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TheOtherDave comments on The Orange Head Joke - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 25 January 2011 08:33PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2011 09:53:18PM *  6 points [-]

I'm tangentially reminded of the khepri from Perdido Street Station, a fantasy race who are described by humans as having the body of a human but a giant scarab beetle in place of a head.

They, of course, consider this an absurdly parochial description, and instead describe humans as having the body of a khepri and the head of a shaved gibbon.