Happy World Tiger Day!

[Orbert]

Today is World Tiger Day!



As many people know, tigers are the coolest animals in the world.  They are intelligent, warm and fuzzy.  They could also eat you alive, or dead, but if it actually came to that, let's face it, it would probably be a little bit of each.

Learn more about the WWF's work to protect tigers: https://wwf.to/OvC4NC

Download wallpapers of tigers and other big cats: https://wwf.to/P5Yof9

[Implode]

Awesome animals. It's sad to think that there are probably less than 4000 of them in existence. 

[rumborak]

Also, inb4 Liger.

[King Postwhore]

Happy Tiger Woods day.  He's an animal.

[Sketchy]

Saw Orbert's post. That tiger is adorable.

Happy World Orbert Day.

[ohgar]

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

-William Blake

[Orbert]

Nice!

I always wondered why Blake spelled it "tyger".  Is that the Olde English spelling or something?

[wkiml]

Tygers of Pan Tang ...he was obviously a huge fan

but really

Most modern anthologies have kept Blake's choice of the archaic spelling "tyger". It was a common spelling of the word at the time but was already "slightly archaic"[3] when he wrote the poem; he spelled it as "tiger" elsewhere,[1] and many of his poetic effects "depended on subtle differences of punctuation and of spelling."[4] Thus, his choice of "tyger" has usually been interpreted as being for effect, perhaps to render an "exotic or alien quality of the beast",[5] or because it's not really about a "tiger" at all, but a metaphor.[1]

[Orbert]

Cool.  I didn't know any of that, though I'd guessed that it was probably more for effect than anything.