And what’s the other one’s name?
I think these details of SDMB silliness should be nailed down.
I’m lost.
Squid.
…Unless you’re talking about the goat.
We go through so many goats that it’s kind of pointless to name them. I think that they are on some sort of a numbering system however. Mariah is the squid.
Goat # 69 has been hanging in there for quite a while now. Keep your fingers crossed, but it looks like we’ve finally worked out all the kinks in the hydraulic winch.
Yes, Mariah is the squid (not to be confused with the squck).
The goats aren’t numbered, but the RoboGoats are. I believe the last one was the RoboGoat Mk XVI.
If you don’t understand, consider yourself lucky.
Fun Fact: Mariah is actually the great-great-great-great-grand niece of Cthulhu, twice removed on her mother’s side.
I *believe * we’re up to Mk XVII.
We could always just name the goat Kenny.
Seeing as how Mariah is a name classically associated with the wind, I’m going to go with the goat since goats break more of it than squid do… unless, of course, it’s the squid’s name because its wind is more memorable. So there’s my answer… which really isn’t one.
Mariah is the squid. I’ll see whether I can dig up a reference later, but there were some threads a while back in which a number of posters were trapped in the Initiation Complex and had to escape. Mariah was named during one of these episodes.
Ask Hal Briston. (And Kythereia, among others.)
Si, Mariah is the squid to the best of my recollection.
Didn’t we get chased back to the Complex by a horde of angry villagers? I seem to remember Regallag the Axe doing some deconstructive axe swinging, too.
I thought they called the wind “Mariah”.
Winner! I move the goat(s) be named, collectively, Kenny.
I’m not willing to stake my life on it, but I distinctly remember typing “They call the squid Mariah” at some point.
You guys are correct–the squid is, indeed, Mariah.
We broke the last Mk XVII RoboGoat, though (damn tentacle upgrades). Anybody a dab hand with a screwdriver and some cheese?
No no, the squid cried “Mariah.”
I still think my (failed) motion in the last Initiation Committee meeting to input the entire text of the Potions 101 textbook and thereby create a Snapegoat should be revisited. Preferably this time without the rope and the lamppost and the chasing and stuff…
I do believe the earliest reference to the squid being Mariah is from JayJay’s post from this thread in February of 2005.
As for the goats (the real ones, not the robo-goats), we actually switched to a goat rental service last year, and we rotate through their stock (snicker) because our initiation process generally leaves the goat permanently mentally scarred and utterly terrified of anchovies.