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Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21501

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum


Yeah, she has a way wit woids. (sic)

>> ..tempting you with all manner of wonders to absorb.. <<

smiley - drool
~jwf~


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21502

perplexingApollonia

I suggest...rubbing the belly....shouting loud...oh god..oh god...oh...almighty god....what a splendid god I am...telling everybody how humble they have to be!


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21503

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

Hitherto, I'd always thought of the shortcuts in Ikea as akin to wormholes through hyperspace. From now on I shall associate them with peritonitis: holes in the intestines which lead to a major portion of the colon being cut out.


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21504

perplexingApollonia

The description how to build the thing...is very hermetical!


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21505

Alfster

Jesus and Mo again giving away secrets:

http://www.jesusandmo.net/2009/09/17/dust/


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21506

Alfster

Jumping back a few days into the conversatoin about science and research and the stupid way research grants are onlny given if you can tell them the results before you do the work.

Richard Feynman said: "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful come out, but that is not the reason we are doing it"


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21507

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum


smiley - yikes

This is really creepy! Not to mention unhealthy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...7/st-therese-relics-wormwood-scrubs

peace
~jwf~


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21508

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum


Edwardo:

I have to point out some error (perhaps only of omission) in your definition of peritonitis.

>> peritonitis: holes in the intestines which lead to a major portion of the colon being cut out. <<

In the most general terms I can almost accept your diagnosis but your prognosis sucks. Both need clarification.

Peritonitis is most often the result of a burst appendix, although other, less common ruptures or punctures in the intestinal wall can also result in leakage from the bowel tract. The exposure of soft internal organs to the stuff in the bowel causes immediate internal toxification (often fatal) and long term infection if you survive the initial onset.

It can usually be remedied by removing the burst tissue, closing with a few stitches and following with a good antiseptic cleansing of the abdominal cavities, bed-rest and a short regimen of antibiotics.

You may have been thinking of colitis (also called colonitis) but even that does not necessarily require the extreme prescription of colectomy.

smiley - doctor
~jwf~


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21509

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

fairynuff.






















'kin pedant. smiley - rolleyes


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21510

Giford

A57310157

Gif smiley - geek


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21511

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

Apparently bits of Ste. Therese have orbited the earth. Which is nice.


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21512

perplexingApollonia

they just started to understand hysteria at that time...poor girl!


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21513

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

A History Of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/19/history-christianity-diarmaid-mccullouch

Note the reviewer.

Lots of interesting nuggets there. 'The Islamic Republic of Central America'. Wow!


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21514

perplexingApollonia

religious history(not written by "believers" but scientifically historical based!)..is such an hilarious eye opener about,political power structures&brainwashing clergy bureaucracy doctrines and delusion.


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21515

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

I don't know anything about the author. Is he a believer?


I'm a believer. I couldn't leave her if I tried.
smiley - musicalnote And then I saw her face...smiley - musicalnote


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21516

perplexingApollonia

it´s never too late to discover the nose hairs of the lover!
love is when the bubble burst..not the pearl sits on the cloud.

I embrace reality with big spoons...!


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21517

Giford

Hi Ed,

Your wilful Islamicisation of the Monkees classic reminds me of the way we used to sing a well-known carol in church:

Mary was that mother mild
J**** C*****! Look at her child

(Asterisks for the benefit of overzealous mods)

Gif smiley - geek


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21518

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum


>> I embrace reality with big spoons...! <<

Is that like a gynecologist or an obstetrician?
Or a salad maker? smiley - spork

smiley - doctor
~jwf~


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21519

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

Or just someone with a serious coke habit?


Reading/Read 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins?

Post 21520

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Is it possible to have a half-hearted coke habit, I wonder? smiley - erm


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