Re: The drive for longer life

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:45:47 -0800 (PST), mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jan 9, 1:17 pm, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
. . .

It's true. The idea that the human race owes it's longevity to
grandmothers is just a theory. Nevertheless, as you walk down the
street and happen upon an older lady, I don't think it would be
inappropriate for you to thank her.

   I'm always nice to old ladies, and to old men too.  A few
months ago, I came across an old guy who had tripped
and fallen, breaking his glasses, as he was coming down
the steps from the supermarket parking lot to street level.
I stayed with him until I managed to get a cab to stop for
him and take him home.  I would have taken him myself
except that I was walking, not driving.

  I don't know if I'd be as nice to Sordo, if his real-life
nature is anything like his web nature and I were with him
long enough to get a sense of that.   With some people
it's best to just leave them in the gutter.  My sense of
Pig is that he'd look like a diseased rat, so I'd know
enough right from the outset not to go near him.



The reason for the increased longevity and survival of females is
because they are superior. Imagine, for example, a high-tech assembly
line that starts out making one type of product and then part way
through the process, diverts some of the product off the line and then
has a guy drinking a beer put it on his bench and pound and bend it
into something else. In that situation, it's not hard to understand
why the modified product would be inferior. That's what happens with
the human fetus. It starts out as a female and then mother nature does
some quick modifications if it wants to produce a male. Unfortunately,
those modifications result in both mental deficiencies and physical
problems in the male gender.

Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O.

There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In ev'ry hour that passes, O;
What signifies the life o' man,
An' 'twere na for the lasses, O.
Green grow, etc

The warly race may riches chase,
An' riches still may fly them, O;
An' tho' at last they catch them fast,
Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them, O.
Green grow, etc

But gie me a canny hour at e'en,
My arms about my Dearie, O;
An' warly cares an' warly men,
May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!
Green grow, etc

For you sae douse, ye sneer at this,
Ye're nought but senseless asses, O;
The wisest Man the warl' saw,
He dearly lov'd the lasses, O.
Green grow, etc

Auld Nature swears, the lovely Dears
Her noblest work she classes, O;
Her prentice han' she try'd on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.
Green grow, etc

    --  Robert Burns

That Robert Burns sure had a way with words and a good insight into
human nature. That reminds of the old say, "A man can never stoop so
low that he can't find a dog or a women to love him". I suppose, you
could change that to say, "A man can never be so poor that he can't
find a dog or a women to love him". However, in that case, I would be
more sure of the dog than the women. :-)


Much more sure of the dog!


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