Are there any inanimate objects or animals which have *never* been anthropomorphised?

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We've done pretty well haven't we? But there must be some.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 11 March 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

I think a barrier was broken with Mr Hanky.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 11 March 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Narwhales - the ones with the unicorn horn. I'm currently in talks with a Hollywood mogul about my new film, 'Uni the Whale'. Russel Crowe plays the part of the whale.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 11 March 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

"You mean they have a big scary horn on the front but they don'tkill things with it??? Next!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid the film Elf beat you to the narwhale idea. To my knowledge no one has ever anthropomorphised an astrolabe.

― Zarnus, Friday, 11 March 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

There has never been an animated series based on the Burgess Shale fossils :(

http://hannover.park.org/Canada/Museum/burgessshale/NK24.GIF http://www.gnhm.gr.jp/archives/inpaku/cambrian/marrella/marrellc.gif http://www.commersen.se/ungafakta/varldshaven/urhaven/ryggrlosa/bilder/sanctacaris.gif

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Loo roll has been anthropomorphised, I discovered when I was in the bathroom earlier. There was a pack of Nouvelle loo roll which had an anthropomorphised roll saying "I feel 100% soft and I'm 100% recycled!"

Facially, it looked like a cross between Casper the Friendly Ghost and Mr Stay Puft.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there an anthorpomorphised astrolabe in the Dark Crystal? Or at least some kind of cool astrolabe-type machine. Or maybe my memory is failing...

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Whilst attending to my personals yesterday, I read the back of the Andrex bag.

"Putting a smile on both cheeks."

I felt decidedly queasy.

And in answer to your question: placenta.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

How did the toilet roll man feel about being wiped in your shit?

― Zarnus, Friday, 11 March 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

I guess it's what he's designed for, Brave New World stylee.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Charmin adverts really make me feel ill. Anthropomorphized bear goes for a shit in the woods, takes 'squeezably soft' loo roll which hangs on a convenient twig. Euch.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

That bear does enjoy wiping its arse a bit too much.

― alix (alix), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Placenta - that's a good one Johnney - I think kids would love a range of placenta inspired cuddly toys.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Poppy the Placenta is Torn Apart by Feral Dogs

I used to have a blood-drop cuddly toy from donating one time.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

can't find the link i was looking for (viruses done as soft toys, has been posted here before) but

http://www.bigfuntoys.com/ECscripts/ECware.exe/Search?ID=001&Keyword=parasite+pals&type=B1QN11&lc=EN

Tickles the Tapeworm!

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/ featuring Cuddly Ebola

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

My daughter is currently working on a project in Chemistry: write a children's book about an element. She was thrilled to get assigned uranium, and we were all working on Ernie the Uranium Atom dialogue. "Sometimes people work on me in a special kitchen and turn me into bombs that kill people like you! How about that!"

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Alls I know is this: yesterday the colleagues and I were attempting to come up with a "lay" explanation of inhibition of the HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme by nucleotide/nucleoside analogues (don't ask) and the best I could come up with was this:

"nucleoside analogues slow down HIV replication by CONFUSING the virus's reverse transcriptase enzyme"

Am I going to go to writer's hell?

― quincie, Friday, 11 March 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Aw, yeast is so cute! No wonder bread and beer are so yummy.

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/images/doll/beerandbread.jpg

― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

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