Do you consider yourself a Furry?

[Septimius Severus]

<!--QuoteBegin-Holyman83+Nov 6 2004, 04:14 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Holyman83 @ Nov 6 2004, 04:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Dude I drink all the time<br><br>*Grabs a bottle of water from the freage*<br><br>I could not live without drinking<br><br>*starts drinking the water* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> No, I meant liquids in general. more than 70% of a normal human's body weight is water. How do you think I've kept my girlish figure all these years?<br><br><br>I love Tennessee Whiskey, as well as Royal Crown Canadian. Jim Beam I am fond of as well. I never really cared much for beer, and wine is right out. But give me a bottle of Jack, and I'm happy. That's really the main reason I try to stay away from alchohol-- I like it too much. Just writing this makes me want to head to the liquor store. It's a weakness, and I can't afford to be weak. Besides, heavy drinking is sort of frowned upon in the Marine Corps.<br><br>I blame my heritage-- German (Famous brewers who get drunk and invade france every thirty years,) Irish (Famous brewers too drunk to run a decent country,) Welsh (Sheep lovers too drunk to run a decent country,) and Comanche (too drunk to sit up.)

[Muninn]

*strolls along singing "all for me grog"*<br><br>And i'm not even drunk.

[Lilac]

Hee. I'm complex on this issue. But it's fair to say 'no', although I'm close enough to it that most people wouldn't make the distinction. I is a dragon of the non-anthro variety, heehee.

[likeafox]

I've never understood the roleplaying/acting like an animal/dressing up/mimicing in general and there are some sides of furrydom I find unnerving. I've never considered myself to be or have an affinity with any certian species or share their qualites (and it's annoying when my username gets interpreted that way). The extent of it is that I really like animals and anthromorphic characters in general. So I probably don't fit the definition of a furry. But I do somehow fit into the fandom. My closest friends (both online and in RL) are furries. I just seem to be drawn in.

[Ozymandias]

I don't do the dressy-up bit.

[Holyman83]

<!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Nov 9 2004, 06:15 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Nov 9 2004, 06:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I don't do the dressy-up bit. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> same here

[Steve the Pocket]

<!--QuoteBegin-likeafox+Nov 9 2004, 05:54 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (likeafox @ Nov 9 2004, 05:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I've never understood the roleplaying/acting like an animal/dressing up/mimicing in general... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Me neither. Actually I've never understood online roleplaying at all. Even the idea of typing "actions" as if we were in the same room was new to me until I came here. You might notice, I still don't do it.<br><br>Anyway, I guess it's just as well that the general public doesn't know about furries, 'cause they wouldn't understand 'em either, and people are quick to be judgmental about stuff they don't understand (just look at <a href='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... topic=1324' target='_blank'>this post</a> as an example). The idea of furries being the Next Big Controversy does not appeal to me, even though I know which side I'd take if it ever did.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Ahh roleplaying, I don't go into roleplaying, but just being silly and having fun is always nice.<br>*Starts poking Octan.*

[Miles E Traysandor]

<!--QuoteBegin-Holyman83+Nov 9 2004, 07:56 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Holyman83 @ Nov 9 2004, 07:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Nov 9 2004, 06:15 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Nov 9 2004, 06:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I don't do the dressy-up bit. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>same here <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I simply make my furry wear the same things I would normally... well, for the most part anyway. <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Holyman83]

I think yet Ozy or at least I meant was that we dont put on costumes to be Furrys in real life. my furryself on line is always dressed modestly.

[dragonranpu]

I never thought that to be a Furry you had to dress up. I don't. I concider myself a furry but I love all animals. In real and in print,

[Zylo]

Dressing up as an animal?<br><br>I might wear a tail and ears if you asked nicely...<br><br>...but that's about it.

[Softpaw]

I wear my tail & ears whenever I get a chance (which isn't as often as I'd like, unfortunately), and I wear my collar whenever I'm not at work, though I doubt I'd do a full fursuit, too hot.<br><br>My fursona doesn't usually wear much clothing. My pup form wears the usual kid clothes, my adult form usually wears little more than a collar and leather vest, occasionally jeans, the fur covers what needs to be covered <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Steve the Pocket]

Found elsewhere on the Internet (and edited both for content and to run in the time allotted):<br><br>You Might Be a Furry if...<br><br>...You use "The Secret Of Nimh" to connect a star to Kevin Bacon.<br><br>...You modeled the pattern on your jack-o-lantern after Kevin Dewclaw.<br><br>...You have collars, but your dogs don't.<br><br>...You've written a thesis comparing Disney's and Warner Brothers' styles of animation and characterization.<br><br>...You gaze longingly at cereal boxes that you have no intention of buying.<br><br>...You model your hair after Lindesfarne, Ozymandius, or Daffy.<br><br>...You've ever spent more than $100 trying to win that plushie at the town fair.<br><br>...You watch more cartoons than your 8-year-old grandson does.<br><br>...You would have to guess at the color of Aladdin's hair, but know how many stripes Rajah had.<br><br>...You have ever stopped short of going into a store because the sign said "No Animals Allowed."<br><br>...You use the words in the Lapine Glossary from Watership down in real life.<br><br>...You hide when you see the dogcathcher coming down the street.<br>...You didn't buy The Sims because there are no pets other than fish in it.<br><br>...You have been in Chat with people with last names like: Hedgehog, Fox, Kangaroo, Jaguar, Cheetah, etc.<br><br>...When upset, you growl instead of swear.<br><br>...One of your bumper stickers says "Support the right to arm bears."<br><br>...You own the entire set of the "Land before Time" movies.<br><br>...You call your house a den.<br><br>...You bring along your 9-year old sister to the video rental place, just to have an excuse to get "All Dogs Go To Heaven."

[Septimius Severus]

<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+Nov 11 2004, 01:23 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ Nov 11 2004, 01:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> <!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> ...You model your hair after Lindesfarne, Ozymandias, or Daffy.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br><br>On 8 June 793, Vikings attacked the centuries-old and wealthy Monastery of Lindisfarne, of the coast of England. This unexpected and brutal assault was but the beginning of the domination of England by the Norsemen until the legendary Harald Hadrada was defeated soundly by Harold Fairhair, King of England, just weeks before Harold himself would be killed by the forces of William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy and descendant of Hrolf the Ganger's Danes.<br><br>But something tells me I have the wrong Lindisfarne.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br>...You would have to guess at the color of Aladdin's hair, but know how many stripes Rajah had.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Rajah was SO much cooler than any of the other characters. This cannot be denied.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br>...You hide when you see the dogcathcher coming down the street.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Hey, my dad used to be a Dog Catcher!<br><br>. . . yeah, I hide from him. . .<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br>...When upset, you growl instead of swear.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>I do both. I also foam at the mouth and my eyes roll around.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br>...One of your bumper stickers says "Support the right to arm bears.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>I always told my hunting friends that I'd come snipe deer with them if they only gave the deer automatic weapons and camoflauge as well. Now, THAT is a sport.