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Time for some summer levity!<\/p>\n

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While amusing on its own, this picture is more amusing with context.\u00a0\u00a0 It was taken in downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania by a relative who was visiting there this weekend.\u00a0 This part of downtown Pittsburgh 40 years ago would have been crawling with UAW Steel workers drunk on Iron City Beer looking for someone to beat up.<\/p>\n

He wasn’t aware that this weekend was Anthrocon 2012 – an apparently annual gathering of anthropomorphic people – persons who like to dress up in furry animal costumes.<\/p>\n

Actually, they’re kind of using the term backwards – the term Anthropomorphic refers to injecting human characteristics and motivations into things that aren’t human…\u00a0 “The moon wept silently in the still night”, “the grandfather clock closed its eyes as the old man took his last breath”, “Mother Earth has a fever”…\u00a0\u00a0 they’re more humans that wish they had animal traits.<\/p>\n

One important subgroup of furries is “bronies” – (mostly) male persons who are fans of the TV show “My Little Pony”.\u00a0\u00a0 If this is news to you, here is Fox News on the subject.\u00a0\u00a0 They report, you decide.<\/p>\n