Hey there, Buffistas!
Long time lurker, first time poster... finally got up the nerve to talk to all you fine, "foamy" people.
So, Sean, come sit here in the sledge, wrap youself in this ermin robe, have a piece of Turkish Delight...
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
The Universe - Apr 13, 2005 9:13:34 am PDT #3072 of 10001
Words are flowing out like /endless rain into a paper cup /
They slither while they pass / They slip away across... me
DavidS - Apr 13, 2005 9:15:04 am PDT #3073 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(see Aristotle’s Generation of Animals and Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body)
Hottest classical allusion so far today.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 9:16:35 am PDT #3074 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Science was fun back in the days before the scientific method, when philosopher guys could just make shit up....
Jessica - Apr 13, 2005 9:16:39 am PDT #3075 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Galen believed that women have “imperfect semen” that is “scantier, colder, and wetter” than male semen because it springs from “smaller, less perfect testes.”
You'd think that at some point, one of their wives would have stepped in and pointed out the major flaw in this theory.
DavidS - Apr 13, 2005 9:18:33 am PDT #3076 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Science was fun back in the days before the scientific method, when philosopher guys could just make shit up....
See also: Psychology, 20th Century.
Fred Pete - Apr 13, 2005 9:20:26 am PDT #3077 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Galen believed that women have “imperfect semen” that is “scantier, colder, and wetter” than male semen because it springs from “smaller, less perfect testes.”
I'll accept the idea that women have smaller, less perfect testes than men, if I can also accept the idea that men have smaller, less perfect ovaries than women.
I'll at least try for equal opportunity screwy.
ChiKat - Apr 13, 2005 9:23:05 am PDT #3078 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Oh, they were completely screwy in their "logic." I'm taking a medieval women's lit class and we started off by reading the Classical and patristic traditions of antifeminist and misogynist writings. Bunch a wackaloons.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2005 9:24:46 am PDT #3079 of 10001
brillig
You'd think that at some point, one of their wives would have stepped in and pointed out the major flaw in this theory.
Their wives probably said, "Whatever, it keeps him out of the kitchen."
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 9:25:22 am PDT #3080 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, they were completely screwy in their "logic."
For a long time people believed that men had one less rib than women. Because it said so in the Bible, so there was no need to actually count or anything.
§ ita § - Apr 13, 2005 9:27:42 am PDT #3081 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did the bible say so? I mean, did it say how many ribs Eve got? Also -- did god use just one rib, or was he symmetrical?