Meet your new thread, same as the old thread.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe the reason we argue about stuff here is that your reading comprehension is for shit.

maybe. or maybe you forget the shit you said a day ago, becasue, after all, it was all bullshit.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
maybe. or maybe you forget the shit you said a day ago, becasue, after all, it was all bullshit.

Like Winston Churchill, who will be sober in the morning, I can go back and re-read my old posts if I forget what they say.

[Gattigap]

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce your favorite batshit crazy GOP candidate and mine, Mr. Alaaaaaaaan KEYES!

• This week, Keyes's name was registered to participate in the West Virginia Republican convention in 2008 -- that party's delegate selection contests. The entry fee is $5000 and the deadline for payment was last Friday, according to the state party's website.
  
  Sources close to Keyes confirmed that he has begun to talk to some of his longtime advisers about a run. But they said he did not direct RenewAmerica, a grassroots activist group he chairs, to send in the fee.
  
  RenewAmerica has started an active Draft Keyes movement through its political action committee. The PAC paid for a table at the Iowa Republican Party straw poll in Ames last month, and Mary Parker Lewis, Keyes's long-time chief of staff, wrote in an e-mail that she would probably rejoin RenewAmerica soon.
  
  But, she, said, "To date, I would say he has only very provisionally, only in principle, approved their efforts as a moral conservative voter mobilization," Lewis said.

All we need now is Newt, plus a big house employed with about 50 hidden cameras, and we'll be all set for Big Brother: GOP Nomination.

Gattigap

[Tyrone Slothrop]

From Conservapedia's entry on the Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus:

• Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are Amphibian, spending only their earliest life stages and mating seasons in their aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and their well designed skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming dried out for prolonged periods of time.(Citation Needed)

It's the gift that keeps on giving (though oddly that entry has been deleted now).

link

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
From Conservapedia's entry on the Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus:

• Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are Amphibian, spending only their earliest life stages and mating seasons in their aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and their well designed skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming dried out for prolonged periods of time.(Citation Needed)

It's the gift that keeps on giving (though oddly that entry has been deleted now).

link

Don't worry, under "Octopus" you can still find:

The existence of giant arboreal octopuses, on a scale similar to the giant squid, has been suspected for many years, but no verified specimens have yet been captured.

And you wonder why "conservative" has become a synonym for "mindless whackjob".

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
"conservative" has become a synonym for "mindless whackjob".

you don't think some of those are goofs?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you don't think some of those are goofs?

Well, I would, except that I've read your posts on evolution.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Well, I would, except that I've read your posts on evolution.

the ones where I say natural selection is almost certainly true, but ask you and Ty if there aren't holes in taking it from the primordial ooze right up to animals with several organ systems, and you both say " of course there is some answer, because sceintist tell me there is, but I can point to one at all, but I still trust that there is an answer?"

Those posts where I seem stupid?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the ones where I say natural selection is almost certainly true, but ask you and Ty if there aren't holes in taking it from the primordial ooze right up to animals with several organ systems, and you both say " of course there is some answer, because sceintist tell me there is, but I can point to one at all, but I still trust that there is an answer?"

Those posts where I seem stupid?

No, those are endearing in an epistemological sort of way. I think he meant the other ones.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the ones where I say natural selection is almost certainly true, but ask you and Ty if there aren't holes in taking it from the primordial ooze right up to animals with several organ systems, and you both say " of course there is some answer, because sceintist tell me there is, but I can point to one at all, but I still trust that there is an answer?"

Those posts where I seem stupid?

I am not disagreeing with Hank.

Most people don't understand that natural selection is quite different from "evolution" on a grand scale.

Any responsible, knowledgeable scientist would admit that there are big, unexplained "holes" (if you want to call them that) in the theory of evolution which may never be answerable, due at least in part to the inevitable inadequacy of the fossil record.

Jared Diamond wrote about such things quite a bit in his columns -- which are pretty accessible and very well done.

S_A_M

Some of those articles are surely goofs.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man

Some of those articles are surely goofs.

I disagree. The language that the extistence of arboreal octopi has been suspected for years, for example, is not a goof. That language has been in there since April, so people have, at the least, suspected the existence of the tree octopus for months, which means they've been suspected for years to a a dog.

And I'll bet octopus years are even shorter than dog years.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the ones where I say natural selection is almost certainly true, but ask you and Ty if there aren't holes in taking it from the primordial ooze right up to animals with several organ systems, and you both say " of course there is some answer, because sceintist tell me there is, but I can point to one at all, but I still trust that there is an answer?"

Those posts where I seem stupid?

No, I don't know that I've ever bothered to one of those. It's the ones where Ty responds and you answer him in a manner that makes it clear you've understood absoltely nothing he has written. THOSE posts.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
No, I don't know that I've ever bothered to one of those. It's the ones where Ty responds and you answer him in a manner that makes it clear you've understood absoltely nothing he has written. THOSE posts.

I am objectively the most sucessful of the posters here. Professionally I am certain of that. Plus, i may well become a published author in the near future. So here I am, called upon by Captains of industry to study and respond to their legal challenges, about to be read worldwide, acclaimed in the halls of courtrooms across this country, yet if I believe I find a hole in Ty's posts, it is because I read poorly?

If i lack such basic skills how do you explain my sucess so far beyond even your wildest hopes?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I am objectively the most sucessful of the posters here. Professionally I am certain of that. Plus, i may well become a published author in the near future. So here I am, called upon by Captains of industry to study and respond to their legal challenges, about to be read worldwide, acclaimed in the halls of courtrooms across this country, yet if I believe I find a hole in Ty's posts, it is because I read poorly?

If i lack such basic skills how do you explain my sucess so far beyond even your wildest hopes?

Obviouslly your good looks.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I am objectively the most sucessful of the posters here. Professionally I am certain of that. Plus, i may well become a published author in the near future. So here I am, called upon by Captains of industry to study and respond to their legal challenges, about to be read worldwide, acclaimed in the halls of courtrooms across this country, yet if I believe I find a hole in Ty's posts, it is because I read poorly?

If i lack such basic skills how do you explain my sucess so far beyond even your wildest hopes?

If you walked into a block of Swiss cheese you would find several holes and count them all as victories.