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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 08/30/2005 : 23:25:44
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Source isn't what you'd call reliable...this could be a computer assisted image, but since the subject matter isn't of any grave importance, who cares? If it's a joke, not much profit gained by it...
It just looks cool.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 08/31/2005 : 03:42:24 [Permalink]
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Not all that unusual. Domestic cats often turn up with a few extra toes, especally on the fore feet. If you ever visit a dairy farm, look at the barn cat population. Many will have them. I've seen as many as eight toes on one foot.
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pfretzschner
Skeptic Friend
USA
67 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 13:05:34 [Permalink]
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| I have a cat who is equipped with those. He's sitting right here next to me. He likes to grab onto my hands with them when I pet him. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 00:26:05 [Permalink]
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| Ah, the freakish results of domestication. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 02:41:47 [Permalink]
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They call those, in FL anyway, Hemmingway cats. Because the cats that live in his house in Key West have that thumb.
I had a cat(two actually), that I rescued from a woodpile during a big rainstorm (had to feed him with an eyedropper for a couple of weeks before he could eat/drink anything besides the special formula), who had those thumbs. My sister still has one of the two.
The cat could literally pick up a pingpong ball in one paw and throw it at the wall... then of course he'd chase it down and repeat the process... usually at 3am.
He lived for 15 years, kinda short span for a domestic indoor cat... renal failure got him though.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 15:53:46 [Permalink]
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| Opposing claw... a new step in evolution. YEC:ers need to watch out. Five claws make more scratches than four. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 16:05:21 [Permalink]
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quote:
Opposing claw... a new step in evolution.
Thats not such a stretch as you might think. Opposable thumbs enable tool use.
If you took a population of those cats that bred true with the opposable thumb and set them up someplace where that thumb was a major selective advantage... tool use would likely put in an appearance at some point.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 11:48:51 [Permalink]
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| Shows you how simple genetic variation can add an opposable thumb to a species that didn't have them previously. |
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trishran
Skeptic Friend
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 21:39:04 [Permalink]
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| Think about this - even without opposible thumbs [in most cats] they manage to spend 14 hours a day sleeping while we go out to work to afford the catfood that we schlep home and serve in nice little bowls - not to mention cat toys, catnip and cat doors. |
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