It's a Gnother Gnu

[m31andy]

Bizarre (though interesting) article in the New Scientist today:

True Blood: The Real Vampire Slayers

Such scholarly articles, I suppose, are both an interest and necessary every time the vampire legend takes another left turn into sparkledom. (And actually it's interesting to plot the movement in the legend and how it takes a leap forward every time vampires become popular again, for whatever reason.)

I, in fact, have several books/articles on the rise of the mythology. Which probably doesn't surprise anyone here...

What does make me boggle is why is the New Scientist so interested?!

Perhaps this April Fools' I'll start the rumour that New Scientist is actually a spoof, like The Onion.

Oops. I just did.

Apropos of nothing, how do you pronounce "gnu"? (And I'm asking how you pronounce it, not how it's properly pronounced....)

[Poll #1677148]

Comments

Good gnus

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

This is where I learnt it:

P.G. Wodehouse

And one more gnu, so fair and frail,
Has handed in its dinner-pail;

Re: Good gnus

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

(The females all are rather small,
The males are somewhat bigger.)

B'dum tish!