Anders Breivik said he really hates the song, “Children of the Rainbow,” by Pete Seeger. So what do the Norwegians do? Tens of thousands of them gather in a square in Oslo and sing…”Children of the Rainbow”.
(Episode CCCXX: Make ‘em sweat.)
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Do not grok. So I will ask for more information.
You mean the pseudo-waffle thingies in the frozen almost-food section at the grocery store? Those things? Fried? Deep or pan? Butter or vegetable oil (or lard)? With batter?
Nutmeg, is that “The Hedgehog Song,” as in the song whose chorus includes the line the hedgehog cannot be buggered at all?
Aarrgh. Fluorescent thread is a stone bi…pain in the ass to work with. Okay, Imma done whining.
Yes, Oggie, those eggos.
And, “pan-fried in bacon grease.” No batter.
I am impressed. I lived for years with parents who always saved their bacon grease. They never actually used it, but they always saved it in a coffee can on the stovetop. Now I know what the bacon grease is for.
Esteleth: Yes. I know the wording is questionable, but, well, it’s Pratchett.
If I knew my dinosaurs, I’d have half of the Dimetrodon Song composed by now. But I am a bad biology student who never went through a dinosaur phase. *hangs head in shame*
Oh, Giliell, love, love, love that red bag with the baroque blue Swallow.
Bacon grease is also excellent for making grilled cheese.
“Save all manner of grease. You will be instructed in its use later.”
Hey, I pay for that fat, and I need fat to cook with anyway, I’m stinkin well gonna use it.
Coincidentally enough, I’m eating potatoes fried in ham fat I rendered from the scraps of the ham (lard, technically, I suppose, but it tastes like smoked ham).
Argh no scary bathroom no
Bacon grease is fab for cooking eggses, too. That’s a habit that goes waaaaaay back, when people fully expected to go from ‘doing okay’ to ‘fucked completely over’ in the blink of an eye. Besides, no need to waste. I grew up with grease saving and do it myself.
Americans in particular are incredibly wasteful, why waste something so useful?
Also, if you have dogs, they love some bacon grease poured over their dry food and mixed well. Lovely, greasy food.
Carlie:
I don’t find it scary as much as I find it seriously way too exhibitionist for me.
I haz clay! Just spent a lovely afternoon back on the wheel practicing some forms, making plates and cups, throwing slabs and generally getting dirty. I probably won’t even keep any of it, but that is better than xan/\x for my mood.
(/happy MikeG)
Caine – how so? It never got an elevator put in, so I don’t think it can be accessed from anywhere else in the building. Just a long drop down.
(or exhibitionist as in “I have too damn much money so I built something expensive and stupid”?)
Yay! for Happy MikeG. :)
Carlie:
The idea of it is exhibitionist. I can go with that sort of thing to a degree, but the idea of sticking a see into bathroom over an elevator? Too much. There’s some stuff I wouldn’t care to see or have others see. That goes for peoples who live with me, too. ;D
Caine – oh, I get it. I was too preoccupied with thinking it was all about the fear of heights, because that’s the part where my brain shut down.
scariest video in the world
no it’s totally this one
Carlie:
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Oh. I’m not afraid of heights. Or glass elevators or glass floors.
@Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
I must commend your fine taste, and thank you for reminding me of the bottle of Talisker sitting in my pantry.
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@Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
The only way to fry anything. The only question is what kind of bacon grease. Regular? Maple? Pepper? Red chile?
I imagine maple is the way to go with Eggos. Have some in the freezer, will replicate the experiment and report findings.
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@carlie
On the plus side, constipation would never be a problem — just look down.
localnebula, you left out the only kind of bacon that is worth discussing – applewood smoked.
Esteleth – true. I’m thinking I’d need a nice area rug to be installed in there.
Audley – here’s an article about Starburns. Also, did you see that Rebecca Watson had someone yell at her on twitter for “spoiling” it after it aired? Led to a pretty funny exchange of spoilers.
@Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
I eat too much bacon to afford that gourmet stuff on the regular. I’d be forced to choose between bacon and booze, and you just can’t ask me to do that.
E,
Oh.
My.
God.
I think I just drooled on my keyboard.
(Aside: I made brunch for the in-laws today. I asked my sister-in-law to pick of bacon and what does she get? Canadian bacon. *sigh* If I wanted ham slices, I would have asked for ham slices!)
Awesome, yet another atheist with his head up his ass w/r/t women’s rights.
Feminists linked him to the Finally Feminism 101 post about the myth of “female privilege,” and the result was more whining about “hating men” and “reverse sexism.”
David @460:
Katherine already explained that upthread:
Daisy, speaking of sexist assholes, Misogyniraj was back, briefly to scream about us icky wimmins being able to completely control all the men in a supposedly *male-dominated* society. He’s run off now.
So I take it you’ve never been to L.A.?
Boy wants to know if the Eggos were chocolate chip.
Boy also pointed out, during dinner, that he has decided on the martial arts form he will learn. He wants to become an idiot savate.
10 y.o.?
@Caine
Once again, bigots seems to exaggerate the power that the group they hate have. Apparently, you guys are using your womanly charm to mind control me or something. Now I am waiting for the claim that women will cause the apocalypse or something.
Talisker.
Nothing that good. 12-year-old Johnny Walker Black Label. Nice and smokey.
And the Ommegang was their Dubbel (which I strongly recommend).
Caine, I love Zombie Duck. You are amazing.
Mmmmmmm chocolate chip. Too rich for every day, but too good to resist completely.
. . . OK then!
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Hooray for Zombie Duckie! I can’t wait to see what Bender Duckie looks like brought to life (so to speak)!
ibyea:
Of course we are, my dear. Why on earth would you care otherwise? ;)
Hekuni Cat, thank you! ♥
PTI:
Heh. :D Thank you. I’m doing the fluorescent bits on Bender’s Duckie now. Very cool thread, but a major pain in the arse to work with.
LOVE the duckies!
@A. R
Yep, 10 year.
@Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
Johnny’s easy to hate on for wannabe scotch snobs (ooh, blended, so terrible), but it’s a solid choice IMHO. Green Label is amazing, but it’s like $200 a bottle, so I recommend befriending a bartender at a place that has it.
localnebula:
I actually prefer blended scotch. I like JWBL, Pinch and Chivas. My dad likes single malts and, to me, some are good, some are meh, some are bad. I like the consistency of the blended.
MikeG:
Hee. Thank you! ♥
I may need to call an ambulance.
I can’t stop *snorffling*.
Brother Og, can you give Boy a big, sloppy kiss from me?
Brother Ogvorbis:
The great thing about Green is that it’s the best of both worlds: a blended malt (a.k.a., pure malt), a blend of only single malt scotches. You get consistency and depth.
That’s really it with single malts, though, is that it’s a crapshoot if you haven’t had it before. I’ve found that I really don’t like most single malt Highlands (probably the most common, at least in the States), but most Speyside or Islay I’ve liked.
Full outbreak of summer today. I should have brought my sandals and my conference hat instead of leaving them in Vienna.
*long hug for CC*
:-)
It is cute.
Seconded ^_^
Stupid question: Ctrl+Z didn’t work, did it?
Fortunately I didn’t think of that.
Too dark and too much red for my taste… :-/
…I don’t quite understand.
(And what exactly is cosplay? I don’t want to google it.)
Oh, so that’s why Sili is suddenly covered in glitter. *nodnod*
X-D
But not before he’s done with hoggling.
*contract*
*convulse*
Someone wake me up, please. That’s… almost like a hyena giving birth!!!
OK. That proves it. It’s all made up. *lalalalalaaaaa*
Calculated on what frequency of sex?
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
If you actually get it all the way into your bladder, you can’t possibly turn it around! You’d have to wait for it to decide it wants out on its own!
Thirded. :-)
*dies*
Who cares what he brags? He won’t do it again. There are methods to ensure that.
Apart from, like, throw him either in jail or in an institution for the criminally insane.
That would be you? Excuse me while I glue my ass back on. I just laughed it off.
This now reads:
In other words, only male Republicans voted against it; everyone else behaved sanely. Bold in the original.
:-) :-) :-)
+ 1
Now I’ll spend a long time wondering if there are any such rules in paleo, other than the scientific method which really is better not broken… have I internalized the rules so much that I don’t even notice them anymore…?
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Are you sure it’s about genital configurations? When anything vaguely computer-related breaks, the whole nuclear family considers it my personal job to fix it, no matter if it’s way beyond my meager knowledge. Sometimes that’s even the case when I happen to live in, say, Paris.
Huh.
For silly historical reasons, eukaryote appendages of constant shape used for movement bear the same name as the bacterial flagellum – unless they come in huge amounts and cover the whole cell, or animals have them; then they’re called “cilium”. Lynn Margulis’s attempt to change the name to “undulipodium” hasn’t gained much acceptance.
And yes, their number (and arrangement and shape and composition…) is important in phylogenetics, and doesn’t vary much.
I just love this wording. :-)
Oh no. Most unicellular green algae have flagella. What Animalia* and Fungi, together called Opisthokonta, share is that they have one flagellum per cell** and that it’s attached at the rear end of the cell (relative to the direction of movement) – most or all other flagellate eukaryotes have at least one that is attached to the front end.
Having only one flagellum is shared between Animalia, Fungi and Amoebozoa, the group that includes most classical amoebae and almost all slime molds. All together are called Unikonta.
* Some people, as I found out yesterday, avoid this term nowadays and only use Metazoa (multicellular only) and Holozoa (Metazoa + Choanoflagellata).
** Well, only chytrid fungi have flagella, and even then only on their gametes. Their sister-group, which consists of all other fungi, has completely lost the flagellum. – In animals, the skin and the gut were originally lined with cells that bear several cilia each (in rare cases just one). This condition was lost several times; most animals nowadays only have cilia on their sperm cells and (in modified forms) various sensory cells. Some animals, the nematodes for instance, have lost even the flagellum of the sperm; their sperm cells are amoeboid.
Reminds me… I finally have to read the paper that says otherwise. It’s been sitting around on my hdd for at least two years now.
Srsly?
(BTW, haptophytes are awesome. And coccolithophores – chalk – are haptophytes. But I repeat myself.)
If they come from a vaguely Christian place, they already know the spelling Satan are much more likely to mispronounce it in English than to misspell it.
Wow. I had no idea. They don’t teach you that in undergrad molecular biology.
Neither nor! It’s named after the inventor, a Mr. German!
A PhD student here has the Berlin specimen tattooed on her shoulder.
Her birthday party, with BBQ, is supposed to be right when we come back from the dig, and apparently it’s going to take more than one day… I’m just saying.
:-o Awesome. Is there a transcript anywhere?
…Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
When I sneeze, just don’t interrupt me. I hate that, because them I’m supposed to thank you – but I can’t speak, because I (usually) sneeze a second time!
*insert full-on Asperger’s rant about how arbitrary, useless and annoying politeness is here*
That’s a great book. You’ll love it. ♥
Motörhead. Possibly pronounced à la française: moteur…
Surprises me, to be honest.
But then, I always start from the assumption that everyone is not just male, but like me in several other respects… and I very easily (mis)interpret names as feminine.
Ha! Of course not! That’s because nobody ever imagined legislatures could be that stupid!
Heh. Redundant. “rDNA” is short for “genes for rRNA”.
I just downloaded the pdf. :-) The paper says the bikonts are paraphyletic. Collodictyon would apparently stay a close relative of Unikonta.
It doesn’t. It’s all empty rhetoric.
What’s serious is Iran’s support for Assad.
This is fractally wrong.
“Need”???
Why should you have the right to have someone killed just because you’re a victim?
All seconded.
What he has done… like… nuclear disarmament… the utter minimum of universal healthcare from 2014 onwards… nah, screw that, the richest 1 % should just flee to the moon? Is that what you mean?
…Or her even.
It’s dotted with treasures ^_^
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No, but it’s close by Canadian standards!
(And it’s still not clear whether those tracks were really made by tetrapods. Discussion hidden in this open-access paper which, incidentally, also drives the point home that Eusthenopteron is overrated.)
Yay!
The beak is so adorable…
Di-me-tro-don, creeping in the uplands, causing a commotion, cuz they are so awesome…!!!
From Tex-ass to Germanee, they stop Eryops eating ye!!!
When I first started reading The Endless, I thought that David Marjanović comments were very strange and pointless.
Boy, did I learn.
Lurkers and Newbies: if you are falling behind and want to know what is going on, read a DDMFM loooong comment.
Read all of his comments.
He is one smart cookie.
A 17-screener! Probably took me 17 hours, too.
I only just discovered the homepage of the Darkheart Duckie project! The apple-like duckie on Nerd Duckie’s laptop is just beyond words :-}
Uplands… I’ll have to read up on those sites in Texas again. IIRC, there’s the eminently aquatic Trimerorhachis and Diplocaulus in them. Anyway, Dimetrodon teutonis lived far away from water.
^_^
I assume it was developed for IVF, if cell biologists hadn’t gotten to it first. Need to be able to manipulate single sperm.
David #42, no, it did not work. I was foolishly working online and it appears that the Internet server had a spasm just as I was trying to click a few finishing touches. I should have realized when nothing responded for a moment and copied to save in that moment, but I am too ignorant about computer stuff to have thought of that quickly. May not have worked anyway. :( anywayblarrrr
Caine, I am loving the duckies!
Carlie, I share your horror of those heights. Shudder!
Romney advises students to borrow money from their parents to go into business
From the comments: “He was born with a silver spoon so far up his ass it came out of his mouth.”
In the case of palaeontology, I guess that would mean that you spend you bachelors, masters and (possibly) PhD time figuring out what the field is about. Once you have your PhD, as long as you have the evidence, you can become a Bakker or Ostrom (if you so desire). Does that make sense?
I am currently reading Dal Sasso’s book on Italian dinosaurs and am also reading another one on Sauropods. I like them. I’ve browsed the new one and am looking forward to it.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that …
From Boy (who is taking a Medievel Russian history course this semester):
“Dimetrodon. Isn’t that the guy who defeated the Mongols at the the Battle of Kulikovopol in 1380?”
And Wife says that the dinosaur sheets should improve our Rex life.
I do not grok. Chocolate chips belong in cookies. Waffles, pancakes, and simulacrums should contain buttermilk.
Also from Boy:
What starts with the letter ‘F’ and rhymes with ‘duck’?
@David Marjanović
Behold!
In the course of looking that up, I also found this (no longer relevant, and thank “Bob” for that): Why Won’t Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up And Die? Can’t stop laughing.
I see what you did there!
Ahh, the claws that refreshes!
And wow, I missed that lovely spat last night/this morning/whatever. Just… I don’t…
I don’t even know where to begin. A theocracy must be protected from a wholly imagined threat from another theocracy because the first theocracy is the right kind and the second is the wrong kind? And the only way to do that is
a warmass murder? And we need the death penalty as a form of population control? Anders Breivik is apparently on the loose killing again, because without the death penalty that’s what happens? Desire for revenge and desire to live are completely equivalent?This is satire, right? Right? Please tell me this is satire.
And the answer to #53? Fire truck, what else could it be?
Brother O, a flying duck?
Fragile luck?
Maybe a fucking duck?
(I seen it!)
Caine: I got the usual praise for your lovely embroidered duckies, and the alien-ese stitching, but I was curious about what the “xx” in your signature means. I’m guessing it’s not “kisses”.
Yeah, an important distinction. Under the previous misapprehension, I was doubly surprised to find out that one of my home state senators, male and Republican, voted for reauthorization.
QFT.
*Hears beep, runs off to retrieve dinner*
Ducks Deluxe
Wet. I’m not getting much stitching done.
Caine: Pretty rain! I like the pine needles one best.
Oh Caine. The pine needles. And the ones with the water with the rocks under. ♥ Those make me miss taking real pictures so much.
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kristinc, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Trying them out slowly and not worrying about the “twitch” thing helped me to really concentrate on what muscles I was using – and surprise surprise, I was using the wrong ones. (I was using, like, my knee, rather than the back of my thigh. Which, naturally, was making it hard for me to isolate the movement.) Also, I can’t do hip tilts without going up on the ball of the up side foot either, if we’re thinking of the same thing.
I woke up with Russian Roulette by Rihanna stuck in my head and had to practice to it because I couldn’t stop listening to it. :P
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Hi David! *tacklehug in response to long hug*
David:
:D :D :D Gotta have good gear, right? Thank you.
Niftyatheist:
Thank you. ♥
Rey:
Actually, you guessed right. A close friend and I have been signing our emails to one another that way for close to two decades. It’s evolved into meaning love.
Nutmeg:
Thank you. I have a long ongoing fascination with raindrops on pine trees. Looks like someone dressed them in diamonds.
CC:
Aaaaaaw. {mega-hugses} ♥
Eeee! *hugs*
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Dear Romans, I am sick of your creepy, creepy misogyny. I think next quarter I’m going to make a point of staying out of my actual area of study, just to get a break from the women-as-property mentality.
Glad I could help, CC! My teacher does tell beginners to use their knee if that’s what helps it click for them: she describes the sort of twist in your front foot/leg as squashing a bug or grinding out a cigarette. It kind of pushes the hip through its correct movement and then later once you know what it feels like you can engage more specific hip and oblique muscles.
As far as hip tilts, visualizing my knees as pistons helped a lot, I just had to watch out not to slam them too overenthusiastically back and forth. That gets you a fairly crude hip tilt powered by the knees, but it’s an intermediate step to being able to isolate them mostly in your butt and thighs, which is what I’m working on refining. It involves a LOT of squeezing my tushie. A lot.
Carlie,
Ooooo, gracias!
It was a fitting ending to both the episode and Star Burns, I think.
Ugh, has anyone else’s kid brought home one of those “Dork Diaries” books? I wanted to spit. The things are basically primers for girls to freak out about what screwups they are and obsess over what the “right” boy thinks of them. And they’re supposedly for ages 7 and up!
“Dimetrodon. Isn’t that the guy who defeated the Mongols at the the Battle of Kulikovopol in 1380?”
Hmm. When I set up my second internet account, I chose Dimetrodon as a ‘nym.
BTW Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur, it was one of two “finbacks” -reptile and amphibian- back before good out-of-water hearing had developed and visual displays were more important for winning a mate than mating calls.
Also, it was one of the most primitive reptiles ever, just after the stem-amniotes had split int four groups of reptiles. Surprisingly Dimetrodon was in the group from which proto-mammals would evolve. This reptile group was the second superdynasty of land-living vertebtates, the first being amphibians and the third “proper” dinosaurs.
Dan Savage offends xtians. Boo hoo fucking hoo.
Caine:
Yeah, I saw him in action. I find him so ludicrous, and everybody else so adept at flaming him, that I didn’t say anything.
Lovely photos you’ve taken. Also, for you: Most of my duckie collection. (The picture to the right is Vittorio’s 100 Cats and a Mouse.)
David, cosplay is costume play, which is fairly common in the fandom world.
Also, based on that exchange I had with Jules, I think there should be a new My Little Pony, named Butthole Sparkle.
And does anyone remember that “dork” means penis?
“Screw the dimetrodons. Gorgonopsids are cool.”
And possibly at least partly warm-blooded. They lived when a period of glaciations would have provided an incentive for metabolic experimentation.
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Is there any futuristic (or at least post-1945) Hugo Boss uniform for us who strive for world domination? The Star Wars gear was a bit clunky. The Baddies from Superman’s home planet had the right idea.
Daisy:
I love the little one with the red ribbon! I have that same devil duckie, except mine is teeny, it can fit on my fingertip. It came in my tin of devil duckie bandages.
Thanks, Caine. :) That pic is a little dated; I now also have a pink Devil Duckie, a large white duckie, a medium-sized sailor duckie, and a teeny-tiny green duckie with white shamrocks on it.
Rubin has discovered sammiches and has declared them worthy of worship.
Rey:
And ‘sheesh’ means ‘Jesus’.
(Your point?)
Caine, those are beautiful embroideries! So precise. You’re a star.
John:
I expect it was plain old curiosity, John. After all, if a person sees dork and remembers it meant penis, it might be a tad jarring to see a little girl’s book called Dork Diaries. Or at least make a person wonder if anyone else remembers that particular meaning.
Language changes and depending on a person’s age, they may or may not know past meanings of any given word, particularly when it’s used as slang.
Seems to me you could have figured this out yourself.
The craziest thing about that elevator shaft/vertigo bathroom is: it kinda has the look of a ground floor/powder room/guest bathroom type thing to me.
Seems to me that’d weed out which of your dinner guests have hard-core acrophobia pretty quick.
(/On the bright side, I guess it’d also be one hell of a conversation starter.)
Caine, eavesdropping again? :)
Markita Lynda:
Aaaw, thank you. :) One of these days, I hope to be able to learn a whole different level of embroidery. I’m very jealous that the UK has a Royal School of Needlework. This woman is getting a degree there. She does stuff I can’t even dream of doing right now. Same with this woman.
If you’re a good little freudian, everything means “penis”.
Dork does not just mean “penis,” it means “whale penis.”
Nuance!
gesundheit!
Esteleth, I LOL’d.
But yet, kristinc, it is true.
A dork is a whale penis.
A geek is someone who bites the heads off of chickens.
A nerd is someone who knows the above facts.
And I, Esteleth, am all three. And rather preposterously drunk.
I have a Very Important Question.
Where do I start watching Dr. Who?
I get the impression it’s something I might enjoy, but I’m not interested in starting with the episodes from the 60s. I gather from the Wikipedia page that the Doctor changes every few years – is a change a good place to start? Opinions on what’s semi-recent and a good introduction?
You could start with New Who, Nutmeg.
That is, the start of Chris Eccleston as the Doctor.
Nutmeg, if you have no interest in all the Doctors (sadness, Tom Baker is…well, you’d have to see for yourself), just start with the new ones. Those begin with Eccleston.
All right, Eccleston it will be. If I enjoy the series I’ll go back and watch the older episodes eventually. Thanks for the advice!
Yep, I really like Eccleston as Nine (the ninth incarnation of the Doctor). I mean, I like all the NuWho doctors, but Nine is my Doctor and well worth watching. Good place to come in. Nine only lasts one season, the first season of NuWho, and don’t be put off by the cheesiness and low production values at first, it’s still a lot of fun. Production values go up steadily till s5, where they are positively cinematic and lush.
The s5 finale is my most favorite season finale of anyything ever. When I’m feeling down I watch it. Or — if I’m pressed for time — I watch the YouTube video of all of s5 set to the Can-Can in slightly over 2 minutes. It’s a thing of magnificence. (and contains SPOILERS. duh)
@Nutmeg
Having watched stuff from the 60s, trust me, it is not a good idea to start there. Not all of them are bad, but a lot of them are tedious, silly, and boring. Plus, most episodes from the 60s are missing due to BBC’s policies back then, so you would be missing out on a lot of good ones anyways. So yeah, what everyone else recommend.
For me, the Family of Blood two-parter always tugs the ol’ heartstrings.
He could have been happy with her. *sniff*
Threadrupt.
Talisker! ♥
But I likes all smokey scotches.
I’m completely exhausted. I did 12 hours of hardcore feminaziing today. My speech went really well. I was nervous because I decided to talk about feminism’s erasing of the transgender community. But the crowd was very supportive and responsive. Who knew Alabama was so transgender-friendly? Sure, it was a small group, but it was such an encouraging, enthusiastic response that it gave me hope.
I’ll catch up soon. I love y’all. </snuggliness>
@Kristinc
Eccleston is really good. He lasted too short. WHYYYYY??!!! Also, I agree with you that series 5 finale is the best of all the new Who finales.
Hi, Minnie!
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Zombie Duckie is awesome.
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It was a good wedding, but that was unquestionably the worst Screwdriver I’ve ever drank. *bleh!*
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I want no part of a bathroom over a visibly long drop.
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Ah, but you see, this is for a candiru that has inserted itself vaginally. Whole different kettle of fish!
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But sometimes, a penis is only a cigar.
:P
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Eccleston.
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Whale penises: Those things are up to sixteen feet long and prehensile, you know!
Bacon grease, lovingly poured and refrigerated, is for frying everything, especially potatoes & onions and dandelion greens. Unfortunately, I don’t have bacon regularly, so I’m out of the habit.
Thanks, Cicely. Glad you had a good time at the wedding.
Animalia are opisthokonts.
OK, we don’t think of ourselves as organisms with flagella. But most mammals still have flagellated sperm. And we have cilia, so I’m told, on the cells that line our lungs, which move mucous and dust out of them. That’s one of the harms of smoking: it paralyzes your cilia for about an hour, so particles stay in your lungs all day.
rDNA genes = redundant.
I’m not not confident enough about that kind of thing to start editing people’s letters to science journals except for the non-technical parts.
My take would be that rDNA is a molecule and ‘genes’ are functional subsets without obvious physical boundaries.
I’m not even sure if they meant ‘ribosomal’ or ‘recombinant’ DNA.
I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean the Reformed Druids of North America.
Esteleth (@PreviousPageThisEpisode):
The parade you witnessed may have had something to do with unions: Several of my political friends were today attending union memorials, at which the names of deceased brethren were read, and I know of at least one such that had pipers. I’m guessing (but only guessing) it’s to do with the fact that May Day is coming up in a few days.
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DrDMFM:
The key words in my comment were “’round here, at least”: I’ve just learned, over the years, that there are plenty of women on teh intertooooobz who, for perfectly cromulent reasons, don’t go out of their way to advertize their sex, while men (esp. straight ones) usually don’t bother to conceal it. Ergo, when someone new pops up with a non-name nym (e.g., Nutmeg or opposablethumbs) or a gender-ambiguous name as a nym, I just figure female is the better bet, pending evidence one way or another.
In other situations, though, I’m like you: My default assumption about unknown others is that they’re more or less like me, except for the specific differences I know about.
Of course, that way lies unacknowledged privilege: Mitt Romney’s problem (well, one of his 4,735,652 problems) is that his default assumption is that everyone can borrow from their rich parents… just like he did.
It was Worker Memorial Day, to remember people killed in industrial accidents. It’s about equivalent to people killed in car accidents but we don’t hear much about them unless it’s spectacular or gruesome.
I need to have a shirt made that says: How come MY invisible friend doesn’t get to make laws?
Thanks for the info, Markita. I presume the proximity of Worker Memorial Day to International Workers Day (aka May Day) on the calendar is no accident?
Well sharks have 2, and they’re double jointed.
…er that last was supposed to be in resp to the comment on whale penises. That is all.
Hello! I have just seen the Pirates! movie, had lunch at a lovely bakery, and been for a walk around the little lake in Shenton Park. Ducks and egrets and swans aplenty, and even some very nice looking ibis. Totally unlike the usual sickly Sydney scavengers. Walking! Yay me!
And now I am back at my hosts’ place and have discovered that I forgot to turn on the power to the iPad charger so I have to sit with the cord attached and that means the sun is in my eyes. Oh noes! #/firstworldproblems
Cicely:
Now there’s a new euphemism….
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret #91
You’re a whale penis? Do you detach from the rest of the whale’s body? And where do you keep the teeth to bite the heads off of chickens?
This brings about a whole new meaning to “Totally Not a Dog or Ferret”.
Great, now that’s going to be stuck in my head all day.
TET will be relaunched prematurely, in about a half hour. I’m about to go on the road for another long stretch.
Have a great trip PZ
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