Happy Birthday, erika!
Does Neil Shubin explain why our knees are such a ridiculous design?
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sumi - Sep 18, 2012 4:52:09 am PDT #20418 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 5:19:25 am PDT #20419 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Does Neil Shubin explain why our knees are such a ridiculous design?
I do not know, but I think that's an easy one. We're bipeds getting around on quadrupedal knees. I believe that's also largely what's to blame for hernias, and possibly some of the difficulties of childbirth (though quadrupedal hyenas have that even worse, courtesy of an umbilical cord half the length of the birth canal).
Zenkitty - Sep 18, 2012 5:40:43 am PDT #20420 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Don't hyena females have a pseudo-penis through which they must give birth? Hyenas must exist as the creature that evil people get reincarnated into.
Volans - Sep 18, 2012 5:44:51 am PDT #20421 of 30001
move out and draw fire
Happy birthday erika!
It was a while before Mal could watch Walking With Whatever - I started him a little too early on that and had to coax him out from behind the couch.
However, I watched so much David Attenborough while pregnant that we joked Mal would think that was his father's voice, and seriously he continues to ask for any Attenborough vid by preference.
Also, he wants a platypus. He's been figuring out a way to put a river in our backyard.
This I think is your future, billytea.
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 5:50:48 am PDT #20422 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Don't hyena females have a pseudo-penis through which they must give birth?
They do! IIRC, around half of all first-time hyena mothers die in childbirth. For those that don't, this Wikipedia quote pretty much says it all:
"During parturition, the clitoris ruptures in order to facilitate the passage of young, and may take weeks to heal."
sumi - Sep 18, 2012 5:51:06 am PDT #20423 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, at least billytea is in the right place to get a platypus without resorting to evil exotic animal smugglers.
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 5:51:31 am PDT #20424 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This I think is your future, billytea.
The good news is that echidnas are rather less demanding in their living space.
Burrell - Sep 18, 2012 6:01:57 am PDT #20425 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Happy birthday erika!
Hyenas must exist as the creature that evil people get reincarnated into.
Oh dear, that concept fits scarily well in my childhood concept of heaven. Heaven is being reincarnated as the well-loved house pet of your choice.
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 6:05:27 am PDT #20426 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh dear, that concept fits scarily well in my childhood concept of heaven. Heaven is being reincarnated as the well-loved house pet of your choice.
If your well-loved pet was a hyena, I sense syncretism in your future.
erikaj - Sep 18, 2012 6:09:11 am PDT #20427 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone. Bought a bunch of Kindle books yesterday.Still have a little birthday money, too. Could the prices on Kindle books be more random? When's the last time you paid $14.11 for anything?(Nilly would know, for real.)