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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #165 on: February 05, 2010, 05:37:03 pm »
Not at all, if anything we are missing a half. I refer you to the earth! There is an eastern, western, northern, and southern hemisphere. As a hemisphere is half a sphere, earth is at 200%

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #166 on: February 05, 2010, 11:16:12 pm »
The hemispheres don't cover 4 different areas, but 4 regions that overlap...Obviously half of each hemisphere will belong to one of the others, thus 100%...! This isn't even what's being talked about, is it? >_>

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #167 on: February 05, 2010, 11:44:40 pm »
Overlapping hemispheres? Do you talk to your parents with that mouth, V?

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #168 on: February 06, 2010, 07:23:59 pm »
On my toaster oven (except when the oven is turned on, hah!) is a bowl of chocolates. Since childhood my favorite mass market milk chocolate has been the red-labeled (plain) Symphony bars, which are produced by Hershey's and in my opinion are far better than Hershey's Milk Chocolate bars, which taste really cheap. Actually, Symphony tastes cheap itself, but it's a much more favorable kind of "cheap."

Well, anyhow, my amusement here is that, by keeping these chocolate bar pieces out in a bowl in plain sight rather than squared away in the pantry, I get a hankering to have a piece pretty much every time I go into the kitchen. I find it amusing that I'm so suggestible when it comes to food.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #169 on: February 09, 2010, 10:27:18 am »
Speaking of food, I am quite amused by the taboos people have regarding food. Horse, dog, and cat, for example, are largely verboten in the United States, but perfectly acceptable meats in other regions. Even less "tabooed" meats can produce weird looks from people. I find it amusing that I can tell people I've eaten quail or alligator and they'll be uncomfortable for the rest of the discussion.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #170 on: February 09, 2010, 10:43:58 am »
... I am never gonna ever ever ever look at you the same way again thought....

Kidding of course.

I find myself amused by school being closed today... yay.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #171 on: February 09, 2010, 01:31:09 pm »
I've had alligator(bit too tough) and quail(damn fine). I also remember having some sort of fish when I was younger. I want to say it was dolphin or porpoise, but I don't think that's right...

And of course, as most of us probably have at some point, I was dared and obliged to eat part of a half-dead cockroach when I was much, much younger. Apparently they're good for you, but still...icky.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #172 on: February 09, 2010, 04:09:51 pm »
I've eaten dog.

I once told someone that (an American) and they became incredibly angry at me.  Silliness.  1)  I was barely two years old at the time.  2)  People eat dog in the Philippines.  It's a poor country.  Any kind of meat is up for grabs.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #173 on: February 09, 2010, 04:11:37 pm »
I also remember having some sort of fish when I was younger. I want to say it was dolphin or porpoise, but I don't think that's right...

You think right. Both are mammals!

Interesting, though, how all 'significantly' intelligent terran life are mammals. Guess we drew the evolutionary longstraw.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #174 on: February 09, 2010, 04:28:31 pm »
Well the mammalian brain is an energy sink; it takes a lot of food to keep it going. Doesn't really work if you are a reptile that only eats every month or two.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #175 on: February 09, 2010, 04:44:07 pm »
Doesn't really work if you are a reptile that only eats every month or two.

I misread that as "Reptite".

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #176 on: February 09, 2010, 06:14:52 pm »
Interesting, though, how all 'significantly' intelligent terran life are mammals. Guess we drew the evolutionary longstraw.

For one thing, you're forgetting several species of birds. For another, it's not so surprising that several species in a related class of animals would exhibit a common trait markedly different from practically all other animal life. That's how the ol' evolutionary tree does business. Indeed, the word "mammal" itself pertains to the very same thing. Where intelligence is concerned, it simply means that a key prerequisite for intelligence as we know it was satisfied early on in the mammalian line.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #177 on: February 09, 2010, 06:16:07 pm »
I also remember having some sort of fish when I was younger. I want to say it was dolphin or porpoise, but I don't think that's right...

You think right. Both are mammals!

Interesting, though, how all 'significantly' intelligent terran life are mammals. Guess we drew the evolutionary longstraw.

The one exception being the octopus! Their intelligence is slightly scattered though, with the brain being only one third of the nervous system; the rest of the mental faculty comes from the nerve-cords in its tentacles (Protoss/Naavi YES). Anyway, the octopus is one of the more intelligent, or at least trainable, animals in the seas, and has been known to solve some pretty complex puzzles.
(source: http://www.octopus.com/anatomy/)

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #178 on: February 09, 2010, 06:19:04 pm »
It's the famous One-Two Miles Loop-de-Loo!

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #179 on: February 09, 2010, 06:21:41 pm »
I have three friends who are terrified of octopi.  They have horrific nightmares about them and avoid aquariums in any zoo.  I can understand that.

Did you know that octopi have three hearts??  That's just mind-boggling to me.

Edit::  I've eaten octopus as well as dog.  :)
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