# To capture a unicorn, the virgin must (possibly TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578 "2008-06-03T03:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/21 "2008-06-03T23:56:02Z")
as one woman in my knitting class said of the unicorn horn… ribbed for her pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/22 "2008-06-03T23:59:56Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Maybe something like this was going on: NSFW: [http://www.worlddreambank.org/U/UNICORGY.HT](http://www.worlddreambank.org/U/UNICORGY.HT) M [/QUOTE] I just looked at that site, now I’m no longer at work. The filename “UNICORGY” should have warned me this was not wise, but I pressed on. :dubious: There’s just too much WRONG for one website, there. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/23 "2008-06-04T02:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I just looked at that site, now I’m no longer at work. The filename “UNICORGY” should have warned me this was not wise, but I pressed on. :dubious: There’s just too much WRONG for one website, there. [/QUOTE] Claymation Hell. In my head, Goliath keeps saying “Davey…! Those aren’t the unicorns I remember reading about…!” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/24 "2008-06-04T02:41:26Z")
Unicorgy link doesn’t work for me…what is it? ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/25 "2008-06-04T03:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Unicorgy link doesn’t work for me…what is it? [/QUOTE] What’s it sound like, cubby? (I’m on my work computer now, so I ain’t clickin’, but I didn’t want to let this wonderful thread die! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/26 "2008-06-04T03:37:24Z")
Noooo, I want details. ETA: Nevermind. Got way more than I bargained for. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/27 "2008-06-04T03:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] … the wing thing is very recent … [/QUOTE] [hijack] Unicorns don’t have wings. Pegasus has wings. Don’t dare give your unicorn wings or I will have to hunt you down and beat you. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread… [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/28 "2008-06-04T04:11:11Z")
What if Pegasus had sex with a lady unicorn? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/29 "2008-06-04T04:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] What if Pegasus had sex with a lady unicorn? [/QUOTE] Are there lady unicorns? I was always disdainful of the suggestion of lady unicorns when I was a kid. Well, except for the wobbly horned mated pair of unicorns in _Legend_, I guess…that was all romantical. Unfortunately, Googling an image search for “winged unicorns” produces enough sweetness and ick to send a diabetic right over the edge. Sorry, **Shamrock227** , but I think that battle’s been lost already. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/30 "2008-06-04T04:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Are there lady unicorns? I was always disdainful of the suggestion of lady unicorns when I was a kid. Well, except for the wobbly horned mated pair of unicorns in _Legend_, I guess…that was all romantical. [/QUOTE] Where do the little baby unicorns come from, then? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/31 "2008-06-04T05:41:19Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Where do the little baby unicorns come from, then? [/QUOTE] Same place cockatrice eggs come from. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/32 "2008-06-04T05:58:27Z")
Roosters lay unicorn eggs in dung heaps, too? By the way, **Skald** , whatever happened with the Fabulous Plane book? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/33 "2008-06-04T06:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Where do the little baby unicorns come from, then? [/QUOTE] Unicorns and female horses are sexually compatible. Fantasy aside, a unicorn is simply a horny horse. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/34 "2008-06-04T10:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Unicorns and female horses are sexually compatible. Fantasy aside, a unicorn is simply a horny horse. [/QUOTE] I see what you did there. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/35 "2008-06-04T11:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Where do the little baby unicorns come from, then? [/QUOTE] [Rankin & Bass](http://www.rankinbass.com/)…? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/36 "2008-06-04T11:52:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Unicorns don’t have wings. Pegasus has wings. Pegasus was not the only horse in Greek mythology with wings. For instance Poseidon gave Pelops a chariot pulled by four winged steeds (it’s in several vase paintings). One suspects that the horses who drew the hariot of Helios (that Phaethon later tried to drive) were winged as well (otherwise how could they pull the chariot through the sky?), although I don’t know of any such depictions. Finally, long before **Clash of the Titans** , Perseus was depicted riding a winged horse (It’s in Renaissance operas, but can be traced back at least to Ovid). You can say that WAS Pegasus, but, canonically, Pegasus was born from Medusa’s neck after Perseus decapitated her, so you;re stuck in an inconsistency there (though that’s never really bothered mythology. There are plenty of other examples). Ain’t no unicorns in Greek mythology, by the way – the Greeks saw the unicorn as FACT – it was recorded in Ctesias’ book on India (which makes a lot of folks suspect that his Unicorn was really a Rhino). So there wasn’t any interbreeding betwee winged horses and unicorns. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/37 "2008-06-04T14:21:22Z")
[QUOTE=maggenpye] I see what you did there. Nice. [/QUOTE] Same as I did in post 15, you mean? 😉 Those ancient myth dudes knew what they were doing when they designed these beasts. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/38 "2008-06-04T15:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Where do the little baby unicorns come from, then? [/QUOTE] They just appear in sunny glades. Like Starbuckses. They aren’t born, you just turn around one day and _poof_ there’s another one! ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/39 "2008-06-04T17:17:53Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] What if Pegasus had sex with a lady unicorn? [/QUOTE] Don’t be silly. Unicorns aren’t real. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578/40 "2008-06-04T17:25:50Z")
The relevant passage is translated from Syriac, right? Maybe it’s simply a matter of translating an ambiguous phrase. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-capture-a-unicorn-the-virgin-must-possibly-tmi/451578.md?page=3)