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    Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme

    30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names

    Cataloging 200,000 Alien Species Here on Earth
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    Image of Anekanta - Space Hippy! Anekanta - Space Hippy!
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    This is the dude I want backing me up when all Hell finally does break loose... #monsters
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Given this wonderful approach to the same question,

    [threatquality.com]

    I await braak's response. #monsters
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    Image of braak braak
    10/31/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: He can do all the number crunching that he'd like, but I am confident he's going to end up with about the same hierarchy that I came up with.

    It's not like I just picked the order randomly. #monsters
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Thats what I normally do when faced with monsters outside of my apartment. #monsters
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    Image of DragonsDream DragonsDream
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    this was created by a guy who spent his junior high recesses creating D&D stats for "giant aardvarks" and "rhinocudas" wasn't it?... oh wait, that was me. never mind #monsters
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    Image of Brian Fowler Brian Fowler
    10/30/09

    @DragonsDream: Is that wrong?

    And if so, who wants to be right? #monsters
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    Image of DragonsDream DragonsDream
    10/31/09

    @Brian Fowler: not wrong at all... I'm just jealous this guy thought of it before I did. #monsters
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    Image of Shewski Shewski
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Captain Picard sez: "Make it so" and I heartily agree. #monsters
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    i just want to say that post titles like 'Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme' with the tag #awesomeness attached is what keeps me coming back to this site. i just feel at home when debates of that kinda are framed by a perfect title and acknowledged for the awesome that they are. #monsters
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    Image of rikchik rikchik
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Make sure to take a look at the "Scale of Undead Creatures" thread at the Irritability comics forums ([forum.icomix.com]). It's a multi-year effort to definitively rank all undead, from Jack-O-Lanterns to Liches. #monsters
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    INRE #1: The Mummy w/ Boris Karloff fits so solidly here. I could never find it scary, only a little creepy, even if I was only 10 or so when I saw it. How hard is it to escape from a shuffling, one-arm-bound pursuer? #monsters
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Where does Sue Sylvester fall on this scale? #monsters
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    Image of JohnnyZito JohnnyZito
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Love. It. #monsters
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    Wow, what a windbag. On his website, he says "but I think my own brain would leap out my ears to throttle myself to shut me up." Brain, sic 'em!!
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    crashedpc - unrein promoted this comment Edited by closeencounter at 10/30/09 7:48 AM closeencounter was starred closeencounter was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/30/09

    @closeencounter: Like how the universe's second worst poet was killed by his own big intestine? #monsters
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    Image of Not a fan boy Not a fan boy
    10/30/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: We need more H2G2 references here.

    You win. #monsters
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/30/09

    In reply to Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme
    I'm hearting robocop is bleeding. That's all there is too it. Well done.

    I think H. G. Wells got it right, a long time ago - which is ultimately scarier: the Martians in their tripods with their heat rays and red weed, or the bacteria that defeated them?

    Bacteria (or viruses, or nanogoop) don't threaten the very fabric of reality however; you need the Higgs Boson to do that. #monsters
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    08/21/09

    In reply to 30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names
    I can beat pretty much this entire list when it comes to geekitude: Leigh Van Valen keeps naming species he discovers in *elvish*. Yes. As in ol' J.R.R. hisself. Quenya *and* Sindarin, I am told. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature just wants you to name creatures using a dead language, and, well, it doesn't get much deader than an artificial language.

    Plus, Van Valen's also named an extinct mammal "Cuttysarkus".

    Yup.

    After the whisky.

    Paleontologists. Gotta love'em.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    08/21/09

    In reply to 30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names
    So, how exactly do you pronounce the one that's named after Clarke? Arthurseeklark-ey? Artherklark-ey? Artherkuhklark-ey? Being that it's Latinized, I'm sure the rigid pronunciation rules eliminate the first option, but I don't have any idea how they'd work with a double-c like that.
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    08/20/09

    In reply to 30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names
    On Starwars.com, I interviewed the scientists who named insects after Star Wars characters like Yoda and Darth Vader if you'd like to read more:

    [www.starwars.com]

    [www.starwars.com]
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