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To: unlearner; Vaquero
Do you think anyone on this forum thinks snakes have little ears as opposed to big ones?

Yes. I certainly think, beyond any reasonable doubt, that until corrected, you thought snakes had very tiny ears as opposed to none.

What you originally posted:

Do all animals with tiny ears live in cold climates? Snakes don't have large ears.

...makes no sense in any other context. There's no remotely imaginable reason you would have posted that comment if you in fact knew that snakes had no external ears and no ear openings at all.

(Admittedly it makes little sense anyway, as that kind of comparison between members of such widely separated taxa is silly, and has nothing to do with the kind of comparison Vaquero had in mind, namely comparing the small ears of mammoths to the large ears of African elephants, or to the ears of Asian elephants for that matter (smaller than Africans but still far larger in relation to body size than those of mammoths).

You'd do yourself less damage by owning up to a minor boo-boo than engaging in Clintonesque word games: "I didn't actually 'say' what I unmistakably implied!"

115 posted on 08/15/2006 6:28:03 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
"There's no remotely imaginable reason you would have posted that comment if you in fact knew that snakes had no external ears and no ear openings at all."

I don't think even a small child can avoid the obvious fact that snakes have no ears.

I explained exactly what I meant and pointed out the context, yet you refuse to listen. You again reinforce the validity of my accusation:

You are a liar.

The most I could be accused of is sloppy writing, but I am not aiming to create literature, just to point out the high-minded, condescending, childish nonsense that masquerades as intellectualism.
123 posted on 08/15/2006 7:05:57 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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