'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
Given that twins do run in families (the tendency for embryos to split OR tendency for some women to release multiple fertile eggs) all you need is a couple related families that have lived in a town for a couple generations and you'll see a statistical uptick. And since there may be unexplained environmental triggers for twinning....
No need for Mengele, thank goodness.
I'm not a twin, but my brothers are, so I've paid more than usual attention to this sort of thing. :-)
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Oh, that makes me sad. Lay off David Attenborough, crazies! Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
Huh. I have never heard "yips" in fencing, but we need the word. I shall appropriate!
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
Heh -- last night Neil DeGrasse Tyson was telling Jon Stewart about receiving hate-mail from 3rd graders about Pluto being demoted from a full-fledged planet. So it starts early....
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
It got a mention on House once, after Foreman killed a patient.
Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
Yeah, IIRC PZ has already mocked them for this.
Speaking of PZ - here's a new term I learned:
Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ vb [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities
After attending the Purity Ball, Heather and Bill saddlebacked all night because she’s saving herself for marriage.
From Rick Warren's legacy
Yeah, that's another Savage Love coining.
Yeah, that's another Savage Love coining.
Awesome!