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Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes
NY Times ^
| July 25, 2006
| NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 07/25/2006 5:56:05 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Ya mean genes have something to do with behavior?? Who woulda thunk it...
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posted on
07/25/2006 5:56:06 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: thefactor; aculeus; blam; PatrickHenry; AntiGuv; Coyoteman; SunkenCiv; martin_fierro
Yeah...I thought it was about Democrats also. ( :-D
Domestication is just directed evolution--"artificial" selection rather than "natural."
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posted on
07/25/2006 5:59:03 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
To: Pharmboy
Nice Rats, Nasty Rats:
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posted on
07/25/2006 5:59:49 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Pharmboy
He is taking care that they do not escape to the sewers of Leipzig, he said. But the clumsy lab assistant didn't follow the procedure! Now, Leipzig is overrun!
Blockbuster summer release 2008!
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:00:28 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
To: Pharmboy
....and the Liberals ('RATs), Are descended from what? ...be nice. :D
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:01:22 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Pharmboy
These animals are ferocious. When a visitor appears, the rats hurl themselves screaming toward their bars. Yeah, right, gerbils. Lemme go put on my steel-toed boots and get muh dawg and we'll see who's more ferocious.
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:03:46 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(All Marines can throw a grenade. The really, really good ones can throw a slider with one.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Nice Rats, Nasty Rats:YIKES!....Where's Helen Thomas' pic....sorry, don't do it! :D
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:04:53 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Pharmboy
I thought this was going to be a story about Joe Leiberman and James Carville.
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:09:14 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
To: skinkinthegrass
ALL rats are nasty. Some rats are just nastier than others...
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:09:30 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: Little Ray
ALL rats are nasty. Some rats are just nastier than others...
These animals are ferocious. When a visitor appears, the rats hurl themselves screaming toward their bars.true, ..that explains, the Liberals ....@ least the Rodenta (class of animals), are honest and show (their true nature) how they "feel" towards humans.
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:16:41 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Pharmboy
Don't tell Nancy Hopkins. She might go into a coma.
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:18:45 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: RightWingAtheist
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:22:25 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
To: Pharmboy
Male rats and Female rats?
To: Pharmboy
When a visitor enters the room where the tame rats are kept, they poke their snouts through the bars to be petted. Democrat voters.
The other colony of rats has been bred from exactly the same stock, but for aggressiveness instead. These animals are ferocious. When a visitor appears, the rats hurl themselves screaming toward their bars.
Democrat politicians and MSM pundits. ;)
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:59:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Pharmboy
Why are the Russians being so tight-fisted about their foxes? I would give a great deal to have a sweet affectionate fox. They could make a lot of money by breeding and selling these things.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:01:51 AM PDT
by
Fairview
To: Fairview
We have a great looking red fox that occasionally runs through the back yard. Beautiful animal...and fast. I always wonderd why I never see a rabbit in my area. Now I know...
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:06:02 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
To: Pharmboy
There's a family of red foxes near my house. There is absolutely nothing as adorable as seeing the babies and mom playing together while Dad Fox watches. Their tails flop around loosely while they gambol. Early in the spring one of the babies came trotting up to me out of curiosity, because he didn't know yet that I was one of those dangerous human creatures. His father yipped at him to Get back here this minute! and ushered the family off into the bushes. It was very touching and lovely.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:11:57 AM PDT
by
Fairview
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:15:06 AM PDT
by
rattrap
(No comment.)
To: Fairview
"Why are the Russians being so tight-fisted about their foxes? I would give a great deal to have a sweet affectionate fox. They could make a lot of money by breeding and selling these things."
If you live in farm country, you know when you see a barn cat that looks like it was run through a corn-sheller it likely tangled with a fox.
Some things make poor pets, fox are one of those.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:16:37 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Liberals get up every morning and eat a big box of STUPID for breakfast)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:17:32 AM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(If someone screams in an asylum full of lunatics do they make a sound?)
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