Superfly in the Iron Mask

[Master Gopher]

Interestingly, that's the exact amount of DNA we have in common with chimpanzees.

60% with slugs.

40% with cabbages.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Jeffe,

I succumbed today and bought some Rooibos Tea. Now it'll take me a few days to work up the courage to try it.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

ha ha , youll like it it isnt bitter...

[MsFish]

Of all the gifts we have received
One is most precious and most terrible
The will of each of us is free
It's in our hands

And if we hear a voice
If he speaks again, our silent father
All he will tell us is the choice
Is in our hands

Our hands can choose to drop the knife
Our hearts can choose to stop the hating
For ev'ry moment of our life
Is the beginning...

There is no journey gone so far
So far we cannot stop and change direction
No doom is written in the stars
It's in our hands.

We cannot know what wil occur
Just make the journey worth the taking
And pray we're wiser than we were
In the beginning
It's the beginning
Now we begin...

Children of Eden
Grant us your pardon
All that we leave to you
is the unknown

Children of Eden
Seek for your garden
You and your children to come
Some day to come home

[Oldie Black Witch]

I tried the Rooibos yesterday. The flavor reminds me of something, and it's driving me crazy that I haven't pinpointed it quite yet. Perhaps I've just had it before.

I'm glad I got the Madagascar Vanilla Red. I almost picked up the spice one...ew.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

so would you characterize it as good?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

When I was young, I used to wonder, didn't you,
Why Mr. Spock had one head instead of two.
How creatures who are not our distant kin
Would hit on breathing through the pipe that food goes in.  
It taught us an unscientific view,
The sameness in a Federation crew.

Chorus:

You'd think the dance of life for several billion years
Would produce more variation than just pointed ears.
It violates the laws we thought we knew,
The sameness in a Federation crew.

We're closer to a radish than a Romulan,
An unrelated creature of a foreign sun.
How can a Klingon/human couple mate?
She's closer to the gak that squirms upon her plate.
How could each evolve from different gobs of goo
To the sameness of a Federation crew?

(Chorus)

What makes a moose a moose and not a kangaroo?
Remoteness for a hundred million years or two.
And breeding for a mere few hundred years
Can yield a dog with floppy or with pointed ears.
No billion-year-old seeding program grew
The sameness of a Federation crew.

(Chorus)

Did convergent evolution shape them all by chance,
To fit in Star Fleet's regulation shoes and pants?
What narcissism makes five-fingered hands
Prerequisites for venturing from native lands?
There's more richness in a single planet's zoo
Than the sameness in a Federation crew.

(Chorus)

[fuzzyoctopus]

 
I like.

However, obviously the person who wrote that never watched the TNG episode "The Chase".

Everyone knows the humanoid worlds were seeded.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

No billion-year-old seeding program grew
The sameness of a Federation crew.

(Pay attention, fuzzy!!)

Written by Bob Kanefsky, btw. Off his Roundworm CD.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Jeffe, I'd characterize the Rooibos as interesting. It's not my favorite, but I'll still steep a cuppa at night.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

thats fair... its up there on my list...

[fuzzyoctopus]

No billion-year-old seeding program grew
The sameness of a Federation crew.

(Pay attention, fuzzy!!)

Written by Bob Kanefsky, btw. Off his Roundworm CD.

Well I disagree with Bob's doubtful ways.

While we were playing Magic at lunch today, an employee started singing us a song about how people used to have lives but now all they do is play Magic.  He said it was a folk song. I looked at him and said it sounded more like a filk, and he about had a heart attack.  Apparently he's a big symposium goer.  Recognized your name.  No, I don't remember his.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

If you see him again, try to learn his name!

Well, I was thinking about it, and if you take Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" approach, the unclassified DNA bits in our genome could be encoded viruses that activate themselves every few dozen million years to create an evolutionary burst, and these could have been programmed by the progenitors (or whatever their name was). But without a mechanism like that, and left to our current understanding of genetics, seeding primordial soup just wouldn't get the job done.

Darwin's Radio and its sequel were good books, by the way.

[Eagle Prince]

The Reptilians are coming, run for your lives!  Don't use the elevators (getting you trapped in a steel box is exactly what they want).  Avoid the Chemtrails and viral matter falling from the skies.  Trust no one, and use reverse speach to discover the truth.  If you must, join the Freemasons, but do not let them secretly insert the 666 identity chip while doing a routine blood transfusion.  There you will learn the moon landing was a hoax, propagated by the disinformation unit of the CIA due to secret alien invasion.

Hmm... I'd go further, but I'm running out of wacky stuff.

Doh, forgot crop circles and cattle mutilation.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

your alive???!!!