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Possum babies move into baby's house!
On 4/22/2012 5:38 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Jack Campin wrote: I sometimes wonder what human society would be like of women laid eggs. There would be educational recordings you could play through the shell with special headphones to educate your offspring before it hatched. Antenatal yoga classes in how to best sit on your egg while hatching it. True crime magazines would have horror stories about mothers being found in possession of omelette pans and deadbeat fathers left in charge of an egg and putting it in the fridge with the beer. There was an American TV series a number of years ago that featured a colony of humanoid aliens co-existing with normal humans. However, after conception, it was the alien MAN who carried the fetus to term ("maternity suits" and all). I can guarantee there'd be no problem with human overpopulation if the same arrangement were true for us! That was "Alien Nation" |
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Possum babies move into baby's house!
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Jack Campin wrote: I sometimes wonder what human society would be like of women laid eggs. There would be educational recordings you could play through the shell with special headphones to educate your offspring before it hatched. Antenatal yoga classes in how to best sit on your egg while hatching it. True crime magazines would have horror stories about mothers being found in possession of omelette pans and deadbeat fathers left in charge of an egg and putting it in the fridge with the beer. There was an American TV series a number of years ago that featured a colony of humanoid aliens co-existing with normal humans. However, after conception, it was the alien MAN who carried the fetus to term ("maternity suits" and all). I can guarantee there'd be no problem with human overpopulation if the same arrangement were true for us! Ain't that just the truth. It would be interesting to know that if the man gave birth to the first child, and the woman the second (alternately) whether there would be a third baby. Tweed |
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Alien Nation (was: Possum babies move into baby's house!)
Mishi wrote:
On 4/22/2012 5:38 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote: There was an American TV series a number of years ago that featured a colony of humanoid aliens co-existing with normal humans. However, after conception, it was the alien MAN who carried the fetus to term ("maternity suits" and all). I can guarantee there'd be no problem with human overpopulation if the same arrangement were true for us! That was "Alien Nation" Years ago I had a friend (from a writing group) who liked to write fan fiction about her favorite TV shows, and this was one of them. I've never watched the show, so everything I know about it comes from this friend's stories. If you've ever read fan fic, you know some of it is really terrible, but this woman was a wonderful writer, very entertaining. Anyway, one thing I remember is that the developing... fetus? had these different stages and at one point it was called something like "heffacado". (Mishi, feel free to correct me - it's been over 20 years since I was in this writing group.) So all the humans in the area (Los Angeles) took to calling it the "avocado". But I don't know whether this was something people actually said in the series, or if it was just a joke in my friend's fanfic. -- Joyce Whenever you feel anger, you should say, "May I be free of this anger!" This rarely works, but talking to yourself in public will encourage others to leave you alone. |
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Possum babies move into baby's house!
Debbie Wilson wrote:
Joy wrote: It is also a monotreme. Yes - the living members of the class Mammalia are divided into three sub-classes: Monotremata (egg-laying mammals such as echidnas, platypuses etc); Marsupalia (marsupials such as kangaroos, wombats, koalas, opossums etc that give birth to poorly developed young into a pouch) and Placentalia (mammals that have a placenta and give birth to well-formed offspring - all the rest, including us). Another interesting misconception is that 'animals' and 'mammals' are the same thing. The kingdom Animalia actually includes anything that is not a plant, bacteria, virus, fungus or protistan. Therefore fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, arthropods, worms etc are all animals. Two nice images illustrating this can be seen he http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb...4-88186EA7.jpg http://gryphonschoollrc.files.wordpr...sification.jpg A tapeworm isn't segmented? Then how come when my cats had tapeworms several years ago, (GW) little segments were coming out of their butts? Do caterpillars belong to the myriapod group? Did you do those drawings, btw? -- Joyce Beauty and music seduce us first; later, ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning. -- Clive Barker |
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Possum babies move into baby's house!
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A tapeworm isn't segmented? Then how come when my cats had tapeworms several years ago, (GW) little segments were coming out of their butts? That's 19th century taxonomy, as well being wrong. Tapeworms are not flatworms. They are more closely related to us than they are to flatworms. A taxonomists' proverb is "there is no such thing as a fish". Think about it. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb...4-88186EA7.jpg That's better, though the protist/moneran bit is proving more complicated than anybody imagined a few decades ago. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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