Re: Settling the stein argument -- hopefully

>Dave wrote:
>>Pete wrote:
>>On the Birdstein ascii pic, and that someone may have created it before me,
>>that is a rather vague guess. Birdstein is really a human body with so little
>>details that it looks like a bird. Examples include: Birdstein recoils like a
>>human body does. Birdstein's posture is essentially vertical like a human
>>body, Birdstein's posture is not essentially horizontal, like a bird's body.
>>Birdstein holds a stick like a human hand, i.e. the "wing" is really a hand
>>without fingers and without (articulated) arms. Birdstein likes to put on a
>>hat or Viking horns. Male Birdsteins have a penis. Female Birdsteins have
>>breasts. Birds have neither penis nor breasts.
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>I expect the males do have a penis or how do they reproduce? I've never 
>really gone up to one and snuck a look, though, so I've no idea what it 
>looks like;  perhaps you mean it is entirely retracted into the body 
>when not in use i.e. they don't have a visible, external penis.

<grin> What I meant was that for _pictorial_ purposes, birds do not have a
penis the way humans have, i.e. a dangling stick that visibly moves about when
we move about, etc I did not want to deny birds the joy of sex <another grin>

>Seriously, animated cartoon animals almost invariably have a few 
>outawrd characterists of the supposed animal morphed onto a human
>body -- often with a large, soft-featured infant head -- that
>therafer stands upright and moves exactly like a human, and not
>at all like the mouse, duck, pig, bird, rabbit  etc they are 
>supposed to be.  IOTW they are a cartoon of a child in an animal suit

I am not disagreeing here. However, my point of pointing out so many Birdstein
variations, is that it is quite unlikely that this cartoon character has been
invented before. And while I am at it, the same applies to the many Frogstein
variations, it is quite unlikely that this cartoon character has been invented
before. The same applies to ... <fill in the other 'stein characters>. 

Now add to that the peculiar composition of the cast which happens to comprise
specifically of frogs, birds, devils, and the other 'stein characters. 

Add over and above that the myriad of interactions between the cast members in
the form of the peculiar storylines, and the possibility of a prior invention
of the 'stein cartoons drops to zero.

There is a well known story of the random letter generator which will in time
and in theory produce all sonnets of Shakespeare (or all possible ascii pics,
for that matter) that's the same kind of possibility, namely zero.

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