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    It definitely looks like a reindeer. First, it's small, second, the horns.
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    It was a reindeer the first time we met it, as Fairy Girl was dressed like a Christmas Fairy and it was snowing out. His name is Jangles the Reindeer.
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    Poor winslow, I hope this isnt the start of some sort of drama for him. He seems to be having a struggle to deal with everything he went through with hannelore. I wonder if this will bring up something like, "You were so busy trying to put yourself into all those situations you didnt even see how much I HATED being there myself!" So now winslow is the one with a complex.
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    I just now noticed that the reindeer/moose/moodeer is standing on a pair of hoverboards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maryring View Post
    I just now noticed that the reindeer/moose/moodeer is standing on a pair of hoverboards.
    Yeah, he and the Fairy have been practicing.

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    Also, silly Winslow. There will always be strange people. And sometimes ungulates. Look; there's a whole herd of giraffes off-panel to your left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodin View Post
    Isn't that a reindeer?
    The american name for reindeer is caribou. Mind you, the american name for elk is moose, and the american name for red deer is elk or wapiti.
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    Quote Originally Posted by halfeye View Post
    The american name for reindeer is caribou. Mind you, the american name for elk is moose, and the american name for red deer is elk or wapiti.
    Caribou, moose, and wapiti all originate as derivatives of indigenous North American languages.

    The wapiti / North American elk is only superficially similar to the red dear of Eurasia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by halfeye View Post
    The american name for reindeer is caribou. Mind you, the american name for elk is moose, and the american name for red deer is elk or wapiti.
    Looked it up real quick, because that didn't sound right. According to wikipedia, at least, British English uses the same word for two different creatures.

    They are visually distinct:
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    Also, reindeer/caribou and red deer just cuz I wanna post more ungulate pictures:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevesciguy View Post
    Looked it up real quick, because that didn't sound right. According to wikipedia, at least, British English uses the same word for two different creatures.

    They are visually distinct:
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    Also, reindeer/caribou and red deer just cuz I wanna post more ungulate pictures:

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    Also, Moose are flipping gigantic. The size alone is a big clue that they're different things.

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    They're large ungulates. All of them. Winslow is screwed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cazero View Post
    They're large ungulates. All of them. Winslow is screwed.


    ...I'm going to call that a snowshark. You can't stop me.
    Implying that we'd try to stop you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cazero View Post
    They're large ungulates. All of them. Winslow is screwed.


    ...I'm going to call that a snowshark. You can't stop me.
    That's fair. I am more scared of moose than of Grizzly Bears. The bears are way more reasonable creatures.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mith View Post
    That's fair. I am more scared of moose than of Grizzly Bears. The bears are way more reasonable creatures.
    Yup. If you spook a bear, it'll probably run away unless you're between it and its cub. If you spook a moose, their reaction is to charge.

    Fortunately, a moose's charge is more of a scare tactic. If you run, they usually won't chase you far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevesciguy View Post
    Yup. If you spook a bear, it'll probably run away unless you're between it and its cub. If you spook a moose, their reaction is to charge.

    Fortunately, a moose's charge is more of a scare tactic. If you run, they usually won't chase you far.
    In the video this gif comes from, you can see this is what the moose is doing. It's slow until it gets close to the hiking group with the camera, charges to go all "RAWR I'M A MOOSE STAY AWAY" and slows down again after it's past.
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    Elephants have a similar behavior, IIRC. I wonder if it's something inherent to the 'extremely large herbivore' behavioral pattern.

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    Quote Originally Posted by georgie_leech View Post
    In the video this gif comes from, you can see this is what the moose is doing. It's slow until it gets close to the hiking group with the camera, charges to go all "RAWR I'M A MOOSE STAY AWAY" and slows down again after it's past.
    I don't believe you. That snowshark is circling it's prey. We just don't have the full footage because of the inevitable and deadly attack that followed.

    Just like in today's comic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    Elephants have a similar behavior, IIRC. I wonder if it's something inherent to the 'extremely large herbivore' behavioral pattern.
    Probably. Large animals, as a rule, don't like to full out run if they can help it, because physics says that running is bad for everybody involved. Theyre only going to do it in circumstances where theyre in control, because otherwise gravity and newton's laws will be ganging up on them to try and mess up their entire week. An elephant that trips and lands on its face, for example, suddenly has most of the weight of an elephant pressing on its face. So a large running animal is basically shouting "raa, im big and squish things, you better watch out."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevesciguy View Post
    Looked it up real quick, because that didn't sound right. According to wikipedia, at least, British English uses the same word for two different creatures.
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    Quote Originally Posted by halfeye View Post
    I am aware. I was just pointing out that your term can lead to confusion, because when an American says 'elk' they mean Cervus canadensis, while a British person saying elk could be referring to either Cervus canadensis or Alces alces, which is an important distinction that needs to be made for this particular conversation.

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    I'm assuming it was the reindeer who actually explained to Faye and Bubbles what had happened.

    (I know we've seen the Fairy speak in actual non-song-note sentences before, but that was back when she didn't have the reindeer along to interpret.)

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    The only person she's ever spoken normally to is Emily, presumably because the comic follows Conservation of Weirdness (in any one strip, the weirdest character causes other characters present to act more normally).

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    True. For that matter, in every panel where the Fairy used actual words, she and Emily were alone on panel. I wonder if Emily was the only one who heard intelligible speech, while just off-panel, Claire was hearing "🎵 la li lu le lo 🎶"...

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    Semi-related to the whole large ungulates discussion: Elk stew is freaking DELICIOUS. Got a chance to try some on vacation in Canada, and I highly recommend it. If you're in Cajun country, deer sausage jambalaya is the way to go.

    No idea how reindeer tastes, but I assume it's similar?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodin View Post
    Semi-related to the whole large ungulates discussion: Elk stew is freaking DELICIOUS. Got a chance to try some on vacation in Canada, and I highly recommend it. If you're in Cajun country, deer sausage jambalaya is the way to go.

    No idea how reindeer tastes, but I assume it's similar?

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    What do you mean, an African or a European elk?
    It wasn't carrying any coconuts but it didn't like the color blue either, so I assume it was native Canadian.

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    I love venison, deer is just so freaking delicious and different from standard meat. I havent had the chance to try the really big game stuff yet, though bear is nice. I do love ho wa single elk could provide enough meat to keep like 3 households happy for a year. My step dad shot a wild boar and ended up giving away a decent amount because there was no way he and his wife could eat it all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    The only person she's ever spoken normally to is Emily, presumably because the comic follows Conservation of Weirdness (in any one strip, the weirdest character causes other characters present to act more normally).
    You are saying that Emily is more weird than (wannabe?) fairy with an elk/raindeer.

    Am I interpreting this correctly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mordokai View Post
    You are saying that Emily is more weird than (wannabe?) fairy with an elk/raindeer.

    Am I interpreting this correctly?

    ...I cannot figure whether I agree or disagree with you, if that is the case.
    Exactly. Emily is the ur-weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mordokai View Post
    You are saying that Emily is more weird than (wannabe?) fairy with an elk/raindeer.

    Am I interpreting this correctly?

    ...I cannot figure whether I agree or disagree with you, if that is the case.
    Look at it this way. If you were to tell me that the reason Northampton is the weirdest town ever is because the Hoverboard Fairy lives there, or Hanners, or Corpse Witch, or Spookybot or Melon or Steve, I'd say you were confusing symptoms with causes. If you were to say it's because Raven lives there, I'd consider the idea. Maybe she hails from a normal universe, but created a weird fractured parallel, with Northampton as its epicenter?

    If you were to tell me it's because Emily lives there, I'd understand. Her code overwrote reality, or summoned an Eldritch horror that broke everyone's minds, or they're all living in a simulation she wrote. Whatever the hell happened, Emily is my number one suspect. Bring her offerings of green peppers and margaritas, and pray to whatever gods may be that her code never segfaults.

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    On the other hand, if they somehow are doing something with it that are promoting bacterial growth, then leaving it unwashed is likely a massive health code violation that should see the entirely shop closed and Dora fined into bankruptcy.
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