# Mr. Ed the Zebra?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ed-the-zebra/6112>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 8, 1999, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ed-the-zebra/6112 "1999-11-08T19:02:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ed-the-zebra/6112/21 "2000-01-12T17:26:00Z")

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> I heard that zebras are actually highly viscous liquids and that over hundreds of years they flow downward slowly and become thicker at the bottom. Is this true?

Yes, it’s true, but it’s not about zebras, it’s about ME. I’ve aready gotten perceptably thicker at the bottom, and it’s only been 50 years so far.

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Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons.  
-Popular Mechanics, 1949

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ed-the-zebra/6112/22 "2000-01-14T02:54:00Z")

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Every time this comes up, I think the same thing: Anyone who can’t figure out that a zebra is NOT going to look like a horse even in B&W needs to be eliminated from the gene pool anyway.

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…in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird…

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