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Marc

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Dec 8, 2006, 9:04:16 AM12/8/06
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HEY LURKERS..... (sorry for shouting, but I need to wake the
denizens lurking around talk.origins this fine day....)

Your Vote Is Needed - that goes for the usual suspects and even
our current crowd of net-loons... nobody wants PZ to go nekkid.

http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php

Vote for Pharyngula as The Best Science Blog - the Bad Astronomy
guy (Phil) was just a few votes behind (298 to 309) a moment ago.

(check it out first, of course... http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ )
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/reason_1_to_vote_for_pharyngul.php

(signed) marc

zawa...@yahoo.com

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Dec 8, 2006, 12:54:41 PM12/8/06
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Sorry, voted for the Panda. I'd rather see PZnaked than a shaved
panda.And beside, Pandas are the best bears ,,,,

A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After the panda has
eaten his meal, he takes out a gun and shoots several holes in the
ceiling. As the panda begins to leave, the waiter cries out, "What was
that for?" in regard to the shootings. The panda tosses a wildlife
guide to the waiter. The waiter reads the guide, and it says, "Panda.
Black-and-white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Marc

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Dec 8, 2006, 1:12:24 PM12/8/06
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The Australian (Koala) version is just a bit, er.... rude.
I'll leave it to one of the other aussies to explain.

(Hint... rhymes with "shoots".)

(signed) marc

..

zawa...@yahoo.com

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Dec 8, 2006, 3:26:08 PM12/8/06
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The one I heard involved a lady-of-the-night and ended "KOALA: Eats
bush and leaves."

bada...@badastronomy.com

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Dec 8, 2006, 5:00:57 PM12/8/06
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A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.

Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!

My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.

pz

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Dec 8, 2006, 5:26:09 PM12/8/06
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In article <1165597257....@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>,
bada...@badastronomy.com wrote:

> A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
> of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
> marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>
> Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>
> My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.


Look at that negative campaigning: are you really going to let
someone who so patently flaunts his chordatecentric bigotry
represent the science blogosphere? Nay, I say. We must support
biodiversity.

Reach out with your pili, your tentacles, your claws, your ciliary
bands, and vote PZ Myers. Vote for the *entire* biosphere, not just
Phil Plait's tiny, unrepresentative, and hateful part of it.

Vote now.
<http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php>.

My name is PZ Myers, and I approve this post.

--
pz http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Bill Hudson

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Dec 8, 2006, 5:48:25 PM12/8/06
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Geez, I had enough of this in November!

Robert Carnegie

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Dec 8, 2006, 5:56:19 PM12/8/06
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Philip Plait put shower photos on his Web site.*

So...

I think I don't want to see any Web page that either of you is offering
right now :-)

* There was a water stain in the shape of Lenin's face, I think.
Connection to astronomy - the Face on Mars. Not the one that looks
like a " :-) ", although why not that too?

Robert Grumbine

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Dec 8, 2006, 6:02:15 PM12/8/06
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In article <pzmyers-69ED6A...@lenny.tc.umn.edu>,

Eeew. The prospect of either an unclad Phil or Paul ...
Put it on! Put it on!

Sounds like sufficient reason to vote for realclimate. They,
as far as I know, have not threatened to blind us and our
grossly mis-wired vertebrate eyes.

--
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/ Science faqs and amateur activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences

Marc

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Dec 8, 2006, 8:48:56 PM12/8/06
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Try "Eats, roots and leaves."

But the yanks won't get this... you often hear the baseball etc.
commentators say "there are the wives, rooting for their husbands".

(signed) marc

.

Mark VandeWettering

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Dec 8, 2006, 8:49:44 PM12/8/06
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On 2006-12-08, bada...@badastronomy.com <bada...@badastronomy.com> wrote:
> A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
> of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
> marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>
> Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>
> My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.

Love your blog Phil. You got my vote.

Mark

John Wilkins

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Dec 9, 2006, 3:14:10 AM12/9/06
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Marc <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote:

> zawa...@yahoo.com wrote:
...


> > A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After the panda has
> > eaten his meal, he takes out a gun and shoots several holes in the
> > ceiling. As the panda begins to leave, the waiter cries out, "What was
> > that for?" in regard to the shootings. The panda tosses a wildlife
> > guide to the waiter. The waiter reads the guide, and it says, "Panda.
> > Black-and-white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
>
>
> The Australian (Koala) version is just a bit, er.... rude.
> I'll leave it to one of the other aussies to explain.
>
> (Hint... rhymes with "shoots".)
>
> (signed) marc
>
> ..

You need to know the colloquial meaning of "roots" here for it to make
sense.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

John Wilkins

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Dec 9, 2006, 3:14:12 AM12/9/06
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pz <pzm...@pharyngula.org> wrote:

It has nothing to do with chordates or cephalopods. It's a culture war
between the decimalists and the octomalists. Powers of two rule!

Michael Siemon

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Dec 9, 2006, 3:58:12 AM12/9/06
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In article <1hq2xyi.1v0prwom1gi96N%j.wil...@uq.edu.au>,
j.wil...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:

> Marc <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
> > zawa...@yahoo.com wrote:
> ...
> > > A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After the panda has
> > > eaten his meal, he takes out a gun and shoots several holes in the
> > > ceiling. As the panda begins to leave, the waiter cries out, "What was
> > > that for?" in regard to the shootings. The panda tosses a wildlife
> > > guide to the waiter. The waiter reads the guide, and it says, "Panda.
> > > Black-and-white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
> >
> >
> > The Australian (Koala) version is just a bit, er.... rude.
> > I'll leave it to one of the other aussies to explain.
> >
> > (Hint... rhymes with "shoots".)
> >
> > (signed) marc
> >
> > ..
>
> You need to know the colloquial meaning of "roots" here for it to make
> sense.

I think you just told us...

John Wilkins

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Dec 9, 2006, 4:22:31 AM12/9/06
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Michael Siemon <mlsi...@sonic.net> wrote:

Then all you need is to hear that a Wombat in Australian culture is one
who eat, roots, shoots, and leaves...

Tom McDonald

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Dec 9, 2006, 4:24:58 AM12/9/06
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John Wilkins wrote:
> Marc <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
> > zawa...@yahoo.com wrote:
> ...
> > > A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After the panda has
> > > eaten his meal, he takes out a gun and shoots several holes in the
> > > ceiling. As the panda begins to leave, the waiter cries out, "What was
> > > that for?" in regard to the shootings. The panda tosses a wildlife
> > > guide to the waiter. The waiter reads the guide, and it says, "Panda.
> > > Black-and-white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
> >
> >
> > The Australian (Koala) version is just a bit, er.... rude.
> > I'll leave it to one of the other aussies to explain.
> >
> > (Hint... rhymes with "shoots".)
> >
> > (signed) marc
> >
> > ..
>
> You need to know the colloquial meaning of "roots" here for it to make
> sense.

I have a friend from Oz. He asked what the cheerleaders did at the
University of Wisconsin. He was told that they rooted for the Badgers.

He fell about the place.

John Wilkins

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Dec 9, 2006, 5:57:37 AM12/9/06
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Tom McDonald <kil...@gmail.com> wrote:

We sometimes watch American sports commentators for the same peurile
joke...

Dr.GH

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Dec 9, 2006, 8:59:28 AM12/9/06
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Yes, yes, PZ.

Sad how low Panda's Thumb has fallen.

TomS

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Dec 9, 2006, 12:12:41 PM12/9/06
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"On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:14:12 +1000, in article
<1hq2y0q.icghww1ytzy4zN%j.wil...@uq.edu.au>, John Wilkins stated..."

>
>pz <pzm...@pharyngula.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <1165597257....@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>,
>> bada...@badastronomy.com wrote:
>>
>> > A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
>> > of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
>> > marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>> >
>> > Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>> >
>> > My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.
>>
>>
>> Look at that negative campaigning: are you really going to let
>> someone who so patently flaunts his chordatecentric bigotry
>> represent the science blogosphere? Nay, I say. We must support
>> biodiversity.
>>
>> Reach out with your pili, your tentacles, your claws, your ciliary
>> bands, and vote PZ Myers. Vote for the *entire* biosphere, not just
>> Phil Plait's tiny, unrepresentative, and hateful part of it.
>>
>> Vote now.
>> <http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php>.
>>
>> My name is PZ Myers, and I approve this post.
>
>It has nothing to do with chordates or cephalopods. It's a culture war
>between the decimalists and the octomalists. Powers of two rule!

And the duodecimalists? Not to mention the roman-numeralists and
others opposed to the tyranny of base-exponential systems!


--
---Tom S.
"...when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and
in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it."
GK Chesterton, Doubts About Darwinism (1920)

Marc

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Dec 10, 2006, 11:51:12 AM12/10/06
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pz wrote:
..................... snp

> Reach out with your pili, your tentacles, your claws, your ciliary
> bands, and vote PZ Myers. Vote for the *entire* biosphere, not just
> Phil Plait's tiny, unrepresentative, and hateful part of it.
>
> Vote now.
> <http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php>.
>
> My name is PZ Myers, and I approve this post.

The current result is

...................... Bad Astro Guy 1450 votes

....................... PZ Myers' Blog 1723 votes


and everybody else is behind The Panda's Thumb (3rd w/ 334 votes)

Be sure to vote (again...)

(signed) marc

.

Marc

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Dec 12, 2006, 9:34:20 PM12/12/06
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bada...@badastronomy.com wrote:
> A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
> of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
> marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>
> Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>
> My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.


Let's KEEP PZ AHEAD ..... Vote Every Day (it's allowed)

http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php

The astronomy crowd are catching up - probably because they
understand the Earth's rotational period better than biologists do.

Vote Again Now!

(signed) marc

.

Marc

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Dec 12, 2006, 9:34:45 PM12/12/06
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bada...@badastronomy.com wrote:
> A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
> of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
> marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>
> Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>
> My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.

Dr.GH

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Dec 12, 2006, 9:50:33 PM12/12/06
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But that is well A, A, well Australian!

rupert....@gmail.com

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Dec 12, 2006, 11:38:35 PM12/12/06
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bada...@badastronomy.com wrote:
> A vote for PZ is a vote for the creeping cephalopod horde. Sure, some
> of my best friends are squids, but would you want your daughter to
> marry one? I heard that Michael Richards likes squid, too.
>
> Vote for Bad Astronomy! Don't let the cephalopodofascists win!
>
> My name is Phil Plait, and I approve this post.

I refuse to vote for top-posters.

Free Lunch

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Dec 13, 2006, 12:56:14 AM12/13/06
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On 12 Dec 2006 13:34:20 -0800, in talk.origins
"Marc" <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote in
<1165959260.8...@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

I forget, is he the pro-chordate or the anti-chordate candidate.

John Wilkins

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Dec 13, 2006, 2:30:57 AM12/13/06
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Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:

He's spineless, I can tell you that. Pandering to the molluscan hegemony
like that.

Marc

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Dec 13, 2006, 3:42:22 AM12/13/06
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Free Lunch wrote:


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Let's KEEP PZ AHEAD ..... Vote Every Day (it's allowed)
http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_science_blog.php

***************************************


> I forget, is he the pro-chordate or the anti-chordate candidate.

He's *not* the one with the oversized eyeglasses, trying to look for
rocks and balls of ice in the night sky, nor does he care if dwarf
planets are really homes for dwarfs or not

(signed) marc

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