--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Greene" <blaze@...> wrote:
>
> Starting a new fandom is a great idea; only nobody `started' furry fandom.
> You can trace the existence of the word `furry' used by the fandom, and
> trace the conventions to the first `furry parties', or `zines, or whatever,
> but you'll never find a point when someone said `hey, let's have a fandom!'
> It's not like Star Trek, where we can say with great certainty that there
> was no fandom before the series was on TV, since there's pretty much ALWAYS
> been anthropomorphic animals lurking in our brains. Lots of people will
> tell you they remember role-playing anthropomorphic animals as a child.
> Probably, none of those children role-played herm kitsune with shitting
> dicknipples, but I can only really speak for my own childhood.
>
Damn, so I was the only one who thought Cleo from "Cadillac Cats" would look SOOOO much better as an 8-breasted, 438ZZZ cup-sized, three-dicked hermaphrodite taur giantess? Man, your childhood must've been boring!
--JMH ;P
Received on Sat Jun 06 2009 - 23:28:41 CDT