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I didn't think that you were talking out of anything but your keyboard, Frogparty! However, here is the news item reported by the BBc and available on their site if you search "python Florida" Prof Dorcas and his colleagues looked at data on mammals found during roadkill surveys from 1993-1999...

"Lies as usual" "The numbers seem inflated>" So the named authors of a scientific study, open to scientific scrutiny and refutation if inaccurate, are nonsense, and you know this, how? And most python escapes are from damaged facilities rather than pet owner? You have evidence of this? Is...

Good try, Henry, but yr reference to W. Virginia says it all. "White trash" is a blatantly racist term, whether you intended it or not.

"Yolandi is 50% white trash, 50% rhesus monkey and 100% awesome!" Whire trash, Henry? What color is the regular kind? :D

\Thank you for an interesting reply to my rather rude response; a Google search supports your view. I knew that the Byzantine Empire shifted to or maintained Greek and ( from Gibbon's Decline and Fall) that Greek nurses would instruct their charges in Latin and Greek, but did not know that it...

That's an easy one; he's not hungry! Adult males, like many mantis species, don't eat nearly as much as the females, who are "eating for two" or a hundred or whatever. :D

\Nonsense. Latin was the language of the senate. Latin was the language of the Roman orators and poets. Latin was the language on the great memorials. Do not mislead the hoi poloi!

Oh dear. Just as we are doing so well with our Latin, I suppose that I should mention that binomials are not really written in Latin but in "scientific mishmash", which contains Greek and Latin words, a few imports from other languages, nonsense names and Latinizations.. Scientists tend to be...

I''d call this, C. pictipennis. It and the very different C. gemmatus seem to be the only two in popular culture in the US. Please remember that since the pattern on the tegmina is chiral (asymmetrical) the pattern may change from one day to the next according to how they fold their wings. You...

This shoul be helpful to many, but you might want to give additional help by printing the stressed syllables in block letters, thus: Em-p-oo sa pen-ate-a I would also add in my elderly, pedantic way, that it is hard to reach a consensus about pronunciation. Remember that popular Christian "poem"...

Exactly as I imagined you would look! :D

Ha! Burgess thought the same thing. As you know, of course, the movie and some American versions of the book end at the penultimate chapter to provide a "gritty" dystopian work in which the protagonist does not move, and which pissed off Burgess greatly,though he took their money!. Some books...

Well, unless you are putting me on, Henry, that makes discussion easier. It seems unlikely that Burgess 's message is about the dangers of "classical" music, specifically Beethoven, when one of his own pieces, the Napoleon Symphony was structured, appropriately on the Eroica. I personally see...

Welcome from Yuma, Arizon!

Yay! I have AVG with a built in accelerator that intrusively tells me that it is accelerating when I play videos. This time a small notice came up saying "Let's not and say we did." So relax with a pleasant glass of mokva, soothe yourself with some nice horrorshow, and when you have time...

I wouldn't think of debating the merits or demerits of vinegar with such an experienced young woman as yourself, Rebecca! I did spend some time in a university FF lab (a paid worker making less than the janitor!) and nobody even thought of using vinegar and y more than they do in contemporary FF...

Ah, Henry! I asked you to post a Mozart clip in the hope that I would learn something about Mozart from a pop musician that I didn't know before, and i guess i did! One other person posted a Mozart clip, 27 have posted on Monster Bug Wars. American culture in microcosm! :D

@ Chivalry: There is a depressing Protestant hymn about heaven that goes, "We shall spend eternity singing around the throne", but if we got to sing this under a good choral director, I might give heaven a try after all! @ Henry: It says that you currently live in Pennsylvania, but you grew up...

Ah, the Thelemites! Who but you would know about that delightfully crazed bunch of happy wanderers? And of course, it is a viable possibility. I have only looked at its founder in the context of the late Victorian upper class culture with all of those prejudices like antisemitism, misogynism...

Yep, it's Mozart's BD again, and here is a nice clip that everyone knows: Want to discuss the musicology of "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" and chat about the amazing tessatura of the piece and how the Amadeus movie transposed the piece down because the singer couldn't hit high C...