@farmerman,
Stalking arseholes. I've been on the Today's Smile thread for years.
Henry Miller met a guy who castrated thousands of sheep in Aussie. He told him speed was of the essence and the quickest way was, he said, to "grab the testicles with your teeth and then a quick slit with the knife and spit them out", wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
Ol' Henry suggested that he must have had a strange taste in his mouth.
"It wasn't as bad as you might imagine," he replied. "You get used to everything--in time. No, it wasn't a bad taste at all...the idea is worse than the actual thing."
It's the opposite with evolution. The thing is worse than the idea. When Prof. Forrest is talking about it, or the NCSE are editorialising on the matter, it is only the idea they are referring to. The thing itself is far too much for them, especially dear Barbara. All that cynical box ticking and swampy rooting. It's disgusting. Late Attenborough is a piss take of humans. They are puppet shows really.
I wonder if fm knows why women don't like men fighting over them. It seems odd after even a short study of evolution in it's dynamic mode rather than the static of fossils. Or it does to those who watch the fight instead of carefully watching the woman being fought over. Those female buffaloes I saw kicking up their back legs and prancing with their tails in vertical mode around two males taking a running charge at each other certainly looked to be enjoying themselves. They stopped munching lichen for it.
One does one's best to remain aloof from it as the ZIT Jesuits used to do. One has to be scientific at all times I'm inclined to think. Alfred Perles put his finger on the spot when he said that people are unable to find sex funny. But it's understandable when their teachers have kept Rabelais and Sterne and Harris and Miller from them.
Look at the case in New York. It's hilarious really. And that lot of po faced Democrats want to teach evolution. Pass the salts over Alice.
After describing the dedication of Foulata to restoring Captain Good to health, and harrowing it was, Haggard doesn't wallow in the luxury of failing to allow that she might have been working a ticket to England. That's why he had to knock her off. Humanely of course.