From: Clay Luther (clay@monsta.metronet.com)
Date: Fri 01 Jul 1994 - 00:43:02 EEST
RQ Digest Maintainer wrote:
> From: button@illuminati.io.com (Captain Button)
>
> Clay Luther Boaringly relates:
>
> > Urox, weaponless, leaps on the Boar's back and grabs it by the horns.
>
> Uh, boars don't _have_ horns. Did they in Godtime? Did Urox steal
> them here, and that's why _he_ has horns now?
Oh, I am constantly amazed at how little imagination some people have have. First, I'm told WASPS can't produce honey, now BOARS can't have horns.
Well, FYI, the great horned boar has roamed Dragon Pass for time immemorial. They are extremely rare indeed, since it is a curious mutation which produces them. The boar's tusks simply do not grow right, but instead grow back along the jaw, through the jowls, and eventually bursting through the skin just below the ears. They continue to grow this way all the boar's life. As the tusk- horns get longer (specimens with horns up to four feet long have been captured) they curve under-and-over the ears to face again forward.
Obviously, this growth is extremely painful and irritating to the boar, which does nothing to improve its already foul disposition.
For further information about the great horned boar, I refer you to Heles Three-Speak, Irrippi Ontor Temple, Alone. He has made it his life study to capture as many of these elusive beasts (ALIVE!) as he can for the Emporer's Zoo in Glamour.
As far as how Urox gained his horns, these he made from bones of every god he has killed, according to Washazi Crowfeather of the Blue-Square Impalas.
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