Hello from a southern girl
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MernaLouise
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Wow! Thanks for that warm welcome! Y'all sound like my kinda people. I don't know what Mark I'm gonna get, but I am not afraid. (I just hope he's cute! lol) And Normal, I'm not that old, and I'm not sure you're that normal. (Not necessarily a bad thing either way.) Glad to be here! See ya!
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Hello and welcome!
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
Re: Hello from a southern girl
Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
And Isopods?
Hello Merna.
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MernaLouise
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Um, no I don't love wasps. They're insects, not animals. I wouldn't hurt them though, as long as they don't try to hurt me!Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
Deep Sea Isopod, do I love isopods? I don't know, I've never tried them!
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Despite the charm and cuteness of our resident isopod, the rest of his brethren are creepy and nightmare-worthy. 
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Yes, there's a giant octopus lurking around here somewhere...Bella Fortuna wrote:Despite the charm and cuteness of our resident isopod, the rest of his brethren are creepy and nightmare-worthy.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
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Hey! I like the bar down here where I found it!Gawdzilla wrote:Greetings! The other southerns on this forum are as crazy as shit-house ratz, so you should raise the bar a bit.
And welcome from a fellow Southerner (assuming you do mean the US), MernaLouise! Did you bring grits, perchance?
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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...or Southern Comfort of some type...FBM wrote:Hey! I like the bar down here where I found it!Gawdzilla wrote:Greetings! The other southerns on this forum are as crazy as shit-house ratz, so you should raise the bar a bit.
And welcome from a fellow Southerner (assuming you do mean the US), MernaLouise! Did you bring grits, perchance?
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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Deep Sea Isopod
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MernaLouise wrote:Um, no I don't love wasps. They're insects, not animals.Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
Ummm. ......
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It's all but impossible to get you out of the bar...FBM wrote:Hey! I like the bar down here where I found it!Gawdzilla wrote:Greetings! The other southerns on this forum are as crazy as shit-house ratz, so you should raise the bar a bit.
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+1Deep Sea Isopod wrote:MernaLouise wrote:Um, no I don't love wasps. They're insects, not animals.Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
Ummm. ......
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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MernaLouise
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Thanks for that much deserved lesson. Open mouth, insert foot!Ghatanothoa wrote:+1Deep Sea Isopod wrote:MernaLouise wrote:Um, no I don't love wasps. They're insects, not animals.Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
Ummm. ......
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Hello Merna ...
NEVER say this to an entomologist! Or, for that matter, to anyone else who spent time studying biology big time ...
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Courtesy of this scientific paper, we learn that this is an 8 inch octopus (largest specimen collected was 197 mm long).
Then there's the Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, which has an amazing ability to make itself look like its surroundings, or like other organisms on the reef. See it in action here:
Learn more about it courtesy of this paper.
Oh, by the way, if you want to learn about fish and butterflies as well, just knock on my door as it were. Though be prepared for a roller coaster ride with respect to some of the fish I could teach you about.
ARGH!MernaLouise wrote:Um, no I don't love wasps. They're insects, not animals.Ghatanothoa wrote:Hey Merna, welcome. You love all animals? Even wasps?
NEVER say this to an entomologist! Or, for that matter, to anyone else who spent time studying biology big time ...
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Knowledge and understanding dispels fear. Learn what makes them tick, and you can behave accordingly.MernaLouise wrote:I wouldn't hurt them though, as long as they don't try to hurt me!
I think you're worried him a lot with that remark.MernaLouise wrote:Deep Sea Isopod, do I love isopods? I don't know, I've never tried them!
Actually, I like marine isopods. But then I like a lot of marine invertebrates.Bella Fortuna wrote:Despite the charm and cuteness of our resident isopod, the rest of his brethren are creepy and nightmare-worthy.
Cephalopods are cute. Even the big ones. Indeed, there's one whose scientific name is Wunderpus photogenicus. Here's a pic:maiforpeace wrote:Yes, there's a giant octopus lurking around here somewhere...
Courtesy of this scientific paper, we learn that this is an 8 inch octopus (largest specimen collected was 197 mm long).
Then there's the Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, which has an amazing ability to make itself look like its surroundings, or like other organisms on the reef. See it in action here:
Learn more about it courtesy of this paper.
Oh, by the way, if you want to learn about fish and butterflies as well, just knock on my door as it were. Though be prepared for a roller coaster ride with respect to some of the fish I could teach you about.
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