How to tell them apart (a public service)

This is a “Douche Bag”, used for medicinal purposes.

This is a “douchebag”, used for publicity purposes.

(I’m sorry. I know that was wrong, but I really doubt Jay gives a toss about my opinion)

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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by British author H. G. Wells.
Invisible Man is a novel (not science fiction) by American author Ralph Ellison (not to be confused with Harlan Ellison, who has written science fiction).

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Memoirs of an Invisible Man–Astonishing good first (and so far only) novel by H.F. Saint. Currently out-of-print. If you find a copy, buy it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber–not the composer of, or in anyway involved with Les Miserable.
Schoenberg & Boublil–Composers of the afore mentioned Les Mis, along with Miss Saigon, and Martin Guerre.. Butts of the joke that "S&B can’t write a good musical starting with the letter “M.”

Alec Baldwin – actor, “Hunt for Red October,” Married to Kim Bassinger
William Baldwin – actor, his brother, “Backdraft”
Stephen Baldwin – actor, their brother, “Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas”
Daniel Baldwin – actor, their brother, “Homicide: Life on the Streets”
Joseph Baldwin – actor, their cousin, nothing of note.
Adam Baldwin – actor, no relation, “Firefly”
Stanley Baldwin– British Prime Minister, no relation.

Barry White: Black
Jack Black: White

Memoirs of an Invisible Man - Average film starring Chevvy Chase. Not actually bad, but far from great. Follows the novel fairly closely, at least better than most movie adaptations do. Not as good as the novel.

Loudon WainwrightLife magazine photographer, grandfather of
Loudon Wainwright III–damn good folk singer who made three appearances on the TV show MAS*H and father of
**Rufus Wainwright{/b]–son of III & folk singer Kate McGarrigle, achieving fame in his own right.
Loudon Wainwright II–The only thing I know about him is I rang up a purchase on his credit card once while working in a store. I recognized the name, but was too shy to say anything.

H.H. Holmes: United States serial killer circa 1893.

And to add to that George Michael a few posts up:

George Michael: Only son of Michael Bluth on Arrested Development. Attracted to his cousin, Maebe.

Correction: Loudon Wainwright II was the Life magazine editor (not photographer). Loudon Wainwright worked in insurance.

Also an extinct brand of cornflakes (!) made by the Freia chocolate company (!) for the Norwegian market.

Pidgin: A communication system created by simplifying one or more languages, which comes about when two groups with no language in common come into contact, for instance as traders. These can become quite complex, like Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, but are not quite full languages.
Creole: A fully developed language that emerges when children begin to learn a pidgin as their first “language”.

Kristiansand: small coastal city near the southern tip of Norway.
Kristiansund: small coastal city in central Norway
Kristiania: (also Christiania) former name for Oslo
As you may guess, there’s a king behind all these names who was rather fond of himself…

Jack White - Lead Singer of The White Stripes, a popular garage band.

Jack Black - Actor/Singer, was in High Fidelity, and is part of the duo Tenacious D.

Jack - Someone who, apparently, a lot of people don’t know.

Cracker Jack - A popular snack food, people always talk about it, but rarely do they eat it.

~S&S

A sea lion has a small ear flap on each side of its head.

A seal just has a tiny opening for ears.

Seal is a mediocre singer, who has no ear for music. :: d&r ::

Also Selma’s earrings look like S’s

**Chris Cooper ** – actor in Adaptation, etc.
**Chris Carter ** – creator of The X-Files

**Nicolas Cage ** – actor in Adaptation, etc.
**Luke Cage ** – Hero for Hire

**Charlie Kaufman ** – screenwriter, exists
**Donald Kaufman ** – screenwriter, does not exist

(Guess what movie I watched last night.)

Libel- False information ruining one’s reputation -in writing
Slander- False information ruining one’s reputation -orally

Covert- Secretly
Overt- Openly

Excess - More than a mouthfull
Surplus - The other one

Beretta - Fine Italian Firearm or POS Chevrolet
Baretta - POS TV Series

Generally speaking a furry is any anthropomorphic creature (although I’m not sure “The Brave Little Toaster” or the scrubbing bubbles count) more specifically it refers to any mammalian anthro creature (reptiles are scalies, chickens are feathers).
A furry is also a person who enjoys any comic or cartoon featuring furries although it usually applied to people who enjoy anthro erotic comics, stories or cartoons.
Confused yet? Furry is also applied to people who are attracted to other people who dress up in animal costumes.

You may be thinking of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, by Christopher Marlowe.

Michael George sings in public while others play flutes.

George Michael sings in public and plays with the skin flute.

They don’t.

In my experience, it’s more common to include any anthropomorphic animal under furry than to segregate them like this. The only major controversies about this sort of thing since I came into the scene are whether mythological creatures count, and how ‘human’ is a character allowed to be before it stops being a furry. (I’m the more inclusive type, personally - everything from anime catgirls, to dragonmorphs, to the Redwall characters, to intelligent but otherwise naturalistic beings, counts.) Some people make a distinction, but it’s vanishingly rare.

‘Furry’ is mostly synonomous to ‘Funny Animal’ - only more inclusive.

  1. Doesn’t need to be comics or cartoons. Prose stories and storyless art count, too.

  2. This is a ‘common’ ussage that would be, frankly, better to not to encourage.

That’s the overlap between 'suiters and plushies - a subgroup of a subgroup.

Captain Marvel by MF Publishing, and that’s one MF of superhero!