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lisah - Nov 13, 2008 7:24:15 am PST #1021 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate

I love watching little kids speak foreign languages. My brain goes "that little girl can speak French!" though logically, of course she can speak French. She IS French!

Hah! I totally have this reaction too. SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!

Megan, what is the French for hippopatamus? It sounded nearly the same as the English word but not quite.

Frankenbuddha - Nov 13, 2008 7:26:31 am PST #1022 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

OK - not sure exactly what the puppies are doing right now, and probably don't want to. It looked like wrasslin' at first, but now...

sarameg - Nov 13, 2008 7:26:33 am PST #1023 of 10002

Megan, what is the French for hippopatamus?

You don't remember from the picture book at GoldenWest a couple weeks ago?!!!

lisah - Nov 13, 2008 7:29:50 am PST #1024 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate

You don't remember from the picture book at GoldenWest a couple weeks ago?!!!

I was just thinking of that!!! This is why I'm TERRIBLE with languages. I can't remember merde anymore!

megan walker - Nov 13, 2008 7:29:58 am PST #1025 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Megan, what is the French for hippopatamus? It sounded nearly the same as the English word but not quite.

l'hippopotame (ee-po-po-tom)

Frankenbuddha - Nov 13, 2008 7:31:35 am PST #1026 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

And a blast from the past - they moved the panda cam site: [link]

sarameg - Nov 13, 2008 7:35:37 am PST #1027 of 10002

OMG, still waiting on the part for my car.

Trudy Booth - Nov 13, 2008 7:36:52 am PST #1028 of 10002
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

A bone marrow transplant appears to have cured AIDS [link]

I was getting all teary reading it.

Typo Boy - Nov 13, 2008 7:45:12 am PST #1029 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Yeah, apparently there are less than a few thousand potential donors world wide. But still, once we know one means of curing aids, maybe we can something that uses a more available resource.

Trudy Booth - Nov 13, 2008 7:51:53 am PST #1030 of 10002
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

Yeah, apparently there are less than a few thousand potential donors world wide.

Either you or the article have a figure wrong, the article said:

Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have inherited the mutation from both parents

Of course, if we were CLONING these cells...

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