Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[outragous76]

i trust you stopped to help the boy tom?

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They normally have a break out in one corner so you don't need to remove the lid.

You're a God-damn genius boy!

Lol great film. Why does the local law enforcer get played this way in so many films/tv? Eg smokey and the bandit, dukes of hazard and some bond movies

Because that's what some of them are like. I met one in a tiny call town called Meers, Oklahoma  (Home of the word famous Meers burger).

He said, "God-damn it boy, you keep on eating them there burgers, y'all end up fatter 'n a peach orchard boar".

Just then, a kid threw an empty coke can into a nearby lake, and the sheriff almost exploded. "Dang it all!" he cried. Ah'm gonna write him out a hunned dollar citation">

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i trust you stopped to help the boy tom?

He wasn't there, but I stopped to see if there was anything worth pinching in his car.

[smashedagain]

Lol @ both of the above

[Rod Paradise]

I have to thank teletext for the 14 nights in Playa las Americas £229 in 1989


but most of all the joyous midweek nights, way before 5 Live, SSN etc where you'd be on page 303-306 following the fortunes of your football team via ceefax. Typically a division would be shown over 3 pages. Your team would be on page 2/3 and the crucial minutes waiting for the page to roll round to 2/3 again to see if the score had changed

Simple pleasures, or agonies.

Agonies - the other pages in Scotland were of the lower leagues - so of no relevance whatsoever to the league you were 'watching'.....

[Rod Paradise]

Is that a mule or a donkey?

He's a mule.

A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.

Mules are sterile btw. It's natures way of preventing cross - species breeding going too far.

So why does that prevention mechanism not work with Mallards, who are busy shagging every known species of duck worldwide, to the point of extinction in many cases?

A mule is a cross between two species, be it birds or horses, the offspring is still called a mule.

Mallards are not mules, ergo, they are not sterile. Presumably though, their cross-species offspring are.

I would be very surprised to learn that mallard mules were fertile. Having said that, it has happened (once) in the bird world when the mule progeny of a Venezuelan Black Hooded Red Siskin x canary turned out to be fertile and was used to introduce the 'red' gene into the canary species, thereby giving us the 'Red factor' canary.

Red factor canaries are still not naturally red, but because they carry the red gene, their plumage has the ability to become red if they eat the right diet. (Much the same as flamingos)

Fanciers add 'Colour food' to the bird seed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard

Mallards frequently interbreed with their closest relatives in the genus Anas, such as the American Black Duck, and also with species more distantly related, for example the Northern Pintail, leading to various hybrids that may be fully fertile.
 This is quite unusual among different species, and apparently is because the Mallard evolved very rapidly and not too long ago, during the Late Pleistocene only. The distinct lineages of this radiation are usually kept separate due to non-overlapping ranges and behavioural cues, but are still not fully genetically incompatible. Mallards and their domesticated conspecifics are, of course, also fully interfertile.

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Genetics are fascinating, but unfathomable for the likes of me.

[Woodsey]

Genetics are fascinating, but unfathomable for the likes of me.

Pffft worst ever subject. I have to learn a lot of complicated medical stuff for my job, I have never ever understood more than basics in genetics 

[Woodsey]

Learn't something new today, this seems as good a place as any to put it. There are such a thing as red bananas 

[Kev B]

Tom on the way home tonight I heard the term Gypsy Jazz on the radio. Never heard it before. I looked it up and thought you might be interested.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_jazz

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Tom on the way home tonight I heard the term Gypsy Jazz on the radio. Never heard it before. I looked it up and thought you might be interested.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_jazz

Cheers Kev.

Nice to see they spelled Gypsy with a capital G.

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Learn't something new today, this seems as good a place as any to put it. There are such a thing as red bananas 

Sceptical.

googled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_banana

[millidonk]

In my group of friends Green Banana is a common phase. It is for an attractive girl who is probably a bit young.

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Just seen a player on stars called 'bedside lamp'.

I could just imagine him, sitting in his room, looking for inspiration....

It really made me lol.

[Laxie]

Turf arriving today!!!   

Sooooo, how long before it actually sets into the ground?