We seem to have a monkey theme developing tonight, so here’s a developing monkey: a Woolly Monkey at Apenheul Primate Park, from the Internet Center for the Study of Baby Animal Cuteness, Zooborns.
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Varek Raith Thu, May 6, 2010 7:08:17pm |
I stick my tongue in your general direction!
:)
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:09:19pm |
Another monkey joke for the new monkey thread...
A monkey walks into a drugstore and orders a fifty-cent sundae. He puts down a ten-dollar bill to pay for it.
The clerk thinks, "What can a monkey know about money?" So he hands back a single dollar in change and says, "You know, we don't get many monkeys in here."
"No wonder," answers the monkey, "At these prices you won't get many more."
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, May 6, 2010 7:12:22pm |
How many human toddlers have you see with that exact same expression in their eyes? And the tongue poking out as they contemplate.
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Killgore Trout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:13:36pm |
re: #4 SanFranciscoZionist
How many human toddlers have you see with that exact same expression in their eyes? And the tongue poking out as they contemplate.
I used to play in a quartet with a guy who'd make that face when he played.
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Cato the Elder Thu, May 6, 2010 7:15:04pm |
Well, if baby animal cuteness is the theme, how about a young Jindo with his kitteh friend?
And now back to reading "Ice and Fire". Viserys just got his crown of gold, but not in the way he was expecting...
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Obdicut Thu, May 6, 2010 7:15:24pm |
One of the niftiest biological oddities:
Why is the cuteness and adorabilit of babies something that's pan-species, inspiring caretaking behavior even across wide genetic distance?
Dennett has a theory that it may be the easiest example of self-rewarding altruism; genes promoting a positive response to juveniles developed early, and the markers we're looking for are common across species because they're relative-- what we recognize is not the particular juvenile shape but the relative juvenility of that creature compared to adults.
Of course, plenty of animals eat each other's young, so it's not like this is a paramount rule or anything.
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jamesfirecat Thu, May 6, 2010 7:15:28pm |
re: #4 SanFranciscoZionist
How many human toddlers have you see with that exact same expression in their eyes? And the tongue poking out as they contemplate.
Heh reminds me of a video I once saw of this monkey trainer. She was doing a simple little test, you have a big room, you have a tiny mock up of the room about the size of a doll house version of the room.
You take a soda can or whatever, and you hide it in the room. Then you show the monkey where you put the soda can in the small version of the room. When you let them loose in the big version of the room they go right to it.
Sadly a five or so year old child wasn't quite that logically intuitive...
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Killgore Trout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:16:33pm |
One Man's Weed, Another Man's Salad (RECIPE)
Dandelion Pesto
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:18:35pm |
A man reads in the paper of a white gorilla in a zoo far away. He decides that he just has to see it. The journey will be a long and arduous one but he simply cannot resist. He sets out on his trip and travels by car to the docks, and catches a boat across a huge ocean. After weeks of sea travel he arrives at the other side and takes a train to the zoo.
When he sees the white gorilla he can't believe his eyes, it's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. He simply must get a closer look, so he goes to the zoo manager and begs to be allowed into the gorilla's cage.
After much arguing the man finally persuades the manager to let him in to the gorilla's cage, but before he does he tells the man that whatever he does he must not under any circumstances touch the white gorilla. The man agrees and is led to the cage.
He tiptoes into the cage and is amazed, the gorilla is even more beautiful close up than it was from a distance. The white gorilla just sits quietly and looks at the man. After a while the man gets use to being so close to the gorilla and it seems so peaceful and calm that he starts to think that there can't be any harm in touching the gorilla. He slowly moves closer and closer to it, all the time the white gorilla just looks calmly at him. He reaches out his arm and gently touches the gorilla.
Just as his arm makes contact the gorilla jumps up and starts roaring. The man turns and runs to the exit, getting there just before the gorilla. He leaps through the door and the keepers slam the door just in time.
The gorilla pulls at the door and to the man's horror the bars start to bend. The man runs out of the zoo and to the train station and jumps on the train, which as luck would have it is just leaving. He glances back and can see the gorilla chasing after the train, but not gaining on it. The train arrives at the docks and the man quickly scampers aboard the boat.
The boat leaves and the man thinks he's safe at last. He relaxes and starts to enjoy the leisurely cruise back across the ocean. The day they're due back in port he's walking on deck when he sees a small shape in the water trailing behind the boat. He can't make it out so he borrows a pair of binoculars from someone. He focuses the binoculars on the small shape and is horrified to discover that it's the white gorilla, swimming behind the boat. It must have been there all along.
The boat then arrives in port and the man hurries through customs and rushes to his car. He drives off just in time to see the gorilla climbing out of the ocean from his rear view mirror. He drives as fast as he can to his house and runs in locking the door behind him. All the time being followed be the huge white gorilla. The gorilla starts pounding on the door and having seen what it did to the cage at the zoo the man knows it won't take it very long to get in. He runs from room to room trying to think of a place he can hide. He hears the door shatter and dives into a wardrobe and pulls the door closed behind him. Outside the gorilla is going mad trying to find the man, he's ripping things up and tearing out doors. Finally he comes to the wardrobe the man is hiding in and rips the door off. The gorilla sees the man and smiles, reaches out a massive hand and gently touches the man and says...
"Tag, you're it".
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:19:17pm |
re: #11 NJDhockeyfan
lemmie guess you just bought a joke book...
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:20:30pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, May 6, 2010 7:21:32pm |
The most interesting science fact I learned this year is that, apparently, dogs and humans are the only two species that understand pointing.
Neither wolves nor chimps can do it. This is apparently something we taught each other.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:22:17pm |
re: #12 brookly red
lemmie guess you just bought a joke book...
No, just found them on the interwebs. :)
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reine.de.tout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:22:24pm |
REPOST from previous thread for those of you who've moved over here:
re: #99 CharlesFree form blogs for every lizard.
And to help support this wonderful feature, provided to us on Charles' dime, may I suggest a copy of Volume 2 of the LGF Cookbook, Reality Bites?The proceeds from each book is a mere $5. The price of the book is $16.51, and there is a shipping fee of about $4. For that, you get a book with Jaunte's art, Cato's poetry (featuring some of your favorite lizards!), a lot of great recipes, and Killgore's Very Own Gardening Section. That's a whole lotta value for the price.
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Killgore Trout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:23:36pm |
re: #13 NJDhockeyfan
You need something to drink with that.
Interesting. I'm looking into doing some home brewing. I'll have to look into that.
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freetoken Thu, May 6, 2010 7:24:47pm |
Today Cong. Markey's committee met on "Foundation For Climate Science". The sole GOP witness was the Lord High Denier.
Here is the CSPAN link. I've not yet watched the video... but I doubt I'll be surprised:
[Link: www.c-spanvideo.org...]
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:24:58pm |
re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist
The most interesting science fact I learned this year is that, apparently, dogs and humans are the only two species that understand pointing.
Neither wolves nor chimps can do it. This is apparently something we taught each other.
I think we bred dogs to do that...
behold the mighty can opener.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:25:38pm |
re: #8 Obdicut
If offspring weren't enormously cute... well...
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:26:13pm |
re: #11 NJDhockeyfan
Do you know any monkey joke with less than 3,000 words?
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Killgore Trout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:26:45pm |
re: #16 reine.de.tout
And to help support this wonderful feature, provided to us on Charles' dime, may I suggest a copy of Volume 2 of the LGF Cookbook, Reality Bites?
The proceeds from each book is a mere $5. The price of the book is $16.51, and there is a shipping fee of about $4. For that, you get a book with Jaunte's art, Cato's poetry (featuring some of your favorite lizards!), a lot of great recipes, and Killgore's Very Own Gardening Section. That's a whole lotta value for the price.
The LGF Cookbook will actually save you money. Processed frozen meals are expensive and unhealthy. Grow your own ingredients and cook from scratch. Cheaper, healthier and more fun!
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:26:47pm |
re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Do you know any monkey joke with less than 3,000 words?
Q. Why did the monkey cross the road?
A. Because it was the chicken's day off!
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:26:52pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:28:29pm |
re: #24 NJDhockeyfan
I remember a punchline...
"Ping pong balls? I thought you said King Kong's balls!"
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reine.de.tout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:28:34pm |
re: #8 Obdicut
One of the niftiest biological oddities:
Why is the cuteness and adorabilit of babies something that's pan-species, inspiring caretaking behavior even across wide genetic distance?
Dennett has a theory that it may be the easiest example of self-rewarding altruism; genes promoting a positive response to juveniles developed early, and the markers we're looking for are common across species because they're relative-- what we recognize is not the particular juvenile shape but the relative juvenility of that creature compared to adults.
Of course, plenty of animals eat each other's young, so it's not like this is a paramount rule or anything.
But I do see it in play.
My dog will sit patiently and let young kids pull at his tail, his ears, poke at his face, etc.
But woe be to an adult who tries it.
He knows the difference between a young one who is still learning, and an adult who should know better. It's an amazing thing to watch.
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:28:53pm |
re: #7 Cato the Elder
At one point their coats are so identical in color in the photo that it's hard to tell where one starts and the other ends. Sweet.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, May 6, 2010 7:29:27pm |
re: #18 freetoken
Today Cong. Markey's committee met on "Foundation For Climate Science". The sole GOP witness was the Lord High Denier.
Here is the CSPAN link. I've not yet watched the video... but I doubt I'll be surprised:
[Link: www.c-spanvideo.org...]
I can't watch. [facepalm]
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freetoken Thu, May 6, 2010 7:29:50pm |
Love the BBC anchors... wonderful digressions into comedic comments on their own coverage.
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Digital Display Thu, May 6, 2010 7:29:57pm |
re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist
The most interesting science fact I learned this year is that, apparently, dogs and humans are the only two species that understand pointing.
Neither wolves nor chimps can do it. This is apparently something we taught each other.
I've been on Vacation all week..The most Amazing thing I have seen was a couple of mornings from 4am to 6am was a show called Wild Russia. The photography was the most amazing nature movies I have ever seen,,I put it right up there with Planet Earth Series..Just amazing...
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:30:06pm |
A woman got on a bus holding a baby. The bus driver said, "That's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!"
In a huff, the woman slammed her fare into the fare box and took an aisle seat near the rear of the bus. The man seated next to her sensed that she was agitated and asked her what was wrong. "The bus driver insulted me," she fumed.
The man sympathized with her and said, "Why, he's a public servant and shouldn't say things to insult passengers."
"You're right," she said. "I think I'll go back up there and give him a piece of my mind."
"That's a good idea," the man said. "Here, let me hold your monkey."
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:30:50pm |
re: #25 brookly red
kinder-wurst...
I'm just sayin'.
My son slept ten nights through for the first three years of his life. And I mean would wake up every hour to hour and a half.
I remember sitting on the front steps, waiting for a Gypsy wagon to come by and take him.
I knew that we'd get a few nights of good, solid sleep... and the worn-assed out Gypsies would've brought him back... bags under their eyes... too tired to make a curse...
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:31:11pm |
re: #21 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
.... then ' eating their young ' would be less of an expression and more of a fact.
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Charles Johnson Thu, May 6, 2010 7:31:32pm |
re: #18 freetoken
Today Cong. Markey's committee met on "Foundation For Climate Science". The sole GOP witness was the Lord High Denier.
Here is the CSPAN link. I've not yet watched the video... but I doubt I'll be surprised:
[Link: www.c-spanvideo.org...]
I've been trying to ignore this ridiculous mess, but I may have to post about it. Best example yet of the GOP's disconnection from reality.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:31:50pm |
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freetoken Thu, May 6, 2010 7:32:45pm |
re: #36 Charles
Markey brought in three leading scientists, and a member of the Oxburgh Inquiry, to try and set the record straight. We were promised that the scientists would confront the BS straight on - I might watch it to see if in fact they did.
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:33:10pm |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
A wonderful gardener once told me that a weed is just a plant out of place.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:33:14pm |
re: #32 NJDhockeyfan
Now, see? That was timely... on topic... and funny... And less than three freakin' thousand words!
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reine.de.tout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:34:02pm |
re: #40 tradewind
A wonderful gardener once told me that a weed is just a plant out of place.
Some of my fave flowers in my yard are bluebonnets - a weed.
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:34:42pm |
re: #40 tradewind
A wonderful gardener once told me that a weed is just a plant out of place.
a lovely State Trooper once told me differently...
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:35:49pm |
re: #42 reine.de.tout
Some of my fave flowers in my yard are bluebonnets - a weed.
Periwinkle is a weed. I just love periwinkle.
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:36:20pm |
re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Ouch.
The only serendipity to come out of the complications that kept me hospitalized for two weeks with my youngest son was that he stayed there as well ( somehow I don't think the insurance would go for that now days) and the nursery wizards taught him to sleep through the night by the time we went home. So nice.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, May 6, 2010 7:36:24pm |
re: #23 Killgore Trout
The LGF Cookbook will actually save you money. Processed frozen meals are expensive and unhealthy. Grow your own ingredients and cook from scratch. Cheaper, healthier and more fun!
(repost - so what!)
I received my book.
It is excellent! $ supports this blog and Soldiers Angels.
And, gives a thanks to the Lizards who put this great book together.
BUY IT NOW! Love ya!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:38:02pm |
re: #45 tradewind
My baby boy was three weeks early, 9lbs 3oz. Laid in the premie ward for several days.
I swear, to this day? I think he might've eaten a couple of the three pounders.
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:38:07pm |
re: #43 brookly red
n.b...
Thus the ' a ' in front of that weed word .
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, May 6, 2010 7:38:20pm |
re: #36 Charles
I've been trying to ignore this ridiculous mess, but I may have to post about it. Best example yet of the GOP's disconnection from reality.
That the GOP chose the Monckton as their only person to testify, speaks volumes. Something is up, or something is just wrong.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, May 6, 2010 7:38:39pm |
re: #36 Charles
I've been trying to ignore this ridiculous mess, but I may have to post about it. Best example yet of the GOP's disconnection from reality.
Must Concur with your assessment.
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Mich-again Thu, May 6, 2010 7:39:38pm |
Great quote from Homer Simpson in last night's rerun episode on cable..
"I have no money and three kids. Why can't I have no kids and three money?"
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:39:50pm |
re: #47 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Mine was three weeks late.... which started all the mischief. Three early is better, I think. In fact, again, I don't think that they'd let you go three weeks past your due date now.
This was the Clinton years.
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, May 6, 2010 7:40:43pm |
re: #23 Killgore Trout
The LGF Cookbook will actually save you money. Processed frozen meals are expensive and unhealthy. Grow your own ingredients and cook from scratch. Cheaper, healthier and more fun!
And, it has my Super Awesome To Die For Cheesecake recipe.
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Killgore Trout Thu, May 6, 2010 7:41:01pm |
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tradewind Thu, May 6, 2010 7:41:19pm |
re: #47 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
WHoah!
I just caught that again.
Mine was three weeks late, and nine lbs.
Good damn thing he was early, you'd have had one grouchy wife.
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 7:41:27pm |
re: #8 Obdicut
One of the niftiest biological oddities:
Why is the cuteness and adorabilit of babies something that's pan-species, inspiring caretaking behavior even across wide genetic distance?
Dennett has a theory that it may be the easiest example of self-rewarding altruism; genes promoting a positive response to juveniles developed early, and the markers we're looking for are common across species because they're relative-- what we recognize is not the particular juvenile shape but the relative juvenility of that creature compared to adults.
Of course, plenty of animals eat each other's young, so it's not like this is a paramount rule or anything.
If you haven't, read Dawkins' 'The Selfish Gene'. Also look up Evolutionary stable strategies.
It is also possible humans are neotenous.
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Almost Killed by Space Hookers Thu, May 6, 2010 7:43:01pm |
I am going to refrain from making the obligatory Shock the Monkey post.
I will say this, I love the Kinks song Apeman. I was thinking about it today actually. I can not stand our society over much these days. We just get stupider and stupider, meaner and meaner each passing day. Forget writing doleful poetry about centers not holding or things falling apart. I am fed up with it all.
I look at all the crazy, silly, self righteous folks, ever so busy with their affairs violently yet obliviously hurting others. It doesn't matter if some are telling an entire group of Americans that they don't rate. "I am a real American and their are too many of you!" they think.
It doesn't matter if your jeans were sewn by a kid in a third world country. "There was a sale!"
It doesn't matter if your car funds thuggish regimes full of vile medievals. "My engine has 350 hp! Look at how that increases my sexual attractiveness!"
It doesn't matter that so many feel that the best way to worship a God of love and peace, who was quite explicit about not murdering folks, is to murder. And then so many want to murder back, not defend and protect out of sad necessity, but actually feel the hate to wanting and desiring the kill - provided we send some 19 year old to do it for us. How brave!
Too few really notices that none of that matters anyway. We play like children on a beach, unaware of the coming tsunami. No one is doing anything about AGW. We put it out of our minds. It is tomorrow. But tomorrow is coming, and this particular species of nasty ape will have it coming.
And that brings me back to Apeman. I love that song. The idea of shedding all the stupid things and going to live in peace on a nice island with my "ape man girl..." Too bad that all the nice Islands will be under water sometime soon. There is no place to go. Even if there were, once there you would still want toilet paper. Civilization is a good thing. It is just that our civilization has done so little to civilize us.
At best we are murderers by proxy rather than having the courage of the evil apes our fore-bearers were when they did their own killing. We just kill ourselves slowly. For quick fixes and disposable comforts that we must have and the cost of it is never added int the value. Your fruit is cheaper because it was picked by an illegal. The suffering they went through to get here and the exploitation they feel is part of the added value. The loss of much of our southern coast is part of the added value when we drive our cars... But drill baby drill!
It's Obama's fault! It's W's fault! No it is our fault for living in a democracy where we as a people could actually demand real changes, but are too lazy, hypocritical and self absorbed to care to do so. We got the government we deserved because we were too stupid and too lazy to educate ourselves as a culture and demand a better one.
But hey, I understand that there is a new pop star shaking her bottom... Apparently she is at least as important as the previous one.
Not all apes are worth it. Time will soon tell if we figure this out and decide to be so.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:43:48pm |
re: #55 tradewind
Oh, he couldn't make it out of the door. They had to break the window.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:44:24pm |
Sharpton To Blacks: "After Dark We All Look Mexican"
What a fucking moron.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:46:07pm |
re: #59 NJDhockeyfan
You've gotta hand it to him though. He is perfectly shameless.
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, May 6, 2010 7:47:03pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:47:23pm |
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Digital Display Thu, May 6, 2010 7:48:21pm |
re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar
Evening Honcos.
2 min left and the Magic have just been man handling the Hawks...Watch out for these guys
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Almost Killed by Space Hookers Thu, May 6, 2010 7:48:34pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 7:48:44pm |
Adieu; adieu;
To yieu and yieu and yieu...
G'night knuckleheads!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, May 6, 2010 7:49:18pm |
re: #65 HoosierHoops
2 min left and the Magic have just been man handling the Hawks...Watch out for these guys
Florida team. I'm down.
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 7:49:31pm |
re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist
The most interesting science fact I learned this year is that, apparently, dogs and humans are the only two species that understand pointing.
Neither wolves nor chimps can do it. This is apparently something we taught each other.
We selected dogs able to read our body language. They didn't teach us anything other than how to select dogs that fit our needs. There was co-evolution going on between the two species but it wasn't equal. We probably did get selected to accept dogs as companions (and food).
Chimps never developed the body language of pointing.
Just found out last night my wife's cat also understands pointing. He looks where you point, not at your finger.
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:49:43pm |
re: #59 NJDhockeyfan
Sharpton To Blacks: "After Dark We All Look Mexican"
What a fucking moron.
/awww come on let him have this one... it is his last grasp a relevancy.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, May 6, 2010 7:51:11pm |
I am fading fast. G'night lizards.
Have a wonderful night.
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Dr. Shalit Thu, May 6, 2010 7:51:13pm |
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Obdicut Thu, May 6, 2010 7:52:45pm |
re: #56 b_sharp
I have. Dennett's theory is built off of Dawkins's.
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Dr. Shalit Thu, May 6, 2010 7:53:47pm |
re: #70 brookly red
brookly red -
Sharpton's "relevance" has always been related to the size of the MOB he can turn out if you cross him - Nothing More & Nothing Less. That is all. -S-
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 7:54:02pm |
re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Now, see? That was timely... on topic... and funny... And less than three freakin' thousand words!
Hey, I like the long jokes.
Sometimes immediate gratification isn't what you want.
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Mich-again Thu, May 6, 2010 7:54:54pm |
re: #69 b_sharp
There is a theory that says humans survived and neanderthals didn't because of the fact that humans befriended dogs while the neanderthals never did. The dogs helped hunt, helped protect the families against enemies and wild beasts, and in dire circumstrances provided food. It was a symbiotic relationship.
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 7:58:16pm |
re: #57 LudwigVanQuixote
I am going to refrain from making the obligatory Shock the Monkey post.
I will say this, I love the Kinks song Apeman. I was thinking about it today actually. I can not stand our society over much these days. We just get stupider and stupider, meaner and meaner each passing day. Forget writing doleful poetry about centers not holding or things falling apart. I am fed up with it all.
I look at all the crazy, silly, self righteous folks, ever so busy with their affairs violently yet obliviously hurting others. It doesn't matter if some are telling an entire group of Americans that they don't rate. "I am a real American and their are too many of you!" they think.
It doesn't matter if your jeans were sewn by a kid in a third world country. "There was a sale!"
It doesn't matter if your car funds thuggish regimes full of vile medievals. "My engine has 350 hp! Look at how that increases my sexual attractiveness!"
It doesn't matter that so many feel that the best way to worship a God of love and peace, who was quite explicit about not murdering folks, is to murder. And then so many want to murder back, not defend and protect out of sad necessity, but actually feel the hate to wanting and desiring the kill - provided we send some 19 year old to do it for us. How brave!
Too few really notices that none of that matters anyway. We play like children on a beach, unaware of the coming tsunami. No one is doing anything about AGW. We put it out of our minds. It is tomorrow. But tomorrow is coming, and this particular species of nasty ape will have it coming.
And that brings me back to Apeman. I love that song. The idea of shedding all the stupid things and going to live in peace on a nice island with my "ape man girl..." Too bad that all the nice Islands will be under water sometime soon. There is no place to go. Even if there were, once there you would still want toilet paper. Civilization is a good thing. It is just that our civilization has done so little to civilize us.
At best we are murderers by proxy rather than having the courage of the evil apes our fore-bearers were when they did their own killing. We just kill ourselves slowly. For quick fixes and disposable comforts that we must have and the cost of it is never added int the value. Your fruit is cheaper because it was picked by an illegal. The suffering they went through to get here and the exploitation they feel is part of the added value. The loss of much of our southern coast is part of the added value when we drive our cars... But drill baby drill!
It's Obama's fault! It's W's fault! No it is our fault for living in a democracy where we as a people could actually demand real changes, but are too lazy, hypocritical and self absorbed to care to do so. We got the government we deserved because we were too stupid and too lazy to educate ourselves as a culture and demand a better one.
But hey, I understand that there is a new pop star shaking her bottom... Apparently she is at least as important as the previous one.
Not all apes are worth it. Time will soon tell if we figure this out and decide to be so.
Damn, sometimes you are painful to read, and I hate it when that pain is warranted and so bloody right. You say what needs to be said. I'll deal with my pain like an adult.
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brookly red Thu, May 6, 2010 7:58:29pm |
re: #76 Mich-again
There is a theory that says humans survived and neanderthals didn't because of the fact that humans befriended dogs while the neanderthals never did. The dogs helped hunt, helped protect the families against enemies and wild beasts, and in dire circumstrances provided food. It was a symbiotic relationship.
/and man continued to grow & flourish till some one decided cats were cute...
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 7:59:53pm |
re: #67 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Adieu; adieu;
To yieu and yieu and yieu...G'night knuckleheads!
Night.
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b_sharp Thu, May 6, 2010 8:00:59pm |
re: #73 Obdicut
I have. Dennett's theory is built off of Dawkins's.
It sounded like it, that's why I mentioned Dawkins.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, May 6, 2010 8:02:39pm |
Oh. And Lawrence Taylor is a dick.
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Dr. Shalit Thu, May 6, 2010 8:06:24pm |
re: #82 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
FBV -
Close, actually he is a SCHMUCK, a really nice person, one on one, who still believes "the rules" do not apply to him - truly a shame. -S-
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Dark_Falcon Thu, May 6, 2010 8:06:42pm |
re: #78 brookly red
/and man continued to grow & flourish till some one decided cats were cute...
They are, and smarter than dogs.
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Mark Pennington Thu, May 6, 2010 11:14:16pm |
Precious little monkey fella! I love them and their opposable little thumbs.
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steve_davis Sat, May 8, 2010 6:53:56am |
re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist
The most interesting science fact I learned this year is that, apparently, dogs and humans are the only two species that understand pointing.
Neither wolves nor chimps can do it. This is apparently something we taught each other.
We didn't teach each other. We taught the dogs. Dogs don't point, so they certainly didn't teach it to us.
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