What's Your Favorite Monster?

Pickens writes "Mankind has always had a fascination with monsters, and mythologies from around the world include stories of strange and terrifying creatures. Examples include the half-bull, half-human Minotaur of Greek myths, the living clay Golem of Jewish traditions, British elves and Chinese dragons. Live Science has an interesting photo essay on their ten favorite monsters that may have a basis in real life. Their rogue's gallery includes the Ogopogo, a mysterious monster in Canada's Lake Okanagan; the Chupacabra, that Latin Americans believe is the unholy result of secret US government experiments in the jungles of Puerto Rico; and the perennial favorite Bigfoot."

Comments

Futurama

[CrazyJim1]

Sure, everyone's for keeping Hitler's brain in a jar, but when you put it into a body of a great white shark, you've gone too far.

Manbearpig

[el_coyotexdk]

FEAR Manbearpig!! :)

Re:Manbearpig

[AgentSmith]

SPIDER PIG,
SPIDER PIG.
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does.
Can he swing,
From a web?
No he cant.
He's a pig.

LOOK OOOUUUTTT!!!!

He is a SPIDER PIG!!

Thank you!
Thank you!
Don't forget to tip your waitress on the way out!

Man, it's a slow Monday.

P.S. Even for a free news site this new format blows goats off the mountain.

Futurama

[vertigoCiel]

"Bigfoot's territory is being threatened, if he exists, although if he doesn't, it's not."

Cookie Monster

[rabiddeity]

I cast my vote for the Cookie Monster. They've tried to keep him down in recent years by forcing him to give speeches about vegetables and other such nonsense. But we all know underneath all that blue fur all he wants is more cookies...

Re:Cookie Monster

[bjmoneyxxx]

http://wh0rd.org/cookie-monster-abusing-cookie-dough.png

Re:Cookie Monster

[pokerdad]

I second that.

The desire to suck blood, howl at the moon, hoard treasure or lure ships onto rocks just don't hit home with me. But stuffing one's face with cookies is something that I can relate too. Plus none of those other monsters have as catchy a song as "C is For Cookie".

Re:Cookie Monster

[Fear the Clam]

Plus none of those other monsters have as catchy a song as "C is For Cookie".

Meh. The song's not that great, but it's good enough for me.

Re:Often spotted, but never pinned down

[bjmoneyxxx]

Shut the fuck up, you don't know what your talking about!!!!!!!! This is why albino's should NOT be given access to computers, let alone the internet, idiot.

My favorite monster...

[PenguinBoyDave]

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think it has to be Eduardo on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. (Sorry...I have kids)

Re:Where's Cthulhu?

[Fred_A]

What a gip of a list! They even managed to leave CowboyNeal out ! Newbies !

Re:Thanks coast-to-coast am

[Silver Sloth]

And what have you got against Gerry Anderson

My Cat

[Trikenstein]

A stray I took in when he was more than a kitten, but no where near full grown.
I just know that one morning I'll walk outside and he'll have Gojira's carcase lying at the base of the porch steps.

Re:My favourite monster

[cytg.net]

Vista

Re:Let me just say...

[Anonymous Coward]

don't paste perl in here.

My Favorite Monster

[Capt James McCarthy]

Is the one in my pants...

My credit card.

Gamblor

[HungSoLow]

To Quote Simpsons: "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!"

Daleks

[Aussie]

Daleks of course !

Re:Frankenstein's Monster

[NeverVotedBush]

The Peter Boyle version, of course!

Re:Trolls

[Thanshin]

I read somewhere about the idea that the trolls of Scandinavian folklore had their roots in human interactions with the remnants of the Neanderthals.

And where would the Neanderthals find a computer? Let alone the means to connect it to the internet.

Re:Roc

[geminidomino]

Bah. Druge Skeletons have regeneration!