[Ichneumon]

Kinda reminds me of the Dodo birds in "Ice Age." "OOPs there goes our last female."

Movie trivia: In that scene, when Manny and friends ask for one of the watermelons, the dodos say:

Dodo: "If you weren't smart enough to plan ahead, then doom on you!"
Other Dodos: [chanting] "Doom on you! Doom on you! Doom on you!"

"Doom on you" may seem like a stilted phrase, but that's because it's an inside joke. The English phrase "doom on you" is phonetically almost identical with the Vietnamese phrase "Du-ma-nhieu", which means roughly "go f*** yourself".

Some English-speaking folks who are acquainted with Vietnamese cursing (like VN war vets, for example) sometimes use "doom on you" as a joking form of the original phrase, just as WWII vets sometimes used "mercy buckets" for "thank you" in parody of the French "merci beaucoup".

[lilylangtree]

Thank you. I just love that movie "Ice Age". I get a charge out of watching it everytime--the basic theme of how different species work together for the common goal appeals to me. Many thanks for the trivia and correcting me re dodo birds vice gooney birds.

[CholeraJoe]

Didn't know that. That phrase may soon enter my vocabualry.

[hunter112]

Wow, I didn't know that! It might be a useful saying when I go to certain parts of Seattle.

This theory might be as half-baked as dinosaur eggs, but it did remind me of something I've advocated for modern times. If we could come up with a simple pill to make the conception of males very much more likely, and get it out into the Muslim world, our problems of the last thousand years might be over with in a generation or two. Making sure the pill was illegal would make it nearly guaranteed that it would be used.

Seems like a good plan for Africa, and any other society that makes women into property.