Yes, He makes knives, quite good ones, actually
No way. According to Googlefight Og kicks Sod’s ass across town then buys him a couple shots of whiskey and kicks his ass back across town and then leaves him slumped in a bloody pile on the doorstep of his girlfriend with a note taped to his back that reads, “I’m the world’s biggest pussy. You should break up with me and date Og”
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Sod&word2=Og
And to actually add to the thread.
Og makes such pretty pretty flowers, that you just want to run up and smell and lick and roll around in them, that make you feel like shit for a week or two with allergies.
“There ain’t no Devil, there’s only God when He’s drunk.”
It’s important to recall also that cultivated crops and domesticated animals have been selectively bred for millennia to increase the traits that we find desirable: apples are bigger and sweeter than in nature, cows yield more nice fatty milk, and hens lay more eggs. There’s more nutrition - in terms of both quality and quantity - available than there was for our Australopithecine ancestors.
Take an apple tree. For a tree, fruit is just a seed dispersal mechanism: you want a monkey to eat of you* only in order to shit your seeds somewhere else and make more little trees. You don’t want your fruit eaten too early, or the seeds won’t be ready, so the fruit will be hard and bitter until the last moment, when you start pumping it full of sugars.
But sugars are expensive for you to produce: you’re going to produce the minimum necessary for the monkey to eat the apple without draining too much of your own resources, and any tree that gives away too much is going to be selected against. Of course, there’s also that selection pressure on the monkeys to be able to eat unripe fruit, so it’s a neat balancing act.
When we started cultivating trees, we learned how to breed them artificially in order to select for the traits that we find desirable: fat, sweet, juicy nutritious apples. Trees that donate so much energy for no selection reward are an aberration: if all the orchardists died in a plague, they’d find themselves untenable in a competitive environment, and would swiftly be selected out.
*Yeah, I know trees don’t have volition. It’s a metaphor. Natural selection just makes them seem to “act” in their own best interests.
Dammit! You beat me to it.
And here I am thinking I’m all clever.