# Zap! You're an invisible pink unicorn! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517 "2017-01-29T19:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/41 "2017-02-01T21:12:14Z")
If there are two mirrors, can the reflection of your reflection be seen, or only in the first mirror? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/42 "2017-02-01T21:18:48Z")
All the way down the hall. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/43 "2017-02-01T21:31:51Z")
In that case, once it becomes public knowledge that there are invisible things that can only be seen in a mirror, there’ll be a huge market for binocular/periscope type goggles that let you view everything through mirrors (think anti-Medusa goggles). Who knows what we’ll discover? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/44 "2017-02-01T22:14:42Z")
To the best of your knowledge, there is only one invisible thing so visible - you. I find it interesting that no one is concerned about predators. That’s not an issue here in the UK, but are not wolves, cougars, and packs of dogs all issues in the US? Remember that while they cannot see you, they can smell you. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/45 "2017-02-01T22:22:11Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > To the best of your knowledge, there is only one invisible thing so visible - you. How would we _ **know??** _ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/46 "2017-02-01T23:26:33Z")
For that, you would need to ask a philosopher. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/47 "2017-02-02T00:02:41Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I find it interesting that no one is concerned about predators. That’s not an issue here in the UK, but are not wolves, cougars, and packs of dogs all issues in the US? Remember that while they cannot see you, they can smell you. I have very good ears and also a darn good nose, so the predators do not have an edge on me. I spend the afternoon hanging out with herds of pronghorns, who are really fast and really smart, and if the hungry beasts come after us, I dazzle them stupid by farting rainbows in their general direction. The pronghorns seem to enjoy that show. > [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > … For meals I’d chew my cud … Unicorns do not have a bovine digestive system. Exactly _whose_ cud are you chewing? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/48 "2017-02-02T15:20:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Unicorns do not have a bovine digestive system. Exactly _whose_ cud are you chewing? Artistic license, my friend. I have it on good authority that there never existed plasticine porters with looking glass ties, but no one forced reality on Lennon or McCartney. Why? Because it rhymed, man, it rhymed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/49 "2017-02-03T05:26:26Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Artistic license, my friend. I have it on good authority that there never existed plasticine porters with looking glass ties, but no one forced reality on Lennon or McCartney. Why? Because it rhymed, man, it rhymed. > > 😛 Plasticine is not meant in that context to mean that they are made of it but merely have that look. I ate a handful of fresh mushrooms and was later watching _Tonight_, which had Luciano Pavarotti as a guest, so I understand that lyric from experience. The looking glass ties, that one is perplexing – perhaps sequined? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/50 "2017-02-03T08:56:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I have very good ears and also a darn good nose, so the predators do not have an edge on me. You also have to sleep sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/51 "2017-02-03T17:31:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Plasticine is not meant in that context to mean that they are made of it but merely have that look. I ate a handful of fresh mushrooms and was later watching _Tonight_, which had Luciano Pavarotti as a guest, so I understand that lyric from experience. The looking glass ties, that one is perplexing – perhaps sequined? Mirror ties, looking glass being one of those quaint Britishisms. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/52 "2017-02-05T00:19:31Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > A I have it on good authority that there never existed plasticine porters with looking glass ties, but no one forced reality on Lennon or McCartney. Why? Because it rhymed, man, it rhymed. > > 😛 But the world is full of plasticene people ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/53 "2017-02-05T00:24:09Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Mirror ties, looking glass being one of those quaint Britishisms. Sorry, what? What is a mirror tie? ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/54 "2017-02-05T00:26:23Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You also have to sleep sometime. Depending on where i am, if we are talking the mythical Horse type unicorn, as opposed to the early mammal who is a unicorn but we dont call a unicorn, i probably have 0 natural predators, so i’d sleep when i felt like it, where i felt like it. And if no one else can see me, why do i have to be pink? am i albino? But since i am invisible, i’m going to the local produce market and eating all the apples and carrots. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/55 "2017-02-05T00:38:52Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > But the world is full of plasticene people But very few pleistocene people these days… > [@eschereal](#): > > Sorry, what? What is a mirror tie? A tie that’s so reflective it’s like a mirror. Like if someone wore a tie made out of mylar. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/56 "2017-02-05T04:19:08Z")
On my to-do list, trample people invoking me to ridicule religious belief, since obviousy I will exist. Plus their being trampled by something invisible will make for an awkward pause in the argument that I will find just extremely funny. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/57 "2017-02-05T05:04:34Z")
Trampling seems so … _pedestrian_. I mean, you are a goddam _unicorn_, you should be goring them. Which is doubly ironic, since your horn, IIUC, has healing powers. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/58 "2017-02-05T05:23:33Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > It’s a morning in late spring and you’re out for a walk. The Flying Spaghetti Monster extends a noodly appendage Pah! Anathema! > [@](#): > > and transforms you into an invisible pink unicorn. What do you do? > > You may be invisible but you still smell like a horse, you can be heard, you leave hoof-prints, and so on. You know you’re pink because you catch yourself in a reflection. Yes, you can only be seen in reflection. How do you know you’re invisible? Because insects and birds keep bumping into you. You also have a nice horn in the middle of your forehead. It’s less than a foot long, not long enough to affect your ability to eat. You can speak. So, nothing has actually changed. > [@](#): > > So, what do you do? :rolleyes: Same thing I do every night. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/59 "2017-02-05T13:37:13Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > It’s a morning in late spring and you’re out for a walk. The Flying Spaghetti Monster extends a noodly appendage Presumably there’d be no point in calling the police? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517/60 "2017-02-06T16:35:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Plasticine is not meant in that context to mean that they are made of it but merely have that look. I ate a handful of fresh mushrooms and was later watching _Tonight_, which had Luciano Pavarotti as a guest, so I understand that lyric from experience. The looking glass ties, that one is perplexing – perhaps sequined? OK - if that’s the route we’re going to go, then the line “for meals I’d chew my cud” employs the southern idiomatic meaning of “cud” - anything done in a leisurely manner. As in “Miss Dorothy shore has been chewing her cud over that crossword puzzle this mornin’”. Arguing meaning with a poet is like catching a rabbit by hand - every time you think you have one, it dives down another hole. [sub]This is the first public philosophical discussion of one of my works. That’s a milestone, right?[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-an-invisible-pink-unicorn/778517.md?page=4)