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To: Pharmboy

That’s a common misunderstanding. On their long voyages on the HMS Beagle, the crew was required to eat or drink limes in order to prevent scurvy.
Chuck just got tired of lime juice. One day a porter tried to hand him his daily ration and said to him, “Here ya go, guvnah.”
And Darwin, tired from drawing lizards and bugs all day replied,
“No thank you. I have come to hate juice.”
The porter took this back to the rest of the crew and they were all fibberjawed and flabbergasted.
This can be found in his book at page 3,120. He went to Queen Victoria and explained the misunderstanding, and she patted his hand and said,
“Tut tut old man. We all hate Jews.”


15 posted on 09/08/2011 6:40:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (Governor Rick Perry: "No border fence")
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To: All

No one’s going to rise to that bait?

If you want to change the subject by playing the religion or race card, be prepared to respond. I’m getting as tired of the former as I am of the latter.

Darwin was a very religious man. His discoveries on the Galapagos disturbed him deeply.
To say that you disagree with his theory of `natural selection’ for some reason other than evidence to the contrary of what he demonstrated is just short, I think, of the stock DU/standard liberal last-ditch debate tactic: “Well .... you’re stoopid.”
Good night.


21 posted on 09/08/2011 7:17:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (Governor Rick Perry: "No border fence")
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