Posted on 04/20/2007 11:50:28 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
I've never posted a straight Vanity before.
But I am sick and tired of this good conservative, generally religious site being overrun by people posting "I'd hit it", whenever a picture of a good-looking girl is displayed.
It's demeaning, it's immoral, and I guess I'm just a prude but announcing to the world that you'd like to have sex with a woman based on her picture, like she was some object, hardly seems like the appropriate attitude on a conservative political site.
But rather than post in response to any particular person, I figured I'd just vent here where everybody could see and make fun of me.
So go ahead. I thank you for whatever indulgence you have given me in this rant.
Back to your regularly scheduled oggling and hitting.
LOL. I have serranos in my garden too. They are to be handled with extreme caution.
Vlad has learned an important lesson.
He sure has. He might be a fire breathing dragon for a little while now.
I had Tom give him some milk to cool it off.
I still haven't figured out the proper technique for igniting fire in our fire-breathing dragons.
Theoretically, they could ingest or produce mineral materials that emit sparks under stress. That works well enough in our barbecue igniters. They are called piezoelectric materials.
Note this first sentence in the Wiki article:
Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics, including bone) to generate an electric potential[1] in response to applied mechanical stress. -- (Bolding mine.)If bone can produce electrical sparks, then my problem may be solved. It could be theorized that a lizard species could follow a specific course of genetic development, ending in the ability to not only produce a flammable "venom", but the spark to ignite it as well.
#n element of a book or series i read in the 80s.
ugh. just out of second trip to ER. but think we have it this time. wearing a littke extra facial hardware the next couple of dzys.
What sort of injury have you sustained?
I think he's saying they've put a cork in his nose.
Let that be a lesson; when going after that really elusive booger, stop at the wrist joint, not the elbow.
Another option would be a secondary glottal protrusion that could be linked to electric eel type organ structures.
Bombardier Beetle uses a high pressure abdominal chamber to release heated gas re: Charles Law.
We have options...
Good suggestions.
I’m also interested in two other aspects. In addition to being able to spit fire, I want my dragons to be able to initiate “organic internal combustion” in their “fire-lung”.
This gives them the force to propel themselves upward with those spindly bat-wings. No drawing I’ve seen gives proper musculature for any other option.
The second thing is that for a story line I’m developing, I want an evolutionary track to make their development plausibly natural; first the defensive shock value, then the gradual development into actual flight. One problem in this is the complex shoulder mechanism, sharing its wing base with the upper “arm” bones.
Yes. We’ve discussed your ICE powered dragon before. I still think you are over-thinking the problem. You’d be better off with hydraulic actuation tied to a secondary “heart”.
Could use what electric eels do, muscle mass as generative tissue.
Double as a boost for the igniter or use to “Don’t taze me bro” anyone who gets too close.
Crocodile dreams.
Hmmm.
Sounds like a medium green yellow.
That would drive me batty, actually.
Maybe it’s Eau de Nil ;-). It’s not very yellow; I wouldn’t like that, either. DP has decided he wants a “seaside” effect, so we need another color that will be something other than “Wow that’s yellow!” (dining room and kitchen), “Crocodile Dreams” (sunroom), or Extremely Pale Blue (schoolroom). Maybe some shade of “sand” with a bit of “sunset.” Not too much green!
LOL!
I guess Vlad won’t be so brave and adventurous in the garden from now on!
Milk will get rid of the hot pepper sting.
I sense a mural painting coming.
Anoreth could have done it.
He doesn’t mind peppers when they’re cooked, but straight off the plant was a mistake.
I need to go to Wal-mart again. My parents are coming tomorrow, so we’re cleaning. I love throwing things away! Oops, it sounds like Frank’s awake. He was snoring just a minute ago.
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