A XKCD comic strip on Mac OS X Feliine Names

[Ant]

http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
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[Doug Anderson]

Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> writes:

> In article <Q_KdnWZgxczsui7S...@earthlink.com>,
> Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>
> > http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
>
> There's a major error in that chart: A tiger would beat a lion in a fight
> almost any day.

Does this mean that people getting their news from xkcd are not as
well informed as people getting their news from The Daily Show?

[Bread]

On 2012-05-16 19:17:44 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:

> In article <Q_KdnWZgxczsui7S...@earthlink.com>,
> Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>
>> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
>
> There's a major error in that chart: A tiger would beat a lion in a fight
> almost any day.
>

> <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_do_you_think_would_win_in_a_fight_between_a_t
> iger_and_a_lion>

They are on the same level in the directon of "who would win in a
fight". The lion, according to that chart, is superior only in the
dimension of "coolness of name".

Of course, the "same level" bands in the "who would win in a fight"
seem pretty broad and approximate. And, of course, the "coolness of
name" is just completely made-up...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <jp13oa$ej$1...@reader1.panix.com>,

The levels correspond to genuses. The label on the left says that the
genuses are ordered by fighting ability, not the species within them.
So I guess it's intended to be an average for the genus.

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[Jim Janney]

But a lion will beat a unicorn, all around the town...

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Jim Janney

[Kevin McMurtrie]

In article <Q_KdnWZgxczsui7S...@earthlink.com>,
Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/

Based on what I hear people say about 10.7, "Mountain Vista" would be a
good name for 10.8.

(The 10.7 upgrade at work is long over and it's still cursed several
times a day for having an awful GUI, dangerous auto-save, bogging down
on disk I/O, and being total waste of time. It reminds many of forced
Windows Vista upgrades.)
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[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/

How does housecat get such a low ranking??? Damn it, I'm still holding
out hope!
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[Richard Kettlewell]

jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) writes:
> Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

>> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
>
> How does housecat get such a low ranking??? Damn it, I'm still holding
> out hope!

They still rank higher than bears.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5067912.stm

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[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Richard Kettlewell <r...@greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) writes:
> > Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>
> >> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
> >
> > How does housecat get such a low ranking??? Damn it, I'm still holding
> > out hope!
>
> They still rank higher than bears.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5067912.stm

Now that's what I'm talking about!

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1kka72z.1q83oh1xd7rzjN%jam...@wizardling.geek.nz>,

jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

> Richard Kettlewell <r...@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) writes:
> > > Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> >
> > >> http://www.xkcd.com/1056/
> > >
> > > How does housecat get such a low ranking??? Damn it, I'm still holding
> > > out hope!
> >
> > They still rank higher than bears.
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5067912.stm
>
> Now that's what I'm talking about!

I can't wait for Stephen Colbert to come back from vacation, so he can
put that cat in his Threatdown segment.

[Barry Margolin]

In article
<kneeljung-5EE38...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Dave Allen <knee...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <barmar-4B40E7....@news.eternal-september.org>,

> Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <1kka72z.1q83oh1xd7rzjN%jam...@wizardling.geek.nz>,
> > jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> >
> > > Richard Kettlewell <r...@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > How does housecat get such a low ranking??? Damn it, I'm still holding
> > > > > out hope!
> > > >
> > > > They still rank higher than bears.
> > > >
> > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5067912.stm
> > >
> > > Now that's what I'm talking about!
> >
> > I can't wait for Stephen Colbert to come back from vacation, so he can
> > put that cat in his Threatdown segment.
>

> That would be a great Threatdown, but I'm guessing that he won't revive
> a six year old story, "Last Updated: Saturday, 10 June 2006, 17:17 GMT
> 18:17 UK".

Sigh, I was afraid of that, but didn't bother to check the date. It
turns out he DID pick up on it at the time:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181966/june-13-200
6/feline-bravery

But he didn't put it in the Threatdown, he did it as an extra bit just
before signing off.