Dammit! I had way earlier than this in the pool.

The return of the Grammar Nazi comics!









Comics from: http://www.queenofwands.net/

OKAY....guys, this is the real deal.... no more PRACTICE.[/

See, that other thread Killer Challenge...
That was just practice.

This one, this one is for
REAL so get ready to have your
ASSSES KICKED....... BY ME!!!!!

When a city official has a sense of humour:

I am not Peppermint Patty!

The U.S. Government has declared this thread a danger to public morals and stated it's intent to kill it!



That should do it, right?

SEEING ELECTRICITY AND PRESSURE?

The monotremes, the echidnas and platypus, are the only living mammals that are known to have an ability to sense electricity. The platypus bill is something unique in nature, so sophisticated and advanced that no one can call the platypus "primitive." The skin surface of the bill contains 40,000 tiny electroreceptors, or specialized sensory nerve endings, arranged in rows along the length of the bill. These detect tiny, underwater bursts of electricity from the muscles of swimming creatures that the platypus hunts. The electroreceptors are intermingled with 60,000 mechanoreceptors, nerves ending at the skin in tiny "push rods" that respond to small pressure changes and detect the movements of prey animals underwater and on the bottoms of streams and ponds. Together, the two senses allow the platypus to home in on prey.

In addition to detecting bursts of electricity from prey animals, the electroreceptors in a platypus's bill can probably detect the tiny electric currents made by water flowing over and around rocks and sunken logs, thus producing a three-dimensional map of a river or lake bottom within the platypus brain. In the platypus, the combined abilities of electroreception and mechanoreception are so sensitive and detailed that they have become something like vision, providing a three-dimensional "view" of the platypus's underwater world, and enabling the platypus to pinpoint, in all three dimensions, the exact locations of its prey.

The mother, having no nipples, nurses the young with milk that comes directly from her belly skin.

dont hurt me, its ugly when a man cries.

Platypus genome reveals links between reptiles, mammals

"At first glance, the platypus appears as if it was the result of an evolutionary accident. But as weird as this animal looks, its genome sequence is priceless for understanding how fundamental mammalian biological processes have evolved," Francis Collins, the director of the U.S.-based National Human Genome Research Institute, said in a statement.

"Comparisons of the platypus genome to those of other mammals will provide new insights into the history, structure and function of our own genome," he said.

Analysis of the genome enabled scientists to match many of the platypus's unusual features with genetic sequences found in other animals, revealing a mammal that was at the crossroads between early mammal-like reptiles and most of the mammals we see today.

The oldest discovered fossil of the modern Platypus dates back to about 100,000 years ago, during the Quaternary period. The extinct monotremes (Teinolophos and Steropodon) were closely related to the modern Platypus.[44] The fossilised Steropodon was discovered in New South Wales and is composed of an opalised lower jawbone with three molar teeth (whereas the adult contemporary Platypus is toothless). The molar teeth were initially thought to be tribosphenic which would have supported a variation of Gregory's theory, but later research has suggested while they have three cusps they evolved under a separate process.[15] The fossil is thought to be about 110 million years old, which means that the Platypus-like animal was alive during the Cretaceous period, making it the oldest mammal fossil found in Australia. Monotrematum sudamericanum, another fossil relative of the Platypus has been found in Argentina, indicating that monotremes were present in the supercontinent of Gondwana when the continents of South America and Australia were joined via Antarctica (up to about 167 million years ago).[15][45]

Because of the early divergence from the therian mammals and the low numbers of extant monotreme species, it is a frequent subject of research in evolutionary biology. In 2004, researchers at the Australian National University discovered the Platypus has ten sex chromosomes, compared with two (XY) in most other mammals (for instance, a male Platypus is always XYXYXYXYXY).[46] Although given the XY designation of mammals, the sex chromosomes of the Platypus are more similar the ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes found in birds.[47] It also lacks the mammalian sex-determining gene SRY, meaning that the process of sex determination in the Platypus remains unknown.[48] A draft version of the platypus genome sequence was published in Nature on 8 May 2008 revealing both reptilian and mammalian elements, as well as two genes found previously only in birds, amphibians and fish.[47] More than 80 percent of the Platypus' genes are common to the other mammals whose genomes have been sequenced.

What is SAG?

I wonder if ASCAP counts for anything?

So you're in favour of suing boy scouts and girl guides for royalties for singing camp songs around the camp fire?

I'm sorry. That was uncalled for, even if I wasn't being serious.

I'm sorry. That was uncalled for, even if I wasn't being serious.

It's a Megola

I know what SAG means only because it was mentioned in Dead Like Me. I loved that show.

I ADORE that show. I remain very unhappy that it went away. Someone ran a marathon of episodes a few weeks ago - can't recall which channel. I've always worried about George's sister, and had hoped George would find a way to let her know... something. I think they were on the brink of it.

But what did SAG have to do with it? (I'm a member.)