On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:30:13 +0000 (UTC),
Seppo Pietikainen <s.pietikainen@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> Uncle Davey wrote:
>>
>>>Uncle Davey wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Uncle Davey wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>news:cc7t20p2e38am89eluuongcepvh87hcqnj@4ax.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:31:15 +0000 (UTC), the following
>>>>>>>appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Uncle Davey"
>>>>>>><noway@jose.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>><snowbirdRemoveThis@ThisToosnowbird.freeserve.co.uk>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>ShortCheerer wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Ok, I dont believe in evolution but, for those of you who do i have
>>
>> a
>>
>>>>>>>>simple
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>question: If we came from monkeys/apes/whatever you want to call
>>>>>>
>>>>>>them,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>where
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>did the "monkeys" come from?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Rodents, which came from reptiles which came from amphibians (IIRC)
>>>>>>>>>which can from fish. How far back do you want to go?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So primates come from rodents, now.
>>>>>>>>Good luck, digesting wood.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If you go further back we also come from fish. Does that
>>>>>>>mean we should be able to breathe underwater? (And FWIW, the
>>>>>>>ancestors of primates probably derived from insectivores,
>>>>>>>not rodents, admittedly a *very* minor point.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>AND BTW, just which rodents were you thinking of; you know,
>>>>>>>the ones which eat wood?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Obviously I was thinking of beavers. There's hardly an hour goes by,
>>
>> and
>>
>>>>all
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>that...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uncle Davey
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>You believe that beavers eat wood?
>>>>>
>>>>>Seppo P.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>They dam well do.
>>>>
>>>>Uncle Davey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Like us humans eat porcelain platters?
>>>
>>>Seppo P.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I hope your mother doesn't know you do that.
>>
>> Mine doesn't even like it when I lick the plate clean.
>>
>> She says she didn't bring me up to do that.
>>
>> But she does make these fantastic sauces. My wife also makes them, but she
>> only sees my mother occasionally, and has not yet learned how to make the
>> full set.
>>
>> She (ie. my mother) also says, she hopes I don't do that at business
>> lunches.
>>
>> Well, of course I don't. I know how to behave if money is at stake, believe
>> you me.
>>
>> Uncle Davey
>>
>>
>
> I think you missed that whoosing sound way above your head...
This is Davey's disarmingly charming mode. When he's made an ass of himself
he'll try to be funny, make it look like a big joke. This is how he
operates.
--
Aaron Clausen
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