Mike Ventrella
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Telokh_Amdo said:
And another quote from Walt Kelly (who wrote Pogo, a great old comic strip):
"Don't worry too much about life. It ain't no how permanent."
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And another quote from Walt Kelly (who wrote Pogo, a great old comic strip):
"Don't worry too much about life. It ain't no how permanent."
Telokh_Amdo
Baron
Fearless Leader said:
"Life is a disease. Sexually transmitted and invariably fatal." - Death, from Sandman (DC Vertigo)
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
about platypupi (sp???) anyways...do they really have poison spikes on the backs of their forearms that are their defence mechanism???? (sorry this is a question not a tidbit. I'm wondering...there's a conversation going on between my hubby and i whether or not we should let a child of ours have a platypus as a pet)
Telokh_Amdo
Baron
Tzydl Zhitelava said:
Males have a poison spur on their back legs. They can harm humans with their venom if provoked.
Platypus on Animal Diversity Web. There is a drawing of the spur and venom sac.
Oh, and the plural of "platypus" is technically "platypi". (You added a syllable, silly Gypsy) Oddly, though, the website I listed spells it "platypuses".
Telokh_Amdo
Baron
In Tibet, where the ground is too hard and cold to dig graves, they cut up dead bodies and feed them to vultures. It's called a Sky Burial. This is just a regular burial to them.
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
yeah they're from australia and stuff...its wayyyy too cold for them here....that's a definite NO on the pet thing....
no matter whether you believe in creationism or evolution or whatever big bang. etc.....ya gotta wonder....what was the whole idea with the platypus????? i mean really...the thing is like.....what?! :shock:
no matter whether you believe in creationism or evolution or whatever big bang. etc.....ya gotta wonder....what was the whole idea with the platypus????? i mean really...the thing is like.....what?! :shock:
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
WARNING SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC INFORMATION ABOUT BURIALS NO OFFENSE INTENDED
in vermont when it's too cold to bury bodies we put them in big stone vaults until spring...by then they start to thaw and the "juice" is loose in the coffin. there is...soup? in there...
in mexico to save space they bury people standing up
ring around the rosies was about a plague
in vermont when it's too cold to bury bodies we put them in big stone vaults until spring...by then they start to thaw and the "juice" is loose in the coffin. there is...soup? in there...
in mexico to save space they bury people standing up
ring around the rosies was about a plague
Telokh_Amdo
Baron
Tzydl Zhitelava said:
The platypus and 2 types of echinda are Monotremes. They are mammals that lay eggs. The Platypus is also one of the few venomous mammals. The Echidnas have the same spur, but no functional venom glands. Each of the three is the only member of their Genus.
Class Mammalia (mammals), Subclass Prototheria (egg-laying mammals), Order Monotremata (monotremes)
--- Family Ornithorhynchidae (platypus), Genus Ornithorhynchus (duck-billed platypus)
--- Family Tachyglossidae (echidnas) (a)Genus Tachyglossus (short-beaked echidna), (b)Genus Zaglossus (long-beaked echidna)
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
so the point was "let's see if we can make a mammal that _____________________"
Telokh_Amdo
Baron
Tzydl Zhitelava said:
Yes. Just like every other mammal.
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
(about george bush vacation days)
does the president REALLY have time off? i mean really...he's always the president...hehehehehheeh just a 490 days of 8 years he didn't have to sign anything or "appear" anywhere....thats not too bad....
but i could use 490 paid vacation days in 8 years....
Michael Bermant, MD will do ear shaping surgery for $2800. He also gives many other online quotes for reshaping many other parts of your body.
does the president REALLY have time off? i mean really...he's always the president...hehehehehheeh just a 490 days of 8 years he didn't have to sign anything or "appear" anywhere....thats not too bad....
but i could use 490 paid vacation days in 8 years....
Michael Bermant, MD will do ear shaping surgery for $2800. He also gives many other online quotes for reshaping many other parts of your body.
The reason a skate glides so well is that when ice is compressed it turns into water. Thus, the thin blade creates a compression that forms a layer of water to lubricate between the metal and the ice, thereby facilitating a smooth glide. The water, of course, freezes imediately after it ceases to be compressed.
-Tim
-Tim
Tzydl Zhitelava
Baron
((good heavens thats amazing!!))
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There was once a belief called spontaneous generation which involved the idea that the reason maggots and flies are seen around raw meat is that they came from raw meat. This was quickly disproved by an experiment where meat was put in a jar and a screen covered the opening. The flies buzzed around the jar and not the meat, thus disproving spontaneous generation.
Charles Darwin and Sir Iaasic Newton's tombs are part of the main altar in Westminster Abbey.
When asked if he wanted to be buried in the floor iof Westminster Abbey, Winston Chruchill replied, "I don't want people walking all over me for all eternity." He is burried in the countryside.
There are several former amusement parks around where I live including: Angela's Park, San Souci Park, Fernbrook Park, Hanson's Amusement Park, and Rocky Glenn. many of these closed during the 1980s.
There are still a few people who live in Centrallia, a town that literally collapsed over time into fissures left over by the mines and was as a result dissolved as a town.
Jonathan Swift wrote a book called "A Modest Proposal" where he came up to a solution to a food shortage which was to eat babies.
The trading card game Magic the Gathering has cards known as the "Power Nine" which each card is worth hundreds of dollars due to their rarity.
People seeking gold in Alaska had the belief that their excoursion would be like a picnic outing and when they reached the mountain tops there would be gold lying on the ground. Many prospecters becamed stranded and starved and the Canadian Mounties needed to rescue them. for this reason a mandatory provisions list was creadted to lessen the need of rescues.
The game Monopoly is based on Atlantic City.
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