# If you could be... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271 "2005-02-15T22:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/41 "2005-02-18T00:52:30Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I would have thought you wanted to be a bear. > > šŸ˜ƒ Are you kidding? Who ever shot an owl in self defense? šŸ˜‰ Besides, flight, nightvision, super-hearing, and stealth? What more could I want? Not to mention the ability to form my own nation of my bird brothers to make war on the humans. Ahh yesā€¦gloriousā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/42 "2005-02-18T00:56:22Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Are you kidding? Who ever shot an owl in self defense? šŸ˜‰ You know, **Scarface Z** , you really are a good guy. You took my Pit thread in good humor, and this, too. I take back any slightly worrisome feelings I had about you. Youā€™re OK! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/43 "2005-02-18T00:59:42Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > What are you talking about? A [liger](http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm) is a real animal, just as is a [tigon](http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/cross02a.htm), and theyā€™re not really bred at all, since those few that do occur (in zoos) tend to be sterile. Theyā€™re certainly not bred for their ā€œskills in magic,ā€ since, again, they exist in the real world. whoooosh ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/44 "2005-02-18T01:23:45Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Youā€™re OK! Wheeeee! I feel apperciated! Itā€™s healthy just to say ā€œwheeeā€ at certain intervals in the day, it fights cancer. šŸ˜ƒ Thanks. Update: As a snowy owl, I could finally find out how many licks there are to the center of a tootsie pop. Also, I could build a mighty fort out of owl pellets and defend it against my sworn enemy, the chipmunk. Arrgh, chipmunksā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/45 "2005-02-18T04:30:42Z")
I would be an invisible pink unicorn. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/46 "2005-02-18T05:40:23Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Whatā€™s a Rihannsu? Some kind of Romulan? > > And I think Elves are cooler. Rihannsu are what you people call Romulans. Why would we name ourselves after some pissant idol from a backwards culture on your insignificant planet? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/47 "2005-02-18T07:02:07Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Are you kidding? Who ever shot an owl in self defense? šŸ˜‰ > > Besides, flight, nightvision, super-hearing, and stealth? What more could I want? Not to mention the ability to form my own nation of my bird brothers to make war on the humans. Ahh yesā€¦gloriousā€¦ Wellā€¦ Not shot _per se_ā€¦ more of a crushing, kind of, um, wellā€¦ you get the picture. Not pretty at all. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/48 "2005-02-18T13:56:07Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Rihannsu are what you people call Romulans. Why would we name ourselves after some pissant idol from a backwards culture on your insignificant planet? :dubious: A bit touchy, are we? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/49 "2005-02-18T14:34:49Z")
I think Iā€™d want general shape-shifting capability. But that might be trying to have cake and eat it, too. Mmmm ā€¦ cake. Where was I? Oh ā€¦ yes. If not a shape-shifter of indeterminate ability, I think Iā€™d also want to be a fairy. Because Iā€™d have wings and be all glittery ā€¦ and who ever heard of a fat fairy? šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/50 "2005-02-18T15:25:29Z")
Well, since it has to be living, I guess that rules out Neo-satanic cannibalistic zombie nazi rapist pirate ninja from the west side of hell. I guess Iā€™ll just have to settle for being a Cronos device. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/51 "2005-02-18T18:15:03Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Fiver > > What are you talking about? A liger is a real animal, just as is a tigon, and theyā€™re not really bred at all, since those few that do occur (in zoos) tend to be sterile. Theyā€™re certainly not bred for their ā€œskills in magic,ā€ since, again, they exist in the real world. > > whoooosh Well, obviously. So if one of you could do some ā€˜splaininā€™ Iā€™d appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/52 "2005-02-18T20:12:57Z")
Napoleon Dynamite! Do yourself a favor and see this movie. Many of the recent posts here will begin to make a whole lot more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/53 "2005-02-18T23:17:22Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :dubious: A bit touchy, are we? Just acclimating myself to the new role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271.md?page=2)