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| : This post was made with Firefox on Android. Are you sure you didn’t just get a difficult CAPTCHA? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.214|108.162.216.214]] 14:32, 23 December 2016 (UTC) | | : This post was made with Firefox on Android. Are you sure you didn’t just get a difficult CAPTCHA? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.214|108.162.216.214]] 14:32, 23 December 2016 (UTC) |
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− | ::The captcha from my most recent edit had a total of four words and 23 letters. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]])
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| Title text could be a parody of "When what to my wondering eyes should appear/but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer" from "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ('Twas the Night Before Christmas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus's_reindeer#Eight_reindeer | | Title text could be a parody of "When what to my wondering eyes should appear/but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer" from "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ('Twas the Night Before Christmas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus's_reindeer#Eight_reindeer |
| [[Special:Contributions/172.68.78.10|172.68.78.10]] 14:42, 23 December 2016 (UTC) | | [[Special:Contributions/172.68.78.10|172.68.78.10]] 14:42, 23 December 2016 (UTC) |
| : Seems more likely to be a few lines later, “And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof / The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.” [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.249|162.158.62.249]] 15:19, 23 December 2016 (UTC) | | : Seems more likely to be a few lines later, “And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof / The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.” [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.249|162.158.62.249]] 15:19, 23 December 2016 (UTC) |
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− | To pick nits, an octopus has eight arms and no tentacles. A squid has eight arms plus two tentacles. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.94|162.158.34.94]] 15:21, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | :To pick further nits, some instead argue that octopuses have 6 arms and 2 legs. [[User:Hppavilion1|Hppavilion1]] ([[User talk:Hppavilion1|talk]]) 20:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
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− | Is the octopus tentacle comment adding anything? I believe octopodophobia is substantially rarer than arachnophobia (to the extent that it doesn't seem to have an official name); Cthulhu aside, I suspect a deer with octopus tentacles would mostly look weird (or comical) rather than scary. To most, I suspect octopus tentacles are only scary if you're on a ship being attacked by a kraken or if you're a diver and one is playfully tugging on your respirator. Of course, I speak as an arachnophobe who cringed when I saw this comic... [[User:Fluppeteer|Fluppeteer]] ([[User talk:Fluppeteer|talk]]) 15:39, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | In the Odin myth, he ''rides'' Sleipnir while he distributes gifts. [[Black Hat]] isn't all that authentic if he got that mixed up with the more modern "Santa Claus" mythology. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]])
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− | :Except that Black Hat doesn't actually care about being authentic, he just discovered a new fact that he wants to use to mess with people. {{unsigned ip|172.68.46.23}}
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− | Fun bit of trivia: Loki is Sleipnir's ''mom.''[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.47|108.162.246.47]] 19:23, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | :One of many ways that Loki's life kinda sucked. He starts Ragnarok for a reason. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.28|108.162.215.28]] 21:21, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | ::What makes you think that? Sure, there was lot of things which sucked in Loki's life, but we can't be sure what his sexual preferences are ... -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 07:05, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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− | Does Randall's repeating interest in spiders have any relevance here? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.53|108.162.250.53]] 21:32, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | I think Randall screwed up with the title text. Spiders only have two (or, rarely, three) tarsal claws (See last line here: https://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/ident_help/Parts_Arthropods/male_spider.htm). So either BlackHat has been doing more agressive genetic engineering than you'd think or Randall screwed up! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.39|162.158.69.39]] 21:44, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | :Maybe he's keeping it simple for people who ''didn't'' know that. [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 00:32, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | :I think the link provided above says that spiders have only two (or, rarely, three) tarsal claws ''per leg''. This site (http://www.findaspider.org.au/info/glossary.htm) mentions that each leg has these claws, and some spiders have a median claw behind their main pair. This refers to the third claw spiders sometimes have, mentioned in the previous link. 01:37, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[[User:Count Schlick|Count Schlick]] ([[User talk:Count Schlick|talk]])
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− | ::Ah...that makes more sense. OK - so "the sound of sixteen to twenty four tarsal claws"...unless the reinspiders are standing on tippy-toes? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.39|162.158.69.39]] 01:55, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
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− | Perhaps a nod to Love Actually - one of the holiday season's more popular movies - which notes, "Eight is a lot of legs." ~Dave {{unsigned ip|162.158.202.148}}
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− | To those of you who have watched Infinity Train, I think you'll agree with me that this deer's name is Alan Dracula [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.197|173.245.52.197]] 23:54, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
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