[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
“Adam and Steve” would be the perfect name for a gay wedding boutique. Just sayin’.
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Yeah, and the shoe store next to them can be Imelda’s, but only if there’s a large selection.
“‘Adam and Steve?’ Of course it’s not ‘Adam and Steve’. It’s Adam and STEVEN.”
– David Rackoff [? Dan Savage?]
Oh, thank God - I thought this was a rant because Monty couldn’t date outside his reading group.
In case that is too obscure a reference and someone thinks I’m flaming Monty.
Regards,
Shodan
[QUOTE=MsRobyn]
b]FTR, “Turdus” is Latin for “thrush”.
Robin
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Okay… so if the Robin mates with the Blue Jay, it gives her a yeast infection?
African or European?
Fascinating! Spurred by Chowder’s post, I googled images of the English Robin (no links…do it yurownself), our bigger American Robin and then the African Robin. I didn’t even know that one existed but it sure looks related to the American one. Now wouldn’t that screw with the Dixie relatives. 
[QUOTE=blondebear]
Is this the right thread to bitch about that damn robin that starts singing outside my window at 4:45AM? Curse you, early bird!
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Sic a blue jay on her! :eek:
For those of you picturing birds with penis and vagina, forget it. They don’t have ‘em. Waste and sexual stuff all dump into a common pouch called the cloaca (Latin for sewer) in both sexes. When birds are feelin’ sexy, they turn the cloaca inside out, the male’s pouch dripping with sperm cells. The two cloacas touch briefly, and it’s done. (So, did the chicken or the egg come first? 
)
Here’s where somebody will tell me the proper plural for cloaca, I guess.
[QUOTE=Monty]
“The Robin doesn’t mate with the bluejay!”
Do you think uttering that makes you sound intelligent? Do you think it has any validity whatsoever to human relationships?
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It sounds like the kind of thing that Dr. Phil would say.
[QUOTE=Monty]
In today’s Deseret Morning News is this very interesting article. There are a few telling quotes in there and I’ll leave it to the reader to peruse the article at your leisure. What really impressed me the most, though, was this paragraph:
So, that means that in the South (where I grew up), 39% of the White people say “Inter-racial marriages are not acceptable.”
Cecil, you said it very well:
Too bad those statistics quoted above aren’t 100% acceptance in both the West and the South.
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I know, I was on a work assignment in Alabama when they had a issue on the ballot to eliminate a provision in the state constitution that made interracial marriage illegal. The law violated the US constitution and was not enforceable, but was still on the books.
It passed by about a 3:2 majority, but that still means that 4 out of 10 voters in Alabama were in favor of keeping interracial marriage illegal. There were more than 20 counties were the ban was voted to be kept. What the hell is wrong with people?
Well, since you asked: cloacae.
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
Well, since you asked: cloacae.
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Thank you. My Latin knowledge begins and ends with Cuban jazz.