Today I learned a thing.

[Tails82]

No...

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Oh wait, you're right, it's a needle pulling thread. Durr.

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

I just had the dawning realization that the art of Samurai Pizza Cats is an infusion of Megaman and Sonic the Hedgehog.

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Vocabulary Lesson of the Day: Pusilanimous

pu·sil·lan·i·mous
ˌpyo͞osəˈlanəməs/
adjective: pusillanimous

showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.

Can you tell me which contemporary word descended from this?

[Vinyl the Rebel ᵘᶰᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ🚫]

anthrocentric.tumblr.com/post/81621685922/pussy-is-not-short-for-pusillanimous

Get yo etymology right

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Okay, that's fair enough...

...except where did the term, "Pussycat," come from? Turns that half of pusillanimous come from the Latin pusillus, which means "very small." Is there a known connection between the two? It would make sense if there were.

Not trying to be a smart aleck here, just want to refine my trivia.

[Mastery]

There's no such animal as a Panther! People often use Panther to refer to a big cat that's black, but in actuality it's just a mutation that causes Jaguars or Cougars to become black. In actuality, Panther refers to any member of the Panthera genus, or a mythical creature that WAS a big black cat.

[Allaprima ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

That's new to me as well. Neat.

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

I knew that. KITTIES

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

ZAZU WAS VOICED BY MR BEAN WHAT THE DEUCE MAN

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Back in the 80's, the Japanese government was starting to get involved with the science of "gene recombination," which is something I can't find the particulars of but may have involved splicing animal DNA into humans. To protest and express his disapproval of this, the venerable Osamu Tezuka - the guy responsible for Astro Boy among other things - created an Annie May movie called Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature, which happened to star a sexy pink cat lady.

If "protesting human-animal hybrids" was his goal, I think his efforts were just a little misguided.

[Allaprima ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

If only we had Batman Beyond levels of gene splicing.

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

"Batman Beyond levels of gene splicing" were available as early as the first episode of The Animated Series. Beyond was just the first time the tech became available to the public.

[Mastery]

It was also more clearly advanced, they were able to pick and choose what genes they wanted to exhibit (spots? stripes? reptile eyes? tails?) rather than just randomly becoming an uncontrollable monster

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

The doctor of On Leather Wings was shown to have control over when he decided to transform; after which, he no control, sure. It was also implied that the process was addictive, making the entire episode a fantastic analogy for how drug abuse can tear a family apart.

As far as I'm concerned, Terror in the Sky was just an excuse to show a woman's bare breasts on a kids' show and get away with it.

Some of those advancements - at least getting rid of the "mindless monster" part - had been made by the time Tyger, Tyger occured, so there's also that. Man, that was a weird episode.