July 11, 2009

Unicorn!!
FOUND by Jennifer in the Library
I work in a public library, every day i find amazing stuff stuck in books, this is one of my favorites found between the pages of "baby mouse:skater girl."
Ph00k4
It's awesome!
+ July 11, 2009 12:37 AM +
Ph00k4
Sauce: http://j.photos.cx/FoundMagUnicornSauce-a8c.jpg
+ July 11, 2009 12:40 AM +
shell in Oz
I, along with nine-year-old girls everywhere, never stopped believing.
+ July 11, 2009 12:50 AM +
me
#1 most popular unicorn picture on the net o_O;

I wonder what is the real source of this o_O;
+ July 11, 2009 01:34 AM +
Dog breath in Vernal Utah
Unicorn, the other red meat.
+ July 11, 2009 02:55 AM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
In point of fact the unicorn should be more of a goat/horse cross. Unicorns should have cloven hooves and a goatlike tail with a tuft on the end, not just a horsetail. They do have the mane of a horse but also tufts on the legs behind the hoof. And the head should be more goatlike as well.

We fantastical creatures have to stick together.
+ July 11, 2009 04:16 AM +
Farmer in The Dell
ther was standing beside the barbecue grill, smiling, and he says, "Oh yeah it's pretty hard to come by, but wait til you get a tas
+ July 11, 2009 05:41 AM +
Jonathan too in my office (sshhh!) -- on a Saturday!
Thanks Orinoco, source of all wisdom as always.

And of course you can't see one unless you're a virgin, right?? But does that apply to photographs?

I like the flighty look in its eye though. And the 'Rapunzel' braided mane.
+ July 11, 2009 05:41 AM +
spy in Kanata, ON, Canada
how did they attach the horn for real?
+ July 11, 2009 06:52 AM +
sick in tired
Could you use spirit gum on a hairy animal like a horse? I think that's what it's called...the "cement" they use in the theatre makeup dept to stick on mustaches, beards, hairpieces and any dodgy bits of facial modification.
+ July 11, 2009 07:17 AM +
belle de nuit in your dreams
I bet the girl who was using this photo as a bookmark was upset when she realised she lost it. I would have been, at that age.
It should have been put up on the library bulletin board for at least a week so the loser could reclaim it.
+ July 11, 2009 07:19 AM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine


LOOK! A UNICORN!!!
+ July 11, 2009 08:51 AM +
Kayathome in Windsor, Ontario
"There were green alligators, and long necked geese, humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees. Cats and rats and elephants, as soon as you're born, you're never gonna see no unicorn."
PS They were playing silly games when the ark was being loaded....
+ July 11, 2009 08:56 AM +
me in mine
they do exist!
+ July 11, 2009 09:08 AM +
Clover in the Lawn
I knew they were real!!
+ July 11, 2009 09:18 AM +
Beeswax in my own private Ohio
I think the original was a worth 1000 image for a photoshop contest. http://www.worth1000.com
Kay, nice Shel Silverstein reference.
+ July 11, 2009 09:32 AM +
Muse on the Loose
Jenna was a proud member of the Unicorn Believers Society, and she had a vast collection of unicorn bookmarks. She just gave up on "Baby Mouse: Skater Girl," finding it to be a boring book. She forgot to take her unicorn bookmark when she returned the book.
+ July 11, 2009 09:40 AM +
mona lisa in the louvre
i think Kay was referring to an Irish Rovers song.
+ July 11, 2009 09:51 AM +
party in my Pants
Unicorns no longer exist because they did not get on the ark with Noah before the flood. This must be a very old picture!
+ July 11, 2009 09:53 AM +
Ding ding ding!
Kay and Beeswax are both correct!
+ July 11, 2009 10:29 AM +
pyromouse lives in a fire
The specific song is sung by the Brobdingnagian Bards, but since the Bards borrow other songs and adapt them, I dunno where the original song comes from.

I got a BSC book once that came with a unicorn eraser. I loved that eraser and was devastated when I lost it. I'm sure the girl (or boy) is really sad.
+ July 11, 2009 11:08 AM +
Melanie in Washington
I do believe that is an Arab with a carrot on it's head.
+ July 11, 2009 01:06 PM +
fooch in fashion
I wonder if their horns are worth lots of money, like the tusks of elephants.
(Dog Breath made me choke on my toast this morning)
+ July 11, 2009 01:28 PM +
Librarian in the woodwork

Not from MY library.



But I'm thinking this animal was actually used by UPS to make its earliest deliveries.
+ July 11, 2009 01:57 PM +
Dr. Heimlich in a manuever
Fooch, when are you going to learn to stop eating in front of your computer?
+ July 11, 2009 02:08 PM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
@Fooch: Since legend has it that the unicorn's alicorn (or horn) will purify water and cleanse anything it touches, narwhal horn was much sought after up to the end of the Renaissance, since it was sold as "unicorn's horn". It was believed to neutralise poisons. I have seen a cup made from narwhal horn, which was supposed to protect whoever drank from it from being poisoned.
+ July 11, 2009 02:21 PM +
fooch in temporary fashion and NOT eating in front of my computer at the moment
Orinoco...nice info. I am trying to remember if one of the characters in the Harry Potter series had a unicorn for their Patronus.

+ July 11, 2009 02:54 PM +
Sammy Davis Junior Jr
I have a unicorn horn in my house. It is on the unicorn head, mounted on my wall in the living room.
+ July 11, 2009 03:08 PM +
Camelia in Silicon Valley, Cali(f)
A friend of mine used to say "I have a large collection of unicorns."
When people would look skeptical at her, she'd reply, "Oh, you can't see them? Well only virgins can see unicorns!"

Orinoco - How does this fit in with your vast expertise in mythical critter factbook??
+ July 12, 2009 04:09 AM +
Mmmmm! in the archives
frankly, I'm surprised no one else has said it:

http://foundmagazine.com/comments/3494

(Alan, are you still here, posting in cognito?)
+ July 12, 2009 08:12 AM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
@Camelia, it's not that only virgins can *see* unicorns (otherwise who would kill them?) but only a virgin can attract and hold one. Actually otherwise they're quite wild and agressive. Well, you would be too if everyone wanted to kill you for your horn and skin (which is said to revive the dead and heal the sick.) Therefore the famous Bayeux Tapestry and other art, which shows a virginal young lady sitting with a unicorn in a field of flowers, with its head trustingly in her lap (I can just hear him murmuring, "Scratch a little higher; no, behind the^*other* ear. Yeahhh, that's it") while not-so-in the background the huntsmen close in for the kill.

Of course it always makes me wonder how the unicorn could not discern the trap, but it's said they are so fascinated by virginity they can't help themselves. More so these days, I should imagine, since it's rarer than it was.

Other sources say that the Unicorn is a symbol of Christ, which would tie in with the whole purity thing, but other than that...I can't help you there.
+ July 12, 2009 10:44 AM +
Ian in Edinburgh
This unicorn looks really gay - a bit like that police horse at a demonstration in London a while ago. (Hopefully in pointing this out I won't get arrested by elves or anything.)
+ July 13, 2009 04:21 AM +
Miss Scarlet in in the Study with a Revolver
What unicorn?

Neil Patrick Harris has eaten mushrooms and is the only one who can see this magical unicorn.
+ July 13, 2009 02:19 PM +
Frottage in the Observatory with Your Mom
Although I used to regularly create artwork and still have an abiding interest in art, I remember that in school art classes I was comically lazy. When we were supposed to sketch "random objects," (usually a yard sale mixture of toys, weathered shoes, unassuming vases, old lamps, and the like) I'd figure out some "clever" scheme to do as little work as possible. One time in grade school, where the objective was to graphically incorporate as many of the items as we could, I drew a unicorn and used a screw as a "horn," but was immediately admonished by the teacher because "everyone does a unicorn." Anyway, lazy observation: this looks like something that would be hanging in Napoleon Dynamite's locker.
+ July 16, 2009 12:45 PM +
Camelia in Silicon Valley, Cali(f)
Thank you, Orinoco the Oracle!
(and 2u, Miss Scarlet!)
+ July 17, 2009 09:11 PM +

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