Turtles? Really?

[firstfrost]

[Poll #887372]

Comments

[jadia.livejournal.com]

Well, except I mostly like them because of World of Warcraft, where I loooove killing them.

[twe.livejournal.com]

Turtles!

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

[desireearmfeldt]

"A turtle walks into a bar
And orders a beer..."

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

'The Peaks Traveller and Gazette - "...a hermitage occupied by a lunatic since twenty years without discourse or companion save for a pet tortoise, Plautus by name, which he suffers children to touch on request; a tortoise. They must be a feature." ' (Arcadia) (Do tortoises count, or are we only talking turtles?)

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...

Leon: Tortoise? What's that?

Holden: You know what a turtle is?

Leon: Of course!

Holden: Same thing.

[treptoplax.livejournal.com]

“I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.”

“What was that?” inquired Alice.

“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”

[desireearmfeldt]

"That ol' swamp is gettin' me down
'Cause the water has started to turn brown
I tried to bask upon my brick
They turned the heat lamp off too quick
And my diet makes me sick
It's only frozen mice and crick-
ets..."

[mijven.livejournal.com]

I liked them better before the idea of getting one as a pet was floated. :S

[desireearmfeldt]

Are they in your refrigerator?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Nope. :)

(This was a reaction to an article that claimed that turtles were as a whole much less disliked than dogs or cats, and that "everyone has a soft spot in their heart for turtles." I seemed to be the only person on white-magic who doesn't particularly care about turtles, so I was curious if I was in as much a minority as was suggested.)

[desireearmfeldt]

Turtles are certainly less potentially offensive than cats or dogs, because they're low key and live in a tank. :)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Sure, but small rocks are also low key and inoffensive, and while some people did have soft spots in their hearts for pet rocks, I don't think they got to the 70% approval rate. :)

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

A small rock once bit my sister.

[ricedog.livejournal.com]

It's hard to imagine being allergic to turtle dander.

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

Turtles are great, but I hear a PlayStation is even better.

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Heh. I thought about mentioning that. =)

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Then there is the question: what kind of animal would a PlayStation3 be worth?