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Irradiated by LabRat
…Because search terms are the easiest punted blog content on the planet, that’s why. What can we at the nerd ranch help you with today?
a blod of skin can out of my vigina
….Oh my, er. Well. It probably wasn’t skin, it was probably shed uterine lining; as you go through the glorious and slightly inexplicable experience of menstruation over the course of your life as a woman, you will come to be familiar with the multifarious things your uterus can and will spit out other than blood.
If you are very young, and given the spelling I hope so, it could also have been your hymen. No, you didn’t lose your virginity. Contrary to patriarchal tribal standards the thing isn’t that durable; if that really were the standard I lost mine to a ten-speed bike when I was nine.
man eaten by bear
They do that sometimes but really not nearly as often as you’d think given the population of bears and population of humans. I suggest avoiding grizzly and polar bear country, as they are far more likely to look at a human and see a Happy Meal rather than a confusing and distressing biped. They have more evolutionary experience with us, being Old World migrants.
why is an organism without incisors and canines a better suited herbavore?
Thank god, a question I can answer.
That’s because mammals have specialized teeth, and it really does depend on what kind of herbivore you’re talking about. Canine teeth are specifically suited for tearing through meat (sometimes in the case of a still-living animal, as in the case of primates with huge canines designed for fighting other primates), and thus are of very little use to a herbivore. Incisors are designed for chopping; you’re not likely to see any herbivore without or with underdeveloped incisors that eats plants with any kind of significant woody fiber or tubers. What really marks an herbivore is big, broad molars, for grinding- which is the bulk of what you’re going to have to do with plant food.
Note dogs and cats have tiny incisors, and horses and rabbits have huge ones. You’re much more likely to see small incisors on a dedicated carnivore.
most powerful guard dog
…You wouldn’t want. They’re bred for fighting off wolves and bears and aren’t really pets as you’d understand the term. Unlike a big, powerful gun, a big, powerful guard dog has a mind of its own and is likely to conclude you’re not fit to do things like tell them not to eat the neighbor children.
how to fuck with someone’s mind
A surprisingly common term.
It’s easy: behave in unexpected ways. Easiest way is to deviate subtly enough from common social scripts that you confuse people but don’t cause them to default to thinking you’re simply insane. It’s not really a terribly high-order or productive skill, though, except in terms of getting rid of unwanted roommates or seatmates on the bus.
$1 dollar non negotiable steel token.
Defensive hollowpoints usually qualify.
bluebird mad
The Bluebird of Happiness’s ne’er-do-well brother showed up, I see.
women don’t want childish men
Films of Judd Apatow aside, this is generally true. Works the other way round too.
chimpanzees frequently engage in sex 20 or more times a day. should there be no male around, the female of the species will take care of business by any means necessary.
This is… um… really curiously specific. I’m just… going to back away from it. (When do these fantasy chimps have time for anything ELSE?)
The “by any means necessary” thing is kind of weird, too. Masturbation isn’t really that dramatic even for a species without vibrators.
horse shipping crate
The horse usually appreciates it if you use a trailer rather than a crate. So does FedEx.
May 19th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
The Horse shipping Crate is for putting them on airplanes and special semi trailors for long distance travel…the things you learn from your horse training girlfriend
May 19th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
The world once again proves to be more absurd than I suspected.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Did you see those leonine monster Turkish guardian dogs Cat put up on the blog? They kill BOARS.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
As it happens I had EXACTLY them in mind…
May 19th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Apropos the chimpanzees; is that why they refer to them as “pry-mates”?
May 19th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Here’s something I’ve always wondered that might perhaps make for interesting content. How is it that whales started out as land animals, moved through the crocodile niche with Ambulocetus, and came out the other side in a very shark-like niche? There were apparently crocodilians in that same environment at the same time. Crocodilians are excellent at being crocodiles and have been doing that since the late Permian/early Triassic; if Ambulocetus was so good at being a crocodile as to spread into that already-occupied niche from being a land animal, why did it then die out in that role, though with descendants in fishier roles giving rise to the whale family?
May 19th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
That’s a pretty good question, which will require actual research on my part to answer.
If I can find the resources I’ll take my best swing at it.
May 20th, 2011 at 5:18 am
chimpanzees frequently engage in sex 20 or more times a day. should there be no male around, the female of the species will take care of business by any means necessary.
The defensive lobe of my brain is insisting there must be a rational, intelligent reason for this search string. The best it can do is speculating that somebody used these sentences in a paper for a class, and the instructor was googling to see if it was plagiarized.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:52 am
$1 dollar non negotiable steel token.
Defensive hollowpoints usually qualify.
So. Full. Of. WIN.
tweaker
May 20th, 2011 at 8:20 am
If you go up to the wilderness areas of the Uintah Mountains in northern Utah, you’ll see quite a few Great Pyrenees guarding sheep. The Basque sheepherders like them, as they won’t back down from large predators like bears or cougars.
In the western areas of Utah, where there are lots of cougars and coyotes but not many bears, a favorite guard is the llama. They will adopt a flock, and fight off anything that threatens them, including cougars, coyotes, and dogs.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Re Mousie762’s question: This is just wild speculation on my part, but about the only thing I can think of offhand that a mammalian “crocodile” might do better is handle lower temperature ranges.
Modern whales and dolphins are certainly comfortable in water that would rapidly kill crocodilians, so their ancestors might have started out in the “cool water croc” niche.
I can’t offer any good explanation why at least some legged “whale” analogs aren’t still exant, though. Unless you consider the otter family to fill that niche even better.
May 20th, 2011 at 10:38 am
So, If we adopt the Horse Shipping Crate into a Human Shipping Crate, can we get rid of the TSA?
May 20th, 2011 at 11:00 am
As to “messing wit the mind of others” I’ve found that if you answer simple (or at least not inherently complex one’s ) questions with succinct clear and above all truthful responses it tends to flumxe quite a lot of people …..it’s really kind of alarming.
It’s kind of sad to think of all the “pet” dog breads in the world that were frankly bread for the exact opposite of mooching around somebody’s yard/apartment .
May 20th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Java: that was my first thought too, but a quick look at when the relevant critters appeared shot that idea down; the early Eocene was extremely mild in climate, there wasn’t nearly as much of a temperature gradient from pole to equator as there is now, and reptiles in general were thriving on it…
ETA: Seems the question has not evaded paleontologists and the current state of “dunno” is “maybe they were mostly in areas where crocodiles mostly weren’t?” One of the problems with not having a hugely abundant store of fossils, really…