Say hello to the "Liger"

[Nagash]

Sounds like Mickal's cut to do the job.

[Lilim Savanant]

don't forget to mix a bit of pig in there too, if we're gonna have a cow that produces that much it might as well produce bacon.

[Jezebel]

I have mixed feelings about beefalo. I really don't like the idea of mixing anything with my buffalo meat.

Maven, I have serious concerns about beefalo myself. Some recent genetic data indicates that many of our buffalo herds are already contaminated (for a lack of a better word) with cattle genes. Some Native American tribes in the midwest have hired biologists to test their buffalo herds to make sure they are still pure bison.

Cows that give booze instead of milk would be cool. First you'd drink their booze, then you'd eat them

No beer cows yet, but a natural mutation in New Zealand produced a cow that gave skimmed milk. Thankfully for the owners, her daughters appear to have the same trait and scientists are all over it trying to determine what combination of genes created that trait.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 845223.ece

[Sturm]

we'd just need to ensure there shit was designed to be the perfect fertilizer type "stuff" for growing of potatoes and we have our own steak, egg, chips and beer machine.

Fuck, all these people saying genetically modifying is bad

Cow manure has always been the golden stuff for growing potatoes and various other plant life Gili.

[bigSparky]

I was watching one of thosespecials maybe six months ago, about the prairies or some shit, and as I recall they said that less than 10% of the bison population in north america was pure. Wish I had paid more attention. Who'd a thunk anyone else would be interested in such a thing. They are working very hard to keep what is pure, pure. It may have been on Yellowstone, not sure. I'm pretty sure they said there are NO pure wild herds left. Kind of sad to me.

[Gili]

Cow manure has always been the golden stuff for growing potatoes and various other plant life Gili.

was pretty sure it was something along those lines. But there is always room for improvement!!!!

[Lady Maven]

Absolutely it can be improved on, and nothing fortifies the body and soul quite like a cow who can shit tequilla.

[Lilim Savanant]

maybe you could have a cow where each teet produces something different from the udder.

[Lady Maven]

Like lime juice and rum!! ohhhhh yeah, baby.

Oh, and the Peef (pig and beef) also brings us closer to our Muslim brethren because now they too can know the joy of bacon.

[Sturm]

Oh, and the Peef (pig and beef) also brings us closer to our Muslim brethren because now they too can know the joy of bacon.

Wouldn't that be like going to a Christian bookshop and asking for some pentagrams? ;/

[Lady Maven]

Don't you mean an upside down pentagram? The rightside up pentagram is a Christian symbol.

[Sturm]

Well, I mean the inverted pentagram.

As there are 3 I'll list the differences.

The Open Pentagram:
A pentagram may be open, without a surrounding circle.This is the active form symbolising an outgoing of oneself, prepared for conflict, aware, active. As a pagan religious symbol, the open pentagram represents an open, active approach.

The Circled Pentagram:
A circle around a pentagram contains and protects. The circle symbolises eternity and infinity, the cycles of life and nature. The circle touching all 5 points indicates that the spirit, earth, air, water and fire are alll connected.
The circled pentagram is the passive form implying spiritual containment of the magic circle, in keeping with the traditional secrecy of witchcraft, and the personal, individual nature of the pagan religious path, of its non-proselytising character.

The Inverted Pentagram:
The implication is of spirit subservient to matter, of man subservient to his carnal desires. The inverted pentagram has come to be seen by many pagans as representing the dark side and it is abhored as an evil symbol. Fundamental christians, indeed, see any form of pentagram as such. However, these are recent developments and the inverted pentagram is the symbol of Gardnerian second degree initiation, representing the need of the witch to learn to face the darkness within so that it may not later rise up to take control. The centre of a pentagram implies a sixth formative element - love/will which controls from within, ruling matter and spirit by Will and the controlled magickal direction of sexual energies. This is another lesson of initiation.


The Pentagram As A Christian Symbol
Up until medieval times, the five points of the pentagram represented the five wounds of Christ on the Cross. It was a symbol of Christ the Saviour. This is in stark contrast to today where the pentagram is criticized by modern Fundamentalist Christians, as being a symbol of evil.

The church eventually chose the cross as a more significant symbol for Christianity, and the use of the pentagram as a Christian symbol gradually ceased.