h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Any minute now, azahar's going to appear and give us a good ticking off for not sticking to the point.

- Slime Moulds. Fascinating things. they can live either singly or as a collective organism.-

Do you suppose that the individual cells get in theological arguments over who's going to constitute the fruiting body? After all, it's only those who get to pass on their genetic material. The saps who make the erectile stalk (don't yikes that before you look it up) live their lives in perfect faith and never know that it was all for someone elses benefit.

I guess anagrams don't work as smileys

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Yer darned tootin'...

http://azahar.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bonobo-smiting.jpg

I mean, c'mon guys, how hard can it be?

What is your objection got god(s) and religion?

Not sure where slime and haggis comes into it, other than being other things some people find objectionable.


az

Jaysus! 28 reasons would be enough for most people.

29) It is morally superfluous. C. Hitchens has an open challenge for anyone to give an example of a moral statement or deed that could not equally be said or done by an Atheist.

Aha! That explains it!

Apparently the Protozoans claim 'slime moulds' as protozoa, and the mycologists, fungi.

http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/slime.htm

Why would God have made such a 'borderline' creature? And why aren't they mentioned in Genesis?

Sorry not Protozoans, Protozoologists, I meant to say.

Who knows what the hell protozoans think about anything?

Did Noah take some in his ark?

(If I had been him I would also have left those termites ashore. And the tapeworms too )

http://www.netdisaster.com/go.php?mode=mold&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1508701/

(wait for it)



az

>>Why would God have made such a 'borderline' creature?

Remember - the borderlines are arbitrary. Like geographical borders, they're imposed by humans. Mammals *are* fish.

Mammals are fish? So why do we eat meat with a knife, eh?

>>Did Noah take some in his ark?

I haven't done my Noah joke for ages...

As the waters receded, Noah took two snakes and put them on a table.
'Go forth and multiply!' he said.
'We can't,' said the snakes, 'We're adders.'
'That's OK,' said Noah, 'It's a log table.'

Yes az I did wait to see that nasty splodgy thing, looking quite like a colony of bacteria or mould growing on agar in a petri dish, appearing on the purity of my flying ants...

Just read your joke Ed. Don't know why, it's just the kind of ultra daft joke that appeals to me.

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Or protozoa...


az

>>Mammals are fish? So why do we eat meat with a knife, eh?

One of the strangest conversations I've ever had:
A Friend: OK - You're vegetarian. So would you eat a sponge?
Me: Why?
Friend: Because sponges are halway between an animal and a plant. So would you eat one?
Me: No. Would you?

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Yes, but why would you want to?

Vicky

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No, I didn't realise that My Mum had two of them, for some reason... Very useful! (Except for tripe... It still tasted like leather)


Vicky

'Except for tripe . . .'


Well, there's your problem: the tripe shouldn't go into a pressure cooker; it should be used as the lovely wrapping for the haggis ingredients.