The Servants Drive a Herd of Yahoos into the Field by Louis John Rhead.
Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Posted on 09/24/2018 2:18:37 PM PDT by ETL
Gulliver’s Travels is a political and social satire by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726.
Part IV of this fictional work is an account of Lemuel Gulliver’s voyage to the country of the Houyhnhms, in which he discovers two animal populations.
One comprises horses, the articulate Houyhnhms, and the other is a subservient humanoid group called Yahoos.
“Swift gave quite a detailed description of what the Yahoos looked like, how they acted and what they ate,” said Dr. Argue, a visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
“As I read about the Native American descriptions of the sasquatch I noticed they had similar descriptions.”
“Both represent a large, hairy, tailless, strong and agile humanoid form with tough skin; both have an offensive odor and are variously described as an ugly monster,” she said.
“Hands and feet have sharp claws or nails and the skin on their palms is coarse; females have pendulous breasts; both males and females may have beards.”
“Neither has capacity for speech but they vocalize by chattering, howling, grinning, roaring (the sasquatch is said to yell, whinny, scream, gibber and chatter, and make a sound like a crying child).”
“They both eat herbs, roots, berries, carrion, fish, and a wild rat-like animal.”
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““They both eat herbs, roots, berries, carrion, fish, and a wild rat-like animal.”
Rat-like animal? They ate democrats?
I only came here thinking it would be a thread about the Mooch
Sounds to me like the wife of a recent president.
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yup.
Yahoo News is named after them. Literally.
[ ““They both eat herbs, roots, berries, carrion, fish, and a wild rat-like animal.”
Rat-like animal? They ate democrats? ]
If Sasquatches eat democrats.... LETS CLONE THEM BACK INTO EXISTENCE IF THEY ARE EXTINCT or start a breeding program if they are not!!!
Doesn’t Hillary have an offensive odor?
lol, I’ll start calling my Congressman to fund such a program..
Yes, it is Hillary that was described as smelling like urine and cabbage.
Michelle described her husband Obama as being on the stinky side... and the flies pretty much confirmed that assessment.
Interesting hypothesis, I have always suspected asanbosam.
The Houyhnhnms recognize that Gulliver is a Yahoo, a human, but for a time think he's more civilized than most. In discussing civilized (i.e. European) Houyhnhnms with Master Horse he pillories most of the major character defects of modern mankind (e.g. warfare, greed, dishonesty, avarice, etc.), only convincing him in the end that the Houyhnhnm Land Yahoos are superior to Europeans because they are honest about their brutishness.
Yahoos also expose what humans may look like in the state of nature, a very popular topic/theory in those days, and indeed in the prestent world. In the state of nature, Man is always depicted as a perfect innocent, in a society that does not know war, slavery, in many accounts "patriarchy" or any other foible the author dislikes. The Yahoo character pillories the various state of nature theories in taking the position that in the state of nature Man really is a brute.
In other words, the Yahoos are a foil to expose the defects of civilized European society that European manners conceal. Nothing whatsoever to do with identifying Sasquatch or any real creature.
That is indeed what he used it for. :^)
Yep, Michelle did say O was stinky- its the brimstone.
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