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Spirit Animal (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  June 9, 20155:04 pm| 206 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, General Stupidity

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My teenage daughter is attempting to get a job at a burrito emporium that has a surprisingly in-depth hiring process. It includes three separate interview sessions plus the disclosure of the applicant’s spirit animal. Really! I don’t know if that’s a corporate or strictly local policy.

Young Miss’s actual spirit animal is the sloth, but as it would probably be unwise to disclose that to a prospective employer, she plans to borrow MY spirit animal — the playful, energetic otter — for use in the interview. It’s just a little white lie that won’t hurt anyone, so it’s okay.

The household discussion about spirit animals got us thinking about what would be our dogs’ spirit animals. Since they are already animals, we wondered if they should have a spirit human instead — such as Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow or Kathy Bates. But that would be species-ist since it would treat non-human animals as categories and humans as individuals.

An alternative would be to say a dog’s spirit animal is a human. But that seems considerably less interesting than “Ellen” or “Meryl Streep.” However, since we’re all animals, maybe any species other than canine would work for dogs, so it’s theoretically possible for a dog’s spirit animal to be a cat or squirrel? The mind. It reels.

Anyway, do YOU have a spirit animal? If so, what and why? Would it be of any value to an employer to have this information about you? And also, because this is such an incredibly dumb topic, please feel free to discuss other stuff. Open thread!

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206Comments

  1. 1.

    chopper

    June 9, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    having kids, I’m always worried about buying burritos from a place full of teenagers cause I know how terrible they are about washing their hands.

  2. 2.

    khead

    June 9, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    My spirit animal is a KITTEH, of course.

    But right now I wish for my spirit animal to be anything that kills ants and keeps them from coming back.

  3. 3.

    TaMara (BHF)

    June 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Dragon. But don’t tell anyone. And if I told you how I got a dragon as a spiritual animal, well you wouldn’t believe me anyway.

  4. 4.

    David in NY

    June 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    This is an interview problem I had never envisioned.

  5. 5.

    Steve in the ATL

    June 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    We would fire her for fraudulent misrepresentation on her job application

    Oh, and gray wolf

  6. 6.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    I had a lemming, but I haven’t heard from him in a while.

    I think my spirit animal is the feline who occupies our house. She’s a flesh-and-blood cat but her spirit fills our home. She needs me to open cans and I need her for the purr.

    Every once in a while I’ll look up from reading and see her staring intently into my eyes from across the room. I give her the slow blink, she returns it and then walks out of the room.

  7. 7.

    Valdivia (The Terrible)

    June 9, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    They ask that? Really? I would fail if they asked me that in an interview.

    I decided a while back that I wanted my spirit animal to be half Slim from To Have and Have Not and half Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. For an actual animal for an animal spirit I would have to do some pondering.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    @chopper: They should look for applicants who identify raccoons as their spirit animals. Raccoons always seem to be washing up!

  9. 9.

    raven

    June 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Who’s a Moose!

  10. 10.

    jl

    June 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Don’t know what company runs the burrito place. It might be tolerable one.

    But, if it were me, I would probably be interviewing for white collar jobs in finance, so if they asked me what my spirit animal was, for the purposes of the interview, I guess I would respond with rabid jackal or disease bearing leech. Or maybe tick. Yeah,that’s the ticket: tick. Then I’d kick back and relax, secure in the knowledge that my big promotion would occur simultaneously with my hire.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Huh…earwig? I dunno, maybe SQUIRREL! because my dog seems to think they’re important and if I were one, she’d pay rapt attention to me at times in addition to breakfast and dinner.

    I see Oklahoma has uncovered the source documents for their education standards. Honestly, they’ve probably regressed since then.

  12. 12.

    Iowa Old Lady

    June 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Spirit animal? What kind of burrito emporium is this?

    I used to love using the phrase “non-human animals” at meetings about research projects because it freaked out so many people.

  13. 13.

    mai naem mobile

    June 9, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    I feel like an idiot. What the hell is a spirit animal?

  14. 14.

    Woodrowfan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    supposedly an Owl. I rather like coyotes though.

  15. 15.

    Peale

    June 9, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    I am a pooh bear, although I wear pants.

  16. 16.

    Hunter Gathers

    June 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Honey Badger.

    We. Don’t. Give. A. Fuck.

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    @mai naem mobile:
    This not understanding is not something to hide or derive shame from; it is something to celebrate with pride.

  18. 18.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    I was going through some old photo albums and came across a bunch of pictures of a beautiful cat I had from 1981-1989 (She died from cancer). I hadn’t seen the pictures in decades. I still think about her a lot.

  19. 19.

    Iowa Old Lady

    June 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    Apparently, I’m a crow. I just did an online quiz, so it must be true.

  20. 20.

    Pogonip

    June 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    Bandicoot.

  21. 21.

    chopper

    June 9, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    yeh but raccoons live in garbage.

    you really can’t win. everything is filthy and trying to kill you.

  22. 22.

    Valdivia (The Terrible)

    June 9, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    @jl: Aren’t vampires their official spirit animals?

  23. 23.

    Ernest Pikeman

    June 9, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    My spirit animal is “none of your fucking business”, a.k.a. “please explain to EEOC how my spiritual beliefs are relevant to being hired”.

  24. 24.

    mai naem mobile

    June 9, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    @trollhattan: hey, I may not know what a spirit animal is but do not assume I’m a Republican!

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    According to a silly online quiz, I am a hummingbird. I don’t see it. I wanted falcon or wolf.

  26. 26.

    Peale

    June 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    I wonder what would happen if she put “Fruminous Bandersnatch”

  27. 27.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    If a potential employer asked me about a spirit animal, I’d lie and say “beaver” or “bee” or whatever other animal is notorious for industriousness.

    Then after being hired, I’d steal.

    Like a raccoon.

  28. 28.

    Tree With Water

    June 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    Some years back a San Francisco Chronicle columnist wrote about her sister’s job interview for a position as a prison guard. A friend of theirs was interviewed first for the job and washed out, because she hemmed and hawed when asked, “how would you react to an escaping prisoner?”. She had mentioned shouting “halt”, and firing a warning shot. Forewarned, the columnist’s sister instead immediately responded to the question by saying, “I’d shoot to kill”. And she got the job.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    Speaking of Republican idiots (we were, yes?) they’ve completely assumed ownership of the California anti-vaxx front (just as I suspected they would). Every state senator voting against the current bill was an (R) and now it’s in the Assembly, where the fun continues.

    During a rally against a California bill making vaccines mandatory for school children, a Republican lawmaker from Fresno galvanized the crowd by invoking forced interment camps.

    Senate Bill 277 would make vaccination a condition of enrolling in private and public schools, which opponents have castigated for depriving children of an education. That argument temporarily derailed the bill in the Senate Education Committee and was featured prominently in Tuesday’s rally.

    “I wouldn’t call it a concentration camp,” said Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, “but they’re suggesting (children) go some place other than public school.”

    Later in his speech, Patterson said that he “thought we apologized for internment camps,” an apparent reference to the separation and confinement of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

    Asked after the rally to explain his comments, Patterson said it was a “bad choice of words” but reiterated that SB 277 is “excessively punitive.”

    “I think the penalty that is in this bill, which is the isolation of these children – this is an expulsion from private and public school. That smacks of the kinds of things that are the beginnings of discrimination that can go very ugly places,” Patterson said.

    I can’t wait for our new All-Vaccine All-Common Core schools to vacuum up the unexpected state surplus. That should trigger some squealin’.

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    June 9, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: My spirit animal soulmate!

    I often use the phrase “non-human animal,” because to do otherwise is to imply that animals and humans are more different than they are, and that animals are not people. Animals are definitely people.

    As to what my spirit animal is…I haven’t done the kind of meditations or quests or whatever that normally are required to discover such information. However, as a child, as far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a horse. And I to this day adore horses: the way they move, the way they sound, their scent, their eyes, their soft kissable muzzles. So I’m going with horse.

  31. 31.

    Thot Gor

    June 9, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    I assume that this is the same burrito emporium chain that I just interviewed for. Mine is for a job at HQ, but I had a video interview. That’s a new kind of terrible… Watching yourself crash and burn and it’s recorded. Good to know that I can only expect it to get weirder if I move on.

  32. 32.

    Arclite

    June 9, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    I think both dogs’ spirit animals would be the sloth, based on all the pictures I’ve seen of them lying around doing absolutely nothing. :)

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @mai naem mobile:
    Heh, touche (the “e” should have a diacritical I don’t know the code for).

  34. 34.

    Doc Sportello

    June 9, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    My spirit animal is Grey Goose. Occasionally Wild Turkey. Very rarely … Mad Dog.

    Leave me alone.

  35. 35.

    patrick II

    June 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    My chihuahua’s spirit animal is pit bull.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    @CaseyL: The thing about horses — even their shit doesn’t stink! Clearly they’re paragons in the animal world.

  37. 37.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    Burning question: Which of the two escaped New Your convicts is the Dapper Dan man?

  38. 38.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    The quiz says my spirit animal is a wolf, but I am not nearly as social or status conscious as a wolf. I’d go with tiger.

  39. 39.

    Shana

    June 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    @Ernest Pikeman: Reminds me of a job I had in college working at the university library. The manager asked my astrological sign to see if we’d be compatible on the job. I suspected at the time (early 80’s) that it was illegal to ask but blurted it out anyway, mostly because I was stunned.

  40. 40.

    Valdivia (The Terrible)

    June 9, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    After some thought I would want my spirit animal to be a jaguar.

    @beltane: I need to take this test see what it says. I am sure I end up being totally not a jaguar!

  41. 41.

    Mike in NC

    June 9, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    Sat through some dumb interviews in my time, but at least nobody ever asked what kind of tree I’d want to be.

  42. 42.

    Pogonip

    June 9, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    According to the quiz, my spirit animal is not the bandicoot, but the owl.

    That quiz is a hoot.

  43. 43.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Have you ever seen hummingbirds fight? They are badass.

  44. 44.

    mdblanche

    June 9, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    What’s French for “don’t mention the war”?

  45. 45.

    mai naem mobile

    June 9, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    I was listening to NPR this am. They said there’s a case of diphtheRia in Spain because of an unvaccinated kid. So, guess Spain gets The View too. I think they should force Jenny Mccarthy to meet this kid today while hes contagious.

  46. 46.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    June 9, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    According to a silly online quiz, I am a hummingbird. I don’t see it. I wanted falcon or wolf.

    I am exactly the same.

  47. 47.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    @trollhattan: Richard Matt, the older guy, is the Dapper Dan.

    Also, I saw footage of asshole Andy Cuomo being a douche to the other inmates during a tour (“You didn’t hear anything? You didn’t hear anything?? Right!”)

    Among other questions raised: Didn’t someone hear the noise from the tools? How did the inmates hide the hole, the dirt and dust from work that probably took days to accomplish? And did they have blueprints or other inside information to find their way through the bowels of the prison?

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo said other inmates claimed they didn’t see or hear anything. “They’re all heavy sleepers,” he said sardonically.

    And state Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, chairman of the Correction Committee, said any inmate who heard drilling wouldn’t dare report it. “That will get you killed — that’s the kind of environment it is,” he said.

  48. 48.

    ThresherK

    June 9, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    Colombia ties it up in the 82nd minute! Cracking volley.

  49. 49.

    Cacti

    June 9, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    The crow.

    Intelligent, mischievous, and not likely to win any beauty contests.

  50. 50.

    Rob

    June 9, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    I think mine is a wren: mostly out of sight but occasionally stepping into plain view. I don’t know how I would answer that question in an interview though. Being asked my astrological sign is a very good sign that I do not want to be around that person.

  51. 51.

    Redshift

    June 9, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    Rabbit. Though after that post the other day, I could go with wolf, too.

    In other news, my local county board member is being challenged in a primary by a person who is heavily funded by Leadership for Educational Equity, a 501(c)4 (no donors disclosed!) whose purpose is to get Teach for America alumni elected to office. She still doesn’t have as much money as the incumbent, and in a general election she wouldn’t stand a chance, but it’s an extremely low turnout primary, so I’m pretty nervous.

    Her strategy had been relentlessly negative, essentially trying to peel off voters who may be disenchanted because when you actually govern, you can’t make everyone happy, but when you have no record, you can promise them you will. I understand that to some extent a challenger has to do that, but I feel like the way she done it is going to produce bad blood down the road whoever wins.

    Sigh.

  52. 52.

    Rob

    June 9, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    @beltane: #42

    I have. I’ve seen hummingbirds go after other hummingbirds, gnatcatchers (tiny, demur birds), and crows and hawks. It’s something to behold.

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    @jl:

    But, if it were me, I would probably be interviewing for white collar jobs in finance, so if they asked me what my spirit animal was, for the purposes of the interview, I guess I would respond with rabid jackal or disease bearing leech. Or maybe tick. Yeah,that’s the ticket: tick.

    I would think that a weasel or cuckoo would also work well as spirit animals for high finance types.

    ETA: I think my spirit animal is a raven, which might be considered adequate for a vulture fund, though they’d obviously be happier with people whose spirit animals were vultures, coyotes, or similar scavengers.

  54. 54.

    Cacti

    June 9, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    @Doc Sportello:

    My spirit animal is Grey Goose. Occasionally Wild Turkey. Very rarely … Mad Dog.

    Leave me alone.

    No Thunderbird?

  55. 55.

    Valdivia (The Terrible)

    June 9, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    And the quiz says my spirit animal is a deer. I was so hoping for a jaguar but they don’t even have one, closest was panther, which would be cool because so kickass.

  56. 56.

    Tenar Darell

    June 9, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Can it be a specific animal? Then the animal would be the red tail hawk at the White House named Lincoln.

  57. 57.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: Does Andrew Cuomo really think the inmates of a maximum security prison feel obligated to make him or the corrections system look good?

  58. 58.

    Tom F

    June 9, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    I took two of the online quizzes.
    My animals are the wolf and the deer; oddly appropriate.

  59. 59.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    The cockroach would make a very fine spirit animal-resourceful, enduring, and ubiquitous.

  60. 60.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    @beltane: Yes.

    Not for nothing is he called the prince of darkness. What he’s doing to public school teachers in the state is horrendous. He certainly will treat inmates like crap during a photo op.

  61. 61.

    Cacti

    June 9, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @beltane:

    Does Andrew Cuomo really think the inmates of a maximum security prison feel obligated to make him or the corrections system look good?

    Mouthing off to the governor might get you time in the hole, but telling any authority that you knew about other inmates’ escape plans will get you shanked.

  62. 62.

    Redshift

    June 9, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    @jl: Reminds me of that old SNL sketch where they’re interviewing Tom Hanks (I think), as a guy who was raised by a series of different animals, the last one being dung beetles.

    “So they ate…”

    “Hey, those are my parents you’re talking about!”

  63. 63.

    Doc Sportello

    June 9, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    @Cacti: Well played, plural of spiny succulent. Well played.

  64. 64.

    Howard Beale IV

    June 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    BREAKING: McKinney officer resigns due to video of pulling gun on teens

  65. 65.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    My spirit animal is bacon.

    A shaman told me ‘wolf’ one time.

    But to pick for myself, and use something alive, I’d say…

    My spirit animal is Beyoncé.

  66. 66.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    @Cacti:
    Can a mythical creature serve as a mythical creature, or is that double-jeopardy or something?

    I’ve decided to trade the earwig for the ouzel. If it was good enough for John Muir it’s good enough for me, and they really are a kick to watch.

  67. 67.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    This would be a fine spirit animal. The world’s tiniest deer species.

    Even the name… Pudu.

    “As adults, pudus grow to about 12 to 14 inches at the shoulder.”

    Perfect size for those long trips with your spirit animal.

  68. 68.

    Tree With Water

    June 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    @Cacti:

    “..It’s the same story the crow told me; it’s the only one he knows.
    Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go.
    Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait,
    Wo, oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?..”.

    Uncle John’s Band Grateful Dead

  69. 69.

    Howard Beale IV

    June 9, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    @Cacti: MD 20/20

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    @Tom F:
    If you ever awaken gnawing on your own arm, you’ll know why.

  71. 71.

    seaboogie

    June 9, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    Oh Betty, Betty, Betty – I think that you are in serious denial. We all know that your spirit animal is a FROG! Your brethren and sisteren are in constant commuinication with you, trying to get this message across. Why do you not see and accept your true “nature”? Also, frogs are much more vocal than otters….just sayin’…..

  72. 72.

    geg6

    June 9, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Lovey is my spirit animal because she’s feisty, like me. I wish it could be Koda because I strive but fail to be as laid back and cool as she is.

  73. 73.

    different-church-lady

    June 9, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Stop lying: your spirit animal is actually the grouse.

  74. 74.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    @seaboogie: My god…you’re right!

  75. 75.

    sharl

    June 9, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    My spirit animal would be a bull, though not just any bull: Ferdinand the Bull…

    Yeah, not much better than a sloth to a job interviewer, I suppose. Just forget I said anything…

  76. 76.

    seaboogie

    June 9, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    @Betty Cracker: And yet, there are so many types of frogs. This one was just discovered in Costa Rica, and is so cool on so many levels – embrace your amphibian awesomeness: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/21/newly-discovered-glass-frog-looks-just-like-kermit/

  77. 77.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    In a clandestine raid last night, squirrels shut down an El Cerrito, CA substation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The assault on the power infrastructure interrupted regional transportation, and left 45,000 humans helpless. Only one rodent life was lost.

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    @Peale:

    I wonder what would happen if she put “Fruminous Bandersnatch”

    That’s “Frumious”, not “Fruminous”./pedant

  79. 79.

    Calouste

    June 9, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    @Valdivia (The Terrible):

    They ask that? Really? I They would fail if they asked me that in an interview.

    I’m not looking to work for idiots, why do you ask?

  80. 80.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    @sharl: I have a tragic Ferdinand anecdote to share. My sister and I saw a Ferdinand cartoon when we were kids, so when our dad brought a steer to our little shithole hobby farm to raise, we named it Ferdinand. Well, after Ferdinand grew, of course he was carted off one day and returned in packages of ground chuck, roasts, steaks, etc.

    My sister and I were inconsolable and refused to eat any Ferdinand-based meals. Dad would taunt us with remarks like, “Eat your Ferd-burgers!” I think we became vegetarians for a week at least.

  81. 81.

    Brachiator

    June 9, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    On one site I was shown an Owl as my primary spirit animal, and the Hawk and the Snake as secondary animals.

    I think a site should offer the slug, the weasel and the nematode as possibilities.

  82. 82.

    Elizabelle

    June 9, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    Is this the Spirit Animal Quiz?

    from Elizabelle the Wolf (and I’m good with that animal)

  83. 83.

    raven

    June 9, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    @ThresherK: I suppose it’s too much to ask to put comments about the game in the game thread.

  84. 84.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Great story on CNN Money. Franklin Graham, son of Billy, is pissed off that Wells Fargo Bank ran a TV ad featuring a lesbian couple, so the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is moving its accounts out of Wells Fargo. They are moving to NC-based BB&T instead.

    BB&T is a sponsor of the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade.

    Maybe he should keep the money in a mattress? It’s getting harder and harder to punish tolerance, isn’t it, Frank?

  85. 85.

    dmsilev

    June 9, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: At work, we once had a meeting with some reps from the local power company to discuss what could be done about momentary blips in the supply that were causing problems. They said basically that if a squirrel fries itself across a couple of main lines, it takes about a second to switch over to a different circuit, and there’s not much that can be done about it.

    And then they showed us this photo, so depending on where you live, squirrels may be the least of your animal-power-related problems.

  86. 86.

    Turgidson

    June 9, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    Pretty sure my spirit animal is a Great Dane. I’ve frequently remarked that they are the dog version of me, and plan to get one eventually.

  87. 87.

    gogol's wife

    June 9, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    I’m a owl! I like that.

  88. 88.

    Valdivia (The Terrible)

    June 9, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    @Calouste: Touché

  89. 89.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    I know someone whose parents made her name the piglets they were raising Bacon, Ham, Pork Chop, etc. so they would never forget what was eventually going to happen to them. Only their brood sow had a pet-type name.

  90. 90.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @efgoldman: Yes, mentioning spirit animals gets dangerously close to being a ideation on religion. A better way of asking this would be “If you were to describe yourself as an animal, what animal would it be?”

  91. 91.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    @dmsilev: Moose!

  92. 92.

    Elizabelle

    June 9, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    @Roger Moore: Think I’d be a vegetarian if I lived on a farm.

    The farm would be an underground railroad for food animals.

  93. 93.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    …Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is moving its accounts out of Wells Fargo.

    Must be millions and millions of dollars. His daughter is in on the grift as well. My wife got talked into attended one of her events (she was invited by a friend and didn’t want to turn her down) and for a solid year we got requests for donations EVERY DAY.

    The last straw for my wife was when we started getting anti-Obama material from the Graham daughter.

  94. 94.

    bystander

    June 9, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    My spirit animal is the Vodka Martini. What better use of spirits?

    Our french bulldog’s spirit person is Toulouse Lautrec’s dancer Chocolat, but in fawn, with touches of Red Skelton.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 9, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    My spirit animal is probably a Tasmanian Devil in the Warner Brothers sense.

  96. 96.

    Mike in NC

    June 9, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: Billy Graham practically invented modern ‘grifting for godbotherers’. Gingrich and Huckabee must have studied at his knee.

  97. 97.

    sharl

    June 9, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Aww no! I hope your dad wasn’t that pitiless as a matter of routine. Was it some kind of “tough-love” thing, along the same lines explained in Roger Moore’s comment (#90)?

  98. 98.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    @Roger Moore: My cat is named Samwise Gamgee of the Shire, so that we’re emotionally prepared for when he must help escort the One Ring to Mount Doom, as every cat must on the dawn of their fifth birthday.

  99. 99.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    @Mike in NC: Didn’t he show up on the Nixon tapes?

    His kids (son & daughter) joined the family business. Very lucrative.

  100. 100.

    raven

    June 9, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    Foghorn Leghorn!

    Boy, I say, boy, look at me when I’m talkin to you!

  101. 101.

    realbtl

    June 9, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    According to the quiz I took, a wolf. Seems like it fits.

  102. 102.

    Eric U.

    June 9, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    online quiz says my spirit animal is a buffalo.
    I am not sure that reflects how stupid I feel for asking an online quiz about it

  103. 103.

    jharp

    June 9, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    My spirit animal is the opossum.

    I like to pretend it’s “lights out” for me and then walk away with all the money.

  104. 104.

    NotMax

    June 9, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    Haven’t read through thread yet, but the question could be interpreted as directly inquiring about religious beliefs, which is verboten.

    Personally, would take such a thing popping up in an interview as a sure sign to not seek employment there.

  105. 105.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: CNN says that according to the latest financial disclosure reports it’s over $100m. Wells Fargo, though, is saying “oh, well.” It seems that tolerance is a better business plan than bigotry.

  106. 106.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    @raven: Every time Kevin Spacey does the look at the camera thing in House of Cards, I think of the hyperchicken lawyer from Futurama: “Now, I may just be a simple southern chicken…”

  107. 107.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: With money like that, they can buy a huge eye of a needle, for when it comes time to pass through it.

  108. 108.

    Bobby Thomson

    June 9, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    Tiger. Deer and lion are secondary. I would have thought a black bear.

  109. 109.

    JPL

    June 9, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Thanks for mentioning the quiz, since I really never thought about my spirit animal. I’m a deer but might be connected to a the tiger. Go figure.

  110. 110.

    seaboogie

    June 9, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: It’s a sad, sad day in America when you cannot count on banks to be absolutely evil anymore, but just to chase the money, indiscriminately (rather, without discriminating among potential customers). It’s almost like the LGBTQ folks are actual people with money to manage – imagine that!

  111. 111.

    KJSBrooklyn

    June 9, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    Older daughter’s remark after working at the burrito bar on campus: “Now that I have food service experience, Mom, the world is my oyster.” (She gets her sarcasm from me, by the way)

  112. 112.

    shell

    June 9, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    in-depth hiring process

    Hmm. Do they ask for your spirit animal at the same time they tell you when to take a drug test?

  113. 113.

    raven

    June 9, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    Police expert on Rev Al, “Any 5 school teachers could have handled the situation in Texas better than the the police did”!

  114. 114.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: @Gin & Tonic:
    The joke may well be on Herr Graham.

    As Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch pointed out, it appears that if Graham wanted to distance his father’s money from those who support “The Homosexual Agenda,” he should have done a little more research.

    In the past year, BB&T sponsored the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade, as well as told the Miami Herald that the banks supports “individuals and organizations that broaden our perspectives and strengthen the diverse fabric of our communities. That’s why BB&T is proud to be a part of this day of pride and celebration of the 2015 Legacy Couples [who have been together for more than 10 years].”

    Although I think this requires reworking the phrase: “Crying all the way to the bank.”

  115. 115.

    Davis X. Machina

    June 9, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    Manatee.

    Big. Round. Gray. Floaty. Harmless. Slow. Whiskers.

    As it is, when I go to the beach I have to fight off people from Greenpeace buzzing me in Zodiacs, and well-meaning strangers pouring buckets of water over me so I don’t dry out waiting for the tide to turn.

  116. 116.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler:
    And also, too, miniature show camels to be doubly sure.

  117. 117.

    shell

    June 9, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    appears that if Graham wanted to distance his father’s money from those who support “The Homosexual Agenda,” he should have done a little more research.
    In the past year, BB&T sponsored the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade,

    Nowhere to run…nowhere to hide.

  118. 118.

    Origuy

    June 9, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    As of the end of March, Wells Fargo’s deposits totaled 4.496 trillion. I think they won’t miss Franklin’s widow’s mite.

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    June 9, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    The quiz came up Snake, which only goes to show how ludicrous online quizzes are.

    Wondering what the response would be should the Crackerlet answer “Bonobo.”

  120. 120.

    Keith G

    June 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    @raven: Interesting press conference from McKinney Tx. The officer has resigned. Would have been nice if he were fired, but this is probably quicker.

  121. 121.

    CanadaGoose

    June 9, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    Are you Native American?

    Or just a bunch of white folks blithering about things you don’t understand?

    It’s so fucking RUDE and disrespectful.

  122. 122.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    June 9, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I thought that ad was lovely. Actually cried at the end.
    Spirit animal would be the hedgehog.

  123. 123.

    Keith G

    June 9, 2015 at 6:49 pm

    @CanadaGoose: Not all of them are white.

  124. 124.

    Yatsuno

    June 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    My spirit animal? PENGUINS!!! Always having fun, love fish, and very dapper dressers.

  125. 125.

    Rand Careaga

    June 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    You wanna spirit animal, punk? I gotta spirit animal:

  126. 126.

    gogol's wife

    June 9, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    @CanadaGoose:

    This blog is not respectful of any religion whatsoever. Some of us have made our peace with that.

  127. 127.

    JPL

    June 9, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    @Keith G: Fox news probably offered him a nice sum to come on the air, and talk about the blahs. Of course, he’ll mention the death threats.

  128. 128.

    scav

    June 9, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    Spirit animal? How ’bout Chartreuse for the former and maybe a turtle of the latter. Or a hedgehog. For today, at least.

  129. 129.

    Another Holocene Human

    June 9, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    I once had a job interview with what turned out to be a really great employer that had quirky questions like that, but it was a small business, 2 owner LLC type deal. (And no longer in business. RIP.)

    My wife’s spirit animal has to be the lizard, found everywhere in Florida where there are walls. I don’t think I have one, though. I don’t connect to that concept. I like animals well enough … not like I like trains. #stereotypicalAspieisstereotypical

  130. 130.

    Bill Arnold

    June 9, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    @seaboogie:

    It’s a sad, sad day in America when you cannot count on banks to be absolutely evil anymore, but just to chase the money, indiscriminately

    Personally, I have a ranking of large banks from most evil to least evil. I was talking to a finance guy at a large bank yesterday and he was amused to hear that he worked for the least evil of the top 4 (american) big banks.

  131. 131.

    lol chikinburd

    June 9, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    What CanadaGoose said, adding only disappointment that it took 122 comments for it to be said.

    ETA: Oh, and also that the disrespect in question isn’t to a “religion”, but to a whole group of erased cultures. In a punching-down way that’s quite different from the up-punching slagging of established religions we’re used to here.

  132. 132.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    @NotMax:

    The quiz came up Snake, which only goes to show how ludicrous online quizzes are.

    Sure does. Snake covers a lot of territory! They don’t distinguish between a garter snake, a black mamba, and a Burmese python. Those would be very different spirit animals.

  133. 133.

    Keith G

    June 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    @JPL: I see such comments written a lot. Don’t recall it happening. Guess we will see what’s next for the dolt.

    If evidence supports a criminal charge, that would be a good thing in order to make it that much more difficult for him to have a badge and a gun ever again.

  134. 134.

    Tree With Water

    June 9, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    @scav: After much thought, and given the barnyards full of poultry and slaughter pens worth of cattle I’ve eaten over the course of my life, I’ve decided to name my spirit animal the Moocluck.

  135. 135.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    @CanadaGoose: @lol chikinburd:

    I object to the insinuation that only Native Americans can have spirit animals. The same basic idea is very common among animists and other nature worshipers from throughout the world.

  136. 136.

    rikyrah

    June 9, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    JB20005
    Follow the money and it will always tell you the real story.

    Scott Walker has approved $250 million in budget cuts for the University of Wisconsin system.

    Now it comes to light that public funds have been pledged for the construction of a posh new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

    The amount?

    $250 million.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-boaz/scott-walker-bucks-arena_b_7543116.html

  137. 137.

    muddy

    June 9, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    @Yatsuno: Are you walking like a penguin though? How’s that going?

  138. 138.

    JPL

    June 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    @Keith G: I hope that he’s charged with use of excessive force. Fox News has already labeled the 14 year old, as no saint. Well hell, Saints aren’t saint. After the Treyvon Martin murder, the Zimmermans were on Fox several times.

  139. 139.

    Corner Stone

    June 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    I swear to god I wish a fucking creampie bomb would go off on the set of Hardball right now.

  140. 140.

    different-church-lady

    June 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    @CanadaGoose:

    Or just a bunch of white folks blithering about things you don’t understand?

    Gosh, what are the odds?

  141. 141.

    muddy

    June 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    @Roger Moore: Not having every given the topic any thought, I just took 6 online quizzes. I got a different creature each time.

  142. 142.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    @sharl: Sadly, he was pitiless as a matter of course back then. He’s mellowed considerably since, thank dog!

    @Germy Shoemangler: Yes he did, and revealed himself to be an avid anti-Semite.

  143. 143.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    @Corner Stone: If that were a daily feature, I might actually watch the show.

  144. 144.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Any anger over the disrespect shown towards spirit animals should be directed at the employer who asked a prospective employee, “What is your spirit animal?”

  145. 145.

    NotMax

    June 9, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    @muddy

    When directed a stage production of The Sound of Music, choreographed the nuns to walk in unison like penguins for part of “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”.

    (How could one not?)

  146. 146.

    A Ghost To Most

    June 9, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Great, in addition to godbotherers , we’ve now got spirit-animal-botherers.

    This really is a full service blog.

  147. 147.

    Roger Moore

    June 9, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    The Grahams are just a bunch of crackers.

  148. 148.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    Pretty sure the spirit animal fatwa was pioneered in Indonesia, for example.

    And with that, I head off to cycle home in the 35 MPH wind that sprang from nowhere a couple hours ago. No likie.

  149. 149.

    Keith G

    June 9, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    @rikyrah: Shhhh….. This is the stuff I want to see brought out next June.

  150. 150.

    Tenar Darell

    June 9, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: That’s hilarious! And poetic.

  151. 151.

    muddy

    June 9, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Tweety’s makeup is troweled on like a trollop tonight.

  152. 152.

    Germy Shoemangler

    June 9, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Here’s something I found amusing:

    http://boingboing.net/2015/06/09/mother-gives-her-16-year-old-d.html

    A mother was outraged when her sixteen-year-old daughter bought a very revealing knit “crop top” and so decided to put it on their cat and take a picture: “Well, it fits the cat… to be fair, it does cover all of the cat’s nipples…”

  153. 153.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    @beltane: Nooo! It really shouldn’t! (My kid needs that job.)

  154. 154.

    Iowa Old Lady

    June 9, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It’s a burrito place, not some place she’s committing her life to, so I think she’s fine hiding her sloth for now.

  155. 155.

    Suzanne

    June 9, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    My spirit animal is most definitely a pigeon.

  156. 156.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Sending good thoughts your daughter’s way (my son is in the same boat). I just don’t understand why those of us who are perplexed as to why the question was asked in the first place are being criticized for being insensitive. Shouldn’t the onus fall on the person who asked the question?

  157. 157.

    Tom F

    June 9, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    @trollhattan:
    Metaphorically, I’ve done my share of that.

  158. 158.

    kc

    June 9, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    My teenage daughter is attempting to get a job at a burrito emporium that has a surprisingly in-depth hiring process. It includes three separate interview sessions plus the disclosure of the applicant’s spirit animal. Really! I don’t know if that’s a corporate or strictly local policy.

    Either way, it’s . . . ill-advised.

    As for the rest of the process, from what I hear and read the job application process for even the shittiest jobs nowadays is insanely intrusive and involved. Why people have to be put through the ringer for a crap fast food job is beyond me. I hate to go all old fart here again, but what happened to just filling out a freakin’ application?

    In conclusion, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

  159. 159.

    beltane

    June 9, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    @kc: These days, our job creators feel they have the obligation to do psychological battle with anyone in their employ.

  160. 160.

    kc

    June 9, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Good luck to her! And you. :)

  161. 161.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    @Roger Moore: Seconded. I’m an atheist, but I’ve dabbled in several religions, and almost all of them have a similar, if not identical, concept.

    I know that punching up vs. punching down was mentioned, so, my favorite Wiccan holiday is Samhain, and I like the Zoroastrian winter solstice the best. Is that offensive?

    ETA: Favorite saint is Francis, although… you know who *else* was nice to animals…

  162. 162.

    D58826

    June 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    As if war in the Middle East and with Iran isn’t enough, Bridgegate Christie wants to threaten war with China

    Christie called for a “military approach” to China’s advances to “let them know there are limits to what they’re allowed to do.”
    “That is an issue that we can handle militarily by going out there and making sure that we show them that we don’t respect their claims to these artificial islands in the South China Sea that they’re building that they’re saying are theirs that are hundreds and hundreds of miles from the coast of China and are clearly in international waters,” Christie said adding: “We need to send that signal to the Chinese very clearly that we do not acknowledge nor will we respect their claims to those areas.”

    I hope he is aware that there are over 1 billion Chinese. That’s a bit much even for Rambo/steven Segall and the rest ofthe super American military.

    And the GOP controls 3/4 of the Federal govt (incluiding SCOTUS) and most of the states. Heaven help[ us

  163. 163.

    kc

    June 9, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    @beltane:

    It’s depressing.

  164. 164.

    Iowa Old Lady

    June 9, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Do you suppose the burrito emporium would be happy or unhappy if an applicant answered “Seriously?”

  165. 165.

    shell

    June 9, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Always liked the Zoroastranism attitude toward dogs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_religion#Zoroastrianism

  166. 166.

    weavrmom

    June 9, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    Usually Hawk, and the story of how that happened is not something I can really talk about. Also, my spirit animal can vary and they let me know.
    This has no connection with my ability to work or cook, though.

  167. 167.

    JPL

    June 9, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    @D58826: Jeb is going after Putin, so if a repub wins, we are a world of hurt.

  168. 168.

    jimbo57

    June 9, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    Your daughter should be very wary of telling a fib to her prospective boss/brujo at the burrito place, especially about something as important as her spirit animal. If I have learned anything by reading Carlos Castaneda all those many years ago, it is that Mescalito always knows when you’re lying…

  169. 169.

    Eric U.

    June 9, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: the tears of butthurt animist lurkers are the most delicious kind, whocouldaknowd? What is there, some kind of google alarm system that goes off when the words “spirit animal” are typed into a blog somewhere?

  170. 170.

    Gene108

    June 9, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Good luck to the young’un. Getting that first job is can be pretty tough. I struck out at a bunch of stuff, until my brother put my name in at a job fair for a parking attendant. Spent a couple of summers working as a parking attendant.

  171. 171.

    srv

    June 9, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Huck not going to back down about his shower choices:

    “I’m kind of glad it’s posted because people, if they watch the whole clip, what they’re going to see is that I’m giving a commonsense answer to the insanity that’s going on out there,” Huckabee said. “Because I hear people, everybody wants to be politically correct, everybody wants to be loved by the media and loved by the left and loved by the elitists. But, you know, I know I’m not going to be, so let’s just get it over with. I’d rather be a commonsense candidate for people who did take their brains to work today.”

    Obama to surge under the guise of ‘training’

    The Obama administration is expected to unveil changes to its plan for combating the Islamic State in coming days, a move that could boost the number of U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq to train and advise local forces.

  172. 172.

    jl

    June 9, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @trollhattan: Animism and the idea of spirit animals (and trees and rocks) is found in many cultures from all over the world. And there is evidence of a number of fatwas against animism and the idea of spirit animals, or plants, etc. Hinduism was down on animism. Traces of animism remain in the Bible, in early stories of Genesis. And Judaism surely must have issued a very strong ‘fatwa’ against it at some point.

    So, I agree with Roger Moore. i think maybe Finnish pagan culture was probably place where animistic tradition was most openly preserved in northern Europe, at least using animals. The Celts were big on trees and rocks and land forms.

  173. 173.

    catclub

    June 9, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @beltane: Little F-16s

  174. 174.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    June 9, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    My spirit animal seems to be the bluejay, in large part because they seem to show up everywhere I go. I swear that a couple of the little bastards were mocking me when I was at a knitting retreat in the mountains. (Stellers Jays, since those are the species found in our local CA mountains.)

  175. 175.

    catclub

    June 9, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Snake covers a lot of territory! They don’t distinguish between a garter snake, a black mamba, and a Burmese python. Those would be very different spirit animals.

    So free online quiz is not worth the money. I will keep that in mind.

  176. 176.

    seaboogie

    June 9, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @beltane: I think it’s probably an unfortunate introduction into the “real” world, aka when you finally find out what a fucked up mess this really is. Bye bye ideals, welcome to naming the price of your soul!

    One of my current bosses (I work a PT gig and consult) who is a close friend never fails to be amused by my accounting of being fired from my last job for insubordination (the second one of us in less than a month – maybe it’s you, crazy boss-lady?), and claiming that as a “feather in my cap”. It was truly a proud day, full of irony, and resulting in my liberation.

    Betty, if your kid won’t call them on their shit, at least instruct her to toy with them like a cat with a mouse – it’s good instruction for much of today’s job-game, with the Kochs and their like trying to become our uber-masters in their greedy race for power and one-up-man-ship.

  177. 177.

    opiejeanne

    June 9, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Wait, what now?

  178. 178.

    RSA

    June 9, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    Anyway, do YOU have a spirit animal?

    Of course not. On the other hand, if I lived in the universe Philip Pullman created (His Dark Materials–The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) my soul would be physically separate, embodied in a specific animal form. Back when the novels were popular and a movie-that-should-have-been-better came out, there were lots of quizzes that would tell you the form your “daemon” would take.

  179. 179.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    June 9, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @Roger Moore: And sanctimonious crackers at that.

  180. 180.

    Tree With Water

    June 9, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Funny. My eye just lit on your comment as I’m sitting here also watching some blue jays hopping around in my yard.

  181. 181.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    @opiejeanne: Obviously you’re not a golfer.

  182. 182.

    opiejeanne

    June 9, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): That’s what I’ve thought for a long time, that if were an animal it would be a jay of some sort. We raised a scrub jay that fell out of the nest, and we’ve tamed and handed several families of scrub jays and stellar jays. The ones at the cabin knew our old car and would show up squawking for peanuts within minutes of our arrival, even after months of absence.

  183. 183.

    opiejeanne

    June 9, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Nope.

    Sorry, I have no idea what your cat’s 5th birthday is about, but it sounds a bit ominous.

  184. 184.

    glaukopis

    June 9, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    The online quiz picked crow for me too. Thought it would have been porpoise.

    I was once called back several times, including Dec 26th, for a low level job only to discover the interviewer still hadn’t looked at my resume. I got the impression they were just seeing what I would put up with.

  185. 185.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    @opiejeanne: Just a joke. See the comment I replied to for context.

    “Obviously you’re not a golfer” is a reference to The Big Lebowski indicating that the recipient has failed to grasp something.

  186. 186.

    RandomMonster

    June 9, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    How about a spirit vegetable, or maybe a spirit punctuation? I’d probably have to go with garlic for the former, and the ampersand (&) for the latter.

    Also, spirit font.

  187. 187.

    A Ghost To Most

    June 9, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    @Eric U.:

    Yup, there’s a butt for every hurt.

    And if I believed in animistic spirits, mine would be a mountain lion.

  188. 188.

    Betty Cracker

    June 9, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: A butt for every hurt! I like that. So true!

    @RandomMonster: My spirit punctuation mark would be the ellipses…

  189. 189.

    opiejeanne

    June 9, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Missed that reference, and I just watched that movie a couple of weeks ago.

    (Run kitty!)

  190. 190.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    My spirit punctuation mark would be the ellipses…

    Mine is the Oxford comma.

  191. 191.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    @Betty Cracker: my spirit punctuation mark is the interrobang

  192. 192.

    RandomMonster

    June 9, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    my spirit punctuation mark is the interrobang

    Dang, I’ve been wanting to use that term for a while (only just read about it a few weeks ago!), and totally forgot about it when thinking of my spirit punctuation. I guess the ampersand chose ME.

  193. 193.

    dexwood

    June 9, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    My terrier’s spirit animal is a weasel.

  194. 194.

    Angela

    June 9, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    Mine is usually hawk too. Cooper’s Hawk to be exact. Although I get little moments of other animals that appear to me for a while. Last time, it was a turkey, coming out of a dream conference in a place I had never seen wild turkey before.

  195. 195.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    June 9, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    My spirit animal? Cougar.

    Which is an unfortunate one to admit to, at my age.

    My cats’ spirit animals would, of course, be cats, the most perfect beings in this or any other universe.

  196. 196.

    The Very Revered Crimson Fire of Compassion

    June 9, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    I realize that we’re all having fun here, but I’d like to point out a couple of serious (to me, and others of like traditions, anyway) issues with such questions. Number one is that, in my and some other traditions, the idea of an animal soul, guardian, or totem, is a solemn business, and intensely personal. My response to that question would have to be (a), It’s none of your fucking business, and (b), if this question, or my failure to answer it affects the likelihood of my employment in any fashion whatsoever, where would you like the letters of intent to sue from the ACLU sent?

  197. 197.

    Quaker in a Basement

    June 10, 2015 at 1:01 am

    My spirit animal? Old shoe.

  198. 198.

    Morzer

    June 10, 2015 at 2:38 am

    My spirit animal looks like this:

    http://www.sparklingdirect.co.uk/drinks/glenmorangie-madeira-wood-and-teddy-bear.asp

  199. 199.

    Allan

    June 10, 2015 at 3:26 am

    Have no idea what my spirit animal is. If they’re now expanding into Florida (because they’re not there yet according to their website) I’m guessing the chain is Freebirds.

  200. 200.

    Fred

    June 10, 2015 at 3:28 am

    @Iowa Old Lady: Thank you for finding the exact answer I have been searching for. Spirit animal my…

  201. 201.

    Fred

    June 10, 2015 at 3:32 am

    @The Very Revered Crimson Fire of Compassion: Now we’re getting down to it. Bam, right in the jewels!

  202. 202.

    rea

    June 10, 2015 at 7:35 am

    The obvious answer to the Burrito Emporium’s question would be, “a little donkey.”

  203. 203.

    Betty Cracker

    June 10, 2015 at 8:08 am

    @The Very Revered Crimson Fire of Compassion: I’m betting they’d reply, “Haha, just kidding!” and then round-file your app the second you left the room.

    I started this thread thinking the spirit animal question was a silly lark for this employer, but after reading all the comments, I’m beginning to see its utility.

  204. 204.

    WaterGirl

    June 10, 2015 at 10:34 am

    @The Very Revered Crimson Fire of Compassion: I appreciate you pointing that out. To me it was just a silly quiz and a silly thread, just for fun. I didn’t mean any disrespect and I imagine most others didn’t, either.

  205. 205.

    Ken T

    June 10, 2015 at 11:54 am

    Would it be bending the rules too much to say that my spirit animal is bacon?

  206. 206.

    weavrmom

    June 10, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    @Angela Noticed you as another person w/a hawk amakua, who also gets others from time to time. Maybe hawks are just cool with that? It’s a bit strange, but seems to work.

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