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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Aug 22, 2005 10:41:56 am PDT #239 of 10002

At one point my dad gave me earrings and pointedly mentioned that the designs on them were fertility symbols.

My mom stuck a kokopelli keychain in my stocking one year but was sensible enough to make clear it wasn't anything passive aggressive, she just thought it was a neat variation on the design. This was long before the little flute playing fertility dude started appearing everywhere.


Nutty - Aug 22, 2005 10:42:30 am PDT #240 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I am trying to figure out, did that soccer team not have backup players? Like, what if the goalie gets hamstrung in the championship game? Isn't there anybody else who could have filled in?

This is why baseball has 25-man rosters for a game where only 9 people are on the field at a time. And while there are occasionally hilariously poor "backup" plans, it's very rare that a team is caught so far out that there is literally nobody who can fill in at a given spot on the field.


DXMachina - Aug 22, 2005 10:43:23 am PDT #241 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Baseball is one sport that I can think of that has one.

Not at the pro, semi-pro, or even high amateur (i.e., college) level.


Vortex - Aug 22, 2005 10:43:41 am PDT #242 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

My mother gave my brother an african statue for christmas. She told him that it was a fertility doll. A few months later, he and his "friend" had a pregnancy scare (not that my mother knows this). He got rid of it. He tried to give it to me, but I was having none of it.


sumi - Aug 22, 2005 10:43:47 am PDT #243 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Is there a slaughter rule in regular baseball?

I know that there are slaughter rules in football and in baseball as played by the kids in one of the local park districts.


tommyrot - Aug 22, 2005 10:44:12 am PDT #244 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I am trying to figure out, did that soccer team not have backup players? Like, what if the goalie gets hamstrung in the championship game? Isn't there anybody else who could have filled in?

They did have a substutute.

I wonder if the sub was just really crappy? and/or she'd never been trained as a goalie?


Vortex - Aug 22, 2005 10:44:36 am PDT #245 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I think that slaughter rules may be just at the lower levels, so that the kids don't feel bad.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 22, 2005 10:45:40 am PDT #246 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

My mother gave my brother an african statue for christmas. She told him that it was a fertility doll. A few months later, he and his "friend" had a pregnancy scare (not that my mother knows this). He got rid of it. He tried to give it to me, but I was having none of it.

Very wise - next thing you know it will be chasing you around with a knife.


Kalshane - Aug 22, 2005 10:45:54 am PDT #247 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I remember doing a research paper on cryonics back in highschool. I don't recall the "acoustic fracturing events" bit, though. Yuck. But even back then, it seemed pretty out there.

I mean, regardless of if science eventually figures out how to cure what killed you, they also have to figure out how to cure death too. I mean, there's plenty of lethal things we currently have a cure for, but they don't mean squat if you die before you can be treated.

And of course, if it's somehow even possible someday, it brings up questions about the soul and whatnot (if you believe in such things.)

Just a mess all around, really.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2005 10:46:23 am PDT #248 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've been wearing an ankh since I was 8 (used to be on and off, but since the tattoo, always on). My mother gave me my first. I think she also gave me Ghanaian fertility earrings. Also before puberty.

It seems to be a thing -- who knows? I could be as fecund as the fertile crescent. Just not up to testing that theory.