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Commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
In the acknowledgements: "We thank Guangpeng Wang (Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau)..."...
Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
@#44 Noen et al: A religion is a cult with an army....
Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
Once upon a time he dressed so fine....
Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
I have a bound copy of The Illustrated London News from 1936, that I picked up when our local library discarded it a few years ago. Features include: the recent elections in Germany (99% for the Nazi Party); the Italian...
Commented on Stabbing pen, the competition
"as reliable and durable as the people using it" I just checked my pens. I'm embarrassed to say they all meet this criterion already....
Commented on Hand-cranked phone charger in a hollow log
Dendropunk?...
Commented on Perfectly Good Names The SciFi Channel Could Have Chosen Instead of The Utterly Stupid "SyFy"
I should have added that Mr. Ellison, while a fine writer, is no Latin scholar. Still, it works better his way....
Commented on Perfectly Good Names The SciFi Channel Could Have Chosen Instead of The Utterly Stupid "SyFy"
I think it was Harlan Ellison who said that "SF" refers to a literary genre, while "Sci-Fi" refers to crappy TV shows and Hollywood movies, and is the plural of "Scum-Fum". Of course, Harlan's experience with movies and TV may...
Commented on Octopus removes valve, floods floor of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
re my comment #95, sorry, meant @89 (Takuan)...
Commented on Octopus removes valve, floods floor of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
@#88 "you jury-rig a jury-mast after a gale" ...using a jury-mast-knot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jury-mast-knot-variations.jpg Note how they look a little like octopi?...
Commented on Octopus removes valve, floods floor of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
Moniker42, here are some more definitions, some American. http://onelook.com/?w=jury-rig&ls=a The Wikipedia entry gives a lot of background....
Commented on Octopus removes valve, floods floor of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
@47 ...the author uses the phrase "Jury-Rigged" instead of "Gerry-Rigged" "Jury-rigged" is a nautical phrase meaning improvised, correct in this case. (It does not necessarily imply poor quality.) "Jerry-built" is British slang meaning shoddy or poorly made. These are often...
Commented on National Film Board of Canada puts its archives online, free
Damn, Takuan, I was just about to say Blackfly, since Paul567 beat me to Log Driver's Waltz. Is there no Wade Hemsworth left for me to spread the word about? Anyway, good work, NFB. My tax dollars were never better...
Commented on <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>, Series 0, S1E1
"Nooo. Not those cold metal tits again!"...
Commented on SmartBolts change color when they're tight enough
Of course, if you are using a socket, you can't tell until it's too late. Therefore I propose bolts with a little sound chip like greeting cards: "AAHHH, stop, that's enough, o god please stop!!!"...
Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
Cory, I agree with your list of Toronto terms, with the addition of "variety store", which seems to be at least as common as "convenience store"....
Commented on Dick Cheney's shades reflect a strange being
#18: "How many times must I remind you... republicans do not have sex." At least, not as we know it....
Commented on Tite-Tie Tie-Down Tool Probably at Home Depot
I watched the video, which makes the design a lot clearer. The picture above doesn't really show that the device is in two parts. The way the rope leads around the bottom hook answers my objection about possible friction. I'd...
Commented on Tite-Tie Tie-Down Tool Probably at Home Depot
This *is* a knot, just with a metal piece as part of it (like a cleat). You still have to learn to tie it correctly. If you learn the trucker's hitch, you can tie as many as you like, in...
Commented on EFF proves Comcast is screwing with BitTorrent, releases instructions for testing your own ISP
Bell Sympatico in Canada has been throttling torrents for a while now. This is the subject of much discussion here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/sympat...

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cuvtixo commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
The first few responses to this story is very revealing. I recently read "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach, and was really astonished on how little research has be done (or more specifically, published!) about sex in humans or mammals. It seems scientific funding is still ruled by old puritanical values. This sqeamishness is something we should have gotten over a long time ago....
dnafrequency commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
Just how was that video NSFW? You can barely even tell what's going on unless you've RTFA'd....
doctorpsycho1960 commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
Birds engage in "anting", in which they use either ants or fire to irritate the skin under their feathers. Various utilitarian functions have been speculated, but the possibility that they just get off on it can't be avoided: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anting_(bird_activity)...
Praline commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
brainspore: I meant "rarely observed", not "rare". Mea culpa. Here is the comment again, with elaboration. The behavior these scientists claim is rarely observed has in fact been widely observed, and their assertion is flatly refuted by their own references. This is more than a little disturbing to anyone who takes science seriously. Consider just one of the works cited by the bat-paper: "Biological Exuberance" by Bruce Bagemihl. This book has been praised by evolutionary biologists as a treasure-trove of data, and it includes numerous examples of animal oral sex--hedgehogs, orangs, the afore-mentioned manatees, chimps, gibbons, and bats, etc. etc....
seanboing commented on NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
Sometimes dogs like to be spanked just above their tail on their back. They look at you and make little licks with their tongue, and squat down. They come back for more. Now tell me that isn't sexual/pleasurable....

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