RULES OF THE SEMICOLON, please

Re: Frank Apisa (Post 5243523)
Love you, Frank, except when I am nattering at you, and then it's mild fondness.

So, did you do novenas?

My mother, love in memory, was for good reason very engaged with novenas, and, then, so was I.

I wish I cared. But I can't seem to get very interested in football. However, I am watching the game. Maybe I'll start caring.

Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller components that are more easily absorbed into a blood stream, for instance. Digestion is a form of catabolism: a breakdown of large food molecules to smaller ones.

When food enters the mouth, its digestion starts by the action of mastication, a form of mechanical digestion, and the contact of saliva. Saliva, which is secreted by the salivary glands, contains salivary amylase, an enzyme which starts the digestion of starch in the food. After undergoing mastication and starch digestion, the food will be in the form of a small, round slurry mass called a bolus. It will then travel down the esophagus and into the stomach by the action of peristalsis. Gastric juice in the stomach starts protein digestion. Gastric juice mainly contains hydrochloric acid and pepsin. As these two chemicals may damage the stomach wall, mucus is secreted by the stomach, providing a slimy layer that acts as a shield against the damaging effects of the chemicals. At the same time protein digestion is occurring, mechanical mixing occurs by peristalsis, which are waves of muscular contractions that move along the stomach wall. This allows the mass of food to further mix with the digestive enzymes. After some time (typically an hour or two in humans, 4–6 hours in dogs, somewhat shorter duration in house cats), the resulting thick liquid is called chyme. When the pyloric sphincter valve opens, chyme enters the duodenum where it mixes with digestive enzymes from the pancreas, and then passes through the small intestine, in which digestion continues. When the chyme is fully digested, it is absorbed into the blood. 95% of absorption of nutrients occurs in the small intestine. Water and minerals are reabsorbed back into the blood in the colon (large intestine) where the pH is slightly acidic about 5.6 ~ 6.9. Some vitamins, such as biotin and vitamin K (K2MK7) produced by bacteria in the colon are also absorbed into the blood in the colon. Waste material is eliminated from the rectum during defecation.

You catholics are such odd people. I've had that notion since the first time I peaked in the window of a little catholic church on the way home from a Little League game and saw a life-sized statue of a rather tarty looking girl right smack in the middle of everything. It was just so... inappropriate.

It makes a lot more sense than atheism, Blatham. Not that is saying much for it.

Re: blatham (Post 5244811)
A chunk of granite is also unaware of everything else.

I guess.

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Re: Frank Apisa (Post 5244108)
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It makes a lot more sense than atheism, Blatham. Not that is saying much for it.

Catholics turned orthodox agnostic... there's no talking to them.