Turtles? Really?

[firstfrost]

[Poll #887372]

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[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..."