Posted on 06/17/2006 8:57:07 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
KDKA) PITTSBURGH Have you seen anything furry lately?
Large, furry animals have converged in downtown pittsburgh.
They're here for "Anthrocon 2006".
Anthrocon's chairman says, to put it simply, this is a gathering of cartoon-animal-loving fans.
Sam Conway says Americans love their animals and "furries" are just people who go to great lengths to show it.
Many dress up in full costume and assume the full personality of their "animal."
The furries are making history this weekend.
“This is the largest anthropomorphis convention in the world,” said Conway. “We have a little more than 2,500 people so far and we still have more people coming in.”
(Excerpt) Read more at kdka.com ...
It's funny that the station had the report categorized under "Pets"! The anchorman looked stuned, too.
Just don't look like a coyote, and you should be okay.
Oh, they love more than just 'cartoon animals'... Furries are the hippies of my generation; The bastard children that no one wants to admit exist.
Ha ha ha! "Hunter Thompson's flashbacks". :-D
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Whoops. Those'd be the Furies.
Given the definitions, Baldwin would be an appropriiate representative...
Yes, I think what was meant is something like "anthropomorphicon" -- although now that I think of it, even that is not right.
In college, I heard "anthropomorphic" to describe animals talking like people but now that I analyze the word it would appear to mean "shaped like a man," rather than "sounding like a man."
Hmmmm....anthropophonous, maybe??
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