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Post by freecharlie on Oct 19, 2014 18:46:31 GMT
It takes 28 thrusts to get a koala to ovulate. And kangaroos females are constantly pregnant and males have their testis in front of their penises. A hedgehog ( or maybe a porcupine ) digs a hole under the female and kind of has sideways sex . Which does answer the age old question just how do they have sex? And the answer really is very carefully And you could not have paid me enough money to go this research [ Eta I didn't recheck the koala one but that number is in the general area. There was a show about Australian animals and I believe they said it was 40 thrusts... It is both something I have blocked form my mind and something I can't unsee - biologists having to 'manipulate' the female koala 38 times with an imitation koala penis, before inseminating her with the last two thrusts... Male echidnas have two penises (penii?), and each have two heads... Only one is 'activated' at a time... Female echidnas have (if I can explain this correctly), two vaginas and one birth canal, that's located between the two vaginas... Same as the kangaroo - all marsupial males have penises behind their testes, and the females organs are reversed to match... Female kangaroos have three vaginas... Off topic, but there's not many threads I could post that in...lol I would have never known any of this without this place. Mine was the commercial, "Every kiss begins with Kay" and I always thought what materialistic garbage. Like the guy was going to give jewelry every time he wanted a kiss. Then DS said, "what about smooch, peck,..." and it finally dawned on me that they were playing on the letter K. Yep, duh at its finest. |
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Post by susans sister on Oct 19, 2014 18:58:44 GMT
Being a good Southern girl who was brought up going to Sunday school every week you would think I would have know this all my life. But it wan't until a few years ago that I realized why Christmas and New Years Day are so close together.
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Post by freecharlie on Oct 19, 2014 19:01:14 GMT
Being a good Southern girl who was brought up going to Sunday school every week you would think I would have know this all my life. But it wan't until a few years ago that I realized why Christmas and New Years Day are so close together. Not Southern or a church goer...why is this? |
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Post by susans sister on Oct 19, 2014 19:09:35 GMT
It is because we number our years based on the birth of Jesus. He was born supposedly 2014 years ago. This is the year of our Lord 2014.
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Post by melanell on Oct 19, 2014 19:27:31 GMT
After a month of checking my 6th graders math homework each night by doing all of the problems myself, I just realized that the answers are in the back of the book. At least I worked my brain a bit on the math.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 19:32:04 GMT
It is because we number our years based on the birth of Jesus. He was born supposedly 2014 years ago. This is the year of our Lord 2014. I don't think this is true... New Year's has been celebrated at the beginning of January since before Christ was allegedly born. The name January comes from the name of the god Janus who was attributed to new beginnings... |
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Post by SabrinaM on Oct 19, 2014 19:48:10 GMT
Well, I learned well into adulthood that hippos are actually water animals. I guess I thought they just liked hanging out in water, not that they actually LIVE in water and are considered water animals. They are? I feel stupid. |
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Post by SabrinaM on Oct 19, 2014 19:53:55 GMT
I had to explain to someone a few months ago why boy/girl twins couldn't be "identical" even if they "looked alike."
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 19, 2014 20:47:04 GMT
I must have missed this original thread. Can someone explain to me what the circle thing is for correcting mistakes? Or link me to the original thread? I'm a bad texter.  Press and hold on your iPhone screen near where the typo is. When the circle comes up, keep pressing down and slide the cursor to exactly where you want it. Pretty cool! O.M.G. I just tried it and it works! lolol. Excellent tip! |
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Post by artbabe on Oct 19, 2014 21:45:15 GMT
Opossums have 13 nipples.
That is all I have to add.
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Post by susans sister on Oct 19, 2014 22:18:31 GMT
It is because we number our years based on the birth of Jesus. He was born supposedly 2014 years ago. This is the year of our Lord 2014. I don't think this is true... New Year's has been celebrated at the beginning of January since before Christ was allegedly born. The name January comes from the name of the god Janus who was attributed to new beginnings... The terms AD and BC are used in reference to the years. 2014 AD after death and 2014 BC before Christ is how we measure the years. The time of year that Christmas and New Years are celebrated ie January, has nothing to do with the numbering of years, |
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Post by sisterbdsq on Oct 19, 2014 22:25:30 GMT
I don't think this is true... New Year's has been celebrated at the beginning of January since before Christ was allegedly born. The name January comes from the name of the god Janus who was attributed to new beginnings... The terms AD and BC are used in reference to the years. 2014 AD after death and 2014 BC before Christ is how we measure the years. The time of year that Christmas and New Years are celebrated ie January, has nothing to do with the numbering of years, That's not right either. AD means anno domini. |
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Post by susans sister on Oct 19, 2014 22:58:51 GMT
OK
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Post by conchita on Oct 19, 2014 23:02:28 GMT
Anno Domini translates into "In The Year of Our Lord".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 23:51:13 GMT
I don't think this is true... New Year's has been celebrated at the beginning of January since before Christ was allegedly born. The name January comes from the name of the god Janus who was attributed to new beginnings... The terms AD and BC are used in reference to the years. 2014 AD after death and 2014 BC before Christ is how we measure the years. The time of year that Christmas and New Years are celebrated ie January, has nothing to do with the numbering of years, Well, that's not what you said in your post here... If you are talking about the way we number years, that's completely different. But you said that Christmas and New Year's are close together because of when Christ was born. |
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Post by Nicole in TX on Oct 19, 2014 23:59:48 GMT
There was a show about Australian animals and I believe they said it was 40 thrusts... It is both something I have blocked form my mind and something I can't unsee - biologists having to 'manipulate' the female koala 38 times with an imitation koala penis, before inseminating her with the last two thrusts... How does their vagina count? (This is a serious question.) |
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Post by alibama on Oct 20, 2014 12:51:44 GMT
I had to explain to someone a few months ago why boy/girl twins couldn't be "identical" even if they "looked alike." This drives my DIL nuts! She has twins one boy and one girl. People are forever asking her if they are identical She used to tell me she was going to put a sign on the cart saying they were NOT identical lol. |
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Post by penny on Oct 21, 2014 3:23:03 GMT
How does their vagina count? (This is a serious question.) Hahahaha! I have no idea how it counts, but if I remember my babysitting years correctly, it's counting at the level of a five year old human...?! lol I do know that in a lot of female animals, ovulation is triggered by a chemical present in the male's semen and/or penetration... It's called reflex ovulation (vs spontaneous ovulation, which is what us carefree humans do)... Rabbits, camels, koalas, cats, minks, and a bunch of other animals are reflex ovulators... I'm the kind of person who needs to visualize things when I'm learning... Anytime the topic of ovulation comes up I find myself singing, "really love your peaches wanna shake your tree", and imagining one of those tree shakers that are used to harvest apples... The way my mind understands the workings of biology is kinda trippy...lol |
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Post by melanell on Oct 21, 2014 14:09:01 GMT
I don't think this is true... New Year's has been celebrated at the beginning of January since before Christ was allegedly born. The name January comes from the name of the god Janus who was attributed to new beginnings... The terms AD and BC are used in reference to the years. 2014 AD after death and 2014 BC before Christ is how we measure the years. That's a common misconception with "AD". A good way to remind yourself that it doesn't stand for "After Death" is to ask yourself what would happen to all of the years between when Jesus was born and when he died if AD really meant that, kwim? We'd be missing 33 years. So then "anno domini" makes much more sense because it is the year of our Lord, referring to when he was born, which would be the logical time to stop using the term "BC". |
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Post by flopsykitty on Oct 21, 2014 14:32:53 GMT
I think I have told this story here before. I recently went to lunch with my boss, and on the menu was a grilled tuna salad sandwich. I couldn't understand how one grills tuna salad, until my boss said to me, "It's like a grilled cheese.", and THEN I got it. Boy, did I feel dumb!
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Post by flopsykitty on Oct 21, 2014 17:30:58 GMT
I think I have told this story here before. I recently went to lunch with my boss, and on the menu was a grilled tuna salad sandwich. I couldn't understand how one grills tuna salad, until my boss said to me, "It's like a grilled cheese.", and THEN I got it. Boy, did I feel dumb!
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Post by basketdiva on Oct 21, 2014 17:54:15 GMT
I just got my new IPhone6 and was having all kinds of trouble with the sound. No matter what I did, I couldn't here people when on the phone. Husband looks at it and slowly peels back the plastic cover ( I left it on while waiting for new OtterBox). Seems the plastic was covering the speakers! DUH of course sound issues.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 18:08:24 GMT
I just got my new IPhone6 and was having all kinds of trouble with the sound. No matter what I did, I couldn't here people when on the phone. Husband looks at it and slowly peels back the plastic cover ( I left it on while waiting for new OtterBox). Seems the plastic was covering the speakers! DUH of course sound issues. My mom and I did the same thing when we got our iPhones. |
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Post by jenjie on Oct 21, 2014 23:56:32 GMT
Powdered dish washer detergent is ever so much cheaper than the detergent tablets. I just noticed the box of powder TODAY. And I've had a dishwasher for 17 years! Duh.
In the beginning I used liquid detergent, which also must be cheaper than the tabs. I don't even know why I stopped using that but today I bought my first box of powder.
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Post by SabrinaM on Oct 25, 2014 1:24:36 GMT
It wasn't until last year that I realized that roadkill doesn't get picked up by county workers, but by carrion birds!! I actually thought that it was someone's job to drive around collecting dead deer carcass.
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Post by sisterbdsq on Oct 25, 2014 1:30:06 GMT
It wasn't until last year that I realized that roadkill doesn't get picked up by county workers, but by carrion birds!! I actually thought that it was someone's job to drive around collecting dead deer carcass. Depending on where you live, it IS someone's job. No duh needed! |
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Post by mimima on Oct 25, 2014 2:12:36 GMT
The terms AD and BC are used in reference to the years. 2014 AD after death and 2014 BC before Christ is how we measure the years. The time of year that Christmas and New Years are celebrated ie January, has nothing to do with the numbering of years, Well, that's not what you said in your post here... If you are talking about the way we number years, that's completely different. But you said that Christmas and New Year's are close together because of when Christ was born. No, the beginning of the year has not always been celebrated in January. For about 1600 years of the Western Christian era, New Years was in late March (at the feast of the Annunciation - or near) - that's where April Fool's comes from, those who resisted the change. In Eastern Christendom, the new year starts the first of September. The Jewish New Year also starts in the fall ETA - after doing sime research, it appears the Roman Empire adopted the January 1st date early, but Western Europe - and even the early American Puritans - celebrated in March as I mentioned above. |
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 25, 2014 2:26:31 GMT
I have had to many 'duh' moments to count but I laughed my ass off at our neighbor who walked over a few years ago and DH and I were talking about tree trimming and she said '*that* tree is really dead you should cut that down'. It was our telephone pole. I laughed so hard I choked when I read this. Then I had to read it to my husband when he asked what I was laughing at. He's cracking up now too. |
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Post by melly on Oct 25, 2014 3:56:44 GMT
Years ago, my sister and I were cooking together. We were trying to fry something, but my pot was too small and we started a fire on the stove top. I yelled, "Fire!!!!" And my husband in the other room yelled back, "baking soda!"
I yelled back again, very annoyed, "no! FIRE!!!!!"
And then I realized he hadn't ridiculously misheard me, but was telling me what to do. LOL. My sister and I smothered the fire easily with a lid, and then we laughed so hard we cried. And both my husband and my sister tease me about that to this day.
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Post by 3dcrafter on Oct 25, 2014 4:46:54 GMT
When I was a teen my mother asked me to make a glass of iced tea for a guest we had visiting. Keep in mind, it was the middle of winter and the only iced tea I had ever made was sun tea (that I never drank anyway since I hate my tea cold).
So, what did I do? Why the most logical thing of course, I filled up a glass with water, ice, sugar, and the tea bag and then proudly gave it to our guest who tried to stifle a laugh and couldn't(who could blame them..lol). I don't know why it didn't occurred to me that I need to heat the water and steep the tea bag before adding the ice. Yeap, face plant moment.
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