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furshur
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 Posted - 02/11/2007 : 10:17:41
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My wife was watching the story on the 5,000 year old skeletons locked in an embrace on CNN. After an expert was interviewed one of the anchors turns to the other and says, "how do they know if it the skeleton was a woman or a man". The other anchor says, "I guess they just count the ribs", to which the first anchor says. "oh, yeah".
My wife was waiting for the laughter or some indication that these idiots were joking - but it never came they went on to the next story. Holy crap...
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Randy
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 Posted - 02/11/2007 : 10:47:50 [Permalink]
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Holy crap, indeed! Just talking heads, those anchors.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Ricky
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Neurosis
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USA
675 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2007 : 18:48:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
Sigh... Everyone knows you just have to look for the presence of a large breastbone.
Everyone? No. Some people are too slow to even perform a google search pre-broadcast. |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 02:22:48 [Permalink]
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Ricky was joking, Neurosis. I hope you knew that.
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 02:25:38 [Permalink]
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BTW, it's the pelvic bones that differ in case some of you didn't want to look it up and didn't know. Men don't need room to push babies out. The rest of the bones are pretty much the same. Women are smaller as a whole population, but you can't say anything about size and gender for an individual skeleton.
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filthy
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 04:39:02 [Permalink]
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That's hilarius! It's also sad but too true.
Some years back, I won a beer (that I never got) from one of my neighbors, who was convinced that men had an odd number of ribs.
The shape of the skull differs a bit between men and women, as well. My ex once remarked, in an excessivly loud voice, that a man's is thicker....
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 08:57:01 [Permalink]
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filthy:
The shape of the skull differs a bit between men and women, as well. My ex once remarked, in an excessivly loud voice, that a man's is thicker....
Since the cranial capacity of a male is generally larger than that of a female, don't males need thicker skulls to hold in all of that grey matter?  |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 13:20:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
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filthy:
The shape of the skull differs a bit between men and women, as well. My ex once remarked, in an excessivly loud voice, that a man's is thicker....
Since the cranial capacity of a male is generally larger than that of a female, don't males need thicker skulls to hold in all of that grey matter?
Naw. We need thicker skulls for protection against shouting ex-ol' ladies. The difference in cranial size is for sound absorbtion...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 15:53:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Ricky was joking, Neurosis. I hope you knew that.
]Yeah. Everyone knows it's two breastbones you've got to look for.
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Hawks
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 17:33:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JohnOAS
Yeah. Everyone knows it's two breastbones you've got to look for.
Or just the single penisbone. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Aerik
New Member
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 18:11:44 [Permalink]
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| And why are we surprised to get this crap from CNN after the last 2 weeks of open bigotry against atheists? |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 18:32:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Aerik
And why are we surprised to get this crap from CNN after the last 2 weeks of open bigotry against atheists?
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Original_Intent
SFN Regular
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Posted - 02/14/2007 : 22:04:34 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
quote:
filthy:
The shape of the skull differs a bit between men and women, as well. My ex once remarked, in an excessivly loud voice, that a man's is thicker....
Since the cranial capacity of a male is generally larger than that of a female, don't males need thicker skulls to hold in all of that grey matter?
My wife says the mans thicker skull is, well, just a thick skull.....
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