@farmerman,
I liked that fm. You are learning to write a bit better at last. I hope it isn't due to a familiarity with my style.
If the parakeet didn't understand the words it would obviously think it was bullshit. The fact that it can't articulate clearly enough for semantics experts, who, I think, claim to be scientists, does not prove it doesn't think it bullshit.
It is evidence, not conclusive I'll admit, that when semantics experts can decode the articulation an organism makes on discovering something it has been allowed to see is bullshit they are likely to think that it was because the organism in question didn't understand it. Like the Bible and Tristram Shandy are often declared to be. Or even, and at a far less exalted level, my posts.
So R45 can be said to not understand evolition and the stupid-ass Big Bang Theory and those who say the Bible and Tristram are bullshit can equally be said to not understand those works of art and of the two he has the better excuse for his fault. If the CERN project, a penny on the beer for the workers, is trying, if you call trying lounging around all day and shagging all the assistants after the pubs shut in between watching the President trying to screw the lid back on and filling in requisitions of one sort or another, is trying to understand the Big Bang Theory because the project would make no sense, other than the one tangentially alluded to above, if they understood it already. So R45 is in pretty good company.
I think his larger error, art being superior to science, is using "stupid ass", an adjectival clause, decribing bullshit. Bullshit having become a synonym of the Big Bang Theory by a magical formula buried deep in the text.
If you have ever watched a bull having a ****, as I often have, it might be said to be funny but it can never be said to be stupid. Bullshit comes from a well evolved ass and, if it wasn't for the dried **** all down its legs matted in clumps, one could say a created perfection of evolution. Evolution wasting no cosmetic treatments on organs of waste disposal just as the local authorities do with the garbage removal. The processes are difficult to manage with style and style is--well--what can you say? I imagine Parakeets have a certain style if the other birds of the parrot family I've seen are anything to go by.
Your post fm was short and jetty and I bet you timed your tail flick just right. One might say it was parakeetshit. One sees chorus girls imitate it from time to time. And cheer leaders as well although not the Steelers' ones I gather. It's a "grit your teeth" neck of the woods where the Steelers are. Your avvie is perfect fm. An inspired choice. As an avvie should be. I have had a few in mind for ages for myself. One in particular.
On reflection though, I am wondering what evolutionary purpose the mass of dried matted bullshit might have stuck all over just where the rump steaks are carved from on bovine creatures. If it is some maladaption then evolution would have had to produce an ass sticking out further. The species being well extant with all the dried **** stuck to their back legs is proof that is not the case. It is at worst neutral. Aesthetic disapproval not being appropriate on an intellectual thread.
Would you care to speculate on why, I can see how, this natural phenomena exists in evolution? It is easy to speculate on why a fin evolved into a wing, or vice -versa, although not on how, but what about this manifestation of nature's wonders.
