If you think fats and oils are at the top of the food chain, you deserve at least partial credit for a correct answer. But bacteria breaks down oil in this rock-paper-scissors game we call Life.
For the first half of geological time, our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Quotation from Richard Dawkins
Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Quotation from Doug Coupland
If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
Another quotation from Doug Coupland
Interesting topic today. I always enjoy reading your point of view.
I like being the one to instigate change……. I’m not so happy when circumstances make changes I can’t control….
that’s funny i wrote a novel about life being a game of rock paper scissors, i do NOT know what happened to the manuscript, oh well, it sucked anyway, made my arm pits sticky
Scary and Oh So True, Public Service Cosmo Girl
Interesting… bacteria just sounds too nasty. I just plan to live my life until the bacterial eat me away…
Without bacteria, there would not be an immune system.
Without an immune system, there would be no human life.
Without human life, we wouldn’t consider to think about bacteria…
What is a bacteria anyway, some kind of vicious invisible creature?
Shoo them away by drinking a helping of fresh pressed orange juice every day.
Lol! Doug Coupland’s comment is the best. No one and nothing is the top of the food chain, at least not for long, there is always something nastier out there.
Acting as if we are top of the food chain sees no limits to the the trouble we wil go to satisfy some human tastes nad assumed rights
In a Article from the Los Angeles Times By Martha Groves of March 11, 2010 it was reported that Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its chefs, alleging they had sold meat from an endangered whale.
The Hump, a hip hangout at Santa Monica Airport, immediately said through attorney Gary Lincenberg that it accepted “responsibility for the wrongdoing charged by the U.S. attorney” and would pay a fine and resolve the matter in court
See the full story about it lal came about how this came about here should it be of interst
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100311-1.html
It was reported by Sea Sheppherd that “Operation Waltzing Matilda, the sixth voyage to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to oppose the illegal whaling activities of the Japanese whaling fleet, was astoundingly effective”
Best wishes
Your brand of humor never fails.
Wow, thats amazing, nice one
my shoes are just a pair of doc martins, only cow hide not baby seal hide, and isn’t alaska american anyway? yes, i’m just one spoke in my hub’s wheel, maybe that’s whay some mormon cults believe in polygamy, coz you can’t have just one spoke, would hardly hold up the hub’s massive…. rotund…… ego
yes, alas my mind is always turning coz i’m just another cog in the wheel
night night sweet sera 
I’m going to be eaten by a germ? Dang it. If I’d known that was how this whole thing would end up, I would have eaten dessert.
I must say, Sera, that between you and Elaine I get quite an entertainment every day! This kind of reality is more real than the real kind, if you get my drift!
I promise you this: if ever you publish your comics, I will be one of the first to buy the book!
Have never liked that whole salad bar/buffet thing – I now have even more reason to avoid it.
(That last Doug Coupland quotation hit home.)
Great topic, wonderfully illustrated Sera!
I don’t think I’d ever thought of ‘bacteria’ quite this way. You have such a wonderful way of expressing your thoughts!!!
Nicely presented and an interestign write up, I never thought about bacteria that way ever, has my mind racing all over now on this
We think of ourselves as individuals but we’re actually giant cooperatives.
Sera: You made me smile! Rock and Paper Scissors Game!
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Very Cool!
hey now, watch where you stick that asssparagus
I was just listening to an interview with a research scientist from the CDC talking about her new book “Superbug!” Bascically, the new incureable staph bacteria is already in our food chain all over Europe and the U.S. She said, “Earting it SHOULDN’t get you sick, but handling the meat probably will.” Nice. Just throw away your antibacterial soaps, please!
Sera, you know my feelings about mankind by now. Top of nothing and the dumbest of the apes. Long after we are gone through own stupidity and greed, organisms and life forms will exist and evolve and maybe they will truly appreciate the wonder of little earth.
Great strip today by the way.
you’re right, i am attracted to his huge….. coffee cup…. lol you know what they say about the size of a man’s coffee cup? ‘my what a large coffee cup’
so the large adam’s apple is like a cooling station for all that coffee on the way down? i think i have an internal adam’s apple stuff gets stuck in my throat all the time, ESP my viagra… and i do have a stiff neck! you should be a doctor!
omg , eating by bacteria is my future ? hope they will have rejection ! interesting topic , as always here !
Enjoy your week end , bisous bisous
Genial dialogue, she’s now aware of the real thing!
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oomy great shot. and I am sat here enjoying. my toast and strwaberry jam!! haha!!:)
Wow, thats amazing, nice one
Sorry to be so tardy but I’m on an alien computer. Lovely Skulldugery mouth agape captured top frame. Bacteria eh. What can you do, can’t live with them ….Can’t live without them
Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I never thought of myself as someone on top of the food chain. I eat way too much tofu for that. Plus I do know that mosquitoes can eat me alive anytime.