Re: Bipedalism in different substrates
From: Bob Keeter (rkeeter_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/09/04
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:47:18 GMT
"NA Sides" <nas@sonic.net> wrote in message
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SNippage. . .
> >
> >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)
You know, I hadnt really looked at it from that perspective. . . . but
you know, you're right! You are known by the company you keep,
or dont keep, and being expelled from that particularly pub amid a
rousing round of invective is not exactly a badge of dishonor!
SNippage. . . .
> True. True. His main problem is that he needs new material.
>
I dont know about that. I can watch George and Gracie on the
cable and get a laugh any time, and they are not exactly on the
leading edge of current world events! 8-)
Snippage. . . .
> >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)
Know the feeling well. Only about 50 miles from some of the best
university libraries going, but. . . in that value trade the time and
effort
of going 50 miles just to find an article that says that humans swim much
worse than sea otters even though the sea otter has much more hair is
sort of a waste of time.
> 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)
Sometimes I think that the paleo part might get glossed over for a
the sake of a good lesson in the practice of aberant psychology.
Guess that comes in somewhere under that umbrella of anthropology
since I can seem to remember reading anywhere about sociopathic
tomatoes!
Later
bk
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