AzurePhoenix

Ooh while you're at it you should give the Book of Mormon a shot. I've only gotten through a third so far, but it is an experience

The Ashes of Worlds by Kevin J. Anderson (sci-fi...ish), BloodFever by Karen Moning (Fantasy) and The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. And the next in the line up are We by Eugene Zamiatin, whatever other Dawkins catches my eye, and some Sherlock Holmes. I know my store carried it, but it sold out quick

They do when you step on um

I've always thought this was particularly disheartening because the books, and many examples of fantasy literature nowadays, don't really portray witchcraft in any form but name only. It's more like the Jedi's Force than anything else, a natural and formulaic energy source, far closer to chemistry than the occult. That leads me to wonder if those who naysay it have actualy read them from a logical perspective (as close as they could get anyway).

Well, we've only mapped chimps, humans, rats and mice right? Among the mammals? So besides them, it's really impossible to tell anything mroe than a percent for those two rodents, and even our relative relation to them can be questioned unless we can get a general idea of relation between a much wider sample of varied species. I'm just brain-storming here, but does that make any sense?

Fine I concede, if that's what gets you off go ahead and think of me as a cheerleader, the kind who uses the goal posts to pole dance, does a psuedo-striptease, then beats the stuffing out of the grabby mascot..... Okay, here are my lame jokes of the day, forgive me, but it's late and I'm stressin' .... The popular blonde cheerleader bounced into the local card shop, looked around, then approached the clerk. "Do you have any, like, real special birthday cards?" she asked. "Yes, we do," he replied. "As a matter of fact, here's a new one. It's inscribed, "To the Boy Who Got My Cherry." "Wow, neat!" she squealed. "I'll take the whole box." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What happened to the blonde cheerleader when she did the splits? A: Twenty class rings fell out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------

FORMER CHEERLEADER!!!!! FORMER!!!! I HAVE REFORMED MY WICKED WAYS!!!!! It's okay, I loved it. Yay for birthday standup!!!! okay, for a space-filler joke-ette You might be a redneck if your baby has more teeth than you. You might be a redneck if you use a coupon to buy day old bread You might be a redneck if you can't decide whether it's chicken or tuna

Layoffs are Tough -------------------- Mr. Smith owned a small business. He had two employees, Sarah and Jack. They were both extremely good employees - always willing to work overtime and chip in where needed. Mr. Smith was looking over his books one day and decided that he wasn't making enough money to warrant two employees and he would have to lay one off. But both Sarah and Jack were such good workers he was having trouble finding a fair way to do it. He decided that he would watch them work and the first one to take a break would be the one he would lay off. So, he sits in his office and watches them work. Suddenly, Sarah gets a terrible headache and needs to take an aspirin. She gets the aspirin out of her purse and goes to the water cooler to get something to wash it down with. Mr. Smith follows her to the water cooler, taps her on the shoulder and says, "Sarah, I'm going to have to lay you or Jack off." Sarah says, "Can you jack off? I have a headache." Damnit, how likely is it that someone posted the same joke only two pages before?!!! Whoever else used it, I'd like to apologize, and will be detracting this joke as soon as I can, I'll try to replace it with something else(or it'd be helpful if a mod erased it entirely)

A good ol' paleontology/archaeology forum would be nice.

I suspected as much, but seeing those teal ones (a true turquoise hue) shook my faith in my own observations. Are there any other possible colors, no matter how rare?

I don't think I've actually ever seen eyes I would call green. I know a girl with striking teal ones, but no green. Is it an actual green-green, or more of a hazel-like hue? And that is a very difficult question mostly because we still don't know what gene combinations make each color show up in the phenotype. We know eye and hair and skin color are close to one another on the chromosome, so often correlate, but it's not that simple.