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Quote from: RD on June 24, 2008, 04:50:31 AM
Proper usage of a scientific name dictates that the first usage in a document includes the full taxonomic name, both genus and species.  Also, including the authority is helpful and often required, i.e. Heterocephalus glaber (Rüppell 1842).

Don't try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs.

Hmph.

"It is said voles are placed within milady's pudendum and then, by means of vaginal muscular contractions, the tiny field mice are shot with daunting velocity outward, to the general delight and applause of persons who pay to view such phenomena."

(Cf. "twat comet.")  It is unclear to me whether the naked mole rat above (H. glaber) is susceptible.

Quote from: Thrillho on June 14, 2008, 03:58:07 PM
Jason Marquis' sinker feasts on the blood of the children of Goyim.

Trade the perfidious Jew!

Ronnie Po-chia Hsia is on the market?

(This does remind me that Meir Kahane was right up there with Gordon Liddy in terms of brisk prose.)

Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on June 13, 2008, 12:18:58 AM
This might be the gheyest thing ever posted on the Intrawebs

Surely, I didn't forget the Shields & Yarnell?

Quote from: powen01 on June 04, 2008, 10:03:23 PM
If I were better educated, I would have said, "All uh y'all can go fuck yur-selves".

More likely "ur sef," if the "Hep-Ur-Sef" gas stations of my youth are any example.

Godammit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOVZPKeRQA

It's not enough, really, but the Tongan army?  Not THIS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epev3esCykM

Quote from: Tonker on May 17, 2008, 02:09:25 AM
Was that picture taken in a miniature kitchen?

Speaking as a Chicago renter, that doesn't look like a bad tenement.

Quote from: cubbiebluestew on May 16, 2008, 10:53:05 AM
How long does one have to stare at that before the picture appears?

The moustache takes a while to discern, but otherwise it's like a Rorschach test--if you stare too long, it starts to look like the view down a stone well rather than a proper tapeworm.

Quote from: PTanner on May 15, 2008, 08:17:14 PM
Trichinosis has never been so much fun.

Astonishingly, the "Freeze-Em Pickle" brand name is still in production.

Sadly, printing "H" of the second edition of Secrets of Meat Curing and Sausage Making (B. Heller & Co.), which is available from archive.org, appears to omit the charming WSJ-style Trichina drawing that graces my copy of printing "D".  (Not to mention the tapeworm, which is granted eyes and a sort of Charlie Brown sweater moustache.)

Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on September 08, 2007, 02:09:34 AM
You'd be prescient if the season ended today--but it doesn't.

Wait a second--what's your field of study?

Reprise:

Vor mir war keine Zeit, nach mir wird keine seyn,
Mit mir gebiert sie sich, mit mir geht sie auch ein.

Quote from: Pancho on December 21, 2006, 11:14:28 PMLook, I finally snapped, I'm guilty...I'm surronded by dirtbags 24/7, alright. Flame away, I deserve it.

Flame?  Would Fatima Yechbergh "flame"?

Quote from: cubbiebluestew on December 21, 2006, 04:21:18 PM
Has anyone mentioned Gordon Biersch?

No, but nobody's mentioned Fred Huber either.  (My pop had a Peter Hand distributorship in the '70s.  Rheinlander is only the tip of the iceberg.)

Quote from: KD on December 21, 2006, 12:55:41 AMthere's a Korean joint up on Lawrence by my old apartment that featured a banner that read: "WE OPEN 24 7."  So, so wrong.

Do you mean to say that you never patronized The Korean Restaurant despite its proximity?

Quote from: The Slak on December 20, 2006, 08:51:27 PMOh, and on the topic of Asian beers, Sapporo is perty good...cool can too.

Try the Singha.  It's southeast Asia's answer to Ballantine Ale.

"Gnossos stared down again.  As he did, a small eddying current in the water lolled it over on its side.  It was astonishingly well formed, here and there a minuscule design.  Cuneiform of the bowels.  Secret cellular knowledge etched by the insides, trying to tell us something." --Richard Farina