@Cirrus Light  
Paleontology is study of Extinct animals and plant remain. While zooarchaeology is study of animals remain in generals.

@CyanLightning  
Paleontology?

@Cirrus Light  
Okay. But we call it zooarchaeology.

@CyanLightning  
To ponies, it makes sense that humans are animals :p

Also are Archaeology supposed to be a study of human remains?. Right.
 

@Crowley  
Yeah it’s totally a seriously problem that cause a lot of copyright holders like Hollywood losing many billion dollars revenue. Despite they already got so much money from people watching their movies in the movie theaters. And…. I think I made a bad joke here.

@Background Pony #8CA9
 
Privateers… Yeah, that’s probably a much better idea than the alternative.
 

 
(Why yes, that is a simple upside-down smile edited on a Petunia Paleo vector with a Pirates of the Caribbean scene backdrop)

@Pepsi Twist
 
I still suspect Cheerilee kinda cheated with her cutie mark.

@IceKitsune  
We already seen that there are dishonest ponies. See Caballeron and his henchmen, or the mere presence of a sheriff and a jail in Appleloosa. However, I doubt them to be really murderous. So, I think there is surely a certain degree of social stigma in being involved in illegal activities in Equestria, and there is the possibility to be jailed for them, but not comparable to the degree of our world.

@kinghearts  
a ““privateer[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer) was a person in Europe in the 1600-1800s who would be given a license by their country’s monarch/ruler to attack and raid the ships of other countries while flying a neutral flag. they were basically state sponsored pirates.

@Background Pony #8CA9  
Ummm care to elaborate some more???

@IceKitsune  

 
Maybe she could have gotten a privateer’s license from Celestia and raid the zebra waters for the glory of Equestria?

@Jman14102  
Amazingly well-timed visual humor.

I love how the skull just sloooowly rises out of the hole. That just cracks me up!

That skull slowly rising out of the hole slew me.

@Crowley  

Piracy is a totally serious thing guys. Very dangerous individuals.  

@Background Pony Number 17  

 
>implying people are never unhappy with themselves

@Pepsi Twist  
A pony’s cutie mark is inseparable from their self-identity. A pony CAN’T be unhappy with her cutie mark, because that would mean she was unhappy with herself.
 
 
@PonyPon  
Troubleshoes was an example of a pony “unhappy with himself”. He didn’t understand what his cutie mark represented, and as a result was miserable. It took the CMCs’ help to get him to understand what his mark meant, and thus understand himself and free himself from his self-inflicted misery.
 
Apparently “failing to understand one’s cutie mark” is not an uncommon psychological problem with ponies, which is why the CMC do what they do–their special talent is addressing just that issue. Wonderfully meta.

@Pepsi Twist  
Cutie Marks have been show a few times not to really dictate a Pony’s life; regardless how much the show likes to play up the whole Destiny angle of them. They can be just something the pony likes to do as a hobby in their free time it doesn’t have to be their job.

@Pepsi Twist  
I’m pretty sure that can’t happen.

@Pepsi Twist  
Unless he had a revelation that watering the plants was more fulfilling than baking would ever be for him, I can’t see that happening.
 
And he would probably bake anyway, who’s stopping him?

@PonyPon  
I mean like somepony wanted to be a baker for example, but instead he/she got a cutie mark of a garden hose after helping a friend with her garden.

@Pepsi Twist  
That would not only be against their whole point, but we had that already: Troubleshoes.

@IceKitsune  
I’d like to see a pony who has a cutie mark that didn’t want.