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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Design Defects of the Ford Pinto Gas Tank

Great, low-priced car. If you didn't mind the "gas tank explodes when fairly low-speed collisions happen."

(Been fighting the urge to post this link for a couple days. I finally gave up - life's too short. [Wink]

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Old news, though, isn't it?

And how does the Intelligent Design camp explain the Avocado? If there was an intelligence behind its design, the pit would be a lot smaller.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

Unless the intelligence were in the employ of the grocers . . .

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Then the customers in the express checkout line would have enough intelligence to understand the concept of "< 12".

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Well, Tante, if one is using the time scale used in the other "intelligent design" thread, then the Pinto item is a very recent development. [Wink]

And if we're going to pick on the avocado, then how about cherries? An intelligently designed cherry would have pit that separates easily and cleanly from the fruit.

And shouldn't coconut shells come perforated?

::Wonders if the entity responsible for designing the banana was lynched for making other cosmic designers look bad.::

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

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::Wonders if the entity responsible for designing the banana was lynched for making other cosmic designers look bad.::

Well, they DO have a shelf life of, what, 15 minutes?

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Bananas are meant to be eaten right off the tree.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Bob, you chimp, you!

Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :

Stop monkeying aroung and get back on topic! [No No]

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

must ... make ... banana ... bread ...

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

My banana crops were suffering from all sorts of weird genetic mutations, but I moved further from the nuclear power plant, and ever since then, my bananas bred better.

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

For bananas, actually, you could make a good case that they are intelligently designed, we've bred them to the point that they can't even fertilise themselves.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

KoM, if I'm not mistaken, you can't fertilize yourself, either. That doesn't necessarily mean that you are designed intelligently.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Pwned!

[Big Grin]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

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KoM, if I'm not mistaken, you can't fertilize yourself, either. That doesn't necessarily mean that you are designed intelligently.

Oh, I disagree. [Razz]

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Complete and Total Lack of Intelligent Design:

That place in New Jersey where the Garden State Parkway meets up with the New Jersey Turnpike. Throw Routes 287, 440, 1 and 9 into the mix. Make the highway signs either absent or astonishingly confusing. Post the speed limit at 65, and now watch the fun of exiting, merging, jughandling, cloverleafing, and missing your (poorly marked) exit, so that you have to ride for an extra half hour to get back to where you were and try it all again.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

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And how does the Intelligent Design camp explain the Avocado? If there was an intelligence behind its design, the pit would be a lot smaller.

Uh, I believe because it's main purpose was as a seed, and reproduction, instead of just as food for you, the avocado is designed perfectly.

[Wink]

sndrake -- what about the Ford Crown Victoria's? They are almost as bad.

FG

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

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Originally posted by Farmgirl:

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And how does the Intelligent Design camp explain the Avocado? If there was an intelligence behind its design, the pit would be a lot smaller.
Uh, I believe because it's main purpose was as a seed, and reproduction, instead of just as food for you, the avocado is designed perfectly.

Well, watermelons are a wonderful fruit to eat outdoors. And when eating watermelon, the natural thing to do is to spit out the seeds. And since you are outdoors, you are likely to have some of those spat out seeds germinate.

Avocado seeds just aren't going to get seeded like that. They are tossed in the trash. I've heard of people sticking them in water and staring them to grow, but I've never heard of anyone getting any new avocados out of it. It is just a big, clumsy, overengineered pit, and a nuisance, to boot.

Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :

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Great, low-priced car. If you didn't mind the "gas tank explodes when fairly low-speed collisions happen."

Source of the "big bang" theory? An intergalactic pinto!

Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :

Wasn't it the 8 track tape players that caused the combustion and only when playing Pink Floyd?

That would be intelligent design.