definition of 'species' includes being able to interbreed.

As in, if you're different species, you can't 'get her into trouble'.

This might be a bit overstated, as some 'species' can interbreed, like lions (panthera leo) and tigers (panthera tigris)... so one might limit this to 'same genus' can interbreed sucessfully.

IIRC, the definition also requires that the union produce perpetually fertile offspring. Tigons, ligers, leopons, mules, etc., are usually sterile, and when they're not, the second-generation offspring nearly always is.