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Old 10-23-2008, 02:20 AM   #1
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Healthy genes act as team-players. They are teamish!
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ok- they would look good in a gay pride parade

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Old 10-23-2008, 03:11 AM   #3
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ok- they would look good in a gay pride parade

Healthy genes act as team-players. They are teamish!
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salvations of an aliveness of which they are a part.
Only a fraction of genes are selfish/parasitic (and they
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Old 10-23-2008, 06:38 AM   #4
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looks like a friggin' macaw doing the karate kid thing....

One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected....That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly.
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Old 10-23-2008, 06:45 AM   #5
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ok- they would look good in a gay pride parade
Why? Because they're colorful? Yeah, well so are the participants in the Mardi Gras parade and the Caribbean parade and the Chinese New Year parade. Would these hideous dino-birds look good at any of those street parties?


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Old 10-23-2008, 09:13 AM   #6
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Why? Because they're colorful? Yeah, well so are the participants in the Mardi Gras parade and the Caribbean parade and the Chinese New Year parade. Would these hideous dino-birds look good at any of those street parties?


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I have no experience of the other parades you mention - unfortunately gay pride was the first thing that came to mind

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Old 10-23-2008, 06:19 PM   #7
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Fascinating Thank you for the link.

My memory may be faulty here: I seem to remember an article in TIME about 30years ago making a link between dinosaurs and birds. IE that dinosaurs were more bird-like (bone structure) than lizard-like
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Old 10-24-2008, 04:13 PM   #9
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Fascinating Thank you for the link.

My memory may be faulty here: I seem to remember an article in TIME about 30years ago making a link between dinosaurs and birds. IE that dinosaurs were more bird-like (bone structure) than lizard-like
Yeh it's a long time thing. You get vicious bastards, cannibals, murderers, & also the peace loving herbivores. Has anyone else noticed birds are not as wary as they were?

thank goodness he's on our side

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Old 10-24-2008, 05:22 PM   #10
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It was alittle Hitchcockian around here today

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