Re: Diamonds are forever

John Wilkins wrote:
Marc wrote:
John Wilkins wrote:
Noone Inparticular wrote:
Marc wrote:
mvillanu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
theSalamander wrote:
In fact, most natural diamonds on the market are 3 - 4 billion years old!
How do creationists account for the formation of diamonds and how long do
they think this process takes?

--
http://www.eazyuk.com/evolution
Speaking of diamonds...what's more frightening than Kent Hovind being
elected president?




Seeing your girlfriend put on her newlywed sister's engagement ring and
admiring it on her hand. AAACCKKKK!!!!
Now that you have seen the hint, bite the bullet and ask the question.

It doesn't hurt as much as you might think, you can even bring a
tear to her eye and if you do it well you will be well rewarded.

It is also fun to involve others - ask the sister if her ring size was
a good fit for the sister. Be very proper and go ask her parents if
they think this is a good step for the two of you. Get a dinner party
planned with a couple of your friends and their girlfriends who know to
clear out for a short time so you can ask - be sure the manager of
the restaurant is in on it, too. You are the hunter and the game is
in your sights, the gun is loaded and the safety off - so take the
shot!
WHAAT?! Marc! The lad's was a cry for help. Good lord, man, have some
compassion.

(signed) marc
Yes indeed. You should be telling him how to avoid this disaster, and find a
hermit hut somewhere up in the hills, with the wire trigger landmines and the
dead drops and hoohay, the pain, with the sharp, pointy things, and the don't
hurt me...


Ok... OK... OK Already!

I shall confess....

Back in my grad school days at Stanford, playing on the
volleyball courts behind the gym and in Menlo Park pickup
games, an older player told me in very clear terms that his
advice was to stay single until I was well into my 40's.
(I was 26 at the time.)

I did that. I was given advice and I took it. And it worked.
(Blokes are better able to do this than the sheilas.)

(slightly off topic, but a bloke would understand)
http://www.grudknows.com/lor/lor_blokes_r_gd.asp

Of course, having kids in primary school when you reach
your mid-fifties gets the question from time to time if they
are your grandchildren. (Then again most of the other kids
have mums who are in their mid- to late-20's.)

(signed) marc

..

My advice is have kids in your teens, so that your own parents have to raise
them and when you are in your 30s, you are still in touch with Yoof Kultcha or
whatever they call it these days. Then, when you are in your fifties, you have
a friend who happens to be your son or daughter, and who can help raise any
other sprogs you may have engendered along the way, and who can also clean out
your gutters when you are too arthritic, drunk or lazy to do it yourself.

Anything but having teenagers when you are over fifty, anything.

--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
Servum tui ero, ipse vespera

I have a 1year old nephew and a 2year old niece. I absolutely love em,
I take them to the park, I watch TV with them, they're great to have
around.

But what I really love is that I'm glad I don't have to make sure they
graduate high school, or worry about funding their college in the
future, or making sure they don't become parents before they are legal
adults, or a bunch of other things!

.

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