Person Of Interest
I'm not sure if I posted this here, Two-Gun Amy Acker, my own edit:
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
DCJensen - Dec 13, 2013 12:35:32 pm PST #10326 of 11831
All is well that ends in pizza.
Jesse - Dec 13, 2013 4:47:35 pm PST #10327 of 11831
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WTF, Osage orange -- that was just in the NPR weekend puzzle and I had never heard of it!
Ginger - Dec 13, 2013 6:23:30 pm PST #10328 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It figures prominently in an excellent book, The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms as an example of fruit that probably evolved to be eaten by now-extinct megafauna.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled topic.
-t - Dec 13, 2013 8:25:31 pm PST #10329 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Like avocados! That is, I was just recently reading about how avocados probably evolved to be eaten by megafauna who could swallow them whole and deposit the seeds far from the parent.
Er, sorry, I am too far behind on my procedural a to pretend to have something on topic to contribute.
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2013 5:33:14 am PST #10330 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
What are the chances that these "megafauna" are the handwavium of evolutionary botany?
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2013 5:42:55 am PST #10331 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Though, to be fair, "It must be an unknown moth with an insanely long tongue, five times longer than any we've ever seen" only took 130 years to be observed, but it turned out to be legit... [link]
So maybe I should have a little more faith. I DO believe in extinct unknown megafauna! I DO believe in extinct unknown megafauna!
-t - Dec 14, 2013 5:44:56 am PST #10332 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Too much in the way (a) fossils and (b) sense-making for that, I'd say. ETA: they aren't unknown megafauna, btw, just extinct.
It's about as fun to say, though. Handwavium. Megafauna. Good times. I've watched a couple of minutes of Criminal Minds, now - are they trying to Mary Sue Blake, is that what's happening?
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2013 5:48:49 am PST #10333 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ah. I thought the megafauna were still unidentified -- its been a while since I read the avocado thing. If you've got KNOWN megafauna I don't need any sense of wonder at all on this one.
-t - Dec 14, 2013 5:52:56 am PST #10334 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Giant sloths, how's that for a sense of wonder? They were sloths, and they were giant. And ate avocados, apparently.
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2013 6:01:01 am PST #10335 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Wonder restored :)