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Furries Descend On Pittsburgh
KDKA.com ^ | 6-16-06 | cbs

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 ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: convention; freak; freakshow; furries; pittsburgh; weirdos; yiff
the original furries: Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
1 posted on 06/17/2006 8:57:08 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
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To: Rakkasan1

It's funny that the station had the report categorized under "Pets"! The anchorman looked stuned, too.


2 posted on 06/17/2006 9:03:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.")
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Just don't look like a coyote, and you should be okay.


3 posted on 06/17/2006 9:06:14 AM PDT by vollmond (Careful with that axe, Eugene!)
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To: Rakkasan1
Is Tom Vilsack there?


4 posted on 06/17/2006 9:16:52 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Governor of Iowa who wants to be President.)
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To: Rakkasan1

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.

5 posted on 06/17/2006 9:24:03 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Going armed to the terror of the public.)
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To: LongElegantLegs; Rakkasan1
This is too much like this episode of CSI.
6 posted on 06/17/2006 9:26:56 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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To: Pyro7480

Ha ha ha! "Hunter Thompson's flashbacks". :-D


7 posted on 06/17/2006 9:29:06 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Going armed to the terror of the public.)
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To: Charles Henrickson; Rakkasan1; mikrofon

Alec Baldwin, Featured Speaker.

8 posted on 06/17/2006 9:44:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro (* b l e a h *)
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Whoops. Those'd be the Furies.

9 posted on 06/17/2006 9:56:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
Anthro - relating to Man
+
Con - to deceive, swindle, fool

Given the definitions, Baldwin would be an appropriiate representative...

10 posted on 06/17/2006 11:02:20 AM PDT by mikrofon (Good-fur-nothing)
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To: Rakkasan1
At least there's someone for Star Trek/comic book/Dark Shadows fans to look down on as geekier than them.

I say this as a hardcore Trekkie/comic book/Dark Shadows geek.
11 posted on 06/17/2006 11:09:02 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: mikrofon

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??



12 posted on 06/17/2006 3:58:07 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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