Horses don't like heights, that's why they live in Kansas

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• Tanya

  2013-04-14 12:33:09

  Pizza Dog

  Now all I can think about is a horse in an elevator, why is this.
  
• Princess Alice

  2013-04-14 12:36:44

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  But wait, what about pegasi?
• Fossilmaiden

  2013-04-14 12:43:05 edited 2013-04-14 12:44:33

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  They're not horses, they just look like them. And should really use a name other than Pegasus. We don't call Gorgons Medusas.
  
• Princess Alice

  2013-04-14 12:49:00

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Think of all the royalties Pegasus gets whenever people use his name to refer to another winged equine, though
• Previous Calica

  2013-04-14 13:33:03

  (flower path)

  Fossilmaiden said:

  They're not horses, they just look like them. And should really use a name other than Pegasus. We don't call Gorgons Medusas.
  

  Castlevania fans seem to call them "Medusa heads" though.
• Fossilmaiden

  2013-04-14 13:37:49

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  That's because that's what the games call them.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-04-14 14:09:07

  Have you ever seen a pterippus in Kansas?
  
  There you go.
  
• Justice4243

  2013-04-14 15:46:29

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  Do we have an alternative name for "Pegasi"? We can't just call them "Winged Horses", very well, now can we?
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-04-14 18:39:09

  The term is "pterippus", plural "pterippi".
  
• Justice4243

  2013-04-14 18:43:44 edited 2013-04-14 18:43:53

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  Is that a silent p? I think that I can sign off on this if that's a silent "p".
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-04-14 19:09:33

  Yes it is; it's derived from the Greek root for "wing" which is "pter(y)", I think.
  
• Justice4243

  2013-04-14 19:39:40 edited 2013-04-14 19:39:51

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  OK, cool. It's official. All the documents are signed and everything. Misuse of the word "Pegasus" is now a punishable offence. 

  
  

  *Sets fire to Hasbro*
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-04-14 22:14:25

  Pterripus Knight
  
  ...hmm, I do like that.  Also encourages people to just call them "p-knights".
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2013-04-14 22:19:55

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Falcon knight or bust.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-04-14 22:23:14

  Wy not wyvern knight?
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2013-04-14 22:25:00

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Because a wyvern is not a flying equine. Also, a Falcon Knight is better against berserkers.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2013-04-14 23:01:22 edited 2013-04-14 23:01:38

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Wyvern Knight is a pretty badass title. I want to be a Wyvern Knight.