Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’

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Top of the Food Chain

by Seraphine Khorana on March 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Top of the Food Chain

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

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Purgatorily Yours

by Seraphine Khorana on December 11th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Purgatorily Yours

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Yet, some people argue passionately about everything. They enjoy testing the strength of another’s convictions, or else they have a mood disorder. Perhaps they are simply bullies. Or it’s PMS.

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. An estimated 3 of every 4 menstruating women experience some form of premenstrual syndrome.
Quotation from MayoClinic.com, Premenstrual Syndrome

[FYI: Don't argue the fact that 3 out of 4 is almost 75%.]

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Gerascophobia: Fear of the Mad-Fall

by Seraphine Khorana on November 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Gerascophobia: Fear of the Mad-Fall

I’m not afraid of growing old; I’m afraid of *being* old. But I’m not aged yet– and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day– so I’m thankful for having the opportunity to grow a bit older.
I’m also thankful for having love in my life, and I’m thankful for YOU, dear readers.

Worried you will die alone,
You expect the crucifix
Around your neck to save your soul.
A hint of growing old, and losing beauty.
Fear of impaired mobility.
Your face deteriorates
as your insides decompose.
Lyrics from Burning the Masses, Gerascophobia (Gerascophobia is the fear of growing old)

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She’s the Devil

by Seraphine Khorana on November 5th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
She’s the Devil

Unwanted romantic attention is sexual spam. Sure, you can sexually spam a thousand people and– maybe– get laid once, but what’s the point?

Researchers Become Spammers To See How Successful Spam Is (TechDirt.com) Computer scientists at the University of California took over a zombie network to send out bogus spam and watch the fake orders roll in. Except they didn’t get many orders. They sent out 350 million spam messages, and received a grand total of 28 orders. But, even accepting the researchers’ numbers, they found that the full zombie network they used could probably bring in about $7k per day, or about $2 million per year.

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Omega-3, The Brain Food

by Seraphine Khorana on October 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Omega-3, The Brain Food

Well-meaning people tell me I should eat fish. My being a vegetarian seems to bother them. But no, I don’t have to eat fish. Omega-3 fatty acids are available in DHA or EPA supplements made from plant-based algae. Omega-3 is also available in eggs. So there.

Everyone knows that some young bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves brains… have little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf’s head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon descrimination.
Quotation from Herman Mellville, Moby Dick

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The Human Pet

by Seraphine Khorana on September 11th, 2009
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The Human Pet

Oatmeal soap once sounded strange to me. I mean, who thinks about putting food in bath soap? But just when you think that nothing in the world will ever surprise you again- Whoomp! There it is! Somebody proves Mankind evolved from fish, Congress passes an affordable healthcare plan and people start believing in world peace. And you realize, far stranger things have happened.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Quotation from Edward Hoagland

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Quotation from Charles M. Schulz

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I used to be purple, but then I evolved

by Seraphine Khorana on February 27th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
I used to be purple, but then I evolved

Americans go where the money goes. That’s because we’re chameleons. That’s our reputation, whether it’s true or not. But now that the money is gone, where are we? That’s the question everyone is asking: Where are we going now, and what do we need to do to get there?

Green jobs are a way to aid the middle class: Comment by Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vice President of the United States (Philidelphia Inquirer)

When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
Lyrics from Jefferson Airplane, Go Ask Alice White Rabbit

A Granola type who bakes cakes for the moon as ‘offerings’, thinks tofu and tahini are great breakfast choices, and who’s idea of style is to wear multiple layers of cheap market clothes made in Cambodia from dried grass and colored using low impact dyes such as menstrual blood and compost bin ‘discharge’.
Definition of “Yoghurt Weaver” from UrbanDictionary.com

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