Re: Bipedalism in different substrates

From: NA Sides (nas_at_sonic.net)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:53:00 GMT

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:52:46 GMT, "Bob Keeter" <rkeeter@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>
>"NA Sides" <nas@sonic.net> wrote in message
>news:28mqe05s9dioch15hhlagf4ksp9asqtaht@4ax.com...
>Snippage. . . . .
>
>> >Spent way too much time out chasin Bossy 'round the pasture to waste
>> >any time chasin some little ole white ball all day.
>>
>> And of course none of us are wasting time by chasing around aquatic
>> ape theorists trying to get them to clarify and back up their claims
>> ;0)
>
>Oh, the wet apers are more fun than a barrel of drippy monkeys! You
>smack them upside the haid with some interesting little fact and it just
>sort of ends up being just one more proof of the AAH! Aint had so much
>fun since I plucked the Thanksgivin turkey! But then that old bird never
>did nothing to me other than just being a turkey, and that was all I ever
>expected. With the apers, sometimes they really disappoint. But then
>when pushed back far enough into a corner by facts and logic, and as
>always, unwilling to compromise on the dogma, its easy to see how
>your average 5 year old might resort to some very unbecoming and totally
>non-scientific diatribe. 8-)

True. But until you can appreciate the humor in being called an idiot
by MV or a fool by Algis, you just don't have a fully developed sense
of fun :0)

>Snippage. . . .
>
>> >Wall, yuh see! When in Rome yuh gotta talk like them funny Eyetalians
>> >do yoh know! ;-) And whatcha mean "youre banning" me for lurking
>> >unner some person Im assuming? I aint no play acter er movin
>> >picher star or nutin.
>>
>> Cut it out, Keeter! You're supposed to use Algis as your straight man,
>> not me. His timing and delivery are better and he's had plenty of
>> practice setting up punchlines for you :0)
>
>But there is no challenge! I need challenge! (And in case you havent
>noticed Algis falls way short of Gracie Allen, even on her bad days!)

True. True. His main problem is that he needs new material.

>Snippage. . . . .
>
>> >No promises, but I can try. Actually there are only a couple of
>discussions
>> >that I would like to see come to a halt due to a total lack of support. .
>.
>>
>> I probably should get my own account with some reputable online
>> scientific library. Then, if I dropped in every so often to
>> riverapes.com to get the current opposition view I'd have all bases
>> covered.
>
>You might want to check with your alumni association. Seems that a lot
>of colleges are starting to offer alumni association online hookups either
>for free or at a big discount. The other trick is that more than a few
>public libraries have the same tie ins, and I believe that there might even
>be some that offer these services "online". (havent found them yet, but
>have heard that they are there!)

Thanks for the tips. I do have access to a university library, but
it's a fifty mile drive there and back and, if it's just to look at a
paper that's being discussed on usenet, I usually don't bother. In
fact I've only done so once. Easy access to full online papers would
be excellent. But, truth to tell, even if I did have such access, it
probably wouldn't alter my reading habits that much. The way I look at
it, the primary scientific literature is like whisky: good for you on
occasions, but not to be indulged in overmuch. For PAs it's different,
but the casual paleoanthro buff should be able to get by mostly on
abstracts, Google, a couple subscriptions to popular science
magazines, the occasional book, and where appropriate, a bit of
imagination :0)

And, if one keeps an open mind, s.a.p. itself is a learning resource.
It can be very helpful to have one's ignorance pointed out by
knowledgable persons in a public arena. Of course there's the problem
of determining who is knowledgable and who is not ;0)

NAS

>
>Regards
>bk
>
>

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