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I keep telling women that men suck and you don't need us anymore, but nobody listens to me. Satyagraha
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quote: Kyuko is one success from 460 attempts at growing embryos
Parthenogenic mice! Now there's a boon to humanity. I know they aren't technically parthenogenic, but from two female haploids.
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virgin births are possible in nature, however the child only has chromosomes of the mother. I don't have a link though.
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Did anyone ever see that Sliders episode where they went to that dimension where men were on the verge of extinction due to a virus and all the women nearly had had heartattacks when they saw them (of course I would have one too if Jerry O'Connell popped out of the air in front of me).
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How about the episode where women could no longer have babies and men had to be artifically impregnanted?
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Until they create a robot that stomps on spiders and removes mice, Men are far from obsolete.
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That kind of man would never be allowed in my house. We practice catch and release.
I allow a certain population of spiders to live in my home, and I only remove them if the population gets too large. The population only gets large if my household ecosystem is out of balance (for instance, when the ladybugs invade in the fall). I can use my spider population as a measure of the health of my household.
As for mice, well, we have a cat. She is a very efficient mouser. If I didn't have a cat, I would welcome blacksnakes.
I still like men, though. They have a certain something I'd rather not do without. And they smell nice, and they have a very valuable but different perspective than mine.
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quote: Until they create a robot that stomps on spiders and removes mice, Men are far from obsolete.
I think he said remove, not kill. I agree with the catch and release idea. I like those boxes. Especially since I could just run the rodent to the local wildlife area (5 minutes away from my house) and set him off. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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Even with the new bug and mice gadgets, Jenny is right (and no, I don't use those bug things for the same reasons Jenny does), men are nice. Not just for doing things like building decks, fixing leaky faucets and the like, but they smell so good.
We'll not right after doing those things but in general. Posts: 2064 | Registered: Dec 2003
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Where are all these men you're talking about who kill bugs and mice? I want one. My boyfriend will see a spec-that-might-be-a-spider and jump up and start dancing around until it spontaneously combusts. Posts: 165 | Registered: Apr 2004
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The only spiders I know of that give me pause are brown recluses (sp?) and Black Widows. Both are common where I live, so you just make sure you don't use to thin of paper towel to crush them. Actually, "Daddy Long-Leg" spiders are the most poisonous known, but one of the least dangerous due to not being able to pierce our skin. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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Hmmm... Cute, cuddly, good-smelling, handy around the house, just good to have around in general... and my best friend.
I don't think he's obselete, but he is an absolute treasure: one I plan on cherishing for many, many years hence. Posts: 1548 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I wonder why this is being presented now? It certainly isn't new, I remember learning about back when I started my degree a waaaay back when. You can also remove all the female genetic material and replace them with male coding. Although you'd still need a womb.
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You're kidding, right, Nick? I mean, you've talked about this etymology at least a couple times, and I posted about it each time. Woman does in fact not come from "womb-man." It comes from the Old English wifman, meaning, of course, "wife-man." If you want a further explanation, I'll be happy to give you one in my thread (but I'm going to bed now, so don't expect an answer right away).
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It was your vocabulary that confused me, that's all. I have never seen the word etymology before. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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One time I drank out of the same cup after a girl. I thought I got pregnant from it but it turns out I never menstruate anyway so my period's always late.
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Women will tell you that they don't want you to hit anything, but secretly they love the idea that if they NEEDED something hit, you could do it really well.
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quote: One time I drank out of the same cup after a girl. I thought I got pregnant from it but it turns out I never menstruate anyway so my period's always late.
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preemptive: marked by the seizing of the initiative : initiated by oneself <a preemptive attack>
folk etymology: a popular but erroneous etymology
debunk: to expose the sham or falseness of <debunk a legend>
hobby: a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation
Edit: Wait—did you mean that you've never seen the word etymology before, or that you've never seen the word etymology before?
etymology: the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
Wow. That's a long definition.
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I know all of those, just not etymology. You know what is really sad? It was an english teacher that told me that. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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It is my sad experience that most English teachers know next to nothing about English. They should just start calling themselves literature teachers and stop living a lie.
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Well, I did graduate from the California school system. It's not the worst, but when I was a sophomore in high school, my state's education was rated as 36th in the nation.
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Icarus, I don't think you're in that category of English teachers. You're a pretty brilliant guy, but most English teachers are not.
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